Community Dog Welfare Kopan
In mid 2014, a young Tamang man, Sujet, called Kate to look at an adolescent, husky type dog that had been slashed across the back. He and his mother had the dog in a cardboard carton in their tiny room. The mother had sold her earrings to pay for the dog’s initial treatment. Therefore, the dog was called Mundri, meaning …
Amithaba was brought in by a student from Kopan Monastery in December 2016. He was a beautiful golden-ginger pup who seemed healthy. We tried to find his owner but the pup was not known in the local community where he was found. After a few days, he became very ill; diagnosed with highly contagious parvo virus, he had to be …
A mini documentary on the noble works of Kate and Doug Clendon for street dogs of Kathmandu, Nepal. Happy New Year 2017 to all and best wishes to Community Dog Welfare Kopan.
Special thanks to Kimberley for the wonderful help she has been over the past few weeks putting together a power point presentation and video presentations for fund raising and sponsorships. She kept us busy finding photos and information – but well worth the effort. We raised nearly $900 for the shelter area and already have two new sponsors. And she …
We are starting a fund raising campaign with Kimberley’s help to build a new enclosure for some of our smaller weaker dogs that presently need to be kept apart from the bigger rougher dogs to prevent injuries. The crowd funding link is: https://www.generosity.com/animal-pet-fundraising/happy-feet-helping-young-dogs-in-kathmandu/x/6515274 . Please share the link with anyone who may be interested in helping. Please note that the fund raising …
Anti-rabies vaccinations 25 April 2015. A very big thank you to Dr Awadesh Jha and his team from the Tripureshwar Veterinary Hospital for carrying out a deworming, health check and rabies vaccination programme in our area. We had completed 235 dogs by the time the 7.8 earthquake struck – the afternoon programme in another area was deferred to a later …
Special thanks to Shell, a vet nurse from Australia, for carrying out another round of 5 in 1 Vaccinations on 17 June 2015. This completed a second round for some of the dogs and started a course for recent comers. Shell does a health check on a pup before vaccinating Shell gives Goody her 5 in 1 annual booster – …
We are very grateful to Julie, Kim and Karen, vets from the USA, who came out on 17 April and vaccinated all our dogs with the 5 in 1 vaccine. And also thanks to Jay Singh, who obtained the vaccine for us at wholesale price, and to Mike and Celianne in the UK who have donated funds for the vaccine. …
We are a group of 5 puppies, 2 brothers and 3 sisters. We were found dumped in a flooded hole and were saved by the lovely people at the Community Dog Welfare shelter in Kopan, Nepal. We are all healthy and have been vaccinated. We are outgrowing our little enclosure and look forward to finding forever homes where we can …
Leo has a wheelchair – alarmed at first, he quickly got the hang of it and took off after another dog! Thank you very much to Chris in the UK, who not only is sponsoring Leo’s food and care but also procured the wheelchair. We are all delighted! A bit alarmed at first! Leo was quickly at home in his …