Thread: NR's Temple Dogs - Wat Khao Din, Hua Hin

^ I know. Living in Asia can be really heart wrenching. The stuff we see every day that would have people in the West boycotting & campaigning left, right & centre... How do you change it?

Not possible. A combination of less education and poverty means that the locals have less time and ability to worry about animal rights.

Talking of dumping, where I used to live in Thailand the locals would take kittens from ferral cats and put them in a bag and throw them under my house from their motorbike

Vinegar

First thing that you did when you got a new dog was to go to the grocers and buy a vinegar barrel !
Sarsons used to supply in wooden casks - probably about 25 gallons -you took your own bottle to be filled .
If you paid the 30/- that the grocer pais as deposit you got one- took it home and cut a dog sized hole on one end and that was it !
The soaked in fumes were good for a couple of years !- and the dog didn't mind !

Originally Posted by November Rain

Well, I thought it was about time I got off my backside and did another photo thread for TD

Should do it more often

Great work NR, good to see the before and after pics of the dogs. Can't green you yet

great stuff, awesome thread, i must admit surprise at how good some of the dogs look in such a short time.

and really nice thread, it should be translated to thai and placed on a thai one so that some more thai.s can see the results as well, it may spur them to treat their dogs better!

Great thread NR.

I just heard about the collateral fall-out of the US housing crisis: people have to move to rental properties, most if which do not allow pets. The SPCA is full and many folks left their pets locked in the garage or house with no food.

[quote=Smeg;595561]It's an interesting topic NR, but unless you are like AO and need to hide away from thailand in a gated mooban, these sights are seen by everyone every day. I don't see the purpose of being shown more.

I was sickened and angry the first few times I saw dogs in this state, but to get over this, over the years one has to harden up and find "excuses" for the thais to allow this to continue. Now i try to think that these dogs are luckier than the many millions of wild animals that starve to death or are eaten alive every day. It helps, but not much.[/quo
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Shut your Cake 'ole Smeg!
The day YOU do as much or even half as much good as NR is the day the
posters here will have heart attacks!

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Great thread NR.

Good man GS. I agree absolutely!

NR I have been treating a poor bitch on Pattaya hill for a few weeks. She was almost bald. Mange I guess. Anyway. I bought a pack of Biomec-4000 and gave her a pill every 10days. She is completely cured now and the new hair is coming through. It's good for Heartworm,Ticks and Fleas too.

If you would like me to get a few packs for you please PM me and I will be happy to do so.

Keep up the good work. There is lots of sympathy for poor Soi Dogs on TD but few actually do anything for them. YOU are a diamond!

Well done NR, I'm a bit late on this because I couldn't get the pictures to load. Nice to see the effect that you are having on the Dog community. Like the old Monk said, it is very good for the ones that you can help. They will have a better life from now on. I hope that you allow yourself to be more than a little proud of what you have done. Good work and some good photos.

Great thread N/r the dogs look so much better

Finally got round to reading this thread. You're an absolute star NR.

One of the dogs in the pack near me has lost the use of his back legs now. I didn't think he was going to make it because I chucked him some fried chicken and he just ignored it. But a few weeks later, still alive and alert, though always looking in a very sorry state. Not much can be done about it I guess.

Originally Posted by November Rain

This is Edgar. Edgar is one of a litter of 3. He & his siblings have had their combined vaccines & have been having Ivomec vaccines for their skin. 2 weeks ago, we injected his siblings, but couldn't find him. We happened to find him, by pure chance, in a ditch, cold, covered with water & paralysed. I've seen similar cases & thought it might be due to blood parasites, so took him to the vets. He was very sick, as he got a secondary respiratory infection due to lying in the water (we think for at least 24 hours). He spent 1 week in the vets & then started to raise himself up.
After a further week at my house & lots of attention from my little boy, who was great with him, I took him back to the temple yesterday - fully recovered.



Would you believe this pup was paralysed in all 4 limbs, just 2 weeks ago?

Thought I'd give this thread a bit of an update. Here's Edgar one week ago...

Originally Posted by November Rain

Kao is another of our original 5 dogs. Again the first two pics are her just over 2 months ago. The 3rd is today.





And today:

Kao's still looking good...



And literally getting under my feet (or legs!) when I try to do anything...

Here are a few other dogs from Khao Din...

This one is the same age as Edgar (never named him as nothing ever wrong with him)



This is one that had mange (like Brillo & Oo-an, but not quite as bad). He's fine, now.



Here's me trying vainly to inject, but getting 'pawed' instead...

Originally Posted by November Rain

These are some of the other dogs having a drink. The one on the left had a huge haematoma in her ear, which I had to drain on 3 separate occasions. Not pleasant for her. That occurred simply through scratching herself. She's now far better & is getting her Ivomec for her skin - she was nearly bald a month ago.

The one on the left is now called Bitsy. We had a real problem with her in September. She had a skin infection so bad that she managed to get maggot infested wounds in her neck (through scratching). We had to take her into the center & she got put back the week we were evicted. This is her last week

Because we got evicted, we put various of our dogs in monitored temples (with the Loong Pors' permission)

These were all HRD dogs & they're doing fantastically at the temple. They were all put there because of chronic shyness/timidity with everyone but me, but most of them are really social now...


Above is Cinq

Next is Nooners


And Gorgy (yes, Jettie & CMN, your 'pups')


and lastly (from HRD), Percy

A few more original Khao Din dogs...

Mariah (so called because she 'sings' in a high-pitched, some might say annoying manner)


And these two, who I never named...





and a last one of me trying vainly to inject Kao against parasites, with the hindrance of interested onlookers...

good work NR.

getting less camera shy too.

will you be doing a nude shoot soon?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

will you be doing a nude shoot soon?

CMN, ever heard the military slang term 'double bagger'?

Originally Posted by November Rain

'double bagger'?

no.

sounds exciting though.

what is it?