Podcast: Care for Dogs, Chiang Mai
Care for Dogs is an animal welfare organisation based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Listen to an interview with Karin Hawelka, one of the Care for Dogs founders below.
Care for Dogs was set up by Karin and Amandine Lecesne who refused to ignore the problem of dogs suffering in the streets of Chiang Mai. Their aim is to improve the life of street and temple dogs by organising sterilisations, vaccinations, and medical care. They also offer a home for approximately 80 homeless dogs and puppies until they find a new loving home for them.
If you would like to adopt a dog, puppy or cat, volunteer, or support the group with donations or dog food – then contact 084-7525255 or 086-1855218, e-mail contact@carefordogs.org or visit www.carefordogs.org.
Enjoy and get inspired.
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April 6th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Terrific!
This is a radical shift from two other countries I visited, first Vietnam where dogs are treated very special, usually served with rice and tomatoes, and then Laos, where they took stray dogs and bused them to Vietnam for special treatment! Good to see someone looking out for the woofers.
nels
mae sot
April 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
So, how many did you adopt?
April 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Yes. Thank God dog meat is not a speciality in Thailand. But as far as I have understood it is just a matter of price. I have met many Thai people who said that the only reason why they don’t eat dog is that it is very expensive. Scary thought…although as I have mentioned in my previous blogs…I do consider eating a dog the same as eating a cow (to me anyway). I don’t feel entitled to eat any of them
I am sure Thomas would disagree with me.
We can’t adopt any dog unfortunately…we are two restless souls and a dog deserve stability. But I will visit the shelter on a regular basis to play with the dogs…they are so lovely.
Tina Noga
April 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Great picture, good to see that someone help the dogs!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
If a dog and cow are equally entitled to not be killed and eaten, does the same apply to cockroaches & mosquitoes?
Do dogs and cows have more ‘right to life’ in the average vegetarian’s mind than mosquitos/cockroaches due to the ‘cuteness factor’ coming into play? I know plenty of vegetarians that would happily kill a mosquito but never a dog or cow.
I am very interested in this as I think most vegetarians make their own random distinctions between the insect world, fish world and mammalian world (in terms of their various members’ rights to life) - and most vegetarians also assume that certain animals have *more feelings* than others - ie a fish has more feelings than an ant.
Tina, do you think we should be able to kill those bloody mosquitoes to prevent them biting us, but should not kill dogs for food?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I do think mosquitoes have a right to live and I don’t think you should eat them either which is what the discussion was about :-). Thank you for your input Thomas.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
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