A dog shelter in Thailand has been caring for disabled strays left out in the cold
Michael J Baines founded the animal shelter in 2017. Pics/Facebook
The Man That Rescues Dogs, an animal shelter in Chonburi, Thailand, cares for over a thousand stray dogs, including paralysed animals that get to run with the pack again, thanks to the care and attention of the staff. Michael J Baines is the man behind the shelter. The Swedish national moved to Chonburi in 2002 to open his own restaurant, but quickly noticed the large number of stray dogs roaming through the city, many of which could barely survive on the scraps they found every day.
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In 2011, Baines became attached to one special stray that started coming to his restaurant every day, and soon noticed that his “patron” wasn’t the only one in need of help. Baines started caring for a handful of strays, then for a few dozen, and before he knew it, he was providing food for almost a hundred canines. In 2017, he founded The Man That Rescues Dogs, and in the four years since, the staff there not only rescued over 1,000 dogs, but gave the paralysed ones their mobility back. Baines decided that simply rescuing strays and providing food for them wasn’t enough. He used to take sick dogs to veterinarians in Chonburi himself, but there was little they could do for paralysed animals that had been hit by cars or physically abused by humans. In 2019, through his foundation, he set up a clinic with two on-site veterinarians to provide care for his shelter dogs and provide services free of charge care for other pets in the area.
“Without a doubt, it’s giving the sick, neglected, abused street dogs of Thailand the second chance that they deserve,” Baines told Bored Panda. “When you see a paralysed dog in their wheelchair for the first time, running free and smiling, that’s right up there as one of the best parts of the process. It’s almost like they have no idea that they have a disability and once you put them in the wheelchair for the first time, it’s like there is no curve of learning,” Christopher Chidichimo, a member of the shelter staff said. According to their website, caring for a disabled dog is a lot simpler than imagined.
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