About a year ago we decided to take on another temple project after the success we had experienced at the Tiger Cave Temple which is also in Krabi. We have to go back there from time to time in order to check and see if there are any new dogs that have been dropped off and to make sure there are no new parasite infestations that will eventually travel to all the dogs that are staying here.
We were happy to find that all of the dogs are actually in quite good shape.
Despite this being a smaller temple in the middle of the Krabi city, there are a lot of dogs here. This brings me back to what I tell people our primary objective is. It is sterilization. There are already too many dogs here and if they weren't sterilized they would simply make more and more of them until the health of the pack would diminish and there would be disease, suffering, and death. In days long past, dogs needed to replicate as fast and as often as possible in order to maintain the health of the pack in the wild, but these days, this is not at all necessary. Populations will spiral out of control very rapidly and nobody has the resources to deal with this issue. This is why sterilization is necessary.
There is a lot of human traffic at this temple so the dogs are very used to having people around them. They are very approachable but also, according to the monks, become quite territorial at night. There probably aren't very many people that would be interested in trying to break into a temple but if they do want to do so, trying to do it at night would be a very bad idea when there are 40 sentinels here lying in wait.
The dogs here are used to us and therefore it was very easy for us to check them all for fleas and ticks while administering treats. We had recently treated almost all of the dogs with a broad-spectrum anti-parasite tablet so we were happy to see that the number of parasites on the group as a whole was very small. If we saw an issue we treated it and asked the monks to keep a special eye on particular dogs and the ones that they commonly hang out with. The monks, thankfully, are very willing to help us with this and they are our teammates so to speak. Our job would be a lot more difficult without their help because they live there all the time whereas we only come to visit every couple of weeks or when we are called because of a new addition.
Some of these dogs are so lovely that it is difficult for me to imagine the type of person that would abandon them here in the first place... but they do. That's where we come in.
I'm happy to say that our efforts seem to be a success here and we didn't even have to take a single dog to the vet. Only a handful of them required any sort of treatment at all and there were no signs of mange. This was an excellent result and shows that our efforts can be successful if we just keep at it!
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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