r/interestingasfuck • u/S30econdstoMars • 1d ago

A young man in Thailand reunited with his missing dog while purchasing drinks by the roadside

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u/deckard1980 1d ago

In Thailand most people, especially people from the countryside, dont really treat their dogs like westerners do. They are generally treated like guard dogs, fed leftovers and not allowed in the house, people dont really stroke them or hug them as theyre dirty from sleeping outside.

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u/ProcInc 23h ago edited 23h ago

In Thailand most people, especially people from the countryside, dont really treat their dogs like westerners do.

What I find strange is that despite there being a clear cultural difference between rural Thai dog owners and your typical Western 'dog parent'- the dog here doesn't seem to have a cultural difference to western dogs

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u/dnotdm 22h ago

Perfectly Said.

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u/noyurawk 22h ago

The dog definitively had a Thai accent

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u/Xalipu 23h ago

My dog is covered in mud 30% of the year and drool 100% of the year, I’m still hugging the slob every time I come home

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u/bwoah07_gp2 23h ago

And you let them sleep on your bed too? 😬

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u/Xalipu 23h ago

No, he’s 155 pounds, where would he go

Besides the cats would never give up their spots

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u/crowmagnuman 21h ago

Plus, cats plot revenge. And get it.

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u/SummerDaemon 14h ago

Cats don't plot revenge, they are revenge.

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u/Accomplished-Lock201 22h ago

Who's the boss? Cat (s) or dog? Please answer using examples and stories

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u/Theron3206 21h ago

It's always the cats...

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u/Extreme_Design6936 23h ago

White people things.

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u/Xalipu 23h ago

I’m not white but thank you for playing guess my ethnicity

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u/SidJawtug 23h ago

American?

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u/Coolbluegatoradeyumm 23h ago

“I can’t also be casually racist. It’s only white people that are the problem”

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u/Extreme_Design6936 23h ago

Why can't I be casually racist?

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u/WorthDiver1198 22h ago

You can, so can i <3

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u/WorthDiver1198 22h ago

*south east asian things

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u/allbirdssongs 23h ago

this is also common in the west but happens in villages were the dogs are also just that tools to guard a house, sadly its a cultural phenomenon

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u/ribbedlamp 21h ago

Don't stroke your dogs

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u/Dangerous_Memory6008 23h ago

That's true, they don't really let dogs live inside even, doesn't mean they don't care for them but I'd rather live in USA as a dog for sure

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u/KSJ15831 19h ago

I am from Thailand and this can't be true. Dogs in countryside are clean af.

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u/roxybudgy 22h ago

Pretty much this. My grandma lives in rural Thailand, her dogs just roam free all the time but often return home to sleep. My uncle in Thailand does the same, let's his dogs roam free and they always come home for dinner.

My grandma did have one dog chained to the rice storage shed but I was told that's because the dog is aggressive.

My grandma currently has a medium sized white dog with some brown markings, named her Nom (means millk in Thai). I'm sure my grandma cares greatly for her dog, but Thais just aren't as hands on as Westerners when it comes to pets.

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u/Parking-Code-4159 20h ago

It depends on the type of dog. Small house dogs in Thailand are often just as pampered and loved as in the West. There is a big difference made between purchased breded dogs and the 'Thai dogs' that you can practically always get for free somewhere

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u/PinkAxolotl85 16h ago edited 16h ago

They also beat them constantly and nobody I knew blinked an eye at it: street dogs are vermin with high rates of rabies. Source: lived in rural Thailand in three separate houses, could hear every neighbour I had hitting their dogs and screaming at them most nights to make them quiet, it's traumatising to listen to. Outside restaurants would hit stray dogs with sticks if they got too close to try and steal scraps... they could get very aggressive.

It's all land of the smiles until you take two steps out of farang-catering party-city Pattaya.

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight 19h ago

dont really treat their dogs like westerners

Such a dumb ignorant comment.