Dogcatcher

Firstly, happy chinese new year. Secondly, I’m not here to talk about the festive season.

I’m here to talk about dogcatchers. The place that I work have so much stray dogs, and one day, the Majlis Perbandaran came a-calling. Do you know how they catch dogs? I think I watched too many cartoons when younger. I imagined the dogcatchers to be running after the strays with giant nets. Hehehe! In actual fact, this is what they use to catch dogs.

The loop you see on one end? It’s like a noose. They try to get it over the dog’s neck, and by manipulating the rope at the other end of the stick, they can strangulate the dog until it stops trying to get away. By keeping a short leash on them, the dog is forced to trot by the dogcatcher’s heels, less it asphyxiates itself. Through this manipulation, the dogcatcher is able to throw the dog into the back of its truck.

Halfway through the dogcatching exercise, the owner of the carpark where I park my car for the day runs out and shouts at the dogcatchers. A general, “What the fC*K do you think you are doing?” The dogcatchers say, “Our job, duh.” The carpark owner says that you’re only supposed to catch strays. All the dogs that you are currently catching belong to ME.

This is a big lie, either that or the carpark owner is the worst dog owner in the history of dog owners. The dogs are mangy, flea-ridden, wounded, un-fed and dirty beasts. It would probably be doing them a great favor to be taken to the pound. Yeah, I know that people say that once they are in the pound, they are killed. But is it any better for them to be running around, so horribly neglected? And what if they get rabies? Will the carpark owner still claim them as his when his brain starts swelling up?

Anyway, the dogcatchers didn’t want to fight with the carpark owner, and left. They came back a week later when the stray dog condition didn’t get any better… but til today I still see a few strays wandering around.

This pisses me off about the place that I work. That and the fact that the next nearest place to eat (other than the cafeteria in the building) is referred to as “The Dumpster”. No prizes for guessing where it is situated.