We are contacting you in hope to find available foster families for 4 puppies/dogs that have recently recovered from serious illness. Due to the high numbers of unvaccinated dogs, contagious diseases like parvo virus and distemper are common in Thailand. Every year we treat puppies and dogs who have this virus, and try to rescue [...]

Yesterday one of the ‘13 in 2 hours‘ pups now living in a separate enclosure all to themselves, developed a deadly symptom of parvo-virus, bloody poo. We rushed her to the vet and after the virus was confirmed to be present and also very strong (from the speed the test kit reacted!) she was given [...]

Karin, Soraya & I went on a road trip today, returning to Doi Saket and the awful caged dogs and the man who we are trying to encourage to change his ways and on the way we called into a government office, the local livestock department. Recently, a Thai Government officer working in Bangkok, visited [...]

Happy New Year to all readers of this the first Vet Run post of 2009. Typically people like to start the year with positive & up-beat messages. Well this post is nothing like that, in fact it is extremely down-beat, negative and altogether sad. Today I met Karin at the shelter and discussed the cases [...]

The cold season has began and with a heavy heart we have to witness an annual dilemma of distemper patients coming to our attention. We have recently admitted some patients to our quarantine room – two of them have passed away already. Another dog, Gogo, was admitted to the veterinarian clinic for IV-treatment today as [...]

I stopped by one of the temples, where we’d started spaying dogs, on my way to one of the Karen Hilltribes for the weekend, to spend time with friends and their families. I checked on the dogs that had been spayed two weeks prior and removed the stitches. After rubbing and patting the dogs all [...]