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Soi Dog Foundation Phuket Thailand

Soi Dog Foundation is a not-for-profit, legally registered charitable organization, based in Phuket, Thailand, with the aim of setting an example to the rest of the Asian region on how to humanely reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats through sterilzation, and to better the lives and living conditions of the remaining stray dogs & feral cats around the island and at our shelter in Mai Khao, Phuket.

There are about 50 temples on the island, most have an average of about 30 dogs, it is estimated that Soi Dog Foundation look after and feed about 600 dogs in temples alone, in addition to the 200 + dogs currently at the shelter in Mai Khao and stray cats around the island and surrounding areas of Phuket.

25,757 Animal Sterilised 19655 Dogs and 6102 Cats up to end of December 2009 since 2003

Donate or Sponsor a Dog @ Soi Dog Foundation

Click on the flag in the right hand column to donate or sponsor a dog through Paypal in UK Pound's, Euro's, Aus Dollar's, US Dollar's many options available, you can make a difference, and every little bit helps us to help the dogs and cats of Phuket live a better life.

Soi Dog Foundation invites you to the Australian Premiere of the documentary “Soi Dogs” to be screened at:

The Classic Cinema
9 Gordon Street
Elsternwick, VIC 3185
5-Febuary 2010
6 PM
Pre Booking Essential
Tickets 35$
Book and pay via contact@paaw.org.au

Siam - A Thai Stray

Many visitors to Thailand have their lives touched by the plight of the street dogs and cats here.
Below is a poem written by Australian tourist Diana Thurbon about just another street dog, who came into her life during a short holiday here in Phuket this month.

Diana cannot take the dog who she named Siam to Australia, but is desperately trying to find a home for him maybe in the States.
Meanwhile John is looking for him to try and arrange that he gets food as Diana is fearful he will starve without intervention.

If anybody wishes to give this young dog a home SDF can arrange everything, though the unrecoverable costs would have to be paid by the person adopting. Flight and cage to the States. Blood test in EU in addition to Europe. Everything else SDF can cover costs.

The sun goes down, dark, sudden, tropical, over all

the barren, sea-wet rocks exposed by tide.

The tourists and his shelter chairs gone and night will fall.

He curls up small and sandy; all alone he will abide.

I lament that a different life he will never know.

His puppy-hood is solitude and scraps,

he scavenges his patch to and fro.

Always tired, this little black dog naps.

Sunday morning I watch – people

walk past him- laughing, eating, uncaring.

Then they go to their prayers in temple, steeple

their hands in prayer. Pointless ritual, all un-sharing.

I give my new friend some bacon, rub an ear.

I hate the people who don't see starvation at their feet.

A passer says to me “Careful they bite.” I wipe a tear,

“He is starving!” “Nah they do OK on the beach in the heat.”

He is just ONE dog, I know. All over Asia they forage and fret

cats and dogs with scabs and sores. No one sees. No one cares.

Just another homeless pup. At home his cousin sleeps on my bed,

I can't understand. I rub his ears, rub my eyes and my heart tears.

As a result of a diligent search by Soi Dog's dog catcher's and concerned volunteer's Siam has been found, has undergone treatment at Soi Dog's clinic and is being rehomed in the United States. This just in, 24 hours after the above story was posted.

Jumbo's Sad Story

Jumbo is a young male dog about 9 months old who now lives at The Shelter here is his story.

His father is a Belgian Shepherd dog and his mother a small Thai dog. He was adopted or purchased by the Thai owner of the ANN guest house at Karon. For the first 2 weeks all was well with Jumbo but he loved water and would also wallow in muddy pools. When he was 8 weeks of age neighbors started hearing screaming and witnessed the owner beating the puppy. Recent examination by Dr. Suchon shows a break in the right leg that has healed on its own and in Dr. Suchon's opinion this happened when he was around this age.
On one occasion several neighbors witnessed the owner pour boiling water over the young dog and in their words he ran away screaming. Despite this treatment the dog kept coming back to the owner.
3 weeks ago on a Friday night at midnight a neighbor witnessed the owner beating the dog with a very large stick. The dog again ran away screaming waking other neighbors nearby. The owner was running around looking for the dog saying he was going to beat him to death. Fortunately he could not find him.
Early next morning the neighbor kidnapped the dog from in front of the owner’s house and took it to the clinic of Dr. Suchon with the help of one of our volunteers. A leg was again fractured which was when Dr. Suchon discovered the previous break and other wounds.
A week later he was brought to the shelter. He is a beautiful dog and a typical example of the kind of dog that cannot be returned to where he came from as he would inevitably go back to his owner.
Christina in Karon is desperately looking for a good home for him as the alternative would be to spend the rest of his life at the shelter. And this is a dog that needs plenty of exercise. Readers may wonder why the authorities were not informed.

The answer is that there are no laws to protect animals like Jumbo in Thailand.
Help SDF to continue to help dogs and cats like him and have laws introduced to protect them.

Please note that the ANN guest house was previously owned by a foreigner but he longer has any connection with it.

Lovely Girl Dumped in a Trash Bag & Left To Die

A German tourist married to a Thai stopped at the government dog pound by mistake thinking it was SDF.

Blackie was found by a German tourist married to a Thai who had stopped at the government dog pound to have a look on his way to our shelter They spotted a black dog lying amongst the garbage and thought she was dead, but found she was still alive though barely and unable to move.
His wife spoke to one of the staff and they informed her that the dog had been dumped the previous night in a black plastic bin bag. They let her out but otherwise did nothing!
He brought the dog to Soi Dog believing it should be euthanized. Examination of the dog showed a bad leg injury and it was sent to Dr. Tretheps for x ray.
Dr. Trethep reported that the right back hip had been smashed and the front left leg broken. The manner of the injuries indicates strongly that the dog was not a victim of a road accident but had been hit with a heavy object.
The damage cannot be repaired by normal methods and the dog has been heavily strapped and will have to remain in a small cage to see if it will heal. The great news is that on their way home next day Peter the tourist who found her has determined to take her to Germany, once the formalities are completed in around 4 months time. Without people like Peter this dog would have died a slow and painful death.

Soi Dogs The Movie