DOG AND CAT RESCUE CENTER SAMUI: CONTACT INFORMATION INFOS NEWS

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Last News:

Killer snakes in the shelter

HERE you can read more about the snakes and see more pictures and videos.

SEPTEMBER 2011

HERE you can find an article about the Dog and Cat Rescue Center which will run in the September/October 2011 edition of Samui Holiday Magazine.

AUGUST 2011

Info letter August 2011

Samui Info August 2011
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I am looking for a new home in Germany. Who wants me?

Below you can see a nice video when Ow is grooming me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmQgGZoLGA

8. June 2011

Poison attack at Chaweng-Noi-Beach

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49 DOGS DIED IN OUR SHELTER:

Poisen Attack March 2011

Actual news (8.5.11) from the press you can find HERE

NEWS FROM THE TEMPLE
HERE you can see pictures from DECEMBER 2011

PLEASE HELP US WITH YOUR DONATION

We urgently need a new (used) van. It costs app. 8000 Euro. Please help us with your donation!

HERE you can see the list of all sponsors and a closer description

Here you can see some of our patients from

JANUARY 2010, FEBRUARY 2010, March 2010, APRIL 2010, MAY 2010, JUNE 2010, JULY2010, AUGUST 2010, SEPTEMBER 2010, OCTOBER 2010, NOVEMBER 2010, DECEMBER 2010, JANUARY 2011, FEBRUARY 2011, MARCH 2011, APRIL 2011, MAY 2011, JUNE 2011, JULY 2011, AUGUST 2011, SEPTEMBER 2011, OCTOBER 2011, NOVEMBER 2011, DECEMBER 2011,

HERE you can see some of our dogs and cats after their treatment at the DRCS. Some of them have changed so much, it's hard to recognize them. Believe it or not, it's the same dogs!

BLAUNI

HERE

some up to date news from him

(start 23. January 2010)

latest Update 1. December 2010

As a 'godparent' you can support the DRCS monthly for only 15 Euro

ALIANA

HERE some up to date news from her (start 6. January 2010)

latest Update 20. March 2010 and end of the story

CAT HOUSE

28. June 2010: Alarm in the cat compound! Escaped convict spotted 5 meters high up...

HERE a picture documentary of the emergency measures.

Last update 1. September 2010

Unfortunately after only one year the jungle fought back, leaving everything completely overgrown again

24.August 2011

HERE you can see some pictures from the FISHPARTY every evening in Chaweng (August 2011)

And below you can see a video about our cathouse in Baan Taling Ngam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8i0hUbIpr4

A piercing and tattoo studio collected donations for the DRCS with a special event. Thanks to Alex and her team the animals received a big donation!

hello, I am Marcus and that is my arm - it did not hurt very much!

At the DRCS not only the dogs and cats get a tattoo!

Yearly vaccinations on CHAWENG and LAMAI-BEACH February 2010

Yearly vaccinations on LAMAI-BEACH March 2011 and on CHOENG MON BEACH February 2011

On 1st April 2012

the Dog and Cat Rescue Samui Foundation will celebrat their 13th anniversary

Come to see us at the shelter.

CONTACT

Dog Rescue Center Samui
Brigitte Gomm
112 / 35 Moo 6, Bophut
Koh Samui

84320 Suratthani

THAILAND

Tel: 0066 77 413 490 or 0066 81 893 94 43

E-mail: info@samuidog.org

On facebook you can find the last news.

Have a look under Brigitte Gomm

The Dog Rescue Center Samui is located close to the Laem Din Market in Chaweng. The maps how to find us you can find under "How to Help"

DOGS IN OUR HOUSE

All these dogs you can meet in our house in Chaweng

Here you can see our "Guests"

MAI 2010: Here you can see some of our housemates in Chaweng. Most of them will stay only temporarily. Their future owners are waiting to take them home as soon as they're ready. This dogs are all from the streets. They are SOI DOGS.

SOI heißt Straße. Allerdings nennen nur Ausländer die Hunde so.Dog heißt MA und so müssten die Hunde SOI MA heißen.

Hier eine kleine Auswahl unserer Stubentiger, die sich auch immer gerne verwöhnen lassen.

Bei uns am Haus sind viele kranke, alte, behinderte und ständig pflegebedürftige Hunde und Katzen untergebracht. Morgens und abends bekommen sehr viele Tiere Medizin.

Der Arzt, der sonst immer im Tierheim in Baan Taling Ngam arbeitet, hält hier 3 mal in der Woche von 16.00 bis 18.00 Uhr seine Sprechstunde ab. Alle Behandlungen und Medizinverordnungen sind kostenlos.

As a 'godparent' you can support the DRCS monthly for only 15 Euro

Maybe it is also a nice Christmas gift for a friend!?

If you want to donate with Paypal:

We have accounts in the following countries:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, U K and USA.

>>>Donation accounts in all countries <<

DOG - FRIENDLY HOTELS

CENTRAL BAY RESORT

The Central Bay in Chaweng has got no Homepage and you can only book it from here. But you can already check out the dogs there....

HERE a few pictures and rates from the Central Bay

Of course there are a lot more dog friendly resorts on the island. The Central Bay is a resort where we always know how it is with their 'dog friendly behaviors'. Something that can easily change with a change of management. Please have a look at Samui Info June 2010

IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A DOG OR A CAT HOME - NO PROBLEM, WE WILL HELP YOU. pLEASE CONTACT ME

Please do have a look at the page dog transport. There you can see the most beautiful pictures from dogs and cats in their new homes.

OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER - December 2011)

the next will come in December 2011

HERE

you will find our latest newsletter for reading and printing.

Time for uploading 2 -3 minutes (256 k).

We will answer every letter or e-mail! If you received no answer something went wrong on the way to us or to you.

If you would like to browse through some of our former newsletters, please click here

Info letter December 2011
Info letter August 2011
Poisen Attack at Chaweng-Noi-Beach June 2011	info letter December 2006
Info letter April 2011	info letter August 2006
Poisen Attack March 2011	info letter April 2006
Poisen Attack February 2011	info letter December 2005
Info letter December 2010	info letter August 2005
Info letter August 2010	info letter April 2005
Info letter April 2010	info letter December 2004
Info letter December 2009	info letter August 2004
Info letter August 2009	info letter April 2004
Info letter April 2009	info letter December 2003
Info letter December 2008	info letter August 2003
Info letter August 2008	info letter April 2003
Info letter April 2008	info letter December 2002
info letter December 2007	info letter August 2002
info letter August 2007	info letter April 2002
info letter April 2007	info letter December 2001

Every month we send out an info letter to all hotels and restaurants on Samui, please click here. Here you can find how many castrations Dr. Sith is doing every month.

Samui Info December 2011
Samui Info November 2011
Samui Info October 2011
Samui Info September 2011
Samui Info August 2011
Samui Info July 2011
Samui Info June 2011
Samui Info May 2011
Samui Info April 2011	Samui Info February 2010
Samui Info March 2011	Samui Info January 2010
Samui Info February 2011	Samui Info December 2009
Samui Info January 2011	Samui Info November 2009
Samui Info December 2010	Samui Info October 2009
Samui Info November 2010	Samui Info September 2009
Samui Info October 2010	Samui Info August 2009
Samui Info September 2010	Samui Info July 2009
Samui Info August 2010	Samui Info June 2009
Samui Info July 2010	Samui Info May 2009
Samui Info June 2010	Samui Info April 2009
Samui Info May 2010	Samui Info March 2009
Samui Info April 2010	Samui Info February 2009
Samui Info March 2010	Samui Info January 2009

Here you can see Chaweng-Beach live.

http://www.poppiessamui.com/lookaround/webcam.html

HERE a report from April 2010 in the Samui Holyday Magazine

GUESTBOOK

Our guestbook is in German and the following German words mean:

Eintrag - comments

Vorschau - preview your comments

Absenden - send

Löschen - delete

It would be greatly appreciated if you could leave some useful tips for potential visitors to Koh Samui.

Here you can find a lot of nice movies!

YouTube

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The Dog & Cat Rescue Center Samui WDR Video

The WDR make 2010 a nice Movie about the DRCS . Here you can watch the Video .

On the 2. März 2010 and the 4. Juni 2010 Pro 7 sent a movie about DRCS. Here you can watch the Video. Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 .

HERE a report from April 2010 in the Samui Holyday Magazine

Winner of the Golden Paw international price 2009

On the 13. December 2009, the Dog and Cat Rescue Center Samui received the first price from TASSO and received the proud price money of 5000 Euro.

Until now, Dr. Sith had to do all treatments and operations in one room. We have now rebuild the 2 rooms, which were originally meant to be for our vet to stay in, and converted them into a proper treatment room and separate operation room. Of course it all had to be tailed and we also had to buy a new air-condition as well as some new furniture and an operation table.

HERE you can find the pictures of the building of the operation room.

Winner of the animal protection-price from the Hans Rönn-Stiftung 2007

On the 30.September 2007 I was presented with an award from the Hans-Rönn-Foundation. I would like to thank Brigitte and Peter Bose who nominated me for this award - the price money was 3000 Euro. The event took place in Düsseldorf at the ‘Kleinen Komödchen’ and Peter read a speech on my behalf.

If you would like to see the pictures or read the speech, please click here.

Hi, I am Red and HERE you can read my stories and see a lot of photos.

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Dear Animal Lovers! If you come to Samui and want to bring something: Our puppies need toys!

TEMPLE PROJECT

In October 2007 we started to feed the dogs at various different temples around the island. We went from one temple to another trying to get in touch with the monks. It hasn’t always been easy to find monks who are willing to help us to feed the dogs at their temples. After half a year I can say that most the monks are very cooperative and we’ve found helpful monks in 15 of 28 temples already. At first, Pui went to the temples and provided them with the necessary amount of food to feed the dogs. Since May 2008, our volunteers Jay, Linda and Tom have taken over the temple project which also includes providing the mangy dogs with medicine, at the same time. Over a period of 3-5 weeks, the dogs will receive injections of Ivomec once per week based on the severity of the mange to kill off the mange mites. If we continue this on-site treatment on schedule, we won’t have to take as many dogs to the shelter, which is a big advantage as the shelter is already overfilled. On the temple runs they also give vaccine, especially to the little puppies and kittens, treat any kind of wounds on the animals and of course mange treatments. The volunteers go every Tuesday and Friday on the temple run and meanwhile the villagers around the temples have become aware of the fact that they can get free treatments at the temples. They often rush to us with their beloved pets and the stray dogs they sometimes feed and are more than happy to make use of the help.

With the whole temple project, I really hope to get some support from all of you because as of yet, there has been little interest shown from ‘the islanders’. I have sent out a letter to all the hotels as well as various businesses around the island to ask for their help, I was hoping that they would support the DRCS with some food donations, unfortunately I was wrong, I have received very little help at all.

10 kg dry dog food costs about 6 Euro (5 Pound)!

Please help us to continuo look after the temple dogs. Take over some of the food costs for one or several dogs at the temples!

HERE you can see the pictures from DECEMBER 2011

HERE you can see pictures from AUGUST 2011

HERE you can see pictures from APRIL 2011

HERE you can see pictures from NOVEMBER 2010

HERE you can see pictures from AUGUST 2010

HERE you can see pictures from JUNE 2010

HERE you can find some of the older pictures from the work at the temples!

RAINY SEASON ON KOH SAMUI

Our house in Chaweng is in an area which is always flooded when heavy rain is falling down. This happens every year again and again.

2007
HERE you can find some photos from the rain in 2007

We also made a video, you can find it HERE

2008

Also in 2008 we had to suffer again. The rainy season will last until the end of December.

HERE a video from the 13th of November 2008!

10 days later it was big raining again, the video you can see here

Here you can find some photos from November 2008

2009

In 2009 we nearly have no rain.

2010

Here you can see the photo 2. November 2010 and 3. November 2010

2011

26. - 30. March 2011 "WORST FLOODING" IN DECADES HITS KOH SAMUI

The area around our office in Laem Din has been completely submerged in water. There was no way in or out of the house. With no electricity, we were shut off from the outside world, together with our almost 100 animals from in and outside the house. Watching the water rising with such speed was a pretty terrifying experience. HERE you can read more.

HERE some photos from 26. March 2011

HERE some photos from 29. and 30. March 2011

5 Hunde auf dem Weg nach Deutschland

DOG TRANSPORT

Many tourists visiting Koh Samui fall in love with a particular dog and cannot bear to leave it behind on the island. Unfortunately there is only a very small number of hotels which tolerate or even feed strays. The chances of meeting the same dog when returning to Koh Samui are slim.

IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A DOG OR A CAT HOME - NO PROBLEM, WE WILL HELP YOU, just get in touch in time!

Please do have a look at the page dog transport. There you can see the most beautiful pictures from dogs and cats in their new homes.

OKTOBERFEST 2008 in Lamai

This year we went to the Samui-Oktoberfest in Lamai and took part in the parade. It was great for advertisement and everyone had a lot of fun. You can find the pictures of the Oktoberfest HIER

The King with Thonglarng, dog no. 18 of the royal pack, also from the litter of a street dog.

In order to get a treat, also a royal dog has to show some effort.

Thongdaeng joins the king also in the office.

Driving is fun also for a royal dog.

THE KING OF THAILAND AND HIS DOG THONG DAENG

His Majesty, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has a very big heart for dogs, especially for street dogs. His favourite dog Thongdaeng was presented to the King on Sunday, December, 1998, at the age of only five weeks and became Khun Thongdaeng. Thongdaeng is from a litter of street dogs and was brought to the king because of some characteristics which made her different from her siblings: the half necklace on her neck, four white socks, the curled tail, and most important, the white spot on the nose and the tail tip.

When Thongdaeng was brought to the king, she cried all the way. Perhaps it was because she missed her mother and was lonely because she was so very young. Strangely enough, once she had been presented to His Majesty, she stopped crying, and crawled to nestle on his lap, as if entrusting her life to his care, and fell fast asleep, free from all worries, loneliness and fear.

Thongdaeng is a very intelligent dog and very faithful to the king.

When the king wants to powder Thongdaeng, he only has to tell her "belly-up", and she rolls on her back immediately.

Thongdaeng never leaves the king...

...and still shows a lot of respect and gratefulness towards her surrogate mother Mae Mali.

On 26 November 2002 the king wrote about the street dogs:

"...dogs from the street can have all the desirable qualities that one could want from pet dogs. Most adopted stray dogs are usually humble and exceptionally faithful to their owners as if they are grateful for this kindness. Moreover, they are not inferior to imported dogs in terms of intelligence. Some are attractive or have a distinctive smart look like Thongdaeng.

In this country, there are thousands to choose from. They are, in fact, too numerous, but if the authorities would help, many people would be more than willing to give a suitable home for these dogs. It would help to solve part of the problem of dangerous stray dogs as well as reduce the import of expensive "luxury pets" which take a toll on the economy of the country. Therefore, we should encourage the improvement of the existing varieties of Thai dogs, which can provide good looking as well as faithful pets."

Welcome yo the minister for public health

The minister for public health Khun Sudarat Keyuraphan

Speaking with Khun Sudarat

Many people visiting theDRCS

THE MINISTER VISITS DRCS

In April 2001, the former Minister for Public Health, Khun Sudarat Keyuraphan, paid us a visit. Since the reformation of the Thai government, the new ministers have tried to form close relations with the public. We had quite a bit of luck, because only a few days before the distinguished visitors arrived we got to know the most popular former Miss Thailand, Khun Bobp Areeya. She promised to help and turned up wearing a DRCS T-shirt and spoke about the work of DRCS to the huge number of reporters present. I got the impression that, for some reporters, she was more important than the minister! Approximately 150 vets, reporters and security officers were present together with the minister. Five TV channels had sent cameramen and many journalists from all sorts of Thai newspapers were there and gathered information on our work. Since then, we have become quite popular on the Island, because Thai people love to watch TV and saw the reports. The minister was most pleased with our efforts and assured us support from the government. The minister was not particularly interested in the number of dogs that we have already castrated, but was impressed at the number of dogs we have injected against rabies (1,200 at that point). Koh Samui is the only rabies-free area in the whole of Thailand and DRCS has played a large part in achieving this.

We are member of the WSPA

The Dog Rescue Center has developed into an organization recognized on an international level. In October 2003, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) announced that the Dog Rescue Center was successful in its grant application for a US$5,000 grant towards the building of single kennels at our large animal shelter.

T-SHIRTS

How about a T-shirt as a present for Christmas or birthdays? We have T-shirts with the DRCS logo in three different colors (yellow, black and white), with or without sleeves!

The T-shirts with sleeves carry the large DRCS logo on the back and the small logo on the front and on one sleeve.

The sleeveless T-shirts carry the large logo on the back and the small logo o n the front.

The costs for the T-shirts are 15 Euros for animal lovers in Europe and 17 Euros for animal lovers in the United States and Canada. Shipping (via airmail) and handling is included. About half of the price is a donation for the dogs and cats on Koh Samui!

For more information please click here.