The following is a press launch from the Soi Dog Foundation.
โซล่าเซลล์ in Surat Thani has been efficiently shut down and 17 road canine were rescued by Soi Dog Foundation after reviews have been obtained of dire conditions and extreme neglect.
The shelter was reportedly constructed by an area landowner to comprise the canines who had been residing on an space of his land where building works have been because of begin. The makeshift facility was poorly maintained, and the canines had been left to suffer for years with little human intervention or care.
Soi Dog employees who went to examine the shelter described a cramped and filthy space, with faeces masking the ground and no food or contemporary water available. The dogs were extremely malnourished, infested with ticks and fleas and suffering from chronic skin infections in addition to different medical circumstances that had been left untreated.
Arrangements were immediately made for six of the canine – these in most dire want – to be transported to the Soi Dog shelter in Phuket for pressing therapy. Sadly, one succumbed to sickness and handed away while en route. The remaining 11 have been transported in the weeks that adopted, with plans put in place for their care at the shelter within the interim. They are all now protected at Soi Dog and receiving therapy for a variety of completely different illnesses, including canine distemper and tick-borne diseases.
Soi Dog reported the shelter to the Department of Livestock Development’s Animal Welfare Division, and a authorized agreement was drawn up stating that it will be permanently shut down and the village’s street dog inhabitants managed in a extra humane and sustainable method through CNVR (Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return). In support of this, one of Soi Dog’s 9 cellular groups has neutered and vaccinated all dogs in the village and surrounding area.
“These dogs were not drawback canines and confirmed no aggressive behaviour,” explained Soi Dog’s Community Relations Manager Sakdapol Thongjan. “Rounding them up in a cramped house with out care is an act of animal cruelty, and a lack of knowledge about how to look after sick or injured animals has triggered them to suffer. Infectious diseases can unfold in such unsanitary circumstances.”
Soi Dog has long warned towards the unmanaged sheltering of stray canines. Just a couple of months ago, the foundation helped stem an outbreak of canine distemper on Koh Kood which originated at a government shelter and shortly swept the island’s avenue dog population, killing over 60% of the dogs on the “shelter” and lots of others throughout the island.
“In short, sheltering is not a long-term answer,” Sakdapol added..