KUCHING: Save Our Strays (SOS), a non-profit volunteer group, is disappointed with the culling of dogs at a farm in Lundu, about two hours’ drive from here.
SOS president Kitty Chin said she was informed by the farm owner that authorities went to his farm early Sunday without permission to cull eight dogs.
Chin said the dogs had all been vaccinated and neutered with help from SOS, and that she had documents to prove this.
A caretaker at the farm had asked authorities to wait for the farm owner but they went ahead and culled the dogs.
“When rabies first spread to an uncontrollable stage, we reached out to the farms, the warehouses and factories to ensure their animals were vaccinated and neutered as we too wanted to put a stop to rabies.
“Of course, there are some who were not cooperative, but this farm was cooperative and we sent a vet to the farm to have all the dogs there vaccinated.
“I am annoyed that despite the assurance from the authorities that they will not simply cull dogs that had been vaccinated and neutered, such a thing still happened,” Chin told New Sarawak Tribune.
She hoped that the authority concerned would clear the air on the incident.
Calls to get the State Disaster Committee Control Room for its side of the story went unanswered.
