This might seem like a minor thing to many out there but it is a huge success in our minds because while we do a lot of the work ourselves and don't expect anyone to do it for us, a large part of what we wish would happen would be for the people in Krabi to understand that the things that we do, are things that they also could be doing but on a much smaller scale.
The importance of spay and neutering your own pets or even ones that are friendly that live in your area, is so important. I would say it is the most important thing and is the only way that we can get a grip on the out-of-control population of stray dogs and cats that exist all around the world.
Well one day recently a monk, who was actually a bit shy, had gotten our phone number from another monk that we had worked with in the past and he asked if we could help him get his cat sterilized.
While I am not truly informed about the various rules that Buddhist monks have, I believe that one of them is that they themselves are not meant to have any money. They are to gather things and it becomes a sort of community thing that the make their way in life with what they and the temple are given. They do not empty the donation pots at the temples and then go buy new Air Jordan's. Instead the housing, the food, the everything that takes place at a temple goes through the community fund and this includes getting food and medical care for animals.
We were never going to charge this monk for his request even if we could to. We are just delighted that word is starting to spread that getting your animal sterilized is important and this monk got the good information, contacted us, and we responded.
As I am sure you can probably tell, I crudely photoshopped these pictures, we were not in fact, standing in a perfectly white room.
We spoke to the monk a bit when this pickup, treatment, and dropoff happened, and let him know that because of his actions he has likely prevented the suffering of dozens if not more cats. He smiled a bit when he heard this and said something along the lines of that he has enough food to share with this one cat, but not for this one cat and 9 babies.
He get's it, this is entirely the point. And it doesn't stop there either. Those 9 babies within 1 year would be capable of having 9 babies themselves and on and on it goes until starvation and disease takes hold in the cats and nature enforces their return to low population numbers once again.
Nature finds a way, as they say, but in order to make this "stasis" happen, there has to be a rather long period of suffering and hunger: At Krabi Animal Welfare we would like to do as much as we can to prevent that suffering period and instead have a sustainable population number that doesn't negatively affect the animals, nor the humans.
If you have an animal that you are looking after, or you have an animal that is your pet, I strongly encourage you to get them sterilized. It really is exceptionally cheap and easy (perhaps even free via government programs) and it will make the animals' lives better.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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