Every morning when I wake up and put on my glasses the first thing I look at online is this feed by Niall Harbison. It never fails to get my day started in the right frame of mind. (That link is to his Twitter feed, but he also posts all the time on Instagram.)
Niall lives in Thailand and runs a street dog rescue. Every day he has an amazing story about what he does often featuring the story of one dog he’s found in some terrible situation whom they bring back to what he calls “the land” and they fix the pup up both physically and psychologically. Then they find many of them a home there in Thailand and all over the world. One of the dogs was even adopted by Liam Gallagher from Oasis
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He also runs sterilization clinics, feeds hundreds of street dogs and gives medication to those who need it every day. And he works closely with the locals to help them take care of their dogs and provides education and medical care. His rescue operation, in which he employs a number of Thai helpers and which also has dedicated volunteers, has satellites in several places around the world and he’s in the process of building an animal hospital on the rescue property.
He is the heart of the operation, a man who just a few short years ago was suffering from alcohol and drug dependency who was saved by saving dogs. It’s a great story. And every day he shares a series of posts about a dog who’s been rescued, rehabbed and very often eventually finds a home. You can see them come back to life and become loving pets after enduring unspeakable hardship. It will make your day.
Here’s a recent one that made me smile the whole day: