We have a story now about a kind woman who had very little money herself that took pity on a small pack of sibling dogs that numbered just 3 at the time. She was nice old woman who had nothing but the best intentions at heart. She didn't have much to give them but she gave what she could. She prepared a covered area outside of her house and gave them food whenever she could. Some times it was enough and other times it wasn't.
Things were fine for a while and it was certainly better than the alternative of letting them fend for themselves because they almost certainly would have failed at that.
The problem here is that this well-intentioned woman who has a heart of gold. She didn't pay any attention to medical care and also didn't think anything of sterilization. These were "outside" dogs as well that just slept on the porch and nothing was stopping them from wandering off. This is a common thing to do in rural Thailand and probably the world.
Well, just like I have mentioned many times before in other things, the unsterilized youngsters didn't stay small in number for very long, and next thing you know they were 7 with 4 of them being a new litter. now they are 12. While 3 dogs was a lot to ask of this poor old kind Samaritan lady, 12 is overwhelming and impossible.
Sorry for low quality pictures but it was raining and I was being ambushed by kisses from the friendly dogs.
The dogs are in reasonably good health but I could tell from just a little time of being there that this situation would not stay that way. Most of them had beginning stages of mange an several of them were malnourished which indicates that the group isn't actually getting enough food and the weaker ones likely don't get to eat very much.
We were contatcted to help this woman out and that is exactly what we did. She hadn't heard of us but we explained what we do (through a translator) and after a little while she was pleased to find out that we are there not to take her babies away but how if something isn't done that the dogs are going to start to get sick and that 12 is quickly going to become 30 if something isn't done. Outside of extreme situations we never take someone's dogs without permission and the only times we do that is when we have definitive proof of abuse and neglect.
We took all of the dogs away in groups to be looked over by a vet, vaccinated all of them, treated them for parasites, and sterilized the females. They were then returned to where they come from and we gave the old woman a large bag of food as well as a phone number for if she needs help in the future. We are careful to explain to these people that we are not there to do all the work for them but that we can help if they need us to. This normally work out pretty well because the kind of person that would elect to take care of a dozen dogs on her own especially when she herself is quite poor, is not the kind of person that is bad-hearted or looking to rip people off.
Sometimes it is really touching when I run into a person that has so little, lives in what I would consider to be very bad conditions, and yet they have a generosity towards other living things that far surpasses people with much much more money and health that they have. This is a very kind woman who just never made it in life financially, but she has a lot of love to give and a lot of little fur friends that are very willing to give that love back. This is just a case of someone that accidentally took on more of a job than she can possibly do.
We are there to help but we needed to get this dog population problem under control first. 12 is too many for one old lady to have but with our help I think she will be fine. We kind of hoped that the few neighbors might notice us and maybe offer to help her in the future when she needs it as well.
We will do all that we can but 12 is already a lot, and it would have been a lot more than that if someone hadn't pointed this out to us. We don't have eyes everywhere, we are actually quite a small organization. We need people helping us so that we can help them.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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