When you live in Thailand, you become aware that life away from the city and the various tourist focused areas, can be quite basic and to people coming from a western civilisation, these places can draw comments like slum, poverty, backward and indeed 3rd world.
“Temple” & “Remote” are 2 words that constantly send a shiver [...]

On arrival at the shelter it is clear to see that Sarah and her team working in the shelter, have been busy, beautifying the entrance and what a lovely job they have made of it.
Outside of the shelter, adjacent to the road, the walls have all been washed clean and trellis with climbing plants, put [...]

Today I visited a temple that I call into from time to time, to look at the dog population, offer medication and sometimes drop off a bag of food to the monk living there. On this occasion Lek, another volunteer with Care for Dogs came along too.
I started going to this temple because of a [...]

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This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Gaset Mai, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city. The monk in this video, who was visiting the temple that day, approached us and just started talking about the real [...]

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This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Gaset Mai, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city.
Dogs are dumped at and find refuge in and around temples
There are over 350 Temples in Chiang Mai, some of them have [...]

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This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Vivek, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city. The film shows the dogs being fed and then being de-ticked & sprayed against further ticks and fleas.
Dogs are dumped at and [...]

A recent visitor to the shelter captured a short video interview.
This is a video filmed at “Care for Dogs” in Chiang Mai. “Care for Dogs” is an animal welfare charity. The aim of the organization/shelter is to improve the life of street and temple dogs by organising sterilisations, vaccinations, and medical care. They also offer [...]

This set of photos from Wat Pha Gee were taken in November 2007.
Care for Dogs first came here in the summer of 2007 to find the place just crawling with ticks. Specifically, 3 pups born to the brown short haired mother, all completely covered in ticks, in every crevice & orifice, literally hundreds in their [...]

This temple is so similar to many in Thailand, tucked away in a small village away from the main road, a microcosm of society and if you didn’t know it was there, a tourist would never find it.
Today I visited Wat Pha Gee with some food directly sponsored by a friend (Gwen) of mine from [...]

These scenes are typical from my experience when out on the road with Amandine & Karin, who as you can see pour their hearts out to the dogs they meet and give them so much care.
I know there are many folks in the world like these but I have to say how proud I [...]

Karin, Amandine & I were out on the road together today and made a visit to a temple we had not been to before, hearing that a previously adopted dog had been dumped there.
We found that dog right enough and he was quite pleased to see us. There were also 6 others and a [...]