Part of the free service includes full sterilisation for cats and dogs as well as vaccination against rabies. People are welcome to bring their own pets or any stray animals that they are aware of who may require the service.
The service is only open to residents and animals based in Phuket Town and the nearby areas of Talat Nuea and Talat Yai, organisers confirmed.
The mobile clinic is a collaborative effort between the livestock department of Phuket Municipality and the Soi Dog Foundation and will be available every Wednesday to Sunday between the hours of 9am and 4pm until Dec 2. The clinic, based at the Solid Waste and Sewage Management Group in Phuket Town, is not operational on Mondays or Tuesdays.
The service was first made available on Nov 1 and has seen a steady number of people bringing animals to receive either of the two proceedures on offer, officals said on Friday (Nov 10).
Sterilisation of stray animals in particular is a key strategy of the Soi Dog Foundation. The foundation’s spay/neuter and vaccination programme – known as its CNVR (Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) programme – has been at the forefront of its work from the very start.
The CNVR approach is widely recognised as the most humane and effective way of reducing the overpopulation of stray animals and stemming the spread of disease, including rabies.
The Foundation currently neuters and vaccinates more than 20,000 animals every month and recently welcomed its millionth animal to pass through its large-scale spay/neuter and vaccination programme since its founding in 2003, a stray dog who was aptly named ‘Million’.
For more information on the mobile clinic in Phuket Town please call 082-470-6790.