Parvovirus Precautions Reduce Risk For Other Animals At Shelter: Kinship's Trisha Fravel leads the sick ward at today's under-staffed shelter. Cheri Deatsch, team IC, casts a watchful eye on Harry — the hairless mange dog who bit her when saved from a flooded temple — plus two pups with their mom, whom Cheri also rescued. The babies are pre-weaned so mom can get chemotherapy for venerial tumors. Sister Michael Marie, a vet tech and long-time Kinship Circle disaster responder, is anesthesiologist and aide to veterinarian Emma Sant Cassia. One spay surgery is plagued with unforeseen complications, but the dog pulls through and is in recovery. Three pups test positive for deadly Parvovirus, placing unvaccinated puppies at risk. So the sick get isolated treatment at vet clinics (that work with SCAD Bangkok). A pup with non-fatal Coronavirus also moves to a clinic.

SPAY-NEUTER FOR FLOOD REFUGEESToday, about 20 more volunteers from SCAD and SEF boost shelter staff to numbers necessary for mass animal care. A pre/post op area is set up for lead vet Emma, plus a Worldwide Veterinary Service doctor from North Carolina, Don Hanna, to perform multiple spay-neuters. Animals also undergo nonsurgical protocols such as the Distemper combo vaccine, de-worming, etc. One patient has a marble-size tumor by his right eye. After removal, the dog quietly gazes at frolicking puppies from his formerly obstructed eye. Then, in a sort of canine thumbs-up, the dog wags his tail. It has been so long since he could see from this eye! Another dog receives supportive care for blood parasites, a common infection in Thailand. The poor little girl easily hemorrhages, with intermittment nose bleeds. On antibiotics, she calmly lets us clean residue from blood bubbles that emerge with each breath. A woman with over 30 street dogs departs. Her home flooded, the evacuee and her canine entourage inhabited shelter grounds more than a month ago. Water has now receded enough for her to return home. Roughly 50 animals have left with guardians so far.