It’s often hard to distinguish faces of the residents & the visitors as they appear to all look so much at home.

Here is a selection of characters at the shelter right now.

Here are just a few that have punctuated the past few weeks with adoptions, donations, rescues and unfortunately some very sad moments too.

Hope & Freedom were a partnership, a team. They lived through very hard times and after release from their neglected prison a year ago, from a garden where they had been left behind by their human family, they were taken into the shelter. After their recovery, they were lovingly adopted into a dream home at the School for Life. Sadly, Hope was not to live too long. He died and Freedom watched him pass away.

The Care for Dogs Cemetery situated in a green pasture with beautiful mountain views is now Hope’s resting place. We have laid him in a large plot and Freedom has a reserved space beside him, when the time comes.

Rest in peace you precious boy, everyone who met you loved you, we still do.

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

Worldwide Veterinary Service, is a registered UK charity (no. 1100485) that supplies veterinary resources, in the form of volunteer teams, drugs, equipment and advice to help animal charities and non-profit organisations around the world.

Care for Dogs had contacted WVS a few times in the past to register our need for any assistance they could provide us. We thought we would get a brown envelope or parcel in the post with either medication or advice about our work but we never thought we would receive the request from them to be part of a television program, featuring their Chief Executive Luke Gamble visiting the shelter & performing hands on medicine with our dogs and capturing footage for a Sky Tv documentary.

Today the crew arrived, Luke met Karin at the shelter and proceeded to tour the shelter and film diagnosis and advice regarding several of the dogs we have in treatment at the moment. Luke was able to identify a couple of cases he would like to personally investigate further and following us obtaining appropriate government permissions, we are hopeful that this talented vet will be able to perform some important operations at the shelter for the television program.

As the day was ending, we received a call regarding an injured dog that would be brought to the shelter for examination by Luke. This was a wonderful moment as the dog was in desperate need of help. Tomorrow, we hope to see the dog in a brighter condition after his initial treatment this evening.

Despite the persistent rain, the day went rather well and the forthcoming week will be a busy one with the film crew capturing Luke in & around Care for Dogs activities.

This gallery of photos is shown here for the sole purpose of allowing the Care for Dogs team to select photographs to be available for artists to paint and be displayed for sale at the “Look at this Gallery” in Chiang Mai, during a 12 day exhibition during October 2009.

Thank you Marshall Kelly and Tim McGuire for making this happen, we look forward to a very successful event.

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