Cats for Adoption

The locals must know that Sally, a dog & cat caring lady in Chiang Mai is a soft touch when it comes to kittens.
For the third time she has found kittens in a plastic bag hanging on her gate… they must know that Sally will do all she can to find them loving homes.
I [...]

Already found a home

Lucy and Rosie.. off to start their new life with Kathy and Averill.

What an achievement, Lucy and Rosie became role models for a happy ending out of a very bad start in life, read more about it here…
With the support of other good hearted people we hope to be able to help the next ones [...]

Fostering News

I’ve decided to share some of my fostering experiences in the hope that someone else may be encouraged to take in a dog or two, or cats and kittens and give the individual love and care that some of them need for recovery or re homing.
So this is a quick introduction just so you know [...]

Volunteer Feedback

Julia is a dedicated carer of animals and with a desire to help dogs in Thailand, contacted Care for Dogs to see if she could come to Chiang Mai on a holiday, live near the shelter & come to the shelter every day and HELP !
Well you can imagine our response to an offer like [...]

Elsewhere

Last evening was a sad occasion as we met for a farewell dinner and presentation to Kh Grib, who leaves us after only a short time of working with us.
Grib came to Care for Dogs in April this year as the first employed Shelter Coordinator and taking on the role with both hands, it was [...]

Published Media

Out of the blue, Care for Dogs were approached recently by a warm hearted individual, Kevin R Butters, who suggested he would like to improve our internet visibility by including a link to his site on our site.
Well that’s no problem, we can do that !
But in return, Care for Dogs gets a dedicated page [...]

Photos and Videos

Life at the shelter this last week has been busy as usual, there have been people & dogs coming & going, happy and sad moments but overall, a healthy mix of reality around the work we do.

Here are just a couple of the images this past week or so in & around the shelter.

Dogs with Special Needs

Last April, we adopted Pirate from Care for Dogs. He was a stray who had been hit by a car and was rescued by some kind ladies in the Mae Jo area. They called us and I was part of the rescue team – my first rescue.
The vet informed us that aside from his hurt [...]

Rescue Stories

I had the good fortune to meet this wonderful dog while living in a temporary house near to Wua Lai in the Old City of Chiang Mai for a couple of months not so long ago. My friend and I would walk our dogs the length of our soi and mid way down always see [...]

Feedback from supporters

Eva Hamann, who is a longtime supporter of Care for Dogs, visited the shelter in Hang Dong in September.
With this visit, she and her husband could directly see what kind of work they have sponsored. She used this moment to present Karin personally another donation by a friend of hers, Ursual Albert from Germany.
Besides her [...]

Vet Trips

Go is a cute little guy who 2 years ago went through an operation it seems to make a hole from his bladder out to his stomach.
Why we hear you ask.
Well we don’t know really but it was done by trained vets and the result was that he could not pee through his penis and [...]

TvT

Care for Dogs has been treating TvT cases for over 3 years. On average we have 10 cases living in our TvT enclosure for their course of treatment, weekly injections with Vincristine administered by a trained veterinarian.

The cost of this treatment is very expensive and although we manage to reduce costs by purchasing bulk supplies of this powerful medicine, the overall cost of treating so many dogs with this condition greatly impacts on our budget but the value is justified, these dogs would otherwise continue to spread their contaminated blood and eventually die through loss of blood, infection and being consumed by an extremely invasive tissue destroying tumor.

Shelter

When you are up to your neck in muck & bullets, there seems not to be so much time to collect so many scenes of the routines going on around you.
But thankfully I have managed to capture one or two images of recent comings & goings, some happy & some quite distressing.

Sponsor this dog

This pretty little mother and daughter came to us in a very distressed condition.
They arrived with two of SiSi’s 8 week old puppies having been thrown out of their home by an owner who, it appeared, just stopped caring.
As with a lot of cases, we very quickly re homed the youngsters but because of the [...]

Education

School visits are a big part of Care for Dogs. And on Tuesday, we were host to International School Eastern Seaboard all the way from Pattaya. Ms. Kristina Solheim arrived with 10 sophomores (10th graders) who had chosen to come and learn about the shelter and lend a helping hand as volunteers-for-a-day.
We began with a [...]

Pet Network Chiang Mai

This week we were contacted by a family in Chiang Mai who rescued a dog after she had fallen in the moat that surrounds the city.
The moat is 1 mile by 1 mile square and this dog, Mom Maem had been found in the south east corner, actually in the water.

We visited the family home [...]