It was a pleasure to share my driving space with an old friend today, Max.
He made a point of turning the radio on & off ad-nauseum and blocking my mirror view(s) but as with other friends and their annoying habits, you just look at them & say “Are you happy ?”
Today Max was extremely happy, [...]

First of all a slight apology to readers about this weekly synopsis of my Monday vet run, my ‘Hands-on’ contribution to Care for Dogs, because it might be getting slightly boring, with the same names, same faces and same stories appearing each Monday.
Some of the other volunteers do write and are capably telling their stories [...]

The seasons are changing in Chiang Mai right now, the afternoon thunder rolling over the mountains and there is a weird coloured sky that we get at this time of the year because of the moisture , the clouds and the sun, all pre-cursors for the change from Wet to Dry season.
The temperatures will now [...]

Well you have to be slightly light hearted about life, especially when you have a real moaner on board!
Today the shopping list that Sarah carefully and most diligently compiles for me, was waiting on my arrival at the shelter, along with 4 patients looking for transport to see the vet.

They enjoy the trips in [...]

Monday morning’s as I drive to the shelter I often wonder what the list of cases will be that day.
As I arrive, Sarah typically gives me a hand written note, as if I was going to the shops for some groceries and begins to talk me through the list, telling me some more back ground [...]

Care for Dogs receives some amazing calls from people in & around Chiang Mai and today we received just one of those.
Wat Suan Dok is a famous temple which is quite a busy place because of the number of monks coming & going to studies and people attending various courses there too.
We have previously been [...]