Feeding, medicating, cleaning and maintaining are all second nature to any true dog lover and with over 150 dogs at the shelter right now, our team have those skills tested fully.
In addition, we need to be able to catch and handle some not so easy ones and on top of all that, we need to [...]

Many bikers in Thailand share opinions and record their motorbike rides on a highly popular and extremely useful internet forum – The Golden Triangle Rider.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the forum riders and dear friend Franz, suggested we plan a ride to include a visit to the Care for Dogs shelter to raise [...]

Ann who is now working at the shelter was able to welcome these and other Thai visitors this week.
We just love it when people come to the shelter and share their emotions with us.
They open their hearts and tell us how they love dogs & appreciate the work we do.
Today’s visitors were able to learn [...]

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.

Today a group of over 30 bikers visited the shelter on their way to Doi Inthanon, delivering food & blankets and bringing smiles & happiness with them too.
MBSC – (Motor Bike Story Club) have a web board where they record their trips.
Here is a collage of the visit.

Time really flies when you are enjoying yourself & last weeks ‘Just another day’ post seems like yesterday.
Today the chaos of the morning kicked off with Go, the guy who could Pee through his willy again, pulling out his catheter and needing to return to the vet. As the preparations continued for Dr Tarn’s visit, [...]

Wednesdays are always busy at the shelter and today was no exception. We have a schedule to keep to, as this is when we have a vet on site to help us treat all our TvT (Transmissible Venereal Tumor) cases and also check out any other cases of ill health that we need assistance in [...]

Care for Dogs shelter can often be a very busy place and today was no exception.
Yesterday afternoon, students from Chiang Mai Rajabhat University called us to arrange a visit to the shelter the following day.
That’s called planing. Ever eager to accommodate people wanting to find out more about dogs and our organisation, we welcomed them [...]

I appreciate that not everyone will be able to look at these images.

Firstly there is a metal chain around the dogs neck, BIG issue!
Secondly there are some nasty little wriggly things and a gaping open flesh wound.
The fact is that people do keep dogs on chains, in their opinion, for a good reason. Sadly [...]

This afternoon it was great to meet a couple of keen young ladies who spend time most days at the shelter with the dogs, today they were going to be bathing some dogs.

Trouble is, with all the work going on at the entrance, in preparation of the new clinic, surgery room and office, the bathing [...]

Great to see progress in any walk of life. But when it affects the Care for Dogs, it’s even more encouraging to think there will be a future for our work and benefit for our 4 legged companions (and of course 3 & 2 sometimes!)
The sign at the gate is advertising for help in the [...]

In the early morning at 6.00 a.m. the phone was ringing – the display shows “Shelter”.
I always worry when I get an early morning call from our dog caretakers. We take in regularly sick and injured dogs for medical treatment, and though bringing them to the vet for diagnosis and treatment and providing medical care [...]

People die, people are allowed to die and release from a desperate and hopeless situation is seen by many as a relief.
Indeed many people discuss the opportunities of ending their misery before it occurs with their family, close friends or just their medical practitioner or lawyer.
Sam however was a guy living out an existence at [...]

March in Chiang Mai is the middle of the hot season and it’s at this time of year that you tend to find a fresh & eager troop of fleas & tick’s sapping the blood of  cats and dogs which of course also raises the risk of transmission of disease through exchange of blood.
Today we [...]

James is one of those full of character cute guy’s, that is if you are into hunk’s, who came to us a few weeks ago in a poor condition, with very little hair on his body having tried to cope with a long term skin problem living rough in and around Wat Bupparum off Thae [...]