Sometimes a story simply needs to be told.

Soi dogs and cats (“soi” is the Thai word for “street”) are animals that are left to fend for themselves: mostly through abandonment, sometimes from being separated from their owners, sometimes from just having been born on the streets. In Thailand, SCAD , based in Bangkok, does amazing work to collect these animals, care for them, and rehabilitate them from disease and injury. They have a pretty good record of finding forever homes for some of the lucky cats and dogs. Most importantly, SCAD also runs an intensive sterilisation program to contribute to animal welfare and as a small intervention to the Soi animal population’s growth. See http://www.scadbangkok.org/

Pétanque’s CFO, Annelize Booysen, currently an Advisory Board member of SCAD, and formerly the General Manager in Bangkok, is one such forever homegiver.

On the left is no-name doggie, brought to SCAD from a temple sterilisation project in April 2009. A monk had apparently been taking care of her since she had been abandoned as a puppy.

On the right is Lambchop, now living in the South of France, April 2010

The story has been told.

PS: Pétanque contributes to various South African animal sterilisation programmes and actively supports http://www.barkingmad.co.za