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 [...]

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 [...]

When you live in Thailand, you become aware that life away from the city and the various tourist focused areas, can be quite basic and to people coming from a western civilisation, these places can draw comments like slum, poverty, backward and indeed 3rd world. “Temple” & “Remote” are 2 words that constantly send a [...]

It is moments like these that make the work we do all worth while. After a short stay at the Care for Dogs shelter, receiving regular medication and care for his Canine Pyoderma condition, eradication of a severe infestation of tape worm, along with meals twice a day and a dry place to sleep, he [...]

Visiting the vet today was a shy young dog called Cocoa, who lives around the grounds of the popular temple, Wat Suan Dok. Today we were asked to help this dog by the monks there, as he had been vomiting and the man who looks after Cocoa had said he had a high temperature too. [...]

Care for Dogs receives some amazing calls from people in & around Chiang Mai and today we received just one of those. Wat Suan Dok is a famous temple which is quite a busy place because of the number of monks coming & going to studies and people attending various courses there too. We have [...]

Tdik went to the vet today from Wat Pha Gee. His swollen feet and legs, which were giving him problems walking, were actually bleeding as were his gums. He has a very short coat but with the sores all over his body it looks as though he is losing his hair. Petrified as I picked [...]

Today I visited a temple that I call into from time to time, to look at the dog population, offer medication and sometimes drop off a bag of food to the monk living there. On this occasion Lek, another volunteer with Care for Dogs came along too. I started going to this temple because of [...]

[flashvideo filename=http://www.carefordogs.org/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/video/monktalksaboutdogs.flv height=400 width=600 /] Please be patient whilst a video loads. It will start automatically when fully downloaded. This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Gaset Mai, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city. The monk in this video, who was visiting the temple that day, approached us and just [...]

[flashvideo filename=http://www.carefordogs.org/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/video/feedingwatgasetmai.flv height=400 width=600 /] Please be patient whilst a video loads. It will start automatically when fully downloaded. This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Gaset Mai, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city. Dogs are dumped at and find refuge in and around temples There are over 350 Temples [...]

[flashvideo filename=http://www.carefordogs.org/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/video/vivek3.flv height=400 width=600 /] Please be patient whilst a video loads. It will start automatically when fully downloaded. This video was recorded in October 2007 at Wat Vivek, near Mae Jo, just north of Chiang Mai city. The film shows the dogs being fed and then being de-ticked & sprayed against further ticks and [...]

Nak is a delightful short legged, short haired dog with a lovable nature and a pleasant manner. She likes to run around & play with people & gets on well with other dogs. She is about 18 months old and will not grow any bigger than she is now. She has been sterilised and would [...]

Sonja has been in & out of the shelter for over 2 years now. Initially she came to the shelter from Wat Doi Kam for sterlisation and then returned there to be with her brother and other friends she had come to know. Then over time, she came back to the shelter for various reasons, [...]

Karin, Amandine & I were out on the road together today and made a visit to a temple we had not been to before, hearing that a previously adopted dog had been dumped there. We found that dog right enough and he was quite pleased to see us. There were also 6 others and a [...]