Due to the recent fatal poisoning of the Alpha male, “Buck” at the temple the students wanted to again remind the monks to use the 24 hour hotline set up by Care for Dogs (CFD) to be used for such emergencies no matter what the hour of day or injury.

Although the monks have used the hotline in the past, it was used more or less to let us know of a fatality of a dog, not immediate attention as it was intended.

Sorting out various dog issues in my Moo Baan has become a regular activity for me over the past year providing numerous street projects very close to home for me. I’m happy that our village landlord now chooses to advise me of these situations rather than taking matters into her own hands by poisoning unwanted [...]

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. [...]

Last October we were contacted by someone at a Temple in Sarapee to say that a little dog was having trouble giving birth. We rushed her to the vet clinic where she underwent an emergency cesarean. Four puppies were born but unfortunately 2 died almost immediately. The other 2 seemed healthy enough but Maddy, as [...]

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 [...]