In Reply to: So how about posted by Lawar Lover on Wednesday, 28. March 2012 at 06:46 Bali Time:
I work with "the poor" you are referring to (in the North) and I often have to remove dogs from a home as its often the children that have found the pups and bring them home to play and don't feed them and that charity that has an op shop is the one that takes the pups for me.
Many families I work with tend to eat the dogs when they grow up so they are a food source. Out of the 100's of families I work with not one family is without a dog or two (and you may want to take the time to read up about the reason a Balinese has a dog, as it is an important one, I will let you research that yourself).
I have also had to hold back my own feelings of wanting to remove a dog as the family sells its puppies every time it has a litter. I am a dog lover but I can't put my own feelings into it when a 95 year old woman tells me she survives on the money that she gets from selling the pups. The poor dog is as exhausted as the old lady and her teats drag on the ground (so does the old ladies) but it is not my place to take the dog, just to help her by getting the dog charities in to vaccinate her dog (for free, from donations such as that charity shop).
You may also want to take the time to talk to some Balinese and the majority I talk to say "if you dont like the dogs then leave Bali", it is only those that are greedy and work in tourism or government that make tourist revenue that talk of removing dogs when tourists complain about them. I don't mean talk to the Balinese at Legian etc, sorry this is not a judgement but many of the people that work around tourists everyday will tell you what you want to hear, they even do it with an Australian accent. You cannot say that they represent the majority of the Balinese's opinions
In the North where I work there are 1000's of dogs and not many toruists and we all get along pretty well.
That charity shop is actually linked to the organisation that vaccinated 400,000 dogs for rabies and removed many dogs and re-homed them from the beach so the tourists wouldn't get so upset. They are also linked to a charity that feeds (yes feeds so that they don't get aggressive and upset a tourist) on Kuta beach everyday. They have vaccinated every dog on Kuta/Legian and Seminyak beaches (and Balangan) just for the tourists comfort and enjoyment.
Oh, and locally owned dogs that live in compounds roam the streets everyday until dinner time so how do you know which is which? And they can be very aggressive if they don't know you.