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Well, to each his own......having three vicious dogs about the place wouldn't be my choice but there's no accounting for taste
What about the practicalities of the situation? who's taking care of the pets when you're both heading down to Pattaya??
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Porno hardly ever comes to Pattaya now but when she does her son takes care of the dogs. We have made sure they know him and are ok.
Trouble is you actually need guard dogs where we live. It's no worse than any other estate in LOS but the fact of the matter is there is always some Thai fukka walking about on the look out for an empty home. I suppose in fairness we may have gone a bit OTT but you know me and Porno
We have had more than a couple of funny stories with our zoo.
My favorites are:
I bought a really lovely Asian spotted owl. We used to have both him and Odin perched on the balcony at the condo about 5 meters apart. I was away in Pattaya and Porno was going to some Amway meeting. In her wisdom, she decides it would be nice to let both the birds of prey fly around 'freedom' in the condo while she's out.
She also had this Thai squirrel 'Gadare' thing running about in the condo 'freedom'.
Anyway, I comes home around 5pm this particular day. First I notice the squirrel asleep on the floor. I thought 'That's funny, it normally runs away when you get near it. On closer inspection it's been mullered. Dead as a doornail with Hawk like talon wounds in it's back.
I caught Odin and tied him back up then looked for the owl. All I found was an owl leg.
A few weeks ago, Porno went to buy some dog food at Chatuchak. She comes home with male and female rabbits??????
I gave her a bollocking and told her the Akita would eat them both. She assured me she would really take care of them and not let him get near them.
One day I came home and saw her security was getting a bit lapse. Silly cow had the rabbits running about yet all the dogs seemed to be blanking them. They lulled her into a false sense of security.
Last week when I was in Pattaya I got the phone call. Akita had not only killed and eaten both of our rabbits. Oh no, he'd then got the taste for them and got into next doors garden and killed both of theirs as well. I had to pay out 500 baht for 2 new ones.
That night the killing spree wasn't over. A big toad jumped in the garden and Porno said the Akita was straight on it and shook it. Game over.
I can't tell you why but every animal I come in contact with in LOS is viscous. In Europe and the States people take care to breed dogs with nice temperament but it's the opposite here. They want them to bite and kill things. Hence any of the guard dog types will be at the extreme end.
It's a good thing you cannot get these Thaqi Bangkeaws outside of LOS. They really are a handful and anyone who has an Akita around kids wants shooting. You simply cannot trust them. They just like attacking things. Porno wants to cross breed the Akita with the Bangkeaw. I bet those puppies will have a nice personality.
On a plus side we don't get many people wanting to break into the house since we got Ninja.