February 2002: While enjoying a 3-month sabbatical in the fishing village of Bang Saray, British expat Sherry Conisbee first spotted a sad-looking dog she later named “Boy”. Boy’s hair had all disappeared, leaving his skin blistered and scabby. His eyes were caked with infection, his feet swollen and bloody, and he walked with a pronounced and obviously painful limp. Having lived in Bangkok for 5 years, dogs in this state were not an uncommon sight to Sherry, but with more time on her hands, she decided to try and do something to help this dog. After feeding and encouraging him nearer, she tried scooping him up in her arms, but frightened and in pain, Boy bared his teeth and snapped…

That chance encounter with a mangy mutt on Bang Saray’s beach was the start of what emerged shortly after as “Soi Dog Rescue” – an organisation known today as SCAD and which remains dedicated to improving the lives and controlling the number of stray dogs and cats through programmes of adoption, education and sterilisation.

16th October 2002: Soi Dog Rescue – it’s official!
Sherry was joined at the outset by her niece in the USA, Sarajane Daniels, who chose the name, developed a website and established Soi Dog Rescue’s overseas adoption programme. Sherry & Sarajane chose 16th October 2002 as the official start date of Soi Dog Rescue being the date the first rescued puppy in Sherry’s care in Bangkok was flown to the USA to a better life. That pup’s name was SUAY, meaning ‘beautiful’. Within a year, 25 more “soi” dogs would find loving homes overseas.

15 November 2003: Soi Dog Rescue’s first ‘Neuter & Return’ Community Project
20 kms outside Bangkok, Soi Dog Rescue (SDR) volunteers set up a field clinic. Leaflets were distributed asking folks to bring their dogs for rabies vaccination and sterilisation. Worried that no-one would show, volunteers were moved to tears to see a large queue developing an hour before time. Dogs were arriving in golf buggies, trucks, vans and even on motorbikes and bicycles. SDR ran out of rabies vaccinations quickly – they only had 50 - and the local veterinary hospital called in a panic to say they couldn’t take any more street dogs for sterilisation. SDR volunteers had ferried 17 dogs that day to be spayed. It was so successful that on 13 December 2003 a second “Spay Day” on that estate was held – and so began in earnest Soi Dog Rescue’s community-focused Animal Birth Control (ABC) programmes.

January 2004: Added school presentations to our educational outreach.

October 2004: In an effort to sterilise more soi dogs and to reduce expenses incurred in private veterinary hospitals, SDR began operating field clinics using volunteer vets mainly from overseas.

April 2005: Rented land for a permanent spay/neuter and treatment facility.

August 2006: To facilitate legal and administrative matters for Soi Dog Rescue (SDR), a group of Thai supporters led by Khun Panjai registered the Homeless & Sick Dogs Funding Association (HSDFA) to help raise funds and support SDR’s programme activities. HSDFA still acts today as the umbrella organization for SCAD.

February 2007: A landmark! SDR employs its first salaried General Manager to oversee the running of the Health Centre and help expand the community ABC & education programmes.

29th March, 2007: Miss Natalie Glebova, crowned Miss Universe in 2007 and a much-loved celebrity in Thailand well known for her support of charitable causes, accepts the role as SDR’s Ambassador to help promote SDR’s NEUTER YOUR PETS campaign.

July 2007: With an ever-increasing number of cats entering our ABC and adoption programme, SDR decides to re-think its name and make the inclusion of cats official. Soi Dog Rescue became SCAD, an acronym for Soi Cats And Dogs. The word “Rescue” is dropped from the name as neither SCAD, nor Soi Dog Rescue before it, has ever operated a Rescue Shelter for the permanent housing of rescued cats and dogs.

4th October 2007: The lease is signed at "Retails Too" and building work begins on SCAD's Rehoming Centre where the adoptable cats and dogs will be housed.

December 2007: The Rehoming Centre is officially open and all the cats and puppies for the adoption programme move into their lovely new premises.

10th September 2008: The 500th adoption! Kitten, Pridi, goes to a new home marking SCAD's 500th animal to be adopted.

January 2009: Consolidation of SCAD Health Centre, Rehoming Centre and Head Office at one location in central Bangkok.

April 2009: Lovely puppy Santa makes our 100th overseas adoption. Santa flew over to the US to meet his new family. In the same month our 600th adoption was gorgeous cat Faith... poor Faith had been poisoned by the non-caring owner of the apartment block where she lived, so the staff were all delighted when she found a new home in the Netherlands.

November 2009: SCAD's medical team reached their 7,000th sterilisation since the spay/neuter programme began in November 2003.

SCAD’s dream for the future. Please help us to turn it into reality.

• SCAD satellite clinics for Animal Birth Control (ABC) in every district of Bangkok with a qualified vet and support staff and emergency pick-up service.
• Dog and cat adoption facilities all over town promoting adoption of homeless animals with space for out-of-school animal welfare programmes.
• An animal welfare education programme that reaches every child in Thailand.
• A full-service veterinary hospital treating both owned and stray animals, with all profits going to support SCAD’s programme activities.
• A much-needed collaboration of government, businesses, veterinary practitioners, NGOs, hoteliers, tourist authorities, livestock departments, etc – in a Thailand-wide public awareness campaign to promote the benefits of neutering and responsible pet ownership.
• A network of private Thai veterinary hospitals, promoting neutering & animal healthcare and offering low-cost spay/neuter to both owned and stray animals.