In a shocking incident caught on CCTV camera, a 42-year-old man named Songwut Chuathong in Chiang Mai, Thailand, has been arrested for killing and eating his pet dog, Mon, after it bit his 7-year-old nephew.
The incident came to light after the Watchdog Thailand Foundation (WDT) filed a complaint with the Sankampaeng Police Station, alerting them to the cruelty and submitting the CCTV footage as evidence.
The footage shows Songwut tying a rope around the dog’s neck, dragging it to a tree, and hanging it until it died. He then placed the dead dog in a sack and left the scene. The killing occurred in front of his 7-year-old nephew.
Upon his arrest on Wednesday afternoon, Songwut initially denied disposing of the dog’s body but later confessed to eating it and sharing some of its meat with a friend named Roj. Police discovered leftover dog meat in Songwut’s refrigerator during a search of his home.
Songwut claimed he killed the dog “in anger” after it bit his nephew, who he described as an exceptional child. He also believed that he would not be charged for killing his own dog.
Further investigation revealed that Songwut had given away Mon to a nearby relative due to his inability to care for the dog. The police also arrested Songwut’s friend Roj and charged both of them with theft using a vehicle to aid crime, abandoning an animal carcass in a public place, and animal cruelty under Thailand’s Criminal Law and the Act on Animal Cruelty Prevention and Animal Welfare.
