Care for Dogs is a foundation that helps care for stray dogs by helping them find their forever home. They help over 300 cats and dogs per year find a new, loving owner. The foundation holds public meetings and spreads useful and accurate information regarding solving the problems of stray animals to locals and tourists.
Destination Information:
Area overview
The Care for Dog foundation is located in the Hang Dong district, which is in the southern part of the Chiang Mai province. It is only about 15 kilometres away from the Chiang Mai airport. The area is very prosperous in its business, tourism, and tradition. However, the area has difficulty dealing with stray animals. For example, animals are often abandoned at places like temples, and oftentimes, these animals suffer from an abundance of health issues. The number of abandoned animals continues to increase in numbers as the issue has not been met with the proper solution.
What make this location so unique or so interesting? :
Care for Dog is more than just a foundation that accepts donations like many other foundations and charities.The foundation keeps the cummunity informed about stray animals and aid animals in need to have better welfare and overall quality of life. The foundation main goals are to lower the number of stray animals in the area, to help them find a new home, and to improve their health.
The foundation holds many activities for volunteers to help with stray animals. The Care for Dog foundation does not focus on raising funds, but rather focusing on creating an importance on passing on correct information about stray animals. The foundation offers many activities, like training and workshops to provide people with more information on how to deal with stray animals. They also open positions for volunteers to take care of dogs that they have rescued; volunteers will participate in many tasks, such as taking the rescued dogs on a walk, visiting the community areas to help stray dogs, and suggesting ideas to the locals regarding finding shelter or a home for the stray animals.
What can visitors do ? (Activities)
Volunteer to look after stray cats and dogs, do fun activities, take care of them, and feed them.
Attend trainings on how to take care of stray animals.
Visit local stray dogs and cats and help broadcast the animals for adoption.
Help attend the foundation’s programs to visit local areas.
Donate money to provide support to the foundation to help stray animals in the future.
Experience the environment and the the way of life of the Hang Dong community, along with staying at local homestays and visiting local attractions like the botanical garden, the Thai Grand Canyon, Ton Kwan Temple, and more.
Contributions of the tourist activities on the community or environment
Some social contributions that tourists can take part in is volunteering to help the stray animals, in aspects including taking care of their hygiene, feeding them, and taking them on walks. These activities can improve the animals’ quality of life, decreasing their risk of health complications and lowering the amount of medical resources needed to take care of the animals. Tourists can help promote the campaign for the local people to adopt the stray animals, both cats and dogs. They can also use their voice to advise locals on a better understanding of how to take care of their pets; locals can be taught how to take care of a pet properly so they can live a long and healthy life in a comfortable home, as well as being shown why abandoning pets is inhumane, which can reduce the problems of stays long-term.
How to get Involved
Location Type:Day-trip destination
Admission Ticket Price: Free
Status : Open
Language Spoken : Thai / English
Google Map Link : https://goo.gl/maps/yybAwjpXF3tHg5pC9
Contact : (+66) 86 913 8701
Website/Link : (if any) https://www.carefordogs.org/en/
