Lock up your dogs

Until recently dog was considered unclean meat but not anymore because apparently rat is out of season. There still seem to be plenty around though. Bronwyn Sloan has the info.

Forget your daughters – concentrate on locking up your dogs, or they could become the unwitting latest victims of the global food crisis, Cambodian dog owners and police warned this week.

Police have no firm figures, but anecdotal evidence suggests there is a dognapping epidemic underway in Cambodia

Conventional meats such as pork were increasingly becoming out of reach for some Cambodians as the price of all meats nearly doubled, and enterprising dog thieves had begun roaming the cities armed with wire lassoes, snaring dogs who ventured outside their homes, or even, in some cases, too close to their front gates.

I've heard stories before about the wife of a general who was having some building done. She paid considerably less than the average salary for the work but the builders could live on site for the duration. Dogs disappeared from the surrounding streets for the duration.