Day 6: ARK and another shelter! (Santisook Dog and Cat Foundation)

I  fell asleep on the way to the new shelter.

Today I woke up with a sore throat but I powered through the day! Thank goodness for Jane! She saved me with some cooling things for my throat! one of the reason we love her, she is always prepared!

I wasn't really in the mood to eat because I wasn't feeling well but I made myself eat some yogurt and drink a water. 

Our group at Santisook 

We headed to a new shelter. This one was so different from ARK! I wish I took pictures, but Maddi an Jite did! So i'll post those pictures when I get back to the states! (Ewh the States! I don't wanna go home!) The dogs were so much healthier looking than at ARK. They were split into smaller groups and kept in large pen areas. There seemed to be much less tension between the dogs. Due to them being separated, they were unable to spread their issues as fast. The volunteer there was fabulous. She really cares so much for the pups... And kittens! It was great to see that not all shelters are the same here. However I am really glad we were able to help ARK out. I think we really did make a BIG difference!

Texas and I examine a dog at the new shelter.

Rice Fields

Some houses 

We then went to lunch. I didn't really enjoy it... At all. But I did try it. I wasn't really hungry anyhow.

Our Last Greeting!

We then went to say our final goodbyes at the shelter! (ARK) We took pictures and wrote down some English information about them so ARK could post them on their site or whatever they would like to do with them.  Maddi and I teamed up and got pictures of the dogs by the entrance. We then went off to an area we haven't walked down to get some pictures of those dogs. We walked passed a little hut in a shaded area that a lot of dogs were in. Maddi and I just walked passed it. We had no intentions of going up to the hut. Regardless the dogs were not gonna take that as an answer from us. Suddenly, a BIG black dog came CHARGING at us. At first we ran. Then I stopped us. And we stood still. With that big dog still growling and running at us. For a LONG time. Then a corgi who is usually mean to other dogs came and saved us. Maddi and I couldn't have been happier with her. We have a new appreciation for her.

our last goodbyes!

Afterwards, I cuddled with my boy! God I love him. I can't explain. I love him so much.. Like a foster dog that I would keep. I was planning on taking him home. However Hannah told me the vet didn't have the international  rabies certificate. Which DUCKN' SUCKED!! However, I held it together and grabbed my boy, and we sat and cuddled while the other girls took pictures and said goodbyes.

 Then Jane came over and checked on me.... And I lost my "cool". I lost it! I cried. And I NEVER cry!  But I cried, and I cried in front of Jane! I was trying to explain to her that I hate saying goodbye to my foster babies...That I hate this feeling, that I am stronger than this, that I was fine, and how if Winn Dixie was my foster dog he would be one that  would be a hard one to say goodbye to. She told me he would be okay, that he wasn't going to be killed like in the US. But then I tried explaining how this goodbye wasn't the same. This is simply because Winn Dixie isn't going home. He isn't going to a better place. He won't be going somewhere where his life will get better. He will be staying where he is. He will stay at the shelter. Covered in  fleas covered in ticks, with his long hair that gets matted so easily. With the other dogs who can attack and kill him. In a place where he will have to live with worms. In a place where a health condition may  will go unnoticed and  can cause him to go deaf, blind, and will kill him. I explained how this was the one goodbye I have never had. This was a goodbye where I couldn't kiss him on the head and say, " Your life will get better, you lived through the hard part. Hell is over! You are free, you can live a happy life and eat all you want."  I couldn't do that I had nothing good to tell him other than "You won't be killed directly killed by humans, and there won't be any hell for you because you are already living in it." I just couldn't hold it together. That is all I had on my mind. I lost it and I cried! I cried in front of one of the people who I had only known for a few short days, & I look up to her and see as such a strong and tough person. In front of someone who I wanted to like me for how strong and determined I am. I feel so embarrassed! Ugh! It was made worse when Hannah came by! The other person I looked up to. I gained my cool and lost it again when I opened my mouth to talk to Hannah! It was the worse!
Then the actual time came! The time the time to say my final goodbye. I love him so much!! I'm very very very for lack of better  words heartbroken!! If there was one thing I learned in saying goodbye it's NEVER LOOK BACK!

My tearful goodbye

Trying to hide my tears

i'm gonna miss him so much!

Last tick picking

Last look at ARK

After some tearful goodbyes, well I was the only tearful one, we had to decided what to do that night. Jane gave us three options. 1. Go back to Nimmanhaemin walk around, and eat there. 2. Go back to the hostel and have pasta and hang out. 3. Go to a market walk around and eat there.We got home and decided to go for option number 2 and have Jane made us dinner. (Another reason she reminds me of mamma hen! Haha) We had spaghetti and garlic bread with ice cream. Now we are having a movie night! ;)

Movie Night

 Oh and the other group left for an overnight, this morning but before they left I took a selfie with Stephanie!

Much Later: I lost focus on the TV and started writing in Loop's blog. I also skyped a few people and was chatting with Kat over by the computers and Jane was walking around. My finger had been bothering me since dinner but I thought it was just a bug bite. After a bit Jane came to check her stuff on the computer and Kat started chatting to her about college applications. I then noticed that the pain in my finger was from a splinter. Me being such a baby with splinters freaked out a tad. Jane had me soak my finger then took the splinter out. I then got a really weird thai bandaid and was all better!-the end....

Jane stuck around for a bit and gave some great life advice. And some great advice for college for me. Maddi and Texas joined our conversation as well. It was a nice life advice sess with Jane. The four of us really enjoyed it!  We all look up to Jane and Hannah.