Poor woman with 43 dogs wants help to care for them
A 58-year-old woman who lives on a Bt1,000 monthly allowance from a temple has asked the public to help her care for her 43 dogs.
Wandee Mungkhamen moved from Ratchaburi province to live in a shanty house near Puang Malai Temple.
She said the Bt1,000 allowance was not enough to feed the dogs and provide them with medical care.
Wandee was allowed by the owner of a plot of land to build her shanty house on it. The house has no address, tap water and electricity.
She earns the Bt1,000 by cleaning toilets at the temple.
She said she came to the temple in 2013 to sell a kind of sweet but it did not sell well and she lost money, forcing her to work for the temple.
Wandee said she initially took in 20 abandoned dogs. And after she was allowed to live on the plot, the number grew to 70.
But many of them were run over, leaving her with 43.
Locals erected a net around her house to prevent the dogs running on to the road.
