Activity report April 2012
Tony calls me, he needs my help. Derek Doyle of Mabprachan dog shelter has parked his truck with eleven dogs in front of Tony’s shop. Derek received a call from the owner of a piece of land on which the dogs stayed telling him that if the dogs were not removed they would be poisoned. Tony has no idea where to put the dogs and therefore I agree to take them for a couple of days until we have found a place for them.

Babe, Ronnie, Gina and Holly are not convinced they should share the house with the newcomers and so I decide to put them in my sleeping room and the new dogs into the living room and the kitchen. Fortunately all dogs, one male dog, four mother dogs and six five month old pups, are behaving astonishing well and adapting very fast to their new environment and to me.

Coming next day back from work all dogs are well but the house is dirty and the fly screen on the entrance door is in tatters. I feed the dogs and open the entrance gate to let the dogs enter the Soi in front of the house. I clean all rooms and collect than the dogs which are still around.

The next day is a public holiday before a weekend. Therefore I have time to spend with the dogs and open all doors inside the house, but only Ronnie is interested to get into contact with the new dogs, Babe just want to be left alone and Gina and Holly entrench themselves in the sleeping room.

It goes without saying that a solution must be found rather sooner than later since I cannot cope with this situation for long.

Holly's skin is still in bad shape and I try again a treatment with Ivermectin. The correct dosage is 1 mg for 1 kg body weight. Accordingly, Holly has to be given one tablet a week. Gina's and Ronnie's skin is looking much better.

Tony found a temple in Sa Kaeow who is willing to take the dogs. A few days later all dogs are taken to that temple which is located in the middle of nowhere. The monks there love dogs and dogs have enough space to settle down there.

Shana and Bella gave birth to six and ten puppies and Faye has also puppies but I don't know how many because she is hiding them between concrete blocks. Shana is hiding their pups under a stage and Bella in an empty sewer pipe. A couple of days later I carry Bella's pups to a sheltered place. On the rear end of the large waste ground behind Tony's shop are staying two beautiful dogs which I call Whitney and Brad. When I go to feed Bella and Faye I feed them as well.

At the end of the month I see that Lizzy is about to give birth. I didn't see her for a couple of days and suppose that she had given birth somewhere near the toilet house.