It's very common in Thailand to drop off dogs that you no longer want at the temples so that the monks can be charged with watching them. The idea is that once you do that, that you are now indebted to that temple and must make regular visits and contributions to the temple. That's probably what it started out as and people probably stuck to their end of the commitment as well but since nobody is actually forcing these people to do that, it probably isn't happening from the contribution end.
This can be a very difficult time for the dog in question but at least, as far as we can tell, that these two dogs arrived around the same time and it may have been exactly the same time. The pack of dogs that live here aren't particularly territorial because there are two things that dogs will generally become aggressive over and that is competition for food and mating capabilities. Since all females are sterilized here and there is food provided, that aggression tends to not exist here.
But the new dogs are very timid and scared and stay away from everyone else. I have seen it many times before and realize it is just going to take some time.
We were a little concerned about the smaller one of the two, because he had skin problems and is small and timid. We do our best to try to integrate them into the pack anyway but ultimately it is up to them if they are going to get out there and make some friends or not.
The skin problem has to be dealt with immediately though because as if often the case with dogs and skin problems, it is likely a parasite that can be transferred to other dogs in our 100+ dog pack and we cannot have that happen. Almost all of the dogs here are treated against this sort of thing but we are in the process now of attempting to "starve" the parasites in the region and we don't want to give them any targets. Parasites, just like anything else, will starve out if they are not provided with food even if the food is other living creatures. There are plenty of humans and monkeys here, but those two species tend to be far more capable of getting parasites off of them once they jump on.
once again, we are very grateful for the monks that let us know that there were 2 new additions because we do not live here. They immediately called us and let us know and we went out there to take the dogs away briefly. It was kind of neat the way that the new dogs already kind of see certain monks as an authority figure, and they made no attempt to escape while we were caging them. Don't worry little fellas, you will be released just as soon as we can make sure that there is nothing serious wrong with you.
One of the monks said something to me that I had heard before when I asked if he knew who dropped the dogs off and he said "jai dam". What this means is that a person with a black heart dropped them off. I don't speak Thai very well but he also said something about karma coming to get them if they don't make this right. I certainly hope so, because halfway raising a dog and then simply abandoning it? Well, that is a notion that I cannot relate to or understand at all.
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