So disgusting: Chiang Mai garbage

Last week…..
I am on the footpath while I am walking to the book store on Suthep road. Something strikes my eyes, look like a mountain on the footpath and smell badly. Garbage bags obstruct the way I am walking. It is more than 3 days that the garbage collectors don’t keep it out the way. Every morning, they will take that garbage for throwing away, but they don’t.

You will see what I see like this around Chiang Mai city. If you don’t believe me, you can notice it. Garbage disposal in Chiang Mai is major problem some days our rubbish didn’t even get picked up, and then the stray dogs ripped the bags open. And who cleaned it up? Me or you. So disgusting!

I said that it is major problem because garbage can decreases a good atmosphere of Chiang Mai city. You imagine that if tourist from other country visit CM and think that they will satisfy with a good atmosphere of CM but, they see mountain of garbage. What happened?

The problems of garbage disposal are the province’s growth, both in economic and social term, has brought many problems to the city. Particularly the garbage piled up by the residents. Meanwhile, the rising number of visitors has aggravated the problem somewhat. More over, industrial enterprises are also factors which have added garbage volume to the city.

I wander Chiang Municipality cannot deal with the problem of mounting quantities of garbage from the expansion of build-up households around the city. Also industrial waste pollution from industrial waste mostly contains toxic substances and chemical.

I don’t why they are not rapidly solve this problem because it is continuing problem in the big city like Chiang Mai. So I want the local government should concern about this issue because a lot of garbage can causes many problems such as atmosphere of the city or people healthy. Least but not last, please stopping to throw away garbage to another province because it cannot solve the core problem. So think about it!

By Nartchulee

++Stray dog cannot eliminate from Chiang Mai++

There are a lot of stray dogs in Chiang Mai, more than 10,000 stray dogs around the city. What happened with poor dogs? Why they throw their own dog away like the garbage that they don’t want to keep it. Dogs have their feeling, the feeling of fear, lonely, gloomy. If you are put in this situation how you do feel?

I always depressed when I see poor dogs, it lives without home, food and love from people who should be called the owner. They vagrant, move a lot from place to place, without hope in their life. They have to find some food from a mountain of garbage, but it is a little filling into their stomach. At night with the feeling of coldness, they have to lie down on the ground without warming. I cannot explain this feeling into word when I look into gloomy eyes. If I am abandoned, I cannot imagine how do I feel? I feel sorry with them because these dogs have the suffering from people who leave them alone.

People have wrong value. They feel that a puppy is so cute, so they buy them for their pleasantness. And the little puppy grow up, they eat more than they were young. They are not cute anymore. The consequence is deserting. When dogs are deserted, their population is growing up. There is no breed control in stray dogs; many little dogs become street dogs.

The problem causes by strays dog is rabies, a fetal disease which can be transmitted to humans. Stray dogs live without good looking after, so they are no chance to vaccinate the disease preventing.

Local Government should pay more attention to this problem. They should have stray dogs control planning. For instance, controlling a dog population by sterilization, to makes it impossible for them to have or produce babies. The number of stray dogs should be stable, not increase extremely.

Another suggestion is arresting stray dogs to live together in animal shelter. It will be better instead of wandering place to place. But they have to take care of them seriously. Another problem of animal shelter is money. Money is so important for feeding a lot of stray dogs. Is there anybody who has determining to solve strays dog problem? I think nobody because it wastes their time and money. So you still see dogs wander around Chiang Mai and the government cannot eliminate them. I hope someday these dogs will have a home and won't be abandoned at all.

by Nartchulee Thaithiang (Eve)