Bangkok--27 Oct--Total Quality PR
With hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floodwaters affecting Bangkok volunteers are working literally around the clock in aid of Bangkok’s other residents — dogs and cats.
People evacuating to temporary emergency shelters are not allowed to take their pets with them. Pet owners are forced to leave their animals behind in their houses, many on top of roofs and buildings to protect them from the flood but with no food or water. In addition Bangkok is home to tens of thousands of street dogs and cats who rely on the local urban environment to survive. With flood waters reaching up to 2 meters depth north of Bangkok these animals have nowhere to turn.
Dogs at puppy farms and animal shelters have been abandoned with many drowning in their cages. Animal shelters where hundreds of unwanted dogs and cats are cared for have flooded with huge numbers drowned.
Dogs and cats in locked cages can be seen floating in the water, most already dead from drowning.
As rescuers move through the flooded areas in boats hundreds of dogs are seen swimming for their lives.
Volunteers are working around the clock to get as many animals as possible to safety.
Donations are urgently needed for cages, food, transportation, medicine, temporary shelter and of course veterinary help.
Bangkok based animal welfare organization TREAT is rescuing and treating animals in distress. The Soi Dog Foundation in conjunction with TREAT is raising funds towards securing the necessary supplies and equipment needed for the flood relief to continue. Margot Homburg co-founder of Soi Dog and founder of TREAT Bangkok is coordinating the distribution of donated funds to volunteer groups.
An emergency appeal fund has been established. Donations may be made online at: www.soidog.org/en/flood-relief or to TREAT’s bank account:
BANK NAME: Bangkok Bank, Main Office Silom Road, Bangkok
ACCOUNT NO.: 101 866349 0
SWIFT CODE: BKKBTHBK
Both TREAT and Soi Dog are run by volunteers at their own expense. All donations go directly to helping the animals in distress.
About Soi Dog Foundation - www.soidog.org
Soi Dog Foundation is a not-for-profit, legally registered charitable organization in Thailand, the United States, Australia, France and Holland. Soi Dog Foundation is dedicated to eliminating the suffering of stray dogs and cats in Thailand through surgical and humane sterilization. Soi Dog Foundation believes that sterilization is the key to bettering the lives of the dogs and cats of Thailand and solving the problems of suffering and death by starvation, injury and disease, or inhumane methods of population control. Since its beginning in 2003, Soi Dog has spayed and neutered over 34,000 stray dogs and feral cats.
About TREAT Bangkok
TREAT help’s Bangkok’s street/stray/unwanted animals. TREAT’s clinic serves as a low-cost/not-for-profit veterinary facility for street/stray/unwanted animals and those cared for by the very poor segment of the population.
TREAT’s primary objective is to sterilize street and unwanted dogs and cats in the safest and most humane way possible. Furthermore, animals which are victims of accidents or other type of injuries and/or diseases also receive care.
Contact: Leonard Coyne
Soi Dog Foundation
Email:
[email protected]
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TQPR Thailand
Tel.: 02 260-5820
Fax: 02 260-5847/8
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