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Introducing my waggy tailed friends on the Isle!

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Dogs on this Island generally have a decent life. Most roam as they please (being locked up here is as rare as a full bowl of delicious doggy treats). They go to the beach, visit friends and ‘make love’ as is the description used by one of my Thai friends.
 
They usually have homes and are fed. Most need a good tick and flea wash, but those that feed them don’t seem to be too concerned about their furry skin states. There is one beautiful Thai lady that washes her four dogs every second day in the sea. They have soft fur and gentle personalities. They sleep with her every night in her little bed. 
 
Introducing Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is the boss of the beach I live on. Man about the town one might say.

He is a solidly built dog with a deep bark. When he calls, other dogs come running. He leads the others on the beach. He fights with any that stand in his way. He’s not afraid of getting hurt. He has scars to prove it. 
 
Coca-cola has a tough exterior, but he is a real softy inside. He wags his tail furiously whenever I am around, and he willingly gives me the best access to his chest and belly. Although sometimes I think he’s divided between a good belly rub or a hip massage. More often than not, he gets both.
 
 
Maleficent Marka
 
A bundle of voluptuous rolling joy. She is beautiful! As all puppies, unless she is chewing you or something else, she won’t sit still. I sacrificed my hand to take the first shot!
 
She likes to play games and if you give her any attention she will bound, roll and grab you when you least expect it! 
Aint nothing cuter than some puppy paws!
Introducing Soda
 
Soda is my good farang friend’s dog. He loves to ride on motorbikes with his human, standing on his back legs with his paws on the handle bars (making one think he’s driving!).
 
Soda sleeps on his human’s bed every night (one could say it was his bed really). He fiercely protects her. Especially from any other potential interlopers (other strays who might also want a loving home!).
Soda’s bed
 
A beautiful baby!




Playful Pluto (or Todo)

Pluto was picked up only a few weeks old at a temple on the Island. Most Thais don’t neuter their dogs, subsequently boxes of puppies turn up around temples and other places (there is also a dog and cat shelter for the many strays on the Island run by some farangs).

 

 
Loving the sand!

My good friend saw the notice on a community website and fetched her. 





She loves chewing, playing with humans and digging in the sand. Her love and joy are evident when she’s around her ‘pack’.

A current pic – she’s growing up!


Her name is Pluto, but one of our good Thai friends began calling her ‘Todo’ which means little dog. It stuck.

These are two friends I met in Koh Tao recently.  I watched them eating their eggs, gently picking up the pieces, and consuming them one by one. Such polite souls!

 

She was just so cute and delicate!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And some other friends I met briefly on other beaches in Phangan:

 

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