The Thai navy has rescued hundreds of dogs destined for Vietnamese dinner tables in an operation to tackle border smuggling.
Following a tip-off, they found about 750 dogs packed into cages on a truck, which were about to be loaded onto a ferry on the Mekong river in Nakhon Phanom province.
One man has been arrested but several others ran away.
And official says dogs are the third-biggest smuggling problem along the river after timber and drugs.
