On 1st April 2010 the Dog and Cat Rescue Center Samui will celebrate their 11th anniversary Everybody is very welcome!
HERE you can see some of our patients from JANUARY 2010
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!
ALIANA
ALIANA
HERE some up to date news from her (start 6. January 2010)
latest Update 23. February 2010
BLAUNI
BLAUNI
some up to date news from her
(start 23. January 2010)
latest Update 23. February 2010
As a 'godparent' you can support the DRCS monthly for only 15 Euro
As a 'godparent' you can support the 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!
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
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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, 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 (December 2009))
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you will find our latest newsletter for reading and printing. Time for uploading 2 -3 minutes (256 k).
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If you would like to browse through some of our former newsletters, please click here
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!
TRANSLATION WILL FOLLOW SOON
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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. |
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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.
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Dear Animal Lovers! If you come to Samui and want to bring something: Our puppies need toys!
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.
We also made a video, you can find it HERE
HERE you can find some photos from the rain in 2007
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
In 2009 we nearly have no rain.
TEMPELPROJEKT
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 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 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 all the lovely pictures from work at the temples!
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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
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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.
IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A DOG OR A CAT HOME - NO PROBLEM, WE WILL HELP YOU.
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."
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.
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.
