Mange and other parasites set in very quickly during rainy season and I am not going to pretend to understand why. I suspect it is because dogs get closer together in their packs during this time of year for warmth and because there are only so many covered areas where they will not be shooed away by the owners of the property. I think that this is how the parasites jump from dog to dog so quickly and just like anyone else would have a great deal more compassion for pups, we feel the same way. This particular case was a very young one, whose entire body was already covered in mange as she was found all by herself and she is a mere (around) 2 months old.
Her entire body was covered in scratching scabs and visible ticks and fleas. Mange is microscopic but is evident when the hair / fur on the body ceases to grow. It is extremely rare for a dog this young to be on its own somewhere yet there were no other pups around and no signs of a mother either. There is always the possibility that the mother was killed by a car or that it was poisoned by someone in the area.
Despite the fact that it is actually our advice that you do not remove an animal from an area when it is young because it needs its mother more than it needs any of your assistance, we monitored this pup for a week and never saw any sign of any accomplices. Therefore we decided to pick her up.
Despite the obvious neglect that this animal has faced in the approximated first 2 months of her life she was very approachable and friendly and also very receptive to receiving something eat.
We don't really have the space or resources to look after this little darling at the moment, nor the money. Yet, it wasn't something that we could simply ignore and therefore we picked her up. The main problem that we are going to run into after her recover is what are we going to do with her afterwards? Adoptions are going very slow at the moment and we are hoping that one of the locals will offer to provide temporary foster care at their home or at a minimum in their garden where we can keep an eye on her. We will of course not simply re-release her into the wild since she has no pack, no apparent street skills, and will certainly not live very long without our intervention.
Even though our kennels are already overflowing it would be preferable to have her on our property than for her to be simply wandering the jungle where she will simply be harmed or even killed by other packs.
It seems very foreign to me that someone can look at a situation like this and not feel any sort of sense of duty to put forth some compassion but that does appear to have been the case in this situation. Thousands of dogs like this are simply left to suffer and die at a young age before they ever even get to experience much of life at all.
If you can't help our organization I hope you will consider helping some organization closer to your home or at the minimum at least be a bit compassionate towards any homeless animals that happen to be in your part of the world.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
Krabi Animal Welfare is a charity run entirely by volunteers and are a registered non-profit organization in Thailand and the U.K.. We aim to relieve the pain and suffering of dogs and cats within Krabi Province.
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