Can you buy an elephant in Thailand?

Question

Can a falang own an elephant? Where can you buy one? And what would it cost? Do you need a license?

Answer 1

I don't think it is illegal to buy an elephant. Provided you live in Thailand. I'd love one myself, but my condominium doesn't allow it. They tend to mess up the car park and the pool.

Prices should be about Bt 100.000. Your best way is to contact the Elephant Society followed by the ministry of commerce and a horde of other government agencies, as you definitely need an export license. (Which I seriously doubt you will ever get.)

After that, contact an airline and several truck companies how to ship your elephant. Forget about sea travel. That is long gone in the past. Elephants fly nowadays.

Answer 2

This is an interesting question. I'm having trouble keeping  a dog myself, although as much as I wanted to own an elephant, it would be kind of more difficult than the dog.

Well, the little wooden one cost less than a hundred bath at Narai Pahn. It costs more depending on the size and the craftmanship that produce it.

For a life one... Wow.... First, you need not be in Bangkok as it is not allowed (except of course the zoo). Elephant generally comes with the guy who actually raise the elephant. I guess the price will be lots. A bit like buying Mercedes 280 E.

Answer 3

No.

Answer 4

I wonder how you can bring the elephant from Thailand to your country and need to travel by Plane. hmmmm...

Answer 5

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Subject: Baanyen's condition

Date: 8/17/2008

When we x-rayed Baanyen, the machine could not reach down to the ankle area. We are suspecting some problems there, tendon or muscles, we are working on it. Baanyen has anti-inflammation, pain relief. Somehow she could not put her weight on that leg just on the tip of her foot. However, she can lie down to sleep at night. Her owner is coming to visit Baanyen end of this month.

Soraida

Subject: Baanyen

F.A.E. 16 August 2008

After Baanyen's arrival from Trang Province, south of Thailand last month, we had to wait longer than we planned to have her leg x-rayed because she was tired and still nervous. Being on a truck for long hours to a destination unknown to her and without her owner around, it is understandable to all of us to wait.

Her cooperation was important. We managed to x-ray her and from the films we did not see any fractures or broken bones. Dr. Preecha has started to give her NSAID in injection form. This medicine is used in humans with rheumatoid (75 mg./day) but for Baanyen we use 2,250 mg./dose/day. We hope it will relieve the pains in her joints and muscles, inflammation from the accident. We have been massaging her leg with medicinal herbs as well.

From today we use the same medicine (NSAID for rheumatoid) in ointment form to apply on her leg before we wrap the bandage around it for eight hours daily.

    

Soraida

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Tiny's Story

Subj: In - patients

4/9/2003

From: www.elephant.tnet.co.th

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Lampang/Wed 9th April, 2003

At present we have eleven elephants here, five are our permanent residents. The six elephants include a mother and her new born--Pung Paitoon and Plai Tini [for Tiny], Pung Toki with abcess, Pung Jokia [expecting the baby], Pung Champen and Manguaylow [landmine victims]. Paitoon gave birth to an underweight baby of only 30 kg. We quickly went to see her and the baby. I called him TINY but to sound like a Karen language, it was pronounced as Ti-ni. It is sad for me looking at the photos remembering the time we fought for him and his mother. I asked my staff to go and buy banana flowers from the food stalls because it was a dry season and no banana trees in our area. They were for Paitoon, Tiny's mother, to eat as to increase the milk. People laughed at me but it worked. They use these banana flowers to increase lactation in humans.

She could not nurse the baby because he was only 70 cm tall and could not reach his mother's b*****s to feed himself. He needed another 20 cm to reach his mother. So we rush them here and fed TINI, the baby with soya milk and introduced him to his mother, standing on the sack of hay. Now he is four-week-old and happily feeding himself from his mother's milk.

Soraida Salwala

Friends of the Asian Elephant

Tiny and Mother Paitoon