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Department of Disease Control (DDC) visits Soi Dog Foundation to collaborate on rabies prevention 🤝

We were proud to welcome the Director-General of the Department of Disease Control Dr. Tares Krassanairawiwong, along with representatives from other key agencies, to our shelter in Phuket recently.

The visit followed Dr. Tares’ announcement that the DDC intends to establish Phuket as Thailand’s first rabies-free province.

Top of the agenda was our large-scale sterilisation and vaccination work, known as our CNVR (Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) programme The programme has seen more than 950,000 stray animals spayed/neutered and vaccinated since our founding in 2003, contributing to a steady decline in the stray population and reducing the spread of communicable diseases, including rabies.

The visiting delegation also learned about Soi Dog’s other programmes, including treatment, community outreach, education and adoption. To assist stray animals in need, the DDC kindly donated some medical equipment for use in our on-site hospitals.

There has been just one recorded case of rabies (in a dog) in Phuket since the turn of the century – thanks in large part to our CNVR programme – making the province eligible for evaluation as a rabies-free area. If successful, it will be the first of Thailand’s 77 provinces to achieve such status.

“Soi Dog is willing to work with all sectors to help make this happen,” said our CNVR Director Dr. Tuntikorn Rungpatana. “We acknowledge that the problem of stray animals cannot be solved by a single agency alone, but rather requires collaboration from all sectors.”

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Established in 2003 in Phuket, Thailand, Soi Dog is Southeast Asia's largest organisation helping stray animals. The Gill Dalley sanctuary in Phuket is home to over 1,600 animals. Soi Dog also has a treatment facility in Bangkok and responds to crisis situations throughout Thailand. The organisation is dedicated to implementing effective, sustainable solutions that reduce the suffering of dogs and cats in Asia, runs entirely on donations and works efficiently so all donations are used to help animals as effectively as possible.

The foundation is a registered not-for-profit organisation in Thailand, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, France and Holland. It has a maximum 4-star rating with Charity Navigator, the largest and most-utilised independent non-profit evaluator in the United States, a platinum seal of transparency from Candid, the world’s largest source of non-profit information, a Top Rated award from Greatnonprofits and the Travelers’ Choice award from Tripadvisor.

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