Animal Hell in flooded Thailand

On 09 October 2011, after I saw the people in town of Nakorn Sawan province, run away from flood and many of them so panic and they have left the animals behind. They wanted to take their pets with them but space on government provided boats was scares and the animals were not allow on boat. So many animals had to be abandoned.

The TV showed thousands of pigs, cows, chickens, dogs, cats swept away by the strong current. We decided to bring our team out to help the animals as much as we could.

The city of Nakorn Sawan became the dark city with no drinking water and supplies of food had broken down. Many people took showers and washed from flood water. All hotels in the high locations are full, even the lobbies were crammed with desperate people. All school and temples that remained dry swelled with refugees. We had a team that managed to bring 10 tons of human and animal food and medicine. There and another 13 tons of bananas and water melons to help the elephants in the area.

The journey was difficult because the roads were deep in flood water. The journey would normally take 2 hours but it took us over 10 hours to reach the destination.

The first day of our journey was spent trying to help animals was frustrating, because we not get co-operation from the local government. When we asked them to provide the boat we were told there were so few available and that they could only be used for people.