The month of May in Chiang Mai is usually hot but this year it seems more so than previous years. Maybe it’s the lack of Air Conditioning in the new truck we have purchased and the breath of a hot dog sat on my lap on the truck’s bench seat ! The truck is fabulous. [...]

Vet runs can be very depressing at the best of times but today just capped the lot. There is no good news in this post, it’s all doom, gloom & disaster and if you need cheering up, click your browser ‘Back’ button now and avoid any further anxiety that is sure to arise from reading [...]

Typically on a Monday I take a few dogs from the shelter to the vet for assessment and specific treatments Today however, was a slightly different story. All assessments of current cases had been done by a visiting vet to the shelter and on my arrival at the shelter Soraya greeted me with the plan [...]

As regular readers of this site will know, Monday is vet run day. Typically we take several dogs 4 – 7 dogs on the trip but today there was only one dog that needed to visit the vet, Hope, the rescued Golden Retriever from San Sai, who we believed may need some further examination in [...]

The vet trip today was a little different. Khun Grib joined me and we had just 2 dogs on board the Toyota Vios, 5 vaccinations in a cool box and clean seats & foot wells. Well, that was how it started! It was good to share the journey to the vet with a colleague and [...]

Owing to the increasing cases of TvT we are currently managing, this weeks Chemotherapy session was held at the Care for Dogs shelter in Hang Dong. A clinic area was set up to allow Dr Tarn the facilities she needed to administer the therapy and whilst we had her captive within the enclosure, we took [...]

For the last couple of weeks the number of dogs requiring veterinarian consultations has not required me to join the vet trip on a Monday but today it was business as usual. As well as Natalie & Kunking, I shared the front compartment with Loung, a friendly chubby guy and he spent the entire journey [...]

Today we took along 10 dogs for their Chemotherapy injections at Dr Tarn’s Hang Dong Road clinic. Thankfully this vet is very flexible and rather than making us drive back and forth with 2 car loads of patients, like we did last week, she kindly agreed to see them at her clinic nearer to the [...]

For the guys reading this, I will be brief. Today Hoy, who you can see & read more about here … and is suffering badly with many tumors all over his body, underwent what we believe is a life improving step. One area badly affected with tumors, is his scrotum. His condition overall is improving [...]

Vet trips are typically on a Monday but as this week we have something else happening on Monday, 3 problems went to vet on Saturday ! Problems, well no, just doggies in need of some specialist attention and what better place to take a dog than to a Veterinarian Clinic. Alice was first on the [...]

No no not Craig David but David, the cute looking guy we have at the shelter right now.

This poor guy has been through the wars and still he suffers misery daily.

Today there were 6 dogs in the car, 4 in the front & 2, including David in the back. The whole point of the title of this post and the crush in the front, is because David, bless him, is having a terrible time with his bum.

In the car today there were 6 dogs, out for a run, a trip into town, “hey we escaped”, “oh dear this isn’t good” or call it by any other name but basically, a trip to the vet. Alison & Joe are currently spending time visiting the shelter during their stay in Chiang Mai and [...]

Judy White was next on the couch and when I lifted her up, I could feel the reason why she was seeing the vet today. She has now lost a lot of weight and is obviously lethargic.
The vet said that any movement, even eating, let alone defending her space in the shelter by grrrrrr’ing off a few cheeky charlies, would have an impact on her body and increasingly as she grew older.

Last but by no means least, little Jo Jo made it onto the table and let the vet take a look at her plaster cast. She had been found wandering helplessly and in obvious pain at a temple in Chiang Mai and then rushed to a local vet for treatment. But that’s all we know. How she sustained the fractured leg, how long she had limped around with no help, we will never know.