There Is Much To Celebrate This World Rabies Day, ..

There is much to celebrate this World Rabies Day, like the decline we’re seeing in cases of this deadly disease here in Thailand owing to your support of our large-scale vaccination programme 🐕🌎

However, the day is also tinged with sadness as it marks the start of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) import ban.

From today, dogs from 113 countries, including Thailand, are banned from entering Canada. The CFIA cites concerns over canine rabies as its reason for the ban.

As the world-leading organisation Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) says, we must focus on facts and not fear. With this in mind, these are the facts about importation and rabies and why we feel so strongly that the ban should be revised:

💉All dogs we import into Canada are fully vaccinated, correctly documented and present absolutely no health risk whatsoever to humans or other animals.

✈️ We have an unblemished 19-year track record of importing healthy dogs to countries worldwide, including over 500 to Canada. All come from the rabies-free island province of Phuket.

🧪 There are alternative measures that can be put in place, such as rabies titer testing (RTT). All rabies-free first-world countries around the world require RTTs for imported dogs, and it has proven to be 100% effective in terms of disease control.

Though the ban is now in place, our fight to revise it will continue unabated. Please join us: https://support.soidog.org/canada-dog-import-ban

Source: https://www.facebook.com/416170950540747/posts/4715607383351..

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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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