Judy and I always love to visit children. This time we were invited to Prem’s K3 class. They were studying Community Helpers and wanted to know about the work we do at Care for Dogs.

All the children were very excited when we arrived and could barely listen to the lesson when Judy rolled over to ask for belly scratches.

School visits are a big part of Care for Dogs. And on Tuesday, we were host to International School Eastern Seaboard all the way from Pattaya. Ms. Kristina Solheim arrived with 10 sophomores (10th graders) who had chosen to come and learn about the shelter and lend a helping hand as volunteers-for-a-day. We began with [...]

Recently a Thai television crew visited the shelter to capture various scenes and footage for presentation on Thai Television. The programs were recorded for Children’s television and will be shown on ThaiPBS channel this next Saturday 26 September 2009 and a week later, Saturday 3 October 2009 at 07:30 in the morning. If you have [...]

Many groups contact Care for Dogs with the intention of helping dogs in some way or other, but few act on them. The young people from Global Pact came through and did just that. While other groups in their organization focused their energies on other social issues, this group of 3 Thai and 3 American [...]

Last week we were called to see 3 dogs being kept in cages that were not just small & filthy but inhumane and in any other country, would immediately activate a legal case against the keeper on grounds of cruelty to the dogs. But laws in Thailand do not prohibit such practices and only through [...]

The kids at NIS are busy again with another temple project. This time, these self-motivated, dog-loving students are going to reach out to the dogs at Wat Baan Tho and the surrounding area. They arrived in a van on their own time after school, equipped with doggie treats, plastic gloves, flea and tick spray. More [...]

Today Care for Dogs volunteers, were honoured to welcome to the shelter, a group of students from Chiang Mai International School, on what they called an ‘Activity Day’.
They had contacted us, they had chosen to visit us and they wanted to be at the shelter with the dogs.

Soraya, the Care for Dogs Education Co-ordinator had arranged an excellent schedule for the visitors and the volunteers were only too happy to assist the young folks get to visit, experience and learn the various tasks and responsibilities surrounding caring for dogs.

Our first community workshop was designed to meet with the local people in our village, Baan Wiang Dong, educate them about basic medical care of dogs and how they could prevent common diseases. It turned out to be a small gathering of about eight or nine…..cat owners. No problem – we love cats too. A [...]

In a previous post, we spoke about the contact we had received from a school in America, who were searching the internet for animal welfare causes they could help in some way. Today we received an email update from Class 4H of Ascension School, Louisville USA who have now re-branded themselves “Ascension 4H Sewing Stars”. They [...]

Personally, I set out with Professor Paws with the intention of getting children to know and love dogs, and consequently treat them with compassion and kindness. Children’s minds are open and receptive of ideas. Our kindergarten class was most receptive to our lessons and welcomed any activity that had to do with these adorable creatures. [...]

On June 23, 2008, we were confronted with a terrible case: A poor villager had used a flea + tick product for his dogs. This product should be diluted with lots of water and then only sprayed on to the coat of dogs but instead he had injected the highly concentrated insecticide directly into their [...]

Chiang Mai mail article from 22 April 2008, introduces the Professor Paws program run by Care for Dogs in association with LuckyDogs. This particular story covers the visit of American Pacific International School (Kindergarten) to the shelter and outlines some of the objectives of the program. You can read more about Professor Paws here … [...]