As a 'godparent' you can support DRCS monthly for only 15 Euro
GERMANY IS GOING TO WIN THE EURO CUP!
Maybe it is also a nice Christmas gift for a friend!?
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!
At the DRCS not only the dogs and cats get a tattoo!
Dear Animal Lovers! If you come to Samui and want to bring something: Our puppies need toys!
Hi, I am Red and HERE you can read my stories and see a lot of photos
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
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"
We have accounts in the following countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, U K and USA.
>>>Donation accounts in all countries <<
IF YOU WANT TO DONATE BY CREDIT CARD, YOU CAN DO IT WITH PAYPAL:
Please note that the transfer of money to the account in your country is cheaper than to pay by Paypal. Paypal charges about 5%
Dear animal friends, unfortunately we've got our PayPal account only in German. Here is a little helping hand for our English-speaking animal lovers:
| Land | country |
| Vorname | first name |
| Nachname | last name |
| Kreditkartendetails | credit card details |
| Zahlungsart | form of payment |
| Auswählen | choose |
| Bankleitzahl | bank account |
| Ziffern | numeral |
| Kontonummer | account number |
| Adresse | Address |
| Ort | town |
| PLZ | zip code |
| private telefonnummer | private telephone number |
| passwort wiederholen | repeat password |
OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER (August 2008))
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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.
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In the Forum you will find all the DRCS-News!
Here you can find a nice movie!
TEMPELPROJEKT
Last October 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 Janine, Linda and Kelli 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 4 Euro!
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 all the lovely pictures from work at the temples!
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.
Ulrike from Weinheim in Germany attended an event in November for companies and public interest in Ludwigsburg. All advertising could only be shown or worn on the body. For more information please click HERE.
SEAL OF QUALITY
for animal friendly hotels on Koh Samui?
As you’re all animal friends and try to make it possible for the dogs and cats on Samui to have a better life, you’ll be happy to hear that animal friends set up an initiative for the protection of the beach dogs on Koh Samui.
The idea is the following:
All the hotels will be contacted and can then decide if they want to be seen as an animal friendly hotel (with seal of quality). It will then be easy for you to find a hotel where you don’t have to expect dying dogs around the breakfast table. The hotels are merely supposed to explain that they will leave the dogs on their part of the beach alone – that they won’t chase them, poison or mistreat them.
You can read more about this on the following homepage:
If you’re in the future about to book a hotel on Koh Samui, check out the homepage
POISONING ON KOH SAMUI
If you want to read more about this please click here!
The SAMUI EXPRESS published the following articles in the October and November 2007 edition regarding the poisoning on Koh Samui
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Relief organization on Koh Phangan
On 22 September 2002 , we went to the neighboring island of Koh Phangan (KPG) where we celebrated the first anniversary of the animal rescue organization PAC (Phangan Animal Care). Dr Somsak was also there and he is very happy that on KPG the animals receive help too. Siobbhan has achieved a great deal since starting up . Now the dogs and cats have a good chance of receiving medical help. Until she started PAC, there was no vet on KPG.
Koh Phangan: www.pacthailand.com
Relief organization on Koh Tao
NOISTAR THAI ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: www.kohtaoanimalclinic.org
Homepage of the animal friends of the Baan Samui Resort (it includes a fabulous video) www.baansamui-animalfriends.de
Homepage for animal friends
living in Thailand
www.thaitails.com.
Hundehilfe in Chiang Mai: www.carefordogs.org
Help to save the whales: www.savethewhales.org
For tiger friends: www.tigerfreund.de
Clinic of Alternative Medicine for Animals in Dubai: www.energetic-panacea.com
Recommended organization helping dogs: www.4pfoten-2beine.de
Recommended dog school in Germany: www.teambuilder.de
Your online resource for Dogs! www.fulldogs.com
Help for the animals of Thailand: www.helpthaianimals.com
Useful Homepage: www.tiersuche.at
For cat friends: www.katzen.ag
For informations about dog breeding: www.dogs-care.com
Infos in Thai: www.dogslover.com
WORLD ANIMAL DAY:
www.worldanimalday.org.uk
Tourism on Koh Samui:
Koh Samui's leading information portal www.samuilink.com
Best diving school on Koh Samui www.divepoint-thailand.com
Tourism in general:
Thailandpage.com -www.thailandpage.com/
Greatthailand.com -www.greatthailand.com/
Picturethailand.com -www.picturethailand.com/
4-thailand.com - www.4-thailand.com/
Thailandchats.com - www.thailandchats.com/
Virtual Koh Samui - please have a look: www.samui-virtual.com
Thailand Guide in english and swedish with all you need to
know to make your trip to Thailand more fun and exciting but less
expensive -
www.asia.se
www.2000 Hotel Online-Booking System Thailand
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.
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.
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!
If you want to order a
T-shirt, please pay the appropriate amount to
one of our collection accounts.
Then write an e-mail to info@samuidog.org
and let me know, which T-shirt
(color, size, with or without sleeves) you would like and when you
transferred the money. That’s all.
I
will then contact you and tell you the approximate date of arrival of the
T-shirt.
This is the size
chart for the order:
|
Size |
164 |
XXS |
XS |
S |
M |
L |
XL |
|
Chest (cm) |
50 |
50 |
52 |
54 |
56 |
58 |
61 |
|
Length (cm) |
57 |
60 |
66 |
69 |
72 |
75 |
78 |
Unfortunately
the sizes do not match the normal measurements in Europe or
America.
I've
ordered T-shirts with the new logo several times and each
time the salesperson explained to me in detail why the sizes did not match
the size table he provided :
one time it was the switching over to the new
Euro-sizes, another time it was a mere mistake of the printer !
I had just
gotten used to the new sizes when he told me that the sizes had changed
slightly. I could only detect that the T-shirts now are wider but shorter.
Please measure a T-shirt which fits you well and then compare it to the size
table (XL, for instance, is the same size as formerly XXL).
Unfortunately I cannot keep all sizes and colors on stock since we do not
have enough dry space for storage. The minimum order is 50 T-shirts and
I have
to order at least 10 of the same color and size. During the rainy season
things
get
covered in
mildew very fast and this year
(2005)
we had big flood s and constant
rain in
November and December. Our whole property was under water (20 cm
deep)
and the dogs had to be evacuated on
to the terrace and on
to bamboo
platforms. The dog house was also flooded and, on top of that, the roof
leaked.
Of course it rained on
to the large plastic containers with the
T-shirts !
We were lucky we had noticed it in time
to
prevent damage.
At the
shelter at Ban Taling Ngam there were no bigger problems
with
the unusual amount of water. We thought about that problem before and
installed small diagonal walls and a complicated drainage system. Other
parts
of Koh Samui were 1.5 meters under water and many people lost
everything. You could take your boat along the beach road s
in Chaweng and Lam a i.
Apparently this had been the largest rainfall for ages.
If you want a T-shirt which is no longer on stock, it might take a little
while longer until I can send it to you. I have to wait to reorder until we
have more room. I then would, of course, inform you about the delayed
delivery.
I hope you
are not
discouraged by these problems to
order. The T-shirts are
made out of 100 % cotton and are of good, heavy quality. The prints are
machine
washable and I am certain that you will like them very much.
Since approximately half of the price is a donation to the dogs and cats on
Koh Samui, I already want to thank you very much for your order in the name
of the
animals.
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 THONGDAENG
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."
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.
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.
