We are delighted to announce that Butternut Box are partnering with Dog’s Trust, with our shared goal to make the world a better place to be a dog!

During this partnership, Butternut Box will support the Chonburi Project – a Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return, Programme (CNVR) in Thailand, over the next two years.

🐕 Reduce the number of roaming dogs in Thailand and improve their health and happiness.

💉Reduce rabies cases and bite incidents and work towards making the province rabies-free.

🐾 Improve human attitudes towards dogs so that people and dogs can live happily together.

Our charity mission is to provide safe shelter, basic care, and full bellies to dogs in need. Everywhere.

This mission can sometimes take us out of the UK and lead us to international projects, which are often overstretched and underfunded. It’s here where our support is needed most. It’s also where our funds can go even further, so we can make the most impact and help even more dogs in need. The Chonburi Project is a wonderful opportunity to do just that.

Dogs Trust aim to be a global force for good in dog welfare, doing whatever they can to help dog lives life to the full. Meanwhile, we at Butternut Box are working to provide safe shelter, basic care, and full bellies to dogs in need, everywhere. So it made a lot of sense for us to team up.

We have a shared goal for every dog to be safe, happy and healthy. That’s dogs everywhere, including roaming dogs you may have spotted (and possibly fallen in love with, we wouldn’t blame you) on holiday or whilst travelling. Together, we’re committed to improving the lives of those dogs, one vaccination at a time.

There are an estimated 8 million roaming dogs throughout Thailand. That’s dogs that could be roaming freely within their community and have someone (or a few people) to take care of them, or they could be stray dogs who survive on their own.

They live very different lives to our pet dogs in the UK. Without vaccinations or neutering, they face disease and overpopulation, which can have heartbreaking effects on their wellbeing. Rabies in particular is a fatal disease to both dogs and humans transmitted through infected saliva, often after a dog bite. With no cure, it tragically claims thousands of lives each year.

Without effective healthcare, the number of roaming dogs in Thailand will keep growing, their welfare and relationship with the human population will suffer and rabies will keep claiming lives.

Support a Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (CNVR) drive in Chonburi, a province in Thailand where there are estimated to be around 100,000 roaming dogs. The expert mobile clinic team aims to neuter and vaccinate 40,000 dogs over two years.

CNVR drives are the most effective, sustainable and kindest way to control the dog population and combat rabies. They’re already working well in other areas of Thailand such as Bangkok. This drive is being delivered by an animal welfare charity in Thailand called Soi Dogs, who Dogs Trust have been working with since 2016.

Our hope is that an effective CNVR drive will improve the relationship between humans and dogs, helping them to live together in harmony and creating the possibility of a sustainable, healthy future for the roaming dog population.