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Monasteries flooded with unwanted pets
Buddhist temples in central Thailand have been flooded with abandoned cats and dogs after an outbreak of feline and canine distemper killed hundreds of pets in the past month.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:17 March 27, 2008
Bangkok: Buddhist temples in central Thailand have been flooded with abandoned cats and dogs after an outbreak of feline and canine distemper killed hundreds of pets in the past month, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
One temple in the rice growing province of Phichit, 350 km north of Bangkok, had to put up a sign asking pet owners to stop "supplying" the monastery with cats and dogs.
"Wat Bung has enough of cats and dogs," said a sign at the monastery posted on newspaper website www.manager.co.th.
"We prefer bricks, stones, sand, cement or paint," for construction in the temple, it said.
Each of the 50 monks' living quarters is shared by two to five cats, the Bangkok Post newspaper quoted a monk at the temple, where chicken owners abandoned their birds when the province was hit by a deadly bird flu outbreak, as saying.
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