A while back Care for Dogs consolidated their random training of volunteers into a once a week event. Each Thursday morning at 10 potential volunteers may visit the shelter for an in-depth look at ways they can help on-site. This is a great training tool. It provides a chance for people to meet the dogs [...]

Care for Dogs is buzzing with good projects – literally! Power saws have been humming away as our great team of guys at the shelter have been building many wonderful new habitat enrichments (that is nerdy zoologist speak for “cool housing and awesome stuff to play on”) for the dogs. The older bamboo platforms did [...]

There are cynics out there who believe that one day of volunteering cannot make a difference. Obviously they have never attended a Care for Dogs Adoption Fair. It was 10:30 when I arrived. A whirlwind of activity greeted me. In half an hour the Adoption Fair at Chiang Mai’s Airport Central Shopping Plaza would begin. [...]

Driven by customer demand, not only are the dogs begging for it, people are paying money to Care for Dogs Foundation for the services of getting their dogs exercised, out of the house & into a daily routine of walks with happy smiling faces all round as a result! We now have a team of [...]

As every dog lover know each and every dog is a special character and they differ in various aspects of life. One aspect is their behaviour around water. Some seem to think water just makes sense in a water bowl a drink is okay but getting a shower “Brrr” it’s torture – a river, a [...]

On a hot day in dry season life in the shelter has it’s special rhythm. It starts in the morning with the busy part. Volunteers and Staff arrive greeted by the barking doggies, they check their schedule of the upcoming work. Soon after it’s breakfast time, bowls are distributed to the hungry dogs, though there’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]