Phangan Animal Care for Strays is the only clinic for animals with no owner on the island. This small facility takes in an average of 55 sick and injured patients per month and nurses them back to health before releasing or rehoming. In addition to nursing care, PACS primary missions are sterilisation and vaccination. It costs around 120,000 baht per month to run despite most work being carried out by volunteers. PACS relies 100% on donations from animal lovers.
This part of the year is known as ‘low season’ on the island and so PACS needs your help more than ever to continue its amazing work. There are less tourists which means less donations and volunteers.
In between them looking after the skin conditions, diseases and broken bones of stray animals, Phangan Animal Care also spay (sterilise) and neuter as many as they can although it’s still not enough, and they see new stray litters every week. All born without the love, care and affection they deserve, or more importantly the home, shelter and food they need.
To help fix the problem, PACS also wants to hire a full time Thai Veterinarian, and have enough medical supplies so they can spay up to 60 animals a month. This will dramatically help reduce the number of unwanted litters the island sees born every week. PACS can handle hearing the whimpers, catching stray animals, getting bitten, losing sleep and looking into unloved eyes while trying to make every PhaNgan animal’s life a little better but they need you to provide the funds to help do it! 
PACS work so far has seen a slow and steady decrease in the number of street, beach and temple dogs. They want to carry on this crucial work, so that there will be a manageable number of animals on the island – enough so that eventually, each of them can have a loving home.
You can help support PACS by coming to Phanganist Hostel on Wednesday June 28th for our fundraiser party where 10% of the bar profits will go to this important cause!
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