Two more sterilizations, one in the nick of time

As I have mentioned many times before, our primary function as an organization is to attempt to decrease the overall population of the homeless dog population. This is achieved via sterilization and is really the only sustainable way of improving the lives of the "soi dogs and cats" that call various street areas of Krabi home.

We have begun our summer drive to accomplish this due to a rather successful fundraising effort in the U.K. although at a much lessor level than in previous years due to a great deal of our financing being cut because of the elimination in tourism in Krabi. This is where 80% or so of our overall financing comes from so we don't have much choice but to step-down our activities. We still do what we can though and a couple of cases were recently brought to our attention about some females at one of the markets in Krabi town.

As you might expect they weren't real keen on getting into the kennels but they were both very approachable and friendly. They are also quite easily motivated by food. We generally try not to "force" them into cages, even though we are taking them somewhere for their own good.

One of the dogs was suffering from Pyometra, which is an enlargement of the uterus that can cause the animal pain and and left untreated can become and bacterial breeding-ground that can eventually kill the animal. The best case scenario with untreated Pyometra is that the female lives in constant pain.
Thankfully this is the part of the body that is removed in spaying a dog anyway, so ol' Goldie will not have to worry about that in her future.

It may surprise you actually how common Pyometra is and one surefire way of detecting and curing it is to simply have the dog sterilized. I know that one of my own dogs, who certainly lived a more pampered life than probably every street dog in Krabi had this affliction and I had no idea until I was getting her "fixed."

We will soon reach 800 overall sterilizations in the Krabi area and this is a huge milestone for us as we reach closer and closer to quadruple digits.

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If you would like to see how you can help out, or simply spread the word, please visit our website at

http://krabianimalwelfare.org

_{Krabi Animal Welfare is a charity run entirely by volunteers and are a registered non-profit organization in Thailand and the U.K.. We aim to relieve the pain and suffering of dogs and cats within Krabi Province.}

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http://krabianimalwelfare.org

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