BANGKOK -- Thailand's stray dogs are an enormous problem. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, which recently reported 758,446 in a total canine population of 7,380,810 -- nearly 10.3%. In Bangkok alone, there were 141,455 strays.
The problem is evidently easier to quantify than solve. If not left to their own devices, unwanted dogs were often abandoned at temples. With Buddhist precepts against the taking of life, little effort was made to cull the population.
