A Shared Post From Dame Polo Freelove In The Uk As..

A shared post from Dame Polo Freelove in the UK as it was International Dog Day yesterday. As it’s International Dog Day today, I thought I’d take a rare moment to talk about myself for a change.

For those of you that don’t know me very well, believe it or not, I haven’t always had the womanly figure, the mane of a lion and the amazing technicolour dream coat I have today.

Once I was alone, a lonely, starving, diseased young pup on the cruel streets of Thailand. My skin blistered in the intense heat. I didn’t know where my Mum was, people were cruel to me and turned their back on me in disgust. I was just a baby, I’d never felt any tenderness, no kind words were aimed at me, just rocks were thrown to get me to move on so that nobody had to look at my wretched frail body.

But I couldn’t move on, I was too weak, too poorly & too broken to move on. I had nowhere to go and was frightened beyond words.

I was lost. The world was cruel.

My only friends were passing cockroaches.

On June 13th 2013, a lady called Gill Dalley, the co-founder of Soi Dog Foundation took me into her arms & turned my world around. She held me tight and promised me that nobody would ever hurt me again. She didn’t mind that I was bleeding & smelly and had all sorts of parasites living off my already diseased blood. She held me to her, skin on skin, kissed me, let me cling on to her and swore to me that she would never let anyone frighten me again.

She said that despite my looks, I was a beautiful swan, not an ugly ducking. She told me that one day I would start to heal and feel like I was a somebody, not a nobody.

Of course this isn’t just my story, it’s the story of hundreds of thousands of dogs & cats who have somehow benefited from Gill’s legacy Soi Dog Foundation.

Just look at me then & look at me now and consider how much rescue dogs & cats throughout the world need us all to help them.

Yes I’m sure that the cockafuckingdoodle dogs or whatever other ‘breeds’ they are coming out with now look cute but let’s face it, they are being bred to attempt to satisfy certain required traits & aesthetics … it’s not natural is it. It doesn’t even work – a dogs character can not be designed to order any more than a humans can.

If anything, it’s hurting dogs, creating illnesses & deformities that they shouldn’t have but sadly suffer because of the intervention of man trying to create their ‘perfect’ pet. It’s not helping the millions of animals living throughout the world in shelters through no fault of their own.

So think on, please … look at me now and tell me that I’m not as beautiful as those £2000 + dogs being bred to order.

Thank you for listening.

Please adopt, don’t shop.

Show the world you care.

www.soidog.org



A shared post from Dame Polo Freelove in the UK as it was International Dog Day yesterday. As it’s International Dog Day today, I thought I’d take a rare moment to talk about myself for a change.
For those of you that don’t know me very well, believe it or not, I haven’t always had the womanly figure, the mane of a lion and the amazing technicolour dream coat I have today.
Once I was alone, a lonely, starving, diseased young pup on the cruel streets of Thailand. My skin blistered in the intense heat. I didn’t know where my Mum was, people were cruel to me and turned their back on me in disgust. I was just a baby, I’d never felt any tenderness, no kind words were aimed at me, just rocks were thrown to get me to move on so that nobody had to look at my wretched frail body.
But I couldn’t move on, I was too weak, too poorly & too broken to move on. I had nowhere to go and was frightened beyond words.
I was lost. The world was cruel.
My only friends were passing cockroaches.
On June 13th 2013, a lady called Gill Dalley, the co-founder of Soi Dog Foundation took me into her arms & turned my world around. She held me tight and promised me that nobody would ever hurt me again. She didn’t mind that I was bleeding & smelly and had all sorts of parasites living off my already diseased blood. She held me to her, skin on skin, kissed me, let me cling on to her and swore to me that she would never let anyone frighten me again.
She said that despite my looks, I was a beautiful swan, not an ugly ducking. She told me that one day I would start to heal and feel like I was a somebody, not a nobody.
Of course this isn’t just my story, it’s the story of hundreds of thousands of dogs & cats who have somehow benefited from Gill’s legacy Soi Dog Foundation.
Just look at me then & look at me now and consider how much rescue dogs & cats throughout the world need us all to help them.
Yes I’m sure that the cockafuckingdoodle dogs or whatever other ‘breeds’ they are coming out with now look cute but let’s face it, they are being bred to attempt to satisfy certain required traits & aesthetics … it’s not natural is it. It doesn’t even work – a dogs character can not be designed to order any more than a humans can.
If anything, it’s hurting dogs, creating illnesses & deformities that they shouldn’t have but sadly suffer because of the intervention of man trying to create their ‘perfect’ pet. It’s not helping the millions of animals living throughout the world in shelters through no fault of their own.
So think on, please … look at me now and tell me that I’m not as beautiful as those £2000 + dogs being bred to order.
Thank you for listening.
Please adopt, don’t shop.
Show the world you care.
www.soidog.org

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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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