Just had to show you the new PawPaws car!

If you see us cruising around Newcastle or Sydney wave.....or wag!!

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Hello!

 

Back from a fun escape to Thailand for a week before starting fulltime on the wonderful world of PawPaws!  Shopping in handbag heaven, massages, an elephant kiss, exploring Phuket on a moped, kickboxing and lots of yummy food filled a week up way too quickly...and then there was an awful lot of sleeping to catch up on and a little bit of sunburn :(

 

One of the first things that struck me as is so often the case when visiting Asia were the stray dogs..although these ones were on the whole reasonably well fed and living in a place where the dogs are a welcome part of every day life it is SO sad...particularly when you come across one that need vet attention. I'm currently trying to locate someone over there to arrange some vet care for a gorgeous little blondie who was a regular at the "Beach Bar"..if there was no such thing as quarantine issues Kish would now have a sister (which I have no doubt she would not appreaciate at all)  As it turned out a friend of mine who used to be the Darwin RSPCA CEO was over in Phuket for 6 weeks of being beaten and brusied at a kickboxing training centre so hopefully between the two of us can get some help to Blondie. As it was we made regular outings with roast chicken and whatever else meat we had to feed the furry little street urchins we came across.

Check out this site and sponsor a street dog food and medication $12 p/mnth!!  http://www.soidog.org/ 

 

I have intended from the start to make PawPaws as socially responsible as possible and to use it as a mechanism to make a difference in the doggy world of welfare. The cat and dog furtrade for which my blog has links is one area I am passionate about but with Phuket came the idea of one day establishing Poor Paws centres overseas where needed...working on prevention via educational programmes to the public, desexing training programmes to vets + mobile desexing facilities. And of course providing a centre where homeless dogs could receive vet care, outreach feeding programmes etc.  As PawPaws grows and with some of the corporate backing we are in the process of establishing along with the support of our customers for the furry orphans overseas I'm sure we will be able to make a difference somewhere....

 

WSPA are doing some work with stray dogs. Check out WSPA  http://www.wspa.org.au/index.asp  and http://www.wspa-international.org/ 

 

You can make a big difference by signing petitions and forwarding them to everyone you know also - this is an important one http://www.advocacyonline.net/eactivist/user/userC.jsp?13373&EXAMIN=1

 

 

Mandy & Kish x

PS One of the photos shows a lovely monument down on the beach which was built by a loving dog owner who lost their best mate in the Tsunami