Activity Report – October 2020 

Two hundred more dogs have been sterilized and were taken back to their living places. The total number of sterilized dogs now stands at 6,200.

Someone dumped four puppies - about five weeks old - on the access soi to my shelter. I took them in and put them in quarantine. They did not show any symptoms of parvo or distemper after one week. Since then, they are integrating into the house area dogs. Two weeks later, one of my volunteers had to rescue a lactating dog and her five three-week old puppies. I took them in as well. After a couple of days, mother and pups blended into the house area dogs without any trouble.

Rocco was bitten by a centipede, probably a large one. I later found a 30 cm long species. Rocco suffered from a nasty swelling and three deep bites. It took the whole month to close the wounds. Nico, one of my temple dogs who lived at Wat Amparahm for more than eight years, died all of a sudden, probably from acute kidney failure caused by leptospirosis. Amara is still receiving fluid on a daily basis since her creatinine level is continuously high; also, she is losing weight.