More than two dozen dogs and cats have been removed from a Sattahip house after neighbors complained about the smell of their waste.
Apichat Jancham, assistant chief of the Sattahip District Complaint Center, joined village headmen and an official from Khet Udomsak’s Public Health and Environment Office June 8 at the house owned – but not lived in – by 52-year-old Sasithorn Pitak in Kehanakorn Na-Wandee village.
The inspection came after 10 neighboring families, led by Netnapa Kaewkong, 42, quarreled with Sasithorn over the smell of feces and urine from the 26 cats and three dogs running wild on her property.
Residents demanded that the 26 cats and 3 dogs living at this house, fed but left alone, be removed immediately due to their overbearing smell.
Netnapa said she and fellow complainants had been living in the community for decades, but the neighborhood began going bad six years ago when Sasithron moved in and began raising pets with no attempt to control their reproduction, she said.
Not only had many neighbors moved away, Sasithorn and her daughter left as well, only returning to feed the animals.
Therefore, the community group complained to Sattahip’s Dhamrongtham Center and vowed to take it to Chonburi’s governor if it the problem was not solved immediately.
Sasithorn said she is an animal lover and pitied all the animals and, therefore, felt she had to care for them. She acknowledged the property stunk up the village, but asked for time to relocate the animals to a new shelter.
Apichat said the villagers had complained before and Khet Udomsak had issued an order for the animals to be removed by Aug. 31. Neighbors, however, weren’t having any part of that deal and insisted they be moved now.
As a result, the public officials moved to immediately relocate the animals to temporary shelters until they can be permanently housed somewhere.
