Category: News

How can we do better as a rescue to address the big picture of animal suffering in Vietnam? To start, we need to understand the root cause of animals ending up in rescue to begin with.  The only animals people seem to pay attention to are dogs, so we will use them as an example...

We really need to address something that has been flooding our inboxes for months now, often with abuse towards us and the Vietnamese in general. On YouTube there are some creator accounts in which monkeys are being kept as pets. We don’t watch them, frankly, because we are bombarded with them and no one should...

Within any social justice movement, activists will be attacked. They will be attacked for being too outspoken, too violent, and too confrontational. They will be criticized for their use of language, having every single sentence picked apart. They will gain and lose followers for anything seen as too far out there. This is normal when...

The vital work of farm sanctuaries The animals that receive the most attention, the most funding, and the greatest legal and social protections are those we spend the most time with. These are the dogs and cats who we wake up to, see in our neighborhood, and who end up all over our newsfeeds. But...

Let’s lay some numbers out and you tell me how where you think attention and funding should be in terms of greatest impact for ending animal suffering.  Out of 900 million dogs living on the planet at any given time , 3% of them per year are killed for dog meat globally.  That’s 30 million...

Puppy snuggling. Doggie walking on beaches. Kitten kissing. Education programs by pretty, young white people to classes of non-white children to learn about aforementioned puppy snuggling and kitten kissing. Volun-tourism at animal rescues for twenty-something Westerners coming to Asia to “find themselves” and try to catch chlamydia on a drunk night in a beach bar....

Substitute “China” for “Vietnam” in this meme and you’ll understand what we face as a rescue working for ALL species. I have often attributed my hatred of social media and contact with the public to my advancing age. It feels that with each passing year in this work I get closer and closer to being...

For the past few months, I have been in the US taking over my parents’ household.  After 14 years abroad, 8 in Vietnam, this has been a very tough trip and I look forward to coming home to Vietnam as soon as the borders reopen. I left Vietnam at the beginning of March to come...

As international animal welfare and animal rights groups from the West frequently look to Asia as a conglomeration of  lands of savage animal cruelty due to targeted marketing against the dog meat trade, some very sick and unproductive side effects have come out of this process. This process of singling out certain Asian countries, most...