A couple of days ago a reader emailed me the disturbing image above of dead dogs pilled up on top of one another. Supposedly the picture was taken in Kuwait but since I couldn’t find any more information on it I refrained from sharing it. Yesterday I was finally able to get more information when the Kuwait Animal Rescue Unit (KARU) shared the image along with the following message:
There was an extremely sad and horrifying animal abuse/massacre incident at a security company based in Kuwait on June 17, 2016 in Kuwait. Due to their contract being revoked, they slaughtered 24 of their US K9 dogs whom were trained by USK9 dog training facility which is located in Louisiana, USA. This security company is an American company which worked with Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). KNPC paid 3000KD (equivalent of $9900)/month to the security company for each dog.
Early this morning, a brave lawyer, Esmail Al Misri, representing the workers from Nepal at the security company and an avid animal lover, advocate, and rescuer, Mimi Maamoun, went to file a complain at Mina Abdullha police station against the security company. The environment police and municipality registered the case. There are another 91 dogs remaining at the security company. While they abused the dogs by having them on duty for 24 hours without rest, their foreign workers would not dare to speak up and raise any issues with the company as they were also being mistreated and abused.
At this point, we as animal lovers in kuwait, USA, and other countries, we need to advocate all the animals by spreading the news and be the voice for these poor animals. We must help save the remaining animals!
PLEASE NO DONATION IS NEEDED from/to any individuals or organizations. I will keep you posted as soon as I obtain further information.
Hopefully the new animals rights law has come into effect so that the people behind this tragic incident get punished.
Thanks Janna
33 replies on “24 Dogs Killed Over Contract Dispute”
KNPC paid “3000KD” (equivalent of $9900)/month to the security company for “each” dog!!!!
yeah that sounds a lot considering dogs cost around $25,000 including training. But that cost most likely includes the security personal who handle the dogs so since the dogs were worked 24 hours that means the dog probably had 3 handlers a day. But again it’s not like these handlers were paid a lot, I’d assume they were paying them like 150kd each or so which means the security company were raking in a good chunk of money from KNPC.
exactly! this company was ripping off KNPC in the first place and then do this over a contract dispute??
Corruption, are you that naive…
91 + 24 = 115 dogs * 3000 kd = KD 345,000!!
Isn’t that a lot per month?
well, think of it this way, alot of money goes to supervisor who made the contract.
they aren’t stupid to give 3k for each dog, but clever enough to hide thief in it. well not too bright cause it sounds insane.
Absolutely horrendous! I really hope these brutes be bought to justice at the earliest. This incident just reaffirms the fact about animal abuse being on the rise.
It’s sad to see these animals having a tragic end like this. And may that arsehole in the image rot in hell!
Blame the system not the proletariat in this case the poor Bangladeshi who has to do all the dirty work.
Unbelievable, words fail me right now.
https://web.facebook.com/bo.jangles.524/posts/1357899964226633?pnref=story
Interesting no one has said anything about the underpaid workers.
What can be said that hasn’t already been stated about the status of expat workers in Kuwait (or the region)?
+1 @Patrick
End of the day, those abused workers might get what they hoped for only because dogs in their company were killed…
Truly Sad…
In many countries the perpetrators would be serving prison time for such a breach in animal wellfare.
Speechless
There is no reason that is strong enough to warrant the killing of innocent animals enmass like this. The people who did this deserve to be jailed.
3000k.d. for each dog? hmm, these dogs are engineers! they worked hard and got petroleum bachelor!! heck more than my friend get paid in knpc and he’s supervisor business major…
3000k.d. for each dog? hmm, these dogs are engineers! they worked hard and got petroleum bachelor!! heck more than my friend get paid in knpc and he’s supervisor business major…
Shocking and quite disturbing indeed
this is very disturbing, but the news stopped for me at 3000 KD/ month/dog
do they need a human dog?
This is just heartbreaking.Hope these idiots are brought to justice..R.I.P sweet babies..
Mark, thank you so,so much for the post!
Hopefully, something will change in Kuwait regarding the animals and the poor, rightless expat workers
Is there a way to adopt any of the dogs if alive
waiting for PAW to take advantage of this situation, make some money! like they always did before.
https://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowArticle.aspx?SECTION=0&ID=39069&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
https://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/knpc-clarifies-reports-execution-sniffer-dogs/
Does anyone happen to know the name of this American company?
Yes, I do
Ok, and the name of the company is …. ?
Eastern Securities owned by Bill Baisey AKA Fathallah Balbeisi. Company is registered in the US.
Dear writer,
You are stating, that there is no current need for any donations to currently help these dogs. Please reconsider what you’re advising to your readers, please? Mission K9 Rescue is the ONLY organization that has saved & brought home 24 of the remaining dogs left. They are trying to bring home more & really need our help! Please contact Mission K9 Rescue for verification of this & please help them? Thank you very much.
Lea Kennedy
Kennedy K9 – INCTA