It’s a Monday so it’s Vet Clinic day. That means, blood checks, eyes, ears noses, wound assessments or other clinical check cases. Sterilisation operations or TvT (Transmissible Venereal Tumor) treatment days happen later in the week but today a variety of bloodchecks and wound checks are needed for 7 dogs.

First up was Tik. This old boy could be found wandering around Mae Hia market, swaying his skinny body between people busying themselves and ignoring his pained undernourished body. But if people were to think that Tik was a homeless dog they would be much mistaken. He has “an owner” and Tik lives between their nearby home, or the market where they have a stall.

Tik has already been at the shelter in June & July this year, being cared for on a day to day basis with medication that vets had prescribed. He has so much going wrong for him, including E-canis blood parasites and heart worm and on top of that, he suffers convulsions, which vets said could be epilepsy.

He has been back home now for a month and despite taking his medication daily, he is still having convulsions every day and his family want a vet to take another look at him.

At the Veterinarian Hospital, the vet took blood and found his liver & kidney readings to be very poor and suggested that toxins w in his body may be causing the convulsions. The vet recommended in addition to the FBC already taken daily, that Tik take a liver supplement and also detox for a week with Hepalac. The vet also started Tik on an intravenous saline drip.

We will keep him on the drip at the shelter until he visits the vet next week.
View location of where Tik usually hangs out with Google Maps here …