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Besi Gaun January 2024

Kale Besigaun

Kale Besigaun was picked up in Besigaun on 31 October 2023 in poor condition. Good food and care made a big difference and he is now a happy member of...

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Lopsang

Lopsang was rescued from Paika in Kapan on3 February 2024 suffering from a large tumur on his side. Taken straight to AMC he was operated on and the tumour removed....

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Katu March 2024

Katu

Katu arrived on 15 February 2024 from KAT Centre with two damaged legs. On 9th March, Dr Sushil was preparing to carry out surgery on the front leg when it...

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Puppy Rina March 2024

Puppy Rina

Puppy Rina was picked up in Besigaon on 8 February 2024 with a significant tumour on his nose.  Taken straight to AMC for a diagnosis, he was found to have...

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Josef March 2024

Josef

Josef was picked up in Naya Basti on 12 February 2024 with the typical symptoms of distemper.  Taken straight to AMC, he tested negative for distemper. However, the strong symptoms...

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Bhai March 2024

Bhai

Bhai was found on 9 February 2024 stuck in a drain with infected wounds on his legs. Rescued by Akriti from near Ani Gompa, he was taken straight to the...

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Choma Oct 23

Choma

Choma arrived on 23 May 2022 from Thamel suffering from mange and in poor condition. She was brought in by Dave Bethel from Canada who had just successfully climbed Mt...

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Simba Nov 2023

Simba

Simba was found in Gokarneshwar in Septemebr 2023 with a maggot infected ear wound. This was slow healing and he had a sore ear for a long time. But now...

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Uma Kale

Saturday afternoon Saturday 15 May 2021. Most of the shelters in Kathmandu close on Saturdays and don’t answer the phone (sometimes they don’t answer on weekdays either!) 5 pm and...

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Kale Krishna

Kale Krishna was picked up at Krishna Mandir in Paika on 12 April 2021 suffering from a broken leg. The wound was also infected, so he had an x-ray and...

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Bhangal October 2024

Bhangal

Bhangal was rescued on 8 April 2021 with difficulty standing and walking. No apparent injuries and a blood test showed no problems. So he was kept in the centre under...

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Gordy

Gordy was picked up near our centre on 21 March 2021 with a shoulder infection. Blood tests and x-ray showed a joint infection, which was treated with amoxyclav. Although recovered,...

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Kanchi

Kanchi was found in Alashi Dara acting strangely on 7 May 2021 and taken straight to Animal Medical Centre, where a diagnoses of possibly rabies was determined. So she was...

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Akash 2 Nov 2023

Akash 2

Akash was picked up in Akashi Dara on 10 June 2020, with a very bad broken leg. Operated on by Dr Sushil, a steel pin was inserted into the leg....

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Sete 2 Jan 2024

Sete 2

We were called to help Sete near Ani Gompa on 21 May 2020 – she was unable to walk after an accident. The x-ray showed a shoulder break that could...

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Ram Hiti Jan 2024

Ram Hiti

Ram Hiti was found on 12 April 2020 lying in the middle of the road at Ram Hiti, looking pretty sick.  Taken to Dr Sushil, tested for distemper – negative,...

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Om Feb 2024

Om

Om was found on 12 April 2020 lying upside down in a ditch near Om hospital, with her legs shaking.  Taken straight to Dr Sushil, she was tested for distemper...

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Timmy

Timmy was carried to the shelter in the early stages of the lockdown in Kathmandu and arrived on 1 April 2020.  He was in poor condition and not eating and...

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Elvis

Elvis arrived on 17 March 2020, after a road accident. He lived very close to the CDWK centre. Thanks to Tsering for bringing him to our attention. X-ray shows a...

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Kushi

Kushal rescued Kushi from Hatiban in March 2020 – she wasn’t well and needed care. Dr Sushil diagnosed Parvo virus so she spent several days in intensive care before coming...

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Honey

Honey was brought to us in February 2020 by a lady in Simaltar who takes care of the street dogs in her area. Honey was diagnosed with TVT and has...

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Dolma Khetsun

Lama Khetsun from Ani Gompa brought Dolma to us in Novemebr 2019, she was in poor condition so went straight for a checkup and blood tests. An infection was diagnosed...

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Seti Blue Eyes Feb 2024

Seti

Seti appeared in our garden in the evening of 31 January 2020. No idea how she got in… Kept in isolation for a few days, she was taken for a...

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CDWK News April 2020

Hello everyone, a brief update on CDWK during lockdown in Nepal. We are still functioning, our staff are working (fortunately, all live nearby), we are getting food for the dogs...

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Tengu

Tengu was brought to our centre in November 2019 by Anko from Germany. Anko had supported the care of several dogs near Boudha for many years, and Tengu was the...

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Sponsors Urgently Needed

SPONSORS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE ROUTINE SHELTER COSTS OF 32 DOGS AT THE CDWK CENTRE At CDWK, we believe that every dog’s life matters….. therefore, we aim to provide the...

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Khairi 2

Khairi was pregnant but in poor condition and needed urgent attention when found in early September 2019. She had an emergency operation and pups were removed, all dead. Khairi has...

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GoFundMe Update 5 – 26 June 2019

First of all, an enormous thank you to Juliana and Mark of Boho Beautiful for their wonderful video about Starbuck and their link with Community Dog Welfare Kopan. This video...

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Our new T-shirts!

We made our first “Community Dog Welfare Kopan” t-shirts, designed by Maëlle from Belgium. They will serve for our staff as well as for the volunteers who would like to...

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Boho Beautiful

Boho Beautiful have just issued a wonderful video on their experience trying to save a dog with distemper near Kopan Monastery recently and their visit to Community Dog Welfare Kopan...

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Djengo

Djengo was found in Thamel in July 2013 by Nicky and Naren – he was in pretty poor condition and had trouble keeping food down. Djengo in Thamel Nicky meets...

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Gofundme campaign Update

A big thank you to all those who have supported us so far – we have now reached AU$6,998 and only need $1,002 to hit our target. So please help...

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Transferwise

Do take a look at TransferWise if you are sending us money – this is a very low cost method of sending money.  We can accept TransferWise payments into our New Zealand...

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Gofundme Update

Our fund raiser has slowed down again – we are almost at AU$5,800 thanks to several donors over the past 10 days or so. How about another push to at...

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Looking for Long-term Volunteers

We are currently looking for longer term volunteers from 1 – 5 months of full-time work caring for the dogs in the shelter. Please see the Volunteering section on the...

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Fund-raiser off to a Good Start

So far we have raised AU$4,363 towards the target of AU$8,000 needed for the medical costs for homeless dogs over the next 12 months. This means that we are 54%...

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Medical Contingency Fund Fund-raiser

With the increasing numbers of inpatient dogs from the community, cases of Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour, and sterilizations, we are finding it more and more difficult to cover the costs...

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GET COOKING…

Click the link below to purchase a copy of this amazing e-cookbook – now discounted to only AU$12 (~US$8.80) for CDWK supporters.  This illustrated pdf book was created by one...

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Communities Caring for Homeless Dogs

Temba Raju alerted us to Temba – a large, black, Tibetan mastiff-type dog – in his local area of Nayabusti.  Although the local teashop lady had been feeding Temba and...

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Shelter upgrade May 2018

The kitchen roof has been completed and today the broken brick soling for the floor was placed. We hope to have the window and door of the isolation room completed...

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Amazing! Funding Target Reached

In just 22 days, CDWK supporters have raised AU$3,800 for building new enclosures and facilities on the recently rented piece of land adjoining the centre. Thank you ALL! Construction work,...

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Progress May 2018

Progress has been slow but steady. We have put up a shelter in part of the new area and have the structure for the toilet/washroom and isolation room almost complete....

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Thanks to Recent Volunteers

CDWK wishes to thank our longterm volunteers: Sonia and Guillem from Spain (2017 – 2018) Kimberley from Australia (2016 – present) Trent from Australia (2017 – 2018) Achille from France...

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Donation in memory of Daphne Olsen

We received a generous donation from Patricia, Lynne and David, from Luton in the UK, in loving memory of their dear friend, Daphne Olsen, who recently passed away.  Daphne was...

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Gofundme update

Our gofundme campaign has now reached over half our target of AU$3,000, presently at $1,650.  Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared.  Please help us keep going by...

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A Community Dog Welfare Story

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...

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Thank You Kimberley

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....

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Fund Raising for Enclosure

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...

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Anti-rabies Vaccinations

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...

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More 5 in 1 Vaccinations

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...

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5 in 1 Vaccinations

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....

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New Travel Crate

Thank you to Angela in the UK for donating a travel crate – also very useful as temporary housing for the puppies. The puppies check out the new crate. It...

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Kate Receives Award

Kate was presented with the National Senior Citizens Award by the Honourable Foreign Minister, Mr Mahendra Pandey, at a ceremony arranged by Saar Nepal (a non-profit social organization that runs...

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5 in 1 Vaccinations

We are very grateful to Dr Anne and Thom from Canada for obtaining and administering 16 doses of 5 in 1 vaccine for the shelter dogs on 26 February 2014....

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Jessica’s Dog Blog

Jessica has written a delightful blog about the dogs.  See the link: https://www.madnessandbeauty.com/2013/03/my-favourite-place-in-kathmandu.html

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