This morning, like most mornings this last week, Evan & Marina popped in to the shelter to get up close with the residents and give them a cuddle and have a natter. These guys are just what the dogs need to bring a little cheer to their stay. A pair of ‘hands-on’ people that are [...]

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.

Recently Care for Dogs were very pleased to welcome Sophie who came to Chiang Mai from Singapore, specifically to volunteer at the shelter. She saw the website, read all the info and stories and felt compelled to come an help out for a while. Sophie got in touch, accommodation in the village near to the [...]

What an enormous task it is to shower 20 pups. It’s not just the ‘you will do, come here, get wet, there you go’ routine that people might think. These pups are about 6 weeks old. They have left their mother far too early. They have not been kept clean by the mothers constant care [...]

3 hours of time, ability to drive 25 kilometres and a sense of humour. That’s all you need to do a vet run. Well almost. It’s a bonus if you know how to approach a dog, talk to them, pick them up and understand their needs. But most of all you must have the inclination [...]

For the last 2 years I have been registered with a website that calls itself the “Expat Blog” and they list my earlier work with Care for Dogs in the category of Thailand, Volunteers etc.

Amazingly, today I receive an email from them to ask if I would like to update my profile…

Your blog content doesn’t fit expat blog’s policy. I regret we can’t accept it in our directory.

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 [...]

Rocket. Never have I known a dog with so apt a name, the life of any puppy party. A pocket sized parcel of mischief! When we first arrived at Care For Dogs 5 weeks ago, Rocket and her siblings were a mere 5 weeks old, yet already you could spot the live wire in the [...]

In a recent post you may recall we wrote about a guy who saw a sick dog and the “owner” unable to properly take care of Striper with such a health condition, so Ken took it upon himself to get her the emergency care she needed and do all he could to help the poor [...]

If you would like to consider taking time out of your life, your travel around the world or holiday plans, why not do as Lisa and Rachel have done, visit Care for Dogs in Chiang Mai and find a holiday romance of an extremely satisfying kind. Lisa expresses her feelings by writing the following article [...]

Care for Dogs could not wish for higher praise than that expressed in the following post found at this site mandyandbryan.com On our last day in Chiang Mai I volunteered with Care for Dogs, and it was a pretty emotional day. I was really excited to play with dogs and it felt good to give [...]

Just back from a walk with some ever willing dogs that delight in walking on leads along the roads and in an orchard in the vicinity of the Care for Dogs shelter, Rachel and Kate took a closer look at this poor old boy who was rescued by one of our volunteers, Fred, who saw [...]

When I first met Sarah, I knew Care for Dogs was about to grow. At that time, a year ago, I had become tired of running around here and there every day, waking up each morning to think “was the dog I helped the previous day for real, or just a nightmare that was becoming [...]

This story is a little upsetting as the title suggests. But there is a happier outlook for them and we can assure you, they are now in a better place than they were. In September 2007, the concerned children of an old lady that had recently passed away, contacted Care for Dogs. They explained about [...]