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Niall Harbison

@NiallHarbison

Feb 25 • 2 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

It’s over 33 Celsius / 92 Fahrenheit at the moment in Thailand which makes it unbearable for some of the street dogs with long hair. I spotted this old girl a few days ago in a different area to where I normally feed and I could see she was in agony. Just moving 10-20 yards was painful for her.

As well as the overgrown fur it was mixed in with sharp pines and big matted clumps on her ears and right into her mouth. As well as that as we started to shave her we could see 100s of ticks and fleas. The amount of pain this girl must have been in is hard to imagine.

It took about 2 hours to clean her up and hand pick ever tick out of her. She also got a full health check up and a lovely little bandana to send her on her way back to the safe place where she lives.

We do lots of bigger way more impactful stuff than this with dogs at scale but sometimes just changing the world for one dog makes all the difference. It feels just as nice for us seeing the dog pain free as it does for the dog. I can only imagine how nice she feels tonight.

Just this morning she was invisible to the world and miserable but tonight she’ll sleep well 🥰🙏

I know she’s only one little street dog in Thailand and there’s a lot of bad news in the world but I love just thinking of how she felt waking up versus going to sleep tonight 🥰🥰

The prettiest girl there ever was. She looks so proud of herself now

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