Country: Thailand

Your Donations In ACTION: February 2020

South Africa We resumed our work in South Africa’s poverty-stricken Hillview township, in Cape Town. For three months, the army wouldn’t let us go there because it was too dangerous. In February, they allowed us to go in with armed guards and a police escort. Within an hour, we had filled two rescue vans with […]

Heavy rains wreak havoc at Thai Animal Sanctuary

The Thai Animal Sanctuary in Thailand, a haven of hope for abused animals, has been hit hard by the rainy season washing away walls and damaging infrastructure. Despite this setback, the sanctuary continues to rescue animals in need. “This rainy season has devastated the sanctuary causing terrible hardship. I don’t know if this because of […]

Ruth was being starved in her own home!

In the remote hills of Western Thailand, poor Ruth was a victim of one of the saddest, most silent kind of animal abuse. Her owner watched as she slowly wasted away, dying of hunger. One day her owner just decided to stop feeding her! How many times she must have gone to her empty bowl, […]

Who would abandon Alberto!

You would never abandon Alberto… but someone did. They dropped him and his sisters outside the Thai Animal Sanctuary. It sounds ruthless. It sounds coldhearted. It sounds cruel. It could have been much worse… Alberto was in terrible health. But he was also was lucky someone cared enough to bring him and his sisters to […]

Thailand’s street dogs deserve a life worth living

“Every dog walked, cleaned, fed, and loved…” The moment I received the update, I knew I had to tell our supporters. Sangkhlaburi Animal Sanctuary is a wonderful sanctuary on the Burmese border of Thailand that exists to give street animals a life worth living. They are doing a hero’s job on a bootstrap budget. And […]

Here is an amazing update from the field

Subject: Here is an amazing update from the field. “Every dog walked, cleaned, fed, and loved…” The moment I received the update, I knew I had to email you. Thai Animal Sanctuary is a wonderful sanctuary on the Burmese border of Thailand that exists to give street animals a life worth living. They are doing […]

When Potato got her wheels

Meet Potato, a tiny, crippled puppy with a deformed spine, abandoned at a temple in Thailand. Alone in a land where as many as 100,000 homeless dogs are smuggled into dog-eating countries like Vietnam and China each year, fueling demand for a bloody, butchering meat trade. As her useless back legs dragged behind her, Potato the […]

Piglet’s story: A machete, a bullet… and a rescue.

Piglet first witnessed the brutal poisoning of her brothers and sisters. Then her mother. Then Piglet herself was slashed with a machete knife. When that didn’t kill her, she was shot. This poor tiny freckled puppy. Who, you ask, could DO such a thing? No wonder Piglet was terror-stricken around humans, when Network’s dedicated partner […]