26/11/2025
Back in Kuwait for a bit, and I wanted to bring you along for part of my run the other morning.
This place has a lot of history for me. It’s where my roots in animal welfare really started, and where I first learned what it meant to work with street dogs on a big scale. A lot of memories here. A lot of dogs too.
Out on the industrial edges of the city, you still meet the same kinds of dogs I met more than a decade ago. Big paws, young faces. Sweet dogs trying to make it in a rough place. There are no shelters here that I know of, no government programs, and very little support. So street dogs form their own territories and do what they can to survive. Some don’t make it more than a year or so. That part never gets easier.
I met a few friendly ones on this run. Got the nicest of greetings, checked some teeth, said hello to a very sweet desert dog. Then further down, a whole group of dogs. Puppies too. Harder dynamics, more stress signs, so I gave them space. You learn that here. Respect what they’re telling you.
This is why population management matters and why the work we do now at Humane Innovations is so important. When we help governments and nonprofits build real dog and cat population management programs, this is what we’re trying to solve. Not just the individual case, but the system behind it. Why are there dogs here. How do we slow the flow. How do we humanely manage the ones already on the street.
I spent about 11 years working in places like this. Industrial zones, chemical smells, open dumpsters, hot sun, no shade, lots of noise. Not the healthiest places to be, but it’s where the animals are. And even after all these years, I still feel the same pull to be out here learning, listening, and figuring out how to make things better.
Anyway, long video, but I wanted to give you a sense of what it’s like on the ground. I’ll keep running, keep filming, and keep showing you what we see out here.
If you’ve ever wondered why I’m so passionate about this kind of work… this is it. 🙂
