3 new puppies dropped at Tiger Cave Temple
This is never going to stop. As happy as we are that the dogs that are dropped at the temples that we monitor in the area are in better health than in years past we fear as though our involvement may have actually encouraged people to do this more frequently. It is tragic because if it continues, we do not have the necessary funds to look after all of them properly even though we will never give up or just walk away. I kind of thought that this might happen at some point but we have actually been seeing an increase in the amount of dogs dropped off right around the time that we were getting more of a control over the health of the ones that were already there.
The process is always the same: We get a call from the monks informing us that there are new dogs and these dogs get pushed through the fence in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep. I guess I am happy that this is the way it happens instead of simply abandoning them in the middle of nowhere, but I can't help but think that the people are dropping off the dogs at the temple because of the fact that they know an organization is there to look after them, even though this was not our original intention at all.
Once again the pups are all from the same litter, this time 2 males and one female. They were scared at first, probably from a night of being alone around a bunch of other dogs and were hiding in a corner all bunched up together shaking and trying to sleep. I would imagine that it is quite unnerving as a pup to be dropped off in an unfamiliar place and all of a sudden be surrounded by dozens of other dogs.
Most of the dogs here are relatively domesticated but that doesn't mean that they aren't territorial and they can be quite intimidating to any newcomers who are new on "their territory."
With a little TLC and of course some tasty snacks we were able to gain their trust pretty rapidly so this much is good. The bad news is that for each new soul we get here it means that our overall resources are stretched a little bit thinner and eventually this could mean less food and healthcare for all the dogs involved. We only have so much to go around.
As always and will always be we are going to do as much as we can for them to ensure that they have as much of a suffering-free life filled with enough food and necessary parasite preventions. At the moment they are all too young for surgery so instead we have asked the staff to keep a close eye on the female to make sure that she never has a chance to replicate. We only sterilize the females at these sites because we do not have the resources to complete this operations on all of them.
Looking forward we are asking the monks to put signs at the front entrances pleading with would-be dropper-offers that the temple cannot handle any more animal drops. I don't think this will work on very many people because it is very non-Buddhist for them to drop off the animals in such a covert manner in the first place. Let's just hope that it has some sort of impact because if it doesn't, we could be facing a bit of a crisis in the near future.
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