Hua Hin Dog Rescue Center needs your help.

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Hua Hin Dog Rescue Center (HHDRC), located in Hua Hin, Thailand

urgently needs help.

 

Some of you may remember the photographs taken in Hua Hin Dog

Shelter (not the same organization) that were featured on many

animal lovers' sites fairly recently.

 

We (HHDRC) had a small, enclosed & separate facility within their

compound, kindly lent to us by the local authority. As the Shelter

are now rebuilding, they have given us a week to relocate.

Fortunately, they have allowed us to relocate to a rather

dilapidated compound nearby. I have put out an appeal for help

locally, and am hopeful that we can fix it up & move the dogs before

the Tessadban (local authority) start to dismantle our (built & paid

for by us) compound & let our dogs loose with the less fortunate

dogs you saw pictured, as they have stated they will do.

 

The problem comes when the new Shelter is built (approx 6 months,

according to the Tessadban estimates). If we do not have an

alternative place by then, we are to relinquish the care of all 140

of our dogs to them. We are not to be allowed to care for them,

bring food or medical treatment for them (or their new compatriots)

or even see them again after that point. We (and any other foreign

org, we have been told) will be banned from admittance to the

Shelter.

 

At this time, thirteen of our dogs are past residents of the

shelter. I took them in because they were in so much worse state

than any of the others. (Further dogs we have taken from the Shelter

have sadly died, or had to be euthanised) They are all

beautiful, `fat' healthy dogs now. We cannot contemplate returning

them to their previous state, nor contemplate relinquishing the care

of any of our others. Please look at our website

www.dogrescuecenter.org and compare the photos to the ones you saw.

 

We need money & /or land desperately, so we can build a new facility

elsewhere. If we could manage to build a big enough center, we would

take some Shelter dogs, also (if allowed). If anyone can help,

please contact us.

 

We realize it is very unlikely that we will raise the money needed,

so this week we will be visiting local temples to ask for permission

to release some of our dogs (all are neutered & fully vaccinated) at

each. If we are then forced to take this road, we shall care for

them in the temples & also extend the care ( & neutering &

vaccination, obviously) to all of the dogs in those temples. This

will also be a mammoth undertaking which will take a colossal amount

of time & work, and will require consistent, ongoing funding.At that

point we will be forced to stop caring for any dog, other than those

in the temples where " our " dogs will be.

 

Thank you all for taking the time to read this and we would welcome

any & all help.

 

Dawn Poole,

Manager HHDRC