This Week In The Soidog20years Timeline, We Reflec..

This week in the #SoiDog20Years timeline, we reflect on 2021 🧡

🏗️ A year of huge challenges, 2021 saw the necessary continued expansion of facilities at the Gill Dalley Sanctuary. A further four dog enclosures were built as the population continued to rise – from 1,345 in January to 1,549 by December – and four new off-lead play areas were also created.

🌧️ Monsoon rainfall wreaked more havoc, this time in Central Thailand, where you helped us to provide over 120 tons of food to animals cut off by rising floodwater.

🚐 Our spay/neuter programme (known as CNVR – Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) continued to break records: a ninth mobile team was added, and CNVR stepped outside of Thailand for the first time with a project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

By the end of the year, a whopping 142,540 animals had passed through our mobile CNVR clinics and third-party spay/neuter projects across the region. Another record came in the number of animals treated by Soi Dog – over 15,000 across our hospitals, clinics and community outreach programme.

❌ Possibly one of the sternest tests of 2021, though, came as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States announced a ban on dogs entering the country from 113 territories around the world, including Thailand, citing concerns over the increasing likelihood of bringing rabies into the country.

The blanket ban took no account of the strict protocols of animal health and vaccination to which Soi Dog has always adhered, and it struck a giant blow to our international adoptions and partner rescue programmes.

The United States has always been the main overseas safe haven for our adopted dogs, and this news would harm both our adoptions programmes and our immediate ability to continue rescuing more dogs in need.

✈️ We embarked on a campaign to have it revised but, in the short period before the ban was implemented, with your help we managed to send 86 dogs to the USA in the space of just four weeks. Huge thank you to donors who helped fund this mission and to the partner rescue organisations who helped make it possible.

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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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