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Cece ✨ One of our 9 adult fosters enjoying some comfy time on our second-hand, donated sofa. Our foster dogs live as pet...
22/03/2025

Cece ✨ One of our 9 adult fosters enjoying some comfy time on our second-hand, donated sofa. Our foster dogs live as pets, they are not sheltered in kennels or crates. They share their home with our manager and sleep in the bed! This is what cohabitation looks like for us, different pets or fosters will live differently and that’s okay as long as their needs are met. We are very lucky to enjoy the companionship of our pack and cover all of their medical needs and preventative care, they are all sterilized and none of them have had babies 🐾

Rua & Big Boy enjoying some socializing during their in-patient stays. Being ill is challenging enough, we want it to fe...
21/03/2025

Rua & Big Boy enjoying some socializing during their in-patient stays. Being ill is challenging enough, we want it to feel as comfortable as possible 🐾

Koh Mak’s stray and locally adopted cats have free access to their annual booster vaccines and quarterly wormer via our ...
21/03/2025

Koh Mak’s stray and locally adopted cats have free access to their annual booster vaccines and quarterly wormer via our outreach-based care. We meet the cats in their home or territory and each patient is tracked in our census. Vaccinations are provided continually, all March 2024 vaccinations are repeated March 2025. We consolidate this labour into a few days per month to keep organized and manage other tasks. This sterilized adult female cat was tracked, but details such as her photo, markings, etc. were missing + a profile picture was taken on this day 🐾

Thank you ✨ Huge thanks to Dr K for a generous 4 weeks as our sole charge DVM volunteer! We couldn’t help the animals wi...
20/03/2025

Thank you ✨ Huge thanks to Dr K for a generous 4 weeks as our sole charge DVM volunteer! We couldn’t help the animals without the gracious guidance and labour of our veterinary volunteers.

This is an independent & cooperative role requiring 1-3 years of recent small animal surgical experience, for a minimum 3 week stay. We cannot accept students or recent grads. We are a low-volume, ambulatory service, with no walk-in clinical hours. All non-emergent care is provided on the street and in local homes. We are now booking DVMs for June-December 2025. Email your CV to receive our complete Pre-Departure Guide to decide if we are the right fit for you 🐾

Big Boy was brought in by his family around 6:30am, they were shocked to wake up and find he was unable to walk! They di...
19/03/2025

Big Boy was brought in by his family around 6:30am, they were shocked to wake up and find he was unable to walk! They did the right thing by bringing him in immediately. Big Boy isn’t socialized outside of his family, he and his sister are both averse to strangers. He was very patient in accepting all the touch and rehabilitation necessary despite his nervousness. He stayed with us for 10 days until he was fully recovered and able to rejoin his family. His follow-up checks were clear and we continue to see his pack once a month for their monthly preventatives. All care free-of-charge, funded entirely by your donations 🐾

A few more awesome behind-the-scenes photos from Denia’s experience as a General Volunteer 🐾
18/03/2025

A few more awesome behind-the-scenes photos from Denia’s experience as a General Volunteer 🐾

Daeng was provided access to free out-patient care from the comfort of his home. He had an abscess on his nose, which of...
18/03/2025

Daeng was provided access to free out-patient care from the comfort of his home. He had an abscess on his nose, which of course we neglected to photograph! Here he is at the end of his 5-day treatment with the swelling resolved, and wound reduced and dry 🐾

We had 4 sterilization patients to return on this particular day so we used a taxi from our neighbour Mr Yai. This is on...
17/03/2025

We had 4 sterilization patients to return on this particular day so we used a taxi from our neighbour Mr Yai. This is one of the many ways our team or services circle back into the local economy 🐾

Spay day for Churee ✨ This sweet girl is a local adoption. We scheduled with her family for sterilization, however at 7:...
17/03/2025

Spay day for Churee ✨ This sweet girl is a local adoption. We scheduled with her family for sterilization, however at 7:00am pick-up Churee was nowhere to be found. We rescheduled and agreed on an evening pick-up to be sure she was fasted & present for her appointment! All of Churee’s care including vaccinations & wormer, transportation, sterilization, and continued monthly flea/tick prevention is covered entirely by your donations 🐾

During rounds, we were waved down to meet a cat visiting a newly erected shelter at a rubber tree station. Our neighbour...
17/03/2025

During rounds, we were waved down to meet a cat visiting a newly erected shelter at a rubber tree station. Our neighbour was worried that the cat was not sterilized and asked us what was needed. We told him what area she was from, and showed the tattoo in her ear to indicate she was previously spayed. We took photos of any distinct markings, to easily identify her if she travels again in the future. Her kinked tail is genetic, not due to injury or abuse. Our community is very kind to animals 🐾

Thank you ✨ A massive thank you to Denia for joining us for nearly 4 weeks as a General Volunteer. It was a pleasure to ...
15/03/2025

Thank you ✨ A massive thank you to Denia for joining us for nearly 4 weeks as a General Volunteer. It was a pleasure to get to know you, watch you connect with our dog pack, and the labour you provided to our daily function was critical! Denia shared some awesome photos she took and such cute portraits of our pack, which we have included here. Thank you 🐾

This sweet kitty was a sunset emergent walk-in, he had been ill for at least 2-3 days with an obstructed bladder. Despit...
15/03/2025

This sweet kitty was a sunset emergent walk-in, he had been ill for at least 2-3 days with an obstructed bladder. Despite our focus on accessibility, there are still patients who are delayed in reaching us. Thankfully, we were able to provide access to the necessary care and get him back home after a short in-patient stay!

Dr K was able to pop in to help this kitty that evening and her shift the next day would end early. We believe that all of our team members personal time, hours, and wellness are the utmost priority. Allowing volunteers to overwork or asking volunteers to overwork does not reflect our values. To take care of others, we must first take care of ourselves by sleeping well, staying hydrated, fueling with nutritious meals, moving our bodies, and enjoying personal time to rest away from work 🐾

Shiba ✨ As we continue to catch the remaining jungle dogs for CNVR (catch, neuter, vaccinate, return), we also get curio...
15/03/2025

Shiba ✨ As we continue to catch the remaining jungle dogs for CNVR (catch, neuter, vaccinate, return), we also get curious with our community to identify & sterilize outliers in socialized packs. Shiba is part of a group of 13 middle-aged and older dogs who are all sterilized - except him! His humans told us that due to his anxiety it had been impossible to restrain, crate, or contain him in any way. They provided consent, if we could catch him!

Initial methods were unsuccessful and multiple days were invested to find the right solution for Shiba. We were patient with the process and it all worked out in the end. Due to various factors, Shiba stayed post-op in-patient to be sure he was fully recovered before being released back to his territory.

Though the surgical costs for a dog of his size are the same, many more funds were invested for his catching protocol and in-patient stay. Shiba’s care including transportation, was at no cost to our local community and fully funded by your donations. We are very happy to have another 100% sterilized territory/pack 🐾

Welcome back! We’ve had one of the busiest high seasons yet. The touristic season here on Koh Mak island is November to ...
14/03/2025

Welcome back! We’ve had one of the busiest high seasons yet. The touristic season here on Koh Mak island is November to March. Thank you to all the folks who scheduled a tour, contacted with patient inquiries, or donated around the island to our critical work. As the climate heats up, we’ll take some time to sit down and reflect on our cases with you.

We lost a month of case photo due to tech issues, we’ll share the little we have from then, and continue sharing cases from the end of last year. Our previous second-hand work phone was donated by our manager and they’ve also donated our next phone, so the issues we were experiencing have been fully resolved.

On this day, we had a scheduled consultation at the temple. Some dogs who are otherwise friendly may be nervous or uncooperative when ill. Our neighbour P’Dong was able to pet and hold the dog in a way where we could observe the irritated paw and make a plan. We add consultations into our morning rounds so all non-critical patients are seen in the comfort of their home or territory. Treatments or prescriptions are delivered the next day, or immediately for more severe cases 🐾

Secondary Care & In-Patient ✨ We were called to consult for Nacho, who had been in a road accident. At that time, there ...
16/01/2025

Secondary Care & In-Patient ✨ We were called to consult for Nacho, who had been in a road accident. At that time, there was a prescription from the mainland which we added to. After an unlucky second road accident, his owners called again for help. Nacho had a bite history and they were afraid to touch him. We crated him and referred to a mainland clinic for x-ray & bloodwork. The road was no longer safe for an acutely disabled dog, he would be an in-patient with us when he returned!

As Secondary Care we did not direct treatment. We administered his prescriptions 3 times a day, cooked fresh foods, assisted with mobility, provided a constantly cleaned space, time & emotional care. When his doctor requested new labs, we gave samples and his family managed transportation & payment. They visited 1-2 times a day, cooked for him, cooked for our manager, and donated financially.

Although there was radical improvement, Nacho’s bloodwork indicated serious, chronic challenges which he could not overcome. Nacho fought hard and survived 3 weeks of in-patient care before his death, 25 days after consultation.

Nacho was always a street dog, not a private pet. His amazing local owners were his source of food, shelter, and love. Most of our local community has a small enclosed indoor space or none at all. For the majority of our neighbours it is not realistic to bring in a disabled dog who needs round-the-clock nursing. This was an incredibly meaningful collaboration with our community and truly highlights our purpose as a charitable clinic to fill in gaps specific to each case, patient, and person. We miss Nacho and are so grateful to his lovely family for their generous and active involvement.

Nacho lived on a quiet, non-touristic, residential stretch of narrow road at an intersection. Drivers should be slowing as they approach multiple houses and a T-junction. Road accidents are a result of bad luck, poor lighting, bad weather, street animals laying in the road, and unnecessarily speedy drivers 🐾

Thank you ✨ A big THANK YOU to everyone who attended the recent Family & Friends Dinner hosted by Mickey, Natida, Dan, a...
14/01/2025

Thank you ✨ A big THANK YOU to everyone who attended the recent Family & Friends Dinner hosted by Mickey, Natida, Dan, and Connor! We are so appreciative of our local community taking the initiative to create this fundraiser, they can be very proud of this effort with a grand donation of 10,000 THB! Thank you to all of the staff and local businesses including Bamboo Hideaway, Monkey Island, Koh Mak Living, and Koh Mak Garden View 🐾

Private Pets ✨ We collaborated with a local owner for access to vaccinations & sterilization for these private pets who ...
11/01/2025

Private Pets ✨ We collaborated with a local owner for access to vaccinations & sterilization for these private pets who were brought to the island for breeding.

Limited, paid care for private pets or local breeders can include: emergent care, vaccinations, some consultation + referral, prescription refills, blood tests, and merchandise orders. Our free resources are directed to the stray & adopted population who need us and have no other options. We make context-dependent exceptions for free vaccines or free sterilization of breeder pets who are not for sale by the breeder, to maintain herd immunity, prevent unwanted births, and reduce suffering.

The expectation is for purchased pets from the mainland or a local breeder, or private pets moving or traveling, to afford veterinary care through their owner or breeder. Our private pet fees for vaccines, blood tests, and merchandise is lower than traveling to the mainland and increases accessibility to care in a fair way while honouring our boundaries as a tiny volunteer-run non-profit.

We are very proud of the work we have done with sterilization & CNVR to have a decline in population growth on Koh Mak. Unfortunately there are still kittens and puppies born on Koh Mak who are “unwanted”. There are kittens and puppies born on neighbouring islands and the mainland who are “unwanted”. Education must continue to stop the purchase of pets and backyard breeding 🐾

Edit: Consultation ✨ We were requested to consult for this local dog who is not touchable by strangers and not restraina...
29/12/2024

Edit: Consultation ✨ We were requested to consult for this local dog who is not touchable by strangers and not restrainable by his family. The family was comforted by our presence and we took photos for future comparison if the condition did not resolve or recurred. It’s important to refer when we lack various diagnostics and we are very clear with our community about these limitations. All animals should have the opportunity for full-spectrum care on the mainland but this is not a financial reality for most of our community 🐾

(We have removed probable diagnostic information from the original post to avoid possible misinformation. We have chosen instead to share some context dependent facts about limits of care in our community due to patient temperament, accessibility, and poverty. As always, our social media content is 4-6 months behind due to staffing limitations. This case was from September 2024 and the probable diagnostic information included was from the notes of our volunteer vet at the time. We apologize for any confusion or errors!)

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