CLINICAL VOLUNTEERS

Those with medical experience (vets, nurses, vet students in years 3 and above, and all vet nurse students) will take a clinical role in line with your abilities, future career path, and level of training. You will be supervised throughout your stay in line with Thailand’s laws, and work underneath a locally registered veterinarian at all times.

As your skills progress, you will be given more independence to complete procedures and develop your clinical reasoning and skills. With the huge caseload coming in, you will have plenty of chances to participate in all aspects of medicine and surgery. Jobs can include:

• Spays and castrations

• Caesareans (dog and cow)

• Consulting

• Vaccinations

• Fracture repair/splinting

• Road traffic accidents

• Leg amputations (dog, cat)

• Diagnostics (blood, smear and crush samples)

• Managing tetanus

• Wound management

• triaging emergencies

• Infectious diseases like parvovirus, corona virus and distemper

• Diagnosing and treating internal and external parasites

• Euthanasia

NON CLINICAL VOLUNTEERS

Vet students in pre-clinical years (1 and 2) or volunteers with no medical training, who wish to join us to care for, support and rehabilitation of animals in need, will assist with the following duties:

• Restraining animals for, and learning to give intramuscular injections

• Educating owners about husbandry

• Helping vets and nurses prepare for surgery

• Watching various surgeries

• Helping nurses with anaesthesia

• Feeding the dogs, cats and other animal inpatients and rescues

• Kennel cleaning

• Sterilising surgical tools and packing surgical kits

• Learning to bandage and changing dressings

• Giving TLC to our strays and rescues

• Playing with and walking the dogs

• Socialising dogs

• Developing confidence in dogs that are due to be rehomed

OTHER ROLES FOR ALL VOLUNTEERS

Fieldwork (or what we refer to as a ‘feeding run’) involves befriending various packs of dogs with food, administering parasite treatments & vaccinations, assessing the overall wellbeing of the packs, providing wound care to injured dogs as well as identifying & recording changes in numbers (i.e. new litters of puppies, newly dumped dogs, pregnant females, etc.) and condition (i.e. dogs to be sterilised).  At any given time we oversee as many as 800+ stray street dogs so fieldwork plays an essential role in our commitment to improving the lives of Thailand’s stray animal population.

All the members of this team are willing to dig in and get their hands dirty with all aspects of animal care and we ask our volunteers to adopt the same attitude. No one here is above grooming dirty dogs, picking up poo or cleaning kennels when it needs to be done. Whilst it will not be the focus of your stay, a can-do attitude is important when working as part of a small team for the good of the animals.

Other responsibilities include spreading awareness about the clinic, educating local communities about animal/pet care and maintaining our presence on various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Extra weekend excursions are included within the volunteer program. You will participate in a guided meditation with our local monk, attend a Thai cooking class and will learn to cook traditional Thai dishes then enjoy eating it together.  Hike to Sam Rai Yot temple which is set in a stunning cave overlooking the stretching landscape below. Volunteers also visit Kui Buri National park, which is known to be one of the best places in Thailand to see wild elephants.