Ravensnest wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:51 pm

atst wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:36 pm.
Domestic pets don't roam the streets night or day including cats

90% of the dogs/cats you see walking around are somebody's pet.

To the OP, I'm sorry that happened to you. No matter which country I live in, I would never let a pet of mine roam unattended.

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:34 pm

Ravensnest wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:51 pm

atst wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:36 pm.
Domestic pets don't roam the streets night or day including cats

90% of the dogs/cats you see walking around are somebody's pet.

To the OP, I'm sorry that happened to you. No matter which country I live in, I would never let a pet of mine roam unattended.

Most dogs in Cambodia (particularly in the provinces) are kept as waste food disposal units / intruder alarms and to a lesser degree a food source, cats are for rodent control, they are not pets as westerners know it.
Don't look at it as they are left to roam, rather that they are kept free range.
Only a very small minority are kept and looked after in the manner of “pets”.

Ravensnest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:14 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:34 pm

Ravensnest wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 2:51 pm

atst wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:36 pm.
Domestic pets don't roam the streets night or day including cats

90% of the dogs/cats you see walking around are somebody's pet.

To the OP, I'm sorry that happened to you. No matter which country I live in, I would never let a pet of mine roam unattended.

Most dogs in Cambodia (particularly in the provinces) are kept as waste food disposal units / intruder alarms and to a lesser degree a food source, cats are for rodent control, they are not pets as westerners know it.
Don't look at it as they are left to roam, rather that they are kept free range.
Only a very small minority are kept and looked after in the manner of “pets”.

I think it's a bit jaded to think all Khmers look at dogs and cats as a food source only.

I go walking around the streets around my apartment (more of a khmer area with not many westerners in close proximity) in the evenings with my Khmer wife. We talk to many of our neighbors. In Phnom Penh, I see dogs roaming around my area to go to the bathroom and after a 30 minute ranging or so, they return home. I know where each of the dogs homes are now and from the dogs, ended up meeting their loving owners.

In rural areas, I only know a handful of my wife's neighbors, which are extremely poor for the most part. My wife's mother and their neighbors love their dogs too. Their dogs. I don't doubt for a minute if anothers dog caused repeated problems that it would disappear.

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:47 pm
I did say “to a lesser degree” a food source, of course not all Khmers eat dogs, although in our rural local there are several families who keep numerous dogs, letting them breed indiscriminately and regularly “harvest” them to feed the family (and sell them to the dog buyers when they come calling)
I fear you may be wearing rose tinted spectacles if you think all the dogs in your neighborhood only nip out for a 30 minute “comfort break” then scamper home to their loving owners, that may be so for a small number of them, but for every well loved dog I’ll bet there are 50 more who are kept in the fashion and for the reasons mentioned in my initial post.

Ravensnest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:43 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:47 pm
I did say “to a lesser degree” a food source, of course not all Khmers eat dogs, although in our rural local there are several families who keep numerous dogs, letting them breed indiscriminately and regularly “harvest” them to feed the family (and sell them to the dog buyers when they come calling)
I fear you may be wearing rose tinted spectacles if you think all the dogs in your neighborhood only nip out for a 30 minute “comfort break” then scamper home to their loving owners, that may be so for a small number of them, but for every well loved dog I’ll bet there are 50 more who are kept in the fashion and for the reasons mentioned in my initial post.

I spoke about the roaming dogs in my area. I've eaten dog, once. It is, sadly, delicious. I know where it's served here if you'd like to go.
I'm fully aware of the snatching and bartering that takes place here, rats too. But that's a different discussion compared to my previous post.