News Forum - Watchdog Thailand finds 67 dead cats and dogs in Bangkok house, rescues 80 more

[Thaiger]

Watchdog Thailand found 63 dead cats, one dead dog, and 80 emaciated but still alive animals inside a house in Bangkok on Friday. Many of the animal carcasses had been stuffed into a freezer. The owner of the house – who tried to flee but crashed her car – had collected donations via Facebook for all the animals she had “saved.” The foundation coordinated with officers from Khan Na Yao Police Station and the Department of Livestock to inspect the house after receiving concerns from locals that animals were being neglected at the property. The team said the stench when […]

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[Faz]

63 dead cats and 1 dead dog = 64 dead animals.
It's simple maths, calculators not required.

[Chatogaster]

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Watchdog Thailand said she exploited the animals by starting a Facebook page to collect donations for them as if she was saving them.

It was an abhorring situation for sure, but at the same time I can also imagine how a naïve love for pets can get out of hand (1 cat + 1 cat = 6 kittens, repeat several times and what's been littered in the end exceeds capacity).

The insinuation is that the Facebook page was 1) successful and 2) not used towards the suggested intention. That would indeed be bad, but the article leaves the actual facts/truth up to the imagination of the reader.

Based on the facts presented, I don't exclude the possibility of this being a case of someone who got into an unmanageable situation out of naivety and didn't know how to resolve it.