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bucko2004 · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 31

What should you do if you are unlucky enough to witness animal cruelty in Japan? The other day my girlfriend and I were walking home and we saw this lady walking her dog, however when we got closer we saw that this poor animal was completely undernourished. It's backbone and backlegs were literally piercing through it's skin and it could hardly walk too. The poor animal needs to be put to sleep immedietly.

Is there any organisation in Japan like the RSPCA or something where you can dob in someone like this cruel woman. I feel terrible feeling helpless. I wish said something to her but I totally lost all my Japanese ability at the time. Anata no inu wa tabemono ga irimasu??

Unfortunately I don't know where this woman lives, but just in case I see her and the dog again I want to know where to report it.

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan

More of the same

http://www.vudeja.com/blog/cruelty.html

bucko2004 · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 31

Thanks PAULH. I have just sent off an email to ARC KANSAI. Hopefully I will see this woman and the dog again. We'll see what happens.

easyasabc · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 179 Location: Japan

bucko2004 · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 31

Got a reply from ARC -

You need to find out where the woman lives. Maybe someone from ARK could go and talk to her. The dog may have some illness and we need to know if it is receiving treatment. Or it may be a case of neglect in which case we would offer to take the dog or possibly steal it. Usually in the latter case, it is unlikely the owner would be out walking the dog. They tend to keep them hidden from public view.

Gee I hope I see that dog again. I just wish I wasn't so shocked the first time, I just didn't think to follow her.

madeira · Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 182 Location: Oppama

It's very possible that the dog is just old. If the owner is trying to give it some exercise, it seems likely it is being cared for.

My cat is entering the 'twilight years' at 20, and it's getting hard to make her drink enough water. In the heat now, she looks a little gaunt. Her kidneys are OK now, but if they start failing (common) she'll look even worse. At that point, I'll start injecting water under her skin. I don't see any reason to put her down if she's still able to walk/eat/sleep/shred furniture. She's half blind now, missing a tooth, but is still enjoying life. If she starts experiencing pain, the vet can prescribe drugs. I hope she can die at home, and not in a vet's office.

We're all hopefully going to get old... and it's not going to be beautiful.

Anyhow, I don't know if you saw any other signs of abuse. Hopefully not! Just saying that the apparent condition of the animal might not be a sign of abuse.

BradS · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 173 Location: Tokyo, Japan

The Dog Ate My Keitai · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 67 Location: Japan

I have lost my faith in the way many Japanese people treat animals. Whether it's eating sushi out of a still-alive fish in a restaurant (been there)...or remember about 2.5 years ago there was that TV variety show segment where they filleted the side off a fish and dumped it back in the tank?.... or the neighbour neglecting the dog that's perpetually tied to the house or the fact that many animals being sold in pet stores end up euthanized when no one buys them (or so I've been told)..... It's pretty sick sometimes.

Do you really think something would ever get done even if it were reported to the authorities? It's just too mundane around here.

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Yeah, it's best to know the whole story first... Lest you end up like these moron animal rights activists who thought they were doing the right thing by mistakedly "liberated" dogs being treated for a genetic disease from a veterinary clinic. They thought that the dogs were being used for experiments.

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3390737a11,00.html

ndorfn · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 126

There's no shortage of animal cruelty anywhere in the world that's for sure.

The kindergarten I used to work at in Osaka used to keep a whole bunch of turtles in the midday sun with no shade. The poor things clambered over each other to get a part of the 2 or 3 cm of shade from the side of the container. I complained a couple of times, moved the container into the shade, to no avail. I even mentioned it in my resignation letter. They seemed to have no notion of the sufferring they were causing.

There were rabbits, hamsters, even a pig, kept in small cages for the kids to prod. The irony of it is that it was all probably meant to promote knowledge of animals.

What it really taught the kids was disrespect to other living things.