Friday, June 18, 2010

PRESS CONFERENCE

MP for Klang Charles Santiago invites you to a press conference on MPK'S Inhumane Treatment of Dogs in Klang.

Date: 20 June 2010
Day: Sunday
Time: 11 am
Venue: No.54C, Jalan Kemanyan,
Taman Radzi, Radzi
41200 Klang Selangor
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(Behind the new Pantai Medical Center. Go towards Port Klang. After passing Hin Wah High School on your keep to the left and do not take the flyover. Once at the traffic light, turn left and go straight for about 100 metres, make a u turn and turn left into the road next to a vegetarian restaurant. Go straight and you'll arrive at Taman Radzi and the destination of the press conference. Those who need more directions - please write to us at malaysiandogsdeservebetter@gmail.com .)

Stephenie Lao Yen Yen
Personal Assistant
MP Klang

Thursday, June 17, 2010

THIS IS HELP FROM PROVIDENCE

The fat dog that was abducted and thrown into the enclosure to be infected. Is this some kind of biological warfare strategy launched against dogs?
The healthy looking dog which was kept next to the dying Rottie.
The Rottie which was dying at the pound. From the signs - we believe that its distemper.
The wires in the dog catchers van.
Dr Dashant with the terrified Amgel - note that the dog was on a leash when abducted by the MPK goons. They had also tightened the wire around angel's neck.

Things work out mysteriously sometimes and what happened on Wed evening was no exception. We received a frantic call from a lady we know in Taman Radzi in Klang that Klang Municipal Council's (MPK) 'noble' dog catchers had 'caught' two dogs belonging to her neighbours. Both the dogs were on leash and were being walked by their Myanmar domestic helper. Apparently, the dog catchers had stopped their van and threatened to slap the maid and grabbed both leashes from her. They then looped the necks of both dogs - 5-year-old Angel and 14-year-old Major with wires and dragged them to their parked van. This was about 7.00pm. Now, Major is about 98-years-old in human age and is able to merely waddle about when walking and so dragging him with the wire was indeed a major assault on him. Meanwhile, the domestic helper had run back and alerted her employers. When they approached the dog catchers, the MPK workers, whom Arsehole described as being noble, became menacing. When the owners went to get their dog, the dog catchers told them to keep away or they would otherwise strangle both the dogs with the wires. To prove their point, they twisted the wire around poor Major's neck and the dog started chocking. However, by then neighbours were all out and the MPK van was blocked from leaving the area. The dog catchers then dragged both dogs and and chucked them into cages behind the van. There were two other dogs in the van - a fat white dog wearing a collar and a Rottie. After much argument both Angel and Major were released but the workers refused to release the other two. However, they promised to return them to the homes from where they had abducted the dogs. They said we could follow them to ensure that both the dogs were duly returned. Major and Angel's owner Dr Dashant and an MDDB representative followed the van but instead of returning the dogs, the dog catchers sped off to the MPK pound instead. We followed. At the pound we saw them brutally dragging the fat white dog out of the van and banging her around before dumping her into an enclosure with other dogs which have obviously been there longer. By doing this they are knowingly infecting the healthy fat dog with the various infections found in the pound. This is akin to subjugating the dog to some sort of biological weapon with the intent of killing it. At the pound some of the workers behaved like hoodlums and one of the roughed Dr Dashant up and grabbed his cell phone. We also saw that pedigrees were kept separately and one of the dogs a Rottie, was dying and from our experience we can tell it is distemper. They had placed another healthy dog near the dying dog - didn't the Selangor Department of Veterinary Services brief these pound sadists that distemper is air borne. The DVS vet in charge of the Klang pound should be removed, given to his/her failure to ensure that the dogs brought to the pound are safe from the various infections present there. What happens when owners bring their dog home and in the process their other pets are also infected? Therefore, the pound still operates as a morgue instead of a place to hold dogs pending being claimed by owners or adopted. Coming back to Dr Dashant's issue, police reports have been lodged and the family had gone to see Klang MP Charles Santiago over the issue. Mr Santiago revealed he had sent over 100 text messages to MPK acting health director Zul Abbas for a meeting but the latter was yet to respond. We believe he is hiding behind the so-called CAT committee. We would like to know why MPK was still using wires when the CAT committee and the SPCA claim that they were no longer doing so. Didn't the CAT committee claim it had successfully trained the dog catchers to use more humane methods? Weren't we told that wires were no longer used. What happened on Wed was far from it. So, this means the CAT committee had failed miserably and should be disbanded. The onus is now on the SPCA to do what PAWS, Pat Lim and Jackie Tsang have done - abandon the CAT committee. We were also told by an MPK staff that the dog catchers resort to abducting dogs to justify their claim for overtime. Whenever they work after 4.00pm - it is considered overtime and they are required to justify why they had to work overtime. Since they have been packing the pound with strays - not many are left on the streets any more - therefore they have resorted to doing what they did 0n Wed - abducting dogs. Write to the relevant people to demand for the removal of Zul Abbas given his failure to manage the dog catching unit.

SELANGOR STATE GOVERNMENT
khalid@selangor.gov.my
ronnieliu@selangor.gov.my

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Deputy Minister in charge of public complaints at the Prime Minister's Department
Datuk T. Murugiah
murugiah@pmo.gov.my

PUBLIC COMPLAINTS BUREAU - PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT MALAYSIA - You can make online complaints about Zul Abbas and ask for his removal
http://www.pcb.gov.my/

Charles Santiago will be holding a press conferene either on Sat or Sunday and Klang residents are expected to be there with banners condemning what had happened. Please join them to show your support. We will inform you of the exact time and place on this blog soon.

THE ARSEHOLE CHRONICLES

Some people are born sadists and Mr Arsehole is one such person. Yep, we are not going to be diplomatic anymore. Thanks to Lisa Kuok who made us realize that diplomacy won’t get us anywhere. Here is a person who has NOT even rescued one stray in his lifetime but yet pretends to be an expert. To tell you the truth, Arsehole has a vendetta against stray dogs. It’s simply because he feels that strays are not worth the trouble.
Before we move on to explain why we are so pissed off, let us narrate a story that happened some ten years or more. One of the MDDB founders and Arsehole had had a discussion about getting stray puppies off the streets or from the SPCA and training them to be companion dogs for the disabled. After the conversation the MDDB person never heard from Arsehole for a while and later found out that he had started a company in partnership with some Dr V to train pedigree pups for disabled people. What was initially discussed as a platform to get strays off the streets had been turned into a commercial endeavor by Arsehole.
There were also plans to breed these pups on their own. However, the company exploded on their faces and after some years he started his current organization.
Coming back to the present, a young lady called Miss Teh, who feeds some dogs in Klang found herself in a quandary recently. Her dogs had been caught by the Klang Municipal Council (MPK). She went to the pound to take the dogs out and was slapped with a huge compound. She argued that these were strays and she was taking them out to be rehomed. (The plan was to send them to a farm.) The MPK people said the CAT committee had told them not to give the strays to anyone but to put them to sleep instead.
Arsehole has also told several people that the life of a stray is not worth living. This is the stupidest statement any arsehole can make. Visit any rescuer and you’ll see that their pet/s are all ex-strays. What about the strays we get adopted? They move on to have good lives in spite of their history. Arsehole also wrote on his blog that on his way somewhere he had seen several strays and “one was poking its entire head into a garbage bin of a resident desperately looking for a morsel to satiate its "hunger-panged" body.”
“Another was sleeping on the grass outside the home of a very rich house owner’ and Arsehole thinks that the house owner must be feeding the dog.
And the third ‘was being threatened with a rock by a man.’
Arsehole says he saw yet another skinny dog with its tail between its legs which was trying to cross the highway.
Due to all these scenes that he saw, Arsehole deduces that the only solution would be for them to be put to death instead of allowing them to live as strays.
He goes on to challenge rescuers who are against euthanasia to "walk their righteous and ridiculous talk" and take this animals into their homes and lives. He is also against the feeding of strays by good Samaritans.

http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/2009/06/remember-patches.html

We rescued Patches from the pound a day before she was put to sleep. She was infected with distemper at the pound - we treated her. Look at her now. Look at the proud look on her face. This pix was taken last year - she's looking even grander now. Thank heavens, we believe in second chances and do not have a constipated brain like Arsehole.


http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/update-on-sister-doberman.html
This is Luca a.k.a Sister Doberman. If we had constipated minds like Arsehole, we would have killed her the minute we found her because she was in a terrible condition and stank like a sewage because of her skin condition. Luckily, we strongly believed that all living creatures had the right to live. So, we gave her a second chance.

http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/2009/04/remember-brother-rottie.html
This is Rottie now renamed Dexter. He had a miserable start in life. One of his legs was deformed. We never gave up on him. Today he is a happy dog who has his own bed in his human's bedroom. We believed in him and we believed in ourselves to give him a good life.

http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/2010/04/good-news.html
This is Lester and he was half-cooked when some idiot poured boiling oil on him. We saw his fighting spirit and did everything possible to ensure that he got well. He now lives in the lap of luxury in Section 16, Petaling Jaya. What if we had constipated minds and felt that death was the best option for him?

http://malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com/2010/01/cindy.html
This is Cinderella now renamed Faith. She was rescued from the Klang pound and her faced was badly splashed with acid. We did not give up on her and we are glad we didn’t. She is today a confident doggie that also sleeps in the same bedroom as her humans and goes on holidays with them as well.

These are only a few of our many successes. What if we had constipated minds and believed that these dogs did not deserve to live? MDDB is made up of people who respect all forms of life and hold strongly to the belief that the onus is one us to share this world with every other living thing.

So our response to Arsehole would be: ARE YOU IN A COMA ARSEHOLE? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE DOING WHEN WE SPEND ALL OUR TIME AND RESOURCES TAKING THESE DOGS OFF THE STREETS AND NEUTERING THEM AND FINDING THEM HOMES? WE ARE WALKING OUR TALK WHICH IS ONLY RIDICULOUS TO YOU, YOU IMBECELE! WHAT WE ARE PROPAGATING HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN MANY COUNTRIES. ONLY A SHITHEAD ARSEHOLE LIKE YOU WITH A CONSTIPATED MASS OF SHIT FOR A BRAIN WILL THINK OTHERWISE.
Arsehole has also said other equally dumb and constipated things on his blog such as:

1) Dog catchers are unsung heroes even though they risk getting injured or bitten during the line of their duties in trying to accomplish their noble mission.

2) The majority of the dogs that dog catchers come across are abused dogs; as well as extremely sick animals.

3) That life for the strays is a living hell; no one wants to really care for them - even those who profess to feed them and therefore it is better to take these dogs out of their predicament and humanely put them down instead of allowing them to suffer in the cold and uncaring streets.

Arsehole had also brought a so-called private animal control professional trained in Australia who apparently showed the dogcatchers how to trick and lure the dogs to death with food.
We called this person who confessed that he was not an animal activist but a businessman. He said he was also the one who had given the Selangor government the plan for the modern dog pound in Sepang.
He too strongly believed that strays should be taken off the streets and put to death. He asked us if we knew that dogs transmitted diseases.
We said there was no rabies in Malaysia. He said there were other diseases and when we asked him to tell us what these diseases were – he was unable to give us a reply. We think it’s because he didn’t know.
We are wondering if Arsehole has plans to bid for a dog catching job with the local councils, especially MPK, as the council unlike several others, was yet to engage a private dog catching company to do the job.
Our question is – What exactly is Arsehole hoping to get by throwing a spanner into the work being done by rescuers?
What exactly is Arsehole hoping to get by killing all the strays?
What the hell is Arsehole trying to get by kissing the butts of the local councils’ dog catching fellows?
One of the answers is probably to get his tenure as councilor extended as well as probably secure a dog catching contract.
So people write to the Petaling Jaya mayor protesting against his reappointment. He can only throw a spanner into independent rescuers’ efforts and kill strays if he remains a councilor. Push MBPJ to give other disabled people a chance to be councilor.

Datuk Bandar MBPJ
Dato' Haji Mohamad Roslan Bin Sakiman
mroslan@mbpj.gov.my
03-79563544 ext. 325

SELANGOR STATE GOVERNMENT
khalid@selangor.gov.my
ronnieliu@selangor.gov.my

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Deputy Minister in charge of public complaints at the Prime Minister's Department
Datuk T. Murugiah
murugiah@pmo.gov.my

PUBLIC COMPLAINTS BUREAU - PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT MALAYSIA - You can make online complaints about Arsehole and ask for his removal
http://www.pcb.gov.my/

And one more post or move by Arsehole on strays and the culling of strays – be prepared to picket outside the MBPJ office.
The picket will be against Arsehole – so please be prepared to come-up with placards with Arseholes pics on it. You can source a wide selection from his blog.
On the CAT committee – Pat Lim and Jackie Tsang have both resigned because as rescuers they know that what he is doing is mayhem of the highest order. PAWS refuses to attend any of the meetings organized by CAT. It’s only the SPCA and a couple of his arsehole friends with equally constipated brains who are left on the committee.
In closing this epistle, we would like to say – THE WAR HAS STARTED ARSEHOLE. WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO CONTINUE YOUR MURDEROUS RAMPAGE AGAINST THE POOR STRAYS. UNITE ALL DOG LOVERS, FEEDERS and RESCUERS – LET’S PUT A STOP TO THIS ARSEHOLE FOR GOOD.

Details - please write to arseholechronicles@yahoo.com

Friday, June 11, 2010

FORREST'S JOURNEY FROM THE TIME OF HIS RESCUE FROM THE HELL KNOWN AS THE SELAYANG MUNICIPAL COUNCIL POUND

Herewith a pictorial narration of the journey taken by Forrest from the time he was rescued from being put to sleep at the Selayang pound to the present.

ADOPTION DRIVE

VENUE: Summit Subang Jaya
DATE:
Sunday, June 13
TIME: 11.00 am to 7.00pm

ADOPTION DRIVE

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2010/6/11/central/6426862&sec=central
Ready to be loved: Little Forrest is no longer little but still waiting to be adopted.

Friday June 11, 2010

Little Forrest among 12 puppies up for adoption

CANINE welfare project Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better (MDDB) is hoping plucky puppy Little Forrest finds a loving home at its adoption drive at the Summit Subang Jaya shopping complex on Sunday (June 13).
The adoption drive at Summit’s main entrance will be held between 11am and 7pm.
MDDB adoption coordinator Christine Lai said Little Forrest was rescued from the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) pound in February.
“He was rescued by an animal activist who visited the pound. Little Forrest was very sick and had countless ticks on him,’’ said Lai.
Thanks to the dedication of his rescuers, he pulled through after being put on drips and given a blood transfusion.
Currently, after being discharged from the clinic last week, Little Forrest is a happy puppy in need of a loving home.
She added Little Forrest had almost died on several occasions at the clinic after his rescue.
Luckily he had pulled through and Lai attributes this to the puppy’s fighting spirit.
“He has a strong will to live and fought very hard to survive. Sadly, most of the puppies rescued with him succumbed to various illnesses they contracted at the pound,’’ said Lai.
Besides Little Forrest, MDDB will also be putting up more than a dozen puppies for adoption at the adoption drive this Sunday.
According to Lai, MDDB rescues many puppies monthly and always in a dire need to locate good homes for them.
“People have also taken to leaving puppies at our door step and because of this we are always full house,’’ said Lai.
Lai added MDDB has also started to actively rescue cats and kittens and would be launching a feline rescue group called Malaysian Cats Care Project (MCCP) soon.
Those wanting to donate cash and kind can also drop their contributions off at the adoption drive this Sunday.
“We need dry and canned dog and puppy food, dry and canned cat and kitten food, old newspapers, dog and cat shampoo, old towels, rice, cages, detergent and bleach,’’ said Lai. For details, call 019-3576477, 012-3739007 or visit www.malaysiandogsdeservebetter.blogspot.com.my

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

MURDERERS!

It came to our attention that the so-called CAT committee (Canine Advisory Team) held a get together for dog catchers to show them how to make their dog catching sprees more effective.
The dogs catchers were also termed as being noble by the head honcho of the spree who heads an NGO for people with special needs. (We would like to know is this NGO represents people with special needs or is an animal welfare group?)
The honcho also lambasted animal rescuers and feeders and said dog catching was necessary to make the streets safe. He called the dog catchers unsung heroes and said the session with CAT was a platform for them to go on their dog catching spree more effectively.
They had also brought someone to show the dog catchers how to trick the poor canines and lure them to death with food such as chicken bits. More stupid statements were also made with the dog catchers saying that life as strays were not worth living.
Meanwhile, the honcho also said the MDDB was circulating lies by saying that PAWS did not want to participate in its dog catching sprees. We we informed of this by people in PAWS. Why did they not attend the recent spree in Klang if they felt it was ok to do so? Pray tell how many CAT events has PAWS attended? Isn't it telling that only SPCA and the honcho's organisation for the disabled were they only participants in addition to two local councils?
Where are the other rescue groups?
We also spoke to Klang MP Charles Santiago who informed us that over 40 calls, SMS and emails were made and sent to MPK acting health director Zul Abas to discuss about the unnecessary catching of dogs in Klang which also included people's pets.
(MDDB had also caught the dogs roaming around looking for dogs after office hours and we were told that they were doing it to obtain overtime.
This is uncalled for. )
Coming back to the Klang MP, Mr Santiago told MDDB that he had also called Zul personally on many occasions but Zul had been avoiding him with the excuse that he is busy. This is insolence of the highest order i.e to deny your MP a meeting.
It is clear now that rogue dog catching outfits are hiding behind the so-called CAT (which only represents two groups and one of it is not even an animal welfare group) committee which is encouraging them to go out and kill dogs. More so the committee does not understand nor is endorsing the TNR system. HAs time finally come to push for the removal of certain local councillors? Your comments please.

HELLO

POPIKO MAIL
ME - Busy strategizing
CHEENAPOP - Busy Praying
ME - Mentally Exhausted
CHEENAPOP - Exhausted After Praying Very Hard

Dear Peeps,
My apologies for being silent for quite a while. I have been very busy thinking of strategies to help MDDB counter the many problems we face. Strategizing can be very tiring as it involves a lot of brainwork and I am mentally exhausted at the end of each working day. My sister Shalini ‘Cheenapop’ Kiki-Mae has also been busy praying as she is a very spiritual four-legged individual. She confided in me that she is praying for the local councils to show some compassion for us dogs, as they are the country’s biggest animal abusers. On another matter, I would also like to urge members of the public to help MDDB when they chance upon stray puppies and dogs in need of help. Usually they expect MDDB to immediately go to the spot and pick-up the doggies and puppies the moment they call. This is not possible as all MDDB members have fulltime jobs and some even have second jobs to help them fund their rescue activities. So, please help them by taking the doggies and puppies home first or better still - foster them until our monthly adoption drive. We will provide food, cages and veterinary care while they are being fostered. Secondly, MDDB has no power or authority to confront owners who mistreat their animals. So, please do not demand we do this and then castigate the poor two-legged when there is no positive response from the evil owners. My human underlings in MDDB have also reported to me that we are in the red after paying for brother Lester’s medical bill. So, please kind people – send your loose change our way as we have many more dogs in need of help. Lastly, please also send positive energy our way so that Cheenapop’s marathon prayer sessions are not in vain.
Woof, Woof
SPS (Ms)
(Shamini Popiko Sasha)