We recently picked up two dogs that were presumably hit by vehicles and left to die. This happens a great deal in Thailand and as I have mentioned before, it isn't necessarily because of irresponsible drivers that this happens. The problem is there are way too many stray animals and not enough of an initiative to prevent this from continuing. The government of this country has zero animal control and all of the work that is done by our organization and other like it are completely funded by donations.
We are a small group in Krabi, but we do as much as we can.
We got two dogs with "dead legs" and the reason for this is almost always that they were struck by cars in the street. The tenacity of dogs is pretty impressive because they carry on with their lives as best they can despite experiencing pain whenever they walk.
This little lady isn't so bad off and an X-ray showed that the fractures are rather minor, thankfully. A cast would not help so the vet suggested that the only thing that she really needed was some TLC and a safe environment where movement can be limited. Often, dogs with broken bones never recover from them because a homeless dog cannot just remain in one place and wait for food to be brought to it, they must seek it out sometimes walking great distances and even getting into fights with other dogs over the bits that are left over.
The best things for dogs in this particular situation with micro-fractures is to just let them stay with us for a while until the bone recovers and then as much as we would love to continue to look after them forever, we have to re-release them where we found them.
This is a tricky situation because we cannot allow the dogs to become completely dependent on us and in better times we would simply hang onto a dog this friendly and well-mannered until someone adopted her but because of Covid our opportunities for adoption have been almost entirely cut off. To make matters worse, the United States, which was where a great many of our adopted pets were headed, has made importing animals extremely difficult and expensive to the point where many would-be adopters are unwilling or incapable of enduring the thousands of dollars in expenses especially since even after all of that is done there is a pretty fantastic chance the animal will be denied entry anyway. We do not have the resources to absorb these costs either.
Therefore, we just look after cases like this until they are well enough to go back to where we found them and keep our fingers crossed that they learned their lesson about the dangers of the road.
It's really tragic to me that I often think about how our operation was 2 years ago and we were able to do so much more and while I realize that humans are suffering because of Covid as well, our operations have become so much more difficult and in many cases impossible in that same time period.
We will not give up though and our volunteers frequently dig into their own pockets and open up their own homes to help as many dogs and cats as possible. Our shelters are literally overflowing with animals right now though and hopefully there are some changes on the horizon as Thailand seems to be on a fast-track of sorts to reopen this country to travelers. When that time comes, I am hopeful that the tourists, which were a major source of funding for our operation, will be willing and able to lend a helping hand for our future endeavors.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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