Wild dog puppy survival rate is very low
When I say "wild dog" I'm not talking about feral animals but rather dogs that don't have owners, a permanent home, easy access to food, etc. These dogs at least have a chance of being somewhat friendly and will interact with humans in a nice way unlike a feral dog like a wolf which will just rip your face off if you approach it.
Our main aim in our efforts to relieve the suffering of strays in Krabi is our sterilization drives and this particular case is a good point as to what that is the major thing that we do.
Everyone loves puppies and their mothers look after them as best as they can. However, there are many dangers in the puppy world that mama can't always protect them from, especially when she wanders off to get food.
Thankfully, the mother that is pictured above, we were able to get to her in time to at least attempt to keep your young ones safe. As much as we would love to find permanent homes for them, this is very unlikely at the moment. Hopefully things will improve as Covid because less of a omnipresent problem globally, but for now it is all but pointless for us to even put these dogs on adoption sites. Our approach is instead to speak to the community about if anyone would be willing to at least put food that we provide for them outside for the mother to come and retrieve on a daily basis. Normally we can accomplish this and we check in often with the folks who agree to help to make sure that they haven't changed their minds.
It isn't a great idea to get dogs accustomed to being able to acquire food at a certain location and then cut that source off. Actually, it isn't a good idea to get strays dependent upon humans for their food needs at all but seeing as how these packs don't really have any natural prey they only have this option of the one where they knock over trash cans and tear open bags to get some scraps. At this point the community will normally get annoyed with the dogs and some heartless individual ends up poisoning them. It's extremely common for this to happen unfortunately. When it happens to a mother, it is almost certain that their puppies will also die soon thereafter.
The other dangers that exist for puppies is a wide-variety of things such as treatable disease that no one tends to, snakes and poisonous insects, cars and motorbikes, as well as other adult dogs who see the puppy as a threat.
While we can't be certain we ran into a case recently that was a bit heartbreaking.
According to locals this mother had 9 puppies and as it is now, only 2 remain. We have taken the mother in for sterilization and the pups for checkups and if they are old enough by the vet's determination, we will vaccinate them as well as sterilize the female. Then we will ask someone in the community to keep an eye on them for us and assure them that they will never incur any out of pocket expenses. Dog food isn't very expensive in Thailand and we can normally find someone that is willing to lend a bit of a helping hand provided that the task isn't terribly obtrusive. It might seem as though this is a very easy ask but people need to understand that basically everyone who isn't middle class or above in Thailand is suffering right now because of job losses especially in places like Krabi that were nearly 100% dependent on tourism for jobs / income.
We can only hope that the people that we have spoken to in this relatively rural area will follow through on their promises to help out. They seemed eager to do so since it isn't going to cost them anything out of pocket. We'll be back to check on the dogs in a week or so.
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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