May 132009
At around 10.00am today, I received a message from a distraught Tanjung Bunga resident informing me that stray dogs were being openly shot in the Persiaran Tanjung Bunga area near Ratu Mutiara.
Five shots rang out.
Many other dogs belonging to residents in nearby apartments began barking furiously.
This is not the first time this is happening.
A few months ago, according to the same resident, enforcement personnel were shooting dogs in front of the Tanjung Bunga market in full view of the horrified public, including tourists and children.
Why such cruelty? Isn’t there a more humane way of dealing with stray animals? There’s also the question of public safety.
What does the MPPP have to say?
This is unacceptable and there should be another way. SPCA’s help should be sought and residents associations must get involved, where is the ADUN for this area.
This is horrific and inhumane
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These dogs also living thing like us. They born on this soil and they are citizen of Malaysia too. They have all the right to exist live just like any other living thing on earth.
Why this cruelty of killing done by society with value and religion? Don’t all religion says that human must protect other living thing?
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We are being judged by the way we treat our animals, and I can only hang my head in shame in this insatnce.
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I am so appalled. What did the dogs do to deserve to die in this cruel way. So barbaric! What is the state government doing? Do something, PLEASE. Please spare some time and care for the God’s creation too as much as you all care for humans.
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… This dog-fearing, dog-hating syndrome pervades (large sections of) the Malay-Muslim mentality to an absurd degree. Instead of venting their fury on corrupt & greedy leaders, they prefer to target the helpless & relatively harmless….
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Sigh…no animals deserve to die in such a cruel way
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Such horrific and inhumane acts were seen near Teluk Batik, Sitiawan, Perak last year, also by the local council (Majlis Daerah Manjung) people!! Shooting a dog with such pleasure on the guy’s face!! Further it was done within the view of so many people near the beach.
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MPPP should instead focus on:
Keep the roads clean, have a proper road sweeping program
Look into the illegal commercial buildings along Jalan Sungai Kelian which is causing a traffic jam
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What is the Penang Government doing!?!??!
Did we vote in barbarians??!
We want answers.
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Shameful and cruel.
Haul up the guilty parties now!
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When the stray dogs bite kids. you blame the gov. when they shoot, you blame the gov. When captured stray dogs killed using injection or other method, you send a photo to tvs. Blame the gov.. What else?
You all just adopt all the stray dog. nuff said.
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I agree with Jebat
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Partly in response to Jebat Musibat and partly to enlighten our still pathetic MPPP.
1. Shooting dogs in public is dangerous and so last century. By doing this, MPPP is only showing us that they are stuck in old BN-style thinking with no regard for public safety. I thought the DAP/PR government was now in charge of MPPP? Or does MPPP have a different boss but still stuck in the same old thinking – or worse, with no brains whatsoever?
2. There are many dog lovers in Penang who would happily adopt and care for stray dogs. The DAP/PR state government (via MPPP?) can help by giving the Penang SPCA a small annual grant to assist them in their work.
3. Dogs (and cats too!) can be rounded up by MPPP and taken to the city veterinary pound. There, they need to be examined and those too old or ill to be rehabilitated should be euthanised humanely. Those which are healthy can be cleaned up and put up for adoption either via SPCA (which is why the annual State Govt grant to SPCA is important) or other private veterinary clinics.
4. Certainly MPPP has to improve its efforts in ensuring a cleaner urban environment which does not encourage the proliferation of dogs (and cats). Punitive measures by MPPP against recalcitrant residents/businesses that do not maintain good hygiene standards is also important.
5. Pet owners need to be reminded that pets are forever and not only for a birthday or for a happy occasion. If we are not going to keep the pet for the natural duration of their lives, we should not even take them home.
6. And finally, Penang residents must be encouraged to neuter their pets as far as possible. Much as I hate this, the reality is that we now live in urban communities that are extremely animal-unfriendly. So, in everyone’s (including the animal’s) best interests, we must consider neutering our pets.
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How many of you had actually seen the shooting in progress? Were they shooting crows or the stray dogs? I have been attacked by stray dogs not once or twice. We cannot walk on any streets peacefully without being harassed by stray dogs. I have to carry a stick or umbrella everytime. If it is a stray, catch it and put it down humanely. As Jebat says, we all can sit on computers and do Govt bashing… and at the same time when a stray bites your loved ones, then it is another MPPP / MPSP bashing…
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This inhuman act happened in Ipoh few months back. The poor helpless dog was crying in pain and its helpless cry broke my heart. The satisfaction shown on the shooter face really make me wan to…
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Dear Green tara
They killed our dog in front at our house gate this morning . I feel I also want to …. These … told us that it is their Right and Duty .
They said in 2006 that there will not be shooting anymore …. http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/Oct06%2018.htm
PURE LIE !!!
I want vomit
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The old MPPP might still from previous govt. As we know, the current govt still have ‘humanity’ not to punish them even thought they are as malays phase ‘Gunting dalam lipatan’.
But for me myself.. It’s better an action (as shoot the stray dog) rather than doing nothing as before until something happen just like ’10 years old kids nearly die attacked by stray dogs’! .
I would prefer it that way. Yes, i do know, animal is God’s creation. But they are still animal, that would be after HUMAN BEING. Human’s first… animal second.
However, I still believe, there’s always other good option instead of just shoot like that. MPPP has to be more hardworking and honest in their job. Not just to make it done. Make it done in the best way!
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Antares, your comment says much more about you than about Malays or Muslims.
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Two succinct quotes on timeless truths by Mahatma Gandhi:
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.”
My less charitable view is that only uncivilised barbarians in today’s supposedly highly civilised, cultured and enlightened human socities will resort to such inhuman cruelty to such hopelessly defenceless and vulnerable domesticated animals.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
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I agree totally with anna brella.
If we can’t even treat animals humanely then it really brings about the quetion of where we are headed as a society.
There are so many ways in which stray dogs can be controlled and put away. At the end of the day, it isn’t even their faults – most of stray dogs originated at some point from human beings (irresponsible dog owners) themselves.
They are out there because they are trying to survive. Shooting them is definitely one very inhumane way of putting them down.
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I disagree with the public hunting and shooting of dogs.
Such actions are more deadly to people than the dogs themselves.
If you have to destroy those pests, round them up the proper way and put them up for adoption failing which we should humanely put them to sleep by injection.
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Why nobody blamed this stray dog syndrome on those irresponsible owner who abandoned their pets as soon as it is old, sick or no longer ‘the cute little puppy my dad bought me before’?
The local council have to take action to avoid any untoward incident which might happened due to this stray dog roaming freely in our neighborhood.
I know some of you guys will ask why only take actions against stray dogs and not stray cats? My answer to you guys is that, how many cases of people been bitten by stray cats have you heard before in this world, compared to stray dogs?
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Antares,
As if the one that happened in Pulau Ketam were done by the malay-muslims? Majority in Pulau Ketam are not malay-muslim but others. Come on, like pointed by some here, don’t simply blame without knowing the facts.
So what should the municipal do….trap and capture the strays and dump it at any nearby Pulau in Penang like what the “malay-muslim” in Pulau Ketam did…where later you need TV-smith to go there and rescue these dogs…
Live up to your name Antares….unfortunately you are not so bright.
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I am lost of words. MPPP, please round them up and neuter them and send them to some Dog shelter homes.
In Singapore, anyone can bring in a stray dog or cat to neuter for free and let go again in the same vicinity. Can we adopt that in Malaysia?
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I’m sorry, it is people like Jebat Musibat, Antares is addressing and maybe he is being attacked here because what he is saying is so close to the truth.
It is not the entire truth because there are many decent Malay Muslims who are sympathetic to dogs but the main problem is the general view of the Malay Muslim (strangely unique to Malaysia and not common in other Muslim countries)is that dogs should be hated. It is strange how they can use the word “God” and “hate” in one breath. Strange how a God Who made all creation, has His Life in all things Living should be called ‘dirty’ or ‘bad’. Only what comes out of Man’s heart is dirty.
There was one incident where my neighbour’s Malay Muslim tenant called her to complain that a puppy had wandered into her house.
The landlord, living elsewhere, just told her not to get hysterical. It was just a puppy. But by the time the landlord arrived onto the scene, this Malay Muslim lady had lured the puppy into a garbage bag, tied up the bag and used a thick stick to bludgeon the dog to death. The landlady was furious.
“There was blood everywhere,” said the landlady. “And you know what this Muslim woman was ranting about all the time I was there? She was frantic where to find the ingredients for the ‘samak’ to cleanse herself?”
The landlady was in tears and shocked. “Here she had murdered an innocent puppy so brutally and she thinks some sand and rubbish is going to get her to heaven!”
“I mean she lives together out of wedlock with a man in my house and this also doesn’t matter to that Muslim woman but the samak to cleanse her matters! What kind of logic is that!!! If there is a God this woman should rot in …!”
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Dragonia,
Is this true what you are saying about Singapore? Where do I learn more about this?
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