This Week In The Soidog20years Timeline, We Look B..

This week in the #SoiDog20Years timeline, we look back at 2014 – one of the most remarkable years in Soi Dog history 🧡

The four-year fight against the illegal dog meat trade in Thailand came to a successful conclusion. The illegal gangs were disbanded, thousands of dogs were rescued and the large-scale trade was consigned to the history books.

Now the work of relocating and rehoming the rescued dogs began.

The location and size of Soi Dog’s shelter in southern Thailand made it logistically impossible to bring them all directly from the northern region, so Soi Dog reached out for support to build shelters on an existing wooded livestock facility in Buriram province, some 400 kilometres northeast of Bangkok and within closer proximity to the rescue locations.

Buriram means ‘City of Happiness’ in Thai, and nobody could have been happier at that moment to have ended the trade and offer new hope to the thousands of dogs rescued from its clutches.

Thanks to the overwhelming response from Soi Dog supporters, shelters were constructed to provide a haven for them, and a programme of rehabilitation and eventual rehoming began.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/416170950540747/posts/6836659537912..

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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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