News From Soi Dog

As you are no doubt aware , Soi Dog has been actively involved in Bangkok in the latter half of the year; firstly working with local people to fight the illegal dog meat trade and to introduce animal welfare laws and more recently co-ordinating the rescue and temporary care of hundreds of animals stranded by the recent Bangkok floods.

During this time it became very clear that not only were the problems in Bangkok massive in scale, but also (very encouragingly) a lot of local people are trying to help the animals there, something we rarely see in Phuket.

Soi Dog has therefore taken the decision to open a branch in Bangkok and as part of this initiative the well established organisation Soi Cat and Dog Rescue (SCAD) will be incorporated into Soi Dog.

We also feel it is very important that the many Thai people helping animals in Bangkok have resources to help them. In the past they have only been able to help animals at their own expense, by taking them to expensive private clinics.

It is also important that the new Soi Dog/SCAD organisation is seen to be “Thai” led and to that end, we have appointed Khun Phimpakarn Petpichetchien (Kharn) as Operations Manager for the Bangkok operation. Khun Kharn has volunteered on a full time basis throughout the floods assisting me both in Bangkok and in Nakom Phanom where the dog meat trade dogs are taken.

There will be many months of hard work ahead establishing an emergency and sterilization clinic amongst other things.Of course none of this is possible without your support, and I thank you most sincerely for enabling this work to continue.�John Dalley

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2012/03/30/news-from-soi-dog/

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