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. [...]

Today, Karin, Soraya & I met up with the volunteer team from Nakorn Payap International School (NIS) at Wat Ban Tho, the temple project they have recently initiated. We were there to collect a couple of TvT (Transmissible Venereal Tumor cases) and to check in with Elissa Francemone, the teacher who is driving this project. [...]

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 [...]

**UPDATE – Lucky is now much improved & we are waiting for the store owner to return from a holiday after which we will return Lucky to his favoured spot! ** At the beginning of February, we were contacted by a friend of Care for Dogs, who was becoming increasingly concerned about the health & [...]

Today I returned to Rama IX public Park, where 2 weeks ago I last visited to meet up with Nudee, a longterm friend and doggy in need. I wrote about my recent encounter with him and that I had found a food vendor (Kh Toy) working in the park, who had made a point of [...]

This delightful girl first came to the shelter back in September 2007 for the first time, after we visited Wat Nong Ba Klang, a temple now being cared for by the Nakorn Payap International School (NIS) who developed a community project initiated and driven by the students under the banner of “Temple Aid Project”. When [...]

The seasons are changing in Chiang Mai right now, the afternoon thunder rolling over the mountains and there is a weird coloured sky that we get at this time of the year because of the moisture , the clouds and the sun, all pre-cursors for the change from Wet to Dry season. The temperatures will [...]

Well you have to be slightly light hearted about life, especially when you have a real moaner on board! Today the shopping list that Sarah carefully and most diligently compiles for me, was waiting on my arrival at the shelter, along with 4 patients looking for transport to see the vet. They enjoy the trips [...]

After lots of reassurance from Sarah, Karin, and Ally (as well as others!) who thought that it was still more likely for Licorice to be suffering from e-canis (the SNAP tests can be fallible and give a false negative) than from cancer (both would affect platelet and red blood cell count). I started Licorice on [...]

Sponsorship Can you help “Jet”? www.carefordogs.org This dog lives on the steps of a Chiang Mai Hotel in the Chet Yot area and in addition to being undernourished he is suffering from Mange. We have named him “Jet”. He needs regular medication for a sustained period, to reduce the irritation he suffers and to clear [...]