I recently invited you to share some of your posts from your archives. It is a way of giving your earlier or favourite posts a chance to be read by a different audience. Mine. Details of how you can participate is at the end of the post.
Today one of the regular posts from Carol Taylor’s archives and I am delighted that Carol will be in the Monday spot until Christmas.
Properly trained, man can be a dog’s best friend! by Carol Taylor
Anyone who has been or lived in Thailand knows that they have a huge stray dog population. I also have many friends who have ” adopted ” stray’s/street dogs and generally it is in the plural.
Come on who can resist a sad face particularly when it’s a cute puppy or a dog who looks as if he just needs a cuddle, a clean bed and nice food instead of begging for scraps or going down the bins as many do.
Or if they have been badly treated, badly bitten in fights because dogs can be vicious when fighting another dog or humans they can be equally as vicious to our furry friends.
Prapas Pinyocheep, director of the Bureau of Disease Control and Veterinary Services, said on Monday the latest nationwide survey of the dog population, in 2014, concluded there were around 8.5 million dogs… 700,000 are considered to be strays and 340,000 females who can produce up to 10 pups a year so potentially 3.4 million animals per year increase.
In Phuket we have a number of small animal charities, and Soi Dogs who run a free neutering/spaying service for cats and dogs, is just getting the word out there. They are also very active in rehoming dogs both here and abroad and are conducting a very successful campaign to stop the Dog Meat Trade.
We are in the process of adopting a lovely boy from Soi Dogs call Saangchai in the meantime however this lovely mum with puppies took up residence on my door step.
She is some sort of cross-breed and has a lovely ridge down her back so I suspect somewhere in her lineage was a ridge back. She is very sweet-natured and has quite naughty, mischievous pups who take her food even from her mouth after having gulped theirs so fast it can’t have touched the sides.
They look like gremlins with little faces and these enormous ears..daddy was an Alsatian. So not sure if they stay..but will have to think of a name…their mum I call Daisy .
Today they are at the vets having a little operation so mum will not have any more pups and the puppies will not be able to produce any either. So that will be a little tiny reduction in the overall dog population.
As they are street dogs it’s likely that even if they stay with me they will sleep outside although mum does come inside when she can..the puppies are less friendly , more wary which is a shame as they are so young but hopefully they are coming around and know they get fed and cuddles and strokes.
Yehhhh back from the vets, bit sleepy but none the worse for wear…giving me the look that said why did you let them stick needles in me….mum
Oh poor babies…….
Time will tell if they stay but if they up and leave at least that cycle will be broken.I hope she stays as she is a really lovely girl, so sweet and good-natured.
Tomorrow we collect our forever puppy from Soi Dogs and I’m sure that will be another story.
©Carol Taylor 2017
My thanks to Carol for sharing this post and helping this particular street dog and her puppies. It can be very overwhelming when faced with the numbers that she shared. However, even helping one dog has a difference and preventing her having further pregnancies will prevent perhaps 50 puppies being born in her lifetime and living on the streets desperate for food.
About Carol Taylor
Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.
I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetables ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.
Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use have to improve our health and wellbeing.
Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!
Connect to Carol
Blog: https://blondieaka.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealCarolT
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carol.taylor.1422
Please feel free to share thanks Sally
If you have missed previous posts in the Cook from Scratch series you can find them here: https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/cook-from-scratch-with-sally-and-carol-recipes/
If you would like to share some of your archive posts from when you began blogging, then please send up to four links to sally.cronin@moyhill.com..Thanks Sally
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Another of my archived pots which Sally is sharing for me ….So many dogs and so many unwanted, scared dogs..Soi Dogs is a wonderful organisation and wherever you live in the world they can get a dog to you who will be your forever friend…Thank you Sally for sharing this post 🙂
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Thank you, Sally, for sharing this archived post of mine…..Soi Dogs is a very special place 🙂
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Great start to the week Carol and has got people fired up.. hugs xx
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That’s good news just what we want..I am working on my beans I just need one photo..went to market this morning and they are not in season..so am trying o find one I can use….xxx
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Try Pinterest… and I will use that as a credit.. hugs xx
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Ok thank you Sally.. I don’t use pinterest photos as always unsure as have had messages before from Pinterest saying they have removed a pin as the person( not me) didn’t have permission to use…But will have a look if not I will go down the takeaway as I know they make it and buy one…I
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Have taken a photo lasttime I made it..That will teach me xx
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Lovely post from a caring lady. I hope that sweet mama dog stayed with her and the puppies found homes.
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Thanks Lyn and I hope so too.. hugs xx
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Thank you, Lyn, for your kind words..unfortunately, she disappeared and so did her puppies and we think it was dog traders which does happen here although Soi dogs are doing all they can and have apprehended quite a few lorries..I was heartbroken 🙂
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The worldwide stray animal population is such a tragedy. An even bigger tragedy is the dumping of pets when people no longer want or can keep them. Some of the poor creatures wait where they’re dumped for their person(s) to return. Bless you, Carol, for caring for Daisy and her pups. Thank you for sharing this post, which I imagine is close to your heart ♥ And thank you, Sally, for this terrific series ♥
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I agree Tina, there are so many options today with organisations that have a no kill policy and will work tirelessly to find a home for a pet that dumping is completely unnecessary unless you are devoid of any humanity. hugs ♥♥
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Thank you, Tina…There are many here and where I live now no organisations like Soi Dogs but I keep bugging the vets and I get antibiotics to put in their food …Some are so scared they won’t come near you ..it is very sad to see..but gradually they will it just takes time 🙂
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My heart to your heart, Carol ❤❤
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Bless you Tina ❤ ❤
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Great post and I’ve love to read more about the arrival of forever puppy and Daisy and family. I have friends, both vets, who go every year to a Greek island to neuter cats.
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Thanks Mary.. that is a great thing for your friends to do and it must make a huge difference. I know that feral cats, as in Spain are very prolific in Greece. hugs xx
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There are lots of kind people and eventually lets hope that with widespread neutering programs it will keep the numbers 🙂
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A great post. Abandoned dogs is a problem here in Spain as well. Enjoy your forever puppy. We have a rescue dog called Dot, and we love her to bits! Did Daisy stay?
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Thanks Darlene..hugs xx
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Unfortunately no Darlene she disappeared and I can only guess at what happened but we have Saangchai and he is a lovely boy and we got contacted by a lady who adopted his mum she lives in the Uk..Soi dogs fly dogs all around the world to new homes..but she is lovely and it was nice to see she had a good home.
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Another terrible situation that is created by careless humans, Carol. Very sad and the dogs are so innocent and sweet.
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I know Robbie people are so cruel to animals at times …
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Sadly there are too many Daisies in the world. I was so sorry to read on and learn that she and her puppies were taken. I am a big supporter of animal rescue charities here in Ireland. Animal cruelty is a sad refection on mankind. 🌼
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Such a sweet post, and a universal problem. Here we have had dogs abandoned when families struggle for survival after a hurricane. Local agencies have stepped up, learning a lesson each time disaster strikes. Sorry you didn’t get to keep her and her pups, hope there was a positive ending to the story, somewhere.
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I cannot imagine the anguish of owners who have nowhere to go and are at the ends of their tether. I hope some will be reunited. xxx
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You have a beautiful heart Carol ❤
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Bless you, Carol, for caring for animals who have no one to care for them!
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How wonderful of you, Carol, to take care of this mama and her babies. Good luck with your new puppy. I hope all goes well with the mama and her puppies too. Hugs xx
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Thanks Janice….hugsxx
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