Try as we may, we can't get to all of them because we can't be everywhere in Krabi all the time. This kind of shows what we talk about on a regular basis because although 8 pups in a litter is pretty irregular, it isn't impossible, as these two recent mothers show.
Unfortunately, there isn't a lot we can do for these two new families at the moment other than pick up the mothers for sterilization and hope that we get some more funding and then do the same for the pups. In total, there are 9 females between the two litters so imagine if you will the mathmatics behind how quickly this situation could become a massive amount of homeless dogs.
We do not have the resources to treat the pups for anything at the moment but we are pleased that all of them seem to be in good health and the people in this farm area are providing the mothers with enough food.
We did pick up the mums and take the to the vet.
Friendly, and extremely easy to coax into the kennel for transport
Realistically speaking, there isn't much chance that all of these pups are going to make it to breeding age, but let's imaging that 5 of them do and then they have the same amount of pups as their mothers. Now we have 47 homeless pups and then it happens again and that number just becomes something that can not be managed. Competition for food begins, many of the dogs starve, living in close quarters leads to disease and parasites, and many of them end up being poisoned by locals once they start to become a nuisance by knocking over trash bins and spreading garbage all over the streets in the search for something to eat.
The other mother lives in the same area and for all we know they could have both mated with the same male who was nowhere to be found. According to the locals they are not aware of any male dog in the area at all. He's just a roaming baby-maker I guess.
The other mother was equally easy to capture and neither of them really kicked up much of a fuss about being loaded into the truck and transported for surgery.
We did ask the locals to keep a special eye on the pups for a few days while we get the mothers sorted out and I am sure they will be fine. This is not the first time we have done this and it is very rare that the pups do anything other than stay in a hidey-hole and wait for mama to come back. The pups are old enough to eat regular food, if they were not we obviously wouldn't separate them.
The point of all of this is the importance of getting animals sterilized because it is pretty alarming how quickly the numbers can grow. In environments like Thailand this means that without our intervention these dogs will live pretty terrible lives as the communities they are in are not capable of providing food for them and dogs are not very good at hunting anything anything other than garbage cans.
Hopefully we got to this problem before it has a chance to get out of control but just like Bob Barker always says...
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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