9 non-sterilized dogs discovered at local temple
While Krabi Animal Welfare does the best it can to try to have eyes and ears all over the place, we simply cannot keep track of all the hundreds or perhaps thousands of stray dogs in Krabi province.
The temples are hotspots for strays as it is a bit of an unfortunate tradition that unwanted dogs are frequently dropped off at these locations, often in the night when nobody can see and be held accountable.
In a minor temple of the area in a village called Ban Thung, we received a phone call from a orange frock donning monk "friend of the family" about 9 new dogs that had recently been dropped off.
Fortunately the monks became aware of the dogs' presence pretty rapidly, but by their own admission they almost waited too long to let us know about them. It was when they were joking one day about the dogs "getting romantic" that one of them remembered about our organization and gave us a call.
We immediately jumped into action and went out there with enough kennels to transport all of them if needed.
The dogs were reasonable friendly we were told and the monks had gained their trust by providing them with food and some head scratches from time to time. We still came armed with all of our gear including nets and bite-proof gloves. We also have a tranquilizer dart gun but we only use those if we absolutely must. Thankfully, it was a lot easier than we had expected to get them all crated up and transported.
one of them was a Husky mixed breed, and it always makes me kind of sad when I encounter dogs like this in Thailand. Huskies have no business being in a country that is as hot and humid as this one is, and they obviously are not indigenous to the area. What likely happened is someone imported a Husky back when they were popular and fashionable and didn't get the dog sterilized and it did what dogs do and had babies with a local dog. This is the result. She's friendly, but she is always overheating and panting because her physical features are meant for very cold environments, not really hot ones.
She was friendly at least and was easily lead into a crate with a snack. Then she just calmly sat down and accepted her fate.
Our intentions were for the dogs' own benefit though and we noticed that none of the 9 dogs had the ear snip or tattoo that indicates that a dog has been sterilized. When we arrived at the vet and did ultrasounds on the females we found out that not a single one of the new additions were sterilized.
We are so lucky to have the monks be our friends in this because out of 9 new dogs, 6 of which were female, that could have resulted in 50 pups very quickly. We have made so much progress in reducing the numbers that this would have been a heartbreaker to have to deal with. Thank goodness for the monks because we wouldn't have noticed this until it was too late otherwise.
While I am sure they were very confused and one of them was shaking out of fear, the trip was necessary and didn't take long at all. It was only a day and a half before they were returned to the temple. Advancements in sterilization has come a long way in the past 10 years and now recovery time is almost immediate. The stitches are the kind that dissolve and a procedure is done so that even if the dogs could reach them, they won't be able to pull them out.
All that is required these days for most breeds is for someone to check on them once a day or a bit more and almost always there is never a problem.
Not only are we grateful for the monks in giving us the heads up about this but we are grateful for Bangkok Krabi Animal Hospital, who does these procedures for us at cost. They don't tack on any profit for our organization and because of that we are able to do many more of these sterilizations than we would be able to otherwise.
The dogs were "fixed", sterilized, and checked for other problems and returned to their home at the temple within 72 hours. Now we begin the process of checking on them for a few weeks as well as coming by to make sure that the entire pack is properly sterilized.
I have told you many times before how quickly just a couple of non-sterilized females can explode a population and this can get expensive and untenable very fast. We have spent close to a decade getting this situation somewhat under control but just a mere 9 dogs could seriously screw all of that up.
Thanks to the watchful eyes of the monks we were able to take care of this problem before it became a very big issue. Now my one big question remains: What kind of a person would drop off 9 dogs in the night and not feel any sort of remorse?
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