Koh Mak Animal Clinic

20/11/2024

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We have daily tours Monday-Friday in high season, by appointment, always updated on our social media and google maps! Unfortunately we cannot offer walk in visits.

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05/11/2024

A generous local needed to go off-island, they requested our support in taking over their community feedings until they could return. We are so happy that our community connects with us in this way. We maintained the permanency of their schedule and food security for the dogs on their route. Of course in these instances, we donate dry dog food from our supply 🐾

03/11/2024

Moh La, ready to go home after emergent in-patient care for heatstroke 🐾

03/11/2024

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Facility Tours:
November 1 - December 27
Monday - Friday 9:00am
(Closed to visitors December 28 - January 7)
+66 618403433

1. RSVP: Message us via WhatsApp, Line, iMessage, Instagram, Facebook, or email to schedule a tour at least 1 day in advance. Please don't call or send multiple requests.
2. Arrive at 9:00: Walk, bike, or drive to our facility to meet with our volunteer. They will provide a brief facility tour, introduce some of our adoptable foster dogs, and answer questions. We do not have cats.
3. Donate: We are a donation-funded, volunteer run, non-profit.

House Rules:
* No smoking
* No food or beverages
* Do not feed our dogs
* Children must be adequately supervised at all times

Accessibility:
Everyone in attendance must be comfortable around adult dogs. There will be excess noise (barking). You will be standing outdoors in a garden area, we do not have visitor seating or a temperate air-conditioned space.

Thank You:
We appreciate your compassion in accepting our limited availability to visitors. Unfortunately we cannot accept walk-ins or same day tours at any other hours.

We are an ambulatory medical provider and are on the street and in community homes for the majority of our time. Our facility is home to our only full-time volunteer and we respect their privacy and work-life balance.

Our foster dogs can be reactive to strangers and guard the property. It is in the best interest of the dogs and the public to only visit the facility with supervision from our team. Thank you!

03/11/2024

Free grooming every 8 weeks for our friend Blatu. Naturally, we forgot to take her before/after photos so we followed up with her later at home 🐾

01/11/2024

Although a small action, we are confident this matted hair removal has improved the comfort and quality of life for one of our street dogs! It has taken 3+ years of socialization to befriend this dog and we aren’t aware of anyone else who can touch him. This mass of hair and dirt was hanging from his tail for weeks without success in chewing it off. Preventative brushing and bathing would be needed for his hair type, that may require a few more years of friendship 🐾

01/11/2024

We were notified of a 7:30am traffic accident with an unidentified dog. Our work began with phone calls, texts, and visits to dogs by nearest radius from the location of the accident. We identified Free as the affected dog and brought him in for stabilization. Staff supported with taxis and communication as his family was off-island.

Free suffered acute head trauma, causing a probable concussion. As a private pet, owners are encouraged to access diagnostic care on the mainland once the patient is stable for transit. Their staff accompanied him to their private vet, borrowed our dog crate, and his family donated for his care.

As many of you know, we are consistently behind on sharing patient stories on social media! This event was in June, we are sad to include that Free has recently died from an unrelated event 🐾

31/10/2024

Big drama from little Lisa! Her local owners requested a consultation for her eye and donated for the supplies needed to make a full recovery 🐾

31/10/2024

Check out Mani’s before/after skin care treatment! Mani is already on our Preventative Program however there are threats beyond fleas, ticks, and mites. Medication is necessary for a recovery like this, his prescriptions lasted for 2 months. We are lucky he has a local owner at home to administer them. We have included a before/after from his life saving blood parasite treatment & secondary liver failure in early 2023. We love keeping our local dogs and cats healthy 🐾

28/10/2024

Som required a few days of in-patient care for an oral infection and was quickly able to return home to continue his treatment as an out-patient. We are thankful his family brought him here for free treatment so he could make a full & speedy recovery 🐾

28/10/2024

We stock some feline preventatives for cats affected by ticks, fleas, or mites. We educate owners to keep an eye out for hair loss, itching, and other symptoms. Some owner feedback includes a change in the cat's mood and personality, evidence of their improved quality of life! Your donations allow us to continue providing this care free-of-charge for strays and locally owned rescues 🐾

27/10/2024

Home Visit ✨ A neighbour informed us that Dubai was limping. We provided a distanced consultation for this nervous girl. A small laceration was found on the affected leg, in a location commonly associated with minor accidents from scooters or golf carts. She made a full recovery and we hope she stays safe as traffic increases with the tourist season 🐾

27/10/2024

Overhead costs or expenses are those not attached to product or service, that allow a business to maintain operations. In 2023, we spent over 18,000 THB to maintain 1 saleng (sidecar) for work and 3 scooters for our volunteers. This included routine maintenance and common repairs such as inner tubes, tires, oil changes, headlights, brakes, etc. This does not include petrol. Previously, we had more volunteer rooms, more bikes, and hosted year-round so the 2023 value is reduced from previous years.

Our goal is to have monthly sponsors that allow a transportation overhead of 1500/month to be negligible, to not make the difference between being able to order dog food or medication or pay for a surgery on the mainland. Please dm us to join as a recurrent monthly sponsor 🐾

26/10/2024

Emergent Care ✨ What does an emergency look like in our small community? Camel experienced an accident with a taxi, his family and friends called us but we missed the calls while we were driving! Someone found us before we could check our phone and we immediately drove to the scene.

Camel is a private pet, and our consultation referred him to the mainland for X-rays of a probable fracture in the femur or hip. It was too late for Camel to catch a boat the same day so, our facility provided overnight in-patient care. His family borrowed a crate for travel and we booked them with the mainland clinic the next day.

As a paying patient of the mainland clinic, Camel received X-rays diagnosing a femur fracture. He went back 4 days later for a scheduled orthopaedic surgery with a specialist. We can fill in the gaps for private pets like Camel who need emergent care, consultation, or referral. His family made a donation for his care to ensure your donations go to dogs and cats who don’t have the same resources 🐾

25/10/2024

Street Feeding & Community Feeding ✨ We have various packs under our Street Feeding program who we feed directly, 365 days a year. We donate dry dog food as financial support and to improve the macronutrient balance for existing Community Feeders who are permanent national locals with street packs they feed daily.

Respecting the politics of our community and their private land is critical to maintaining the physical safety of Koh Mak’s street dogs. Many of the dogs on Koh Mak start at a healthy body composition in low season, and end up significantly overweight at the end of high season. Feral packs will migrate if a new food source becomes available increasing their risk of road accidents, territorial pack fights, and extermination.

As a tourist, please don’t feed dogs or cats at your resort, restaurant, or on the street. You can invest in the systemic public health of our animals by donating to our clinic, allowing us to continue our feeding programs and include more animals in the future! You can contact us with a photo and location tag of an animal who appears ill or emaciated. There are plenty of social dogs who will be your friend from positive interaction alone, without the need of food 🐾

23/10/2024

Thank you ✨ We appreciate Koh Mak Resort’s trust in caring for Auan and their sponsorship of his bloodwork and treatment. We did our best to support his recovery from multiple blood parasites. Secondary symptoms had developed and as a senior dog, he put up a good fight in recovering but it was too much.

It is always special to connect with a previous unfriendly animal, Auan melted into our companionship during the hottest month of the year. He received around-the-clock care in our manager’s home prior to moving to our new facility. He was kept dry, clean, comfortable, and fed delicious food for what would be 2.5 weeks of in-patient care. We miss you, Auan 🐾

23/10/2024

CNVR - Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return ✨ We are proud to share this stealthy alley catch! A young adult cat was peeing on a car and we hopped off our bike in pursuit. Though he maintained his distance ahead of us, we took advantage of a brief freeze moment to make contact. It’s moments like these where we are lucky to have a saleng (sidecar) to keep a small crate with us for such opportunities!

We have very few local cats unsterilized, our census accounts for 1-3 feral adult females reproducing on Koh Mak. All locally-owned female cats are sterilized thanks to consent and cooperation from our community 🐾

18/10/2024

Before & after wound care for Makaii 🐾