In 1976 on Saturday Night Live, Joe Cocker performed as the musical guest when John Belushi suddenly appeared beside him. Belushi delivered his now-famous exaggerated impersonation, mimicking Cocker.
Probably the proudest day ever today to see what the team @wearehappydoggo have been working on and rolling out in stages. Apologies for the voice but I had to get out of my sick bed to come and see this…
🐕 The start of our government partnerships sterilizing dogs at scale. All around Samui for the next 3 weeks and the moving to rural Thailand.
✂️ I can explain the amount of planning that goes into this for training staff, licenses, permits and general logistics and safety planning etc.
🇹🇭 What I especially love is that apart from me it was 100% Thai staff and Thai community there today. This is how we will fix the problem. Locals bringing their dogs in.
🎯 The dog catching and darting team are my heroes. Getting those dogs in is exceptionally hard.
💵 There is absolutely no cost for the community. Many of these people are low income community who just can’t afford the care. Having their dogs sterilized is a game changer. For those who support us this is what we can do. 100s of puppies stopped today.
People who follow us @wearehappydoggo love the rescues and the retirement village and the food and the makeovers where dogs have comebacks. But this today is why we really do it. These mobile units will go on to save 1000s of lives this year working on a daily basis in rural Thailand. I’ll make sure even if we start on a local basis like this soon you’ll see this all over Thailand and the world. The dogs need this ❤️
I can't even begin to tell you how deeply moving it is to watch you save these dogs, day after day, with such unwavering compassion. You deserve every accolade for your tireless, life-saving work on behalf of the forgotten souls on the streets. I keep sharing this "Person of the Year" TIME magazine cover as a constant reminder to everyone of the incredible good you've done- and the personal hardships you've overcome to keep showing up for them. THANK YOU for being the hero these dogs need. You're changing lives, one rescue at a time. ❤️🐾🐕
For 4 years buster lived on a 3 foot chain alone and sleeping on cold concrete. It made him lose an ear and nearly his tail with poor health.
When we saved him we were told it was because he was vicious.
2 Years later here is is in his Tuxedo with Santa. A very good boy ❤️
Lots happening today as the street dogs don’t know what day of the year it is and still need our help
🥘Food sent out for 1200 dogs
✂️9 dogs in for sterilizing to stop the flow of new dogs on the streets
🐶Helped a Thai cleaning lady who had a saved a puppy that had been dumped by foreigners. Full free medical care in Tina’s hospital
🩸Mr Handsome came in for big wound cleaning in his appointment. 5 other serious cases treated all for free.
💐 We sadly lost a big local community dog who had mysterious venom bites and who had been in ICU with us for 5 days
🎁 All staff swapped gifts
📹 Made 250 videos for people around the world suffering and feeling alone today.
Happy Christmas to you all and thanks for the support that allows us to help so many dogs now ❤️
A quick look at what we’re building with this cool new iPhone feature. Just today…
🥘 Food for 2500 street dogs cooked
✂️ 10 dogs sterilized stopping over 100 puppies being born
🚧 Major road / electric and utilities for a big dog hospital
🐶 2 dogs had life saving operations.
✈️ 9 dogs preparing for adoptions
🛻 Community teams heading out to treats dozens of dogs
🎄 Content team making a Christmas video to make everybody smile and tell the street dogs stories.
This is about 30% of the operations we run and it’s growing fast to help more dogs. I’d love to say it was getting quiet for the holidays but the dogs still need us.
A busy day but dogs being saved everywhere as you can see ❤️
We found Sir Anthony Hopkins on the streets with red raw skin and major health issues.
I called him that as he used to flash his teeth and always try to bite me. He was just in pain.
Now the only teeth are his big happy smile ❤️
I was sitting with my own dog Chance today talking to her (2nd half of this video) and I actually totally forgot how bad she was in May. Stabbed 3 times in the stomach.
Some change in her ❤️