They are now completely transformed and treated against mange, intestinal parasites, bacterial infections, and blood parasites 🥰

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They are now completely transformed and treated against mange, intestinal parasites, bacterial infections, and blood parasites 🥰 they were sterilized right at the end too ♥️

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Although our focus today is on cats (140 cats registered for our spay day!) Jules PsyinThai and I were out at 11pm last night setting traps for one group of feral “street” dogs nearby too ♥️ 6 dogs trapped!!! These guys are all on the side of the road, recently dumped as puppies.

Hopefully that will make a huge difference 🥰

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Ahhhhhh, the beautiful transformation of an old (blind) dog abandoned on the side of the highway, now receiving love 🥰 for the first time since the rescue, we are getting tail wags and smiles today!

He’s been named Solo since he very much wanted to be left alone initially 🐾 we are grateful that yummy food, sweet talks, and some gentle touch each day have allowed him to start feeling more connected ♥️

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Original post 4 September 2024

2 month old puppy Buttercup hit by a car

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We’re at the emergency room with a two month old puppy (named Buttercup) hit-by-car tonight 🚘 ! Thankfully he survived but he has a major break in the leg which is causing intense pain and swelling. Surgery is estimated at $300 USD (10,000 baht) plus a little more for hospitalization.

We considered all options including putting the leg in a cast and letting it heal on its own, but to try and immobilize a puppy for two months with all its wiggles doesn’t seem ideal. I am grateful that we live in Thailand where surgery is not too expensive and we can help more dogs!

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Boonrod is such a handsome & happy boy now! He’s even learned to jump on the bed at night to join the rest of us on the bed 🥰

Rescued 6 weeks ago after a car accident caused a fracture to the pelvis and pushed his bladder and intestines out near his tailbone (forcing him to have an emergency surgery to save his life), he is now heading back to the clinic for his second operation to repair his bones!

✨ The smile on the photos compared to the depression & discomfort seen on the initial video is truly a testimony as to why it’s important for us to intervene and assist! These dogs simply cannot take themselves to the clinic and are entirely dependent on those who witness their suffering to be proactive.

Thank you to all who donate to make these transformations possible 🤩 send him your love as he goes into surgery today!

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The dogs’ surgery happens on the side (called a flank spay instead of an abdominal spay- the vets shave the flank and remove the uterus and suture everything from the side) to avoid any complications if these dogs chew their sutures post-spay. We cannot put cones on roaming dogs as this would likely cause them to get road accidents. A lot of care needs to be taken to do the spay as safely as possible 💕

The locals are usually kind to the dogs and feed them. So our role is to come in and trap, vaccinate, neuter, and release. Together, we work well to improve the lives of animals and community members 🥰

No more unwanted babies in this neighbourhood!!

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I went today to say hi ♥️

These dogs have now all been sterilised, vaccinated multiple times, and received deworming and Bravecto.

This is your donations in action 🥰

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🐕 Because spay/neuter is still fairly new as an initiative in Thailand (it’s become popular only in the last decade or so; thanks to non-profit groups like Hand to Paw promoting the benefits and offering it free of charge), many dogs were and still are being birthed unwanted. There are an estimated 70,000 roaming dogs in Chiang Mai province (where we are). When they come into this world unwanted (sometimes a street dog has gone inside someone’s yard or under their house to birth their entire litter), people who didn’t choose to have them around are confronted with sometimes 10 new dogs in their area following just one birth. When any of the females go into heat, the pack fight at all hours of the day and night. The villagers may get annoyed and shoo the dogs away, shoot them with pellet guns so they don’t stick around asking for food, poison and kill the dogs because they’re seen as pests, take the dogs and abandon them in another area, etc.

🐾 Dogs who are born on the streets or end up dumped on the streets will walk great lengths to try and find food. Sometimes, kind villagers will leave leftover food outside for them to eat and the dog will walk to and from various food sources to survive. It is absolutely heartbreaking to me that so many street dogs get nothing more than a bit to eat and sometimes, a space out of the elements to stay safe from the sun and the rain. They all deserve so much more protection. But on the flip side, I think that Thailand is one of the kindest countries who openly lets street dogs live outside of 7/11 stores, on parking lots, in temples, and many of the dogs will survive by getting fed by kind and decent people. This is such a blessing.

👣 A great deal of people in areas around us live slightly above the poverty line. Someone told me today that her daughter used to go to public school up the road from where they live in Chiang Mai. The mom befriended one of the teachers who told her that the public school required photos of the school children’s home and bed. She wrote: “some entire families are living in a hut in one room on a mattress that is worse than anything I’d give my dogs. The kids have not eaten when they get to school and the school meal is all they eat. The school provides a toothbrush tied to a string and that time at school might be the only time that they brush their teeth.” So when a family who is barely surviving themselves, offers a bowl of rice and bits of fish to the street dog suffering outside of its gate… I can’t help but be moved by their kindness.

🐶 With 70,000 dogs considered street/roaming dogs just in our province alone… we have to look at the bigger picture. Creating a shelter and taking the dogs in would realistically only work for a few hundred dogs until the shelter was overwhelmed and funds were drained. Instead, what we strive to do is to offer mass spay efforts, and to offer it free of charge and through mobile spay days. We have a team of 6 vets who, 3-4 weekends a month, will sterilize 40-60 animals a day, in various regions. In the last 8 years, we have surpassed 15,000 spays. We need to keep going though! Every litter that is born on the street is a series of catastrophes waiting to happen. Each female dog we spay helps increase her own chances of survival plus insures that hundreds more dogs aren’t born just to suffer.

👩‍⚕️ We also offer temporary medical care to these street dogs. When people in the community flag up that a dog needs help, we come and assess and provide medications and treatment to the dog in its own environment or, for more severe cases, we take the dog to the clinic, returning the dog afterwards to the only place it knows as “home”. Treating dogs where they live allows for the dogs to be less stressed as they recover, and since we do much of the wound care ourselves, we save on costs!

☀️ Mass vaccinations of these street dogs (who often remain unprotected unless we intervene) is also a huge priority. With so many dogs getting into contact with other street dogs, one Distemper or Parvo case can wipe out a whole neighborhood of dogs. I get so stressed to know that it continues to happen, even today.

⭐️ We are grateful to the kind people in Thailand who offer food and a bit of protection for the dogs. We then serve to double up the support by coming in and spaying, vaccinating, and offering help for medical emergencies.

🥰 If you want to help us make a difference, donations are the best way to show your support! You can reach us at paypal.me/forThailandanimals or WISE email address: HandtoPawThailand@gmail.com

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