Please read our COVID-19 update for more information on how the global pandemic is affecting adoption timeframes. We’re confident that timings will return to normal once international transport restrictions are eased.
To the UK
In ‘normal’ circumstances, we advise that the Jai Dog adoption process takes around 3 months from start to finish:
There are a number of factors involved in readying your dog for travel and arranging their journey home, including completing all necessary pre-flight vet testing and paperwork. We will keep in touch with you throughout the process, and send you lots of photo and video updates so you can see how your dog is getting on while you wait.
As soon as your dog’s transport has been booked, we’ll let you know and explain the collection process to you in detail.
From within Thailand
Once you’ve decided you’d like to adopt, we’ll carry out our standard Compatibility Check, after which you can collect your adopted dog whenever you’re ready. The entire process usually takes no longer than a couple of weeks.
To the UK
We are committed to giving as many Thai dogs the chance to live a happy life overseas as possible, and do our best to keep rehoming costs as low as we can in order to facilitate this. We do not charge anything for the dog themselves – the adoption fee covers all elements of the rehoming process, including: flights, vaccinations and medication, microchipping, and travel paperwork.
Our UK adoption fee is: £975
From within Thailand
Adoptions within Thailand are free of charge. As we do not charge a fee for our dogs, the only costs will be your travel to come and collect your newly adopted dog.
If you’re able to provide a donation in your new dog’s name to help contribute towards our rehoming work, we’re always very grateful for gifts of any size.
To elsewhere overseas
We don’t tend to adopt our dogs to countries outside of the UK or Thailand. However, if you have a prior relationship with the charity (for example, if you’ve visited the shelter or adopted one of our dogs already) it may be possible for us to arrange to fly one of our dogs to you. Costs will vary depending on the size of the dog, where it’s being flown to, and a few other factors: the total fee can be anywhere between $800 – $3000. Please get in touch with us via adopt@jaidogrescue.org for more information.
Our standard travel routes vary slightly depending on which flights are available, but the most common route is via mainland Europe. Our dogs are safely loaded onto a flight at Bangkok airport, where they’ll likely travel to Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam.
From here, we work with a network of trusted pet courier professionals, who will transport your dog for the remainder of the journey via the Euro Tunnel. Depending on where you’re based in the country, we’ll work out the most convenient drop off point possible, often a service-station as these are the easiest assembly points for multiple adopters and saves our couriers from having to prolong the onward journey.
We’ll provide you with detailed information about your dog’s flight, collection and subsequent drop off in plenty of advance of their arrival. Please keep in mind that travel plans can be susceptible to change and delays: we do our best to keep things running smoothly, but your patience and understanding means an awful lot when dealing with factors outside of our control.
Yes! All Jai Dogs are microchipped prior to travel. You’ll simply need to register your dog’s microchip to your name once they’ve arrived, for which we’ll provide instructions.
Yes! Your dog will have been administered their full course of vaccinations against diseases including: parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza and leptospirosis.
All our dogs receive a TITER test, an antibody blood test which confirms the absence of a wide number of diseases, including rabies. They are also administered with tapeworm treatment, and all medical paperwork will be officially endorsed prior to travel. Prior to travel, each dog will also receive a 4Dx snap test which tests for six vector-borne diseases, which includes heartworm, lyme, ehrlichia and anaplasma. If tested positive, your dog will be treated with a course of antibiotics to clear the infection.
We regularly treat our dogs for worms, ticks and fleas at the shelter: however, please be aware that no flea / tick treatment is 100% effective. Your dog will arrive with their full vaccination and medication record. Rest assured that your dog will have been thoroughly vet-checked and treated before they fly to ensure they’re ready to start their new lives in the best possible health.
We feel it our duty to also make every adopter aware of Leishmaniasis, a parasite inflection spread by flies. While there is little-to-no evidence of dogs catching Leishmaniasis from Thailand and the disease is mainly found in Southern Europe or anywhere warm where there are sandflies present, we recommend that all applicants read up on the disease in case you plan to take your dog abroad. While it’s an uncurable disease, dogs can live happy long lives with Leish on life-long treatment.
We pride ourselves on our street-to-sofa adoption service and take great care to prepare our dogs for their new lives before they leave the shelter. All dogs are given collar-and-lead training, and we enjoy teaching them basic commands (or more complex tricks to our eager learners!) Your dog will be toilet-trained in their current kennel/farm environment – fair warning, however, this doesn’t always translate to house-training! That said, we find most of our dogs pick this up within a matter of weeks.
With a team of full-time staff living round the clock at The Farm, and a number of regular visitors and volunteers, our dogs have ample opportunity to interact and make friends with different people. They’re also able to socialise safely with other dogs on The Farm, thanks to the ‘bubble system’ we have in place. This means there is far less risk of fighting and territorial behaviour than in most large shelters; the living environment on The Farm encourages them to build good habits around dogs of all ages.
However, please be aware that shelter life is rarely best suited to a domestic dog’s needs and large numbers of dogs living together are more prone to squabbles and scraps. We’re always on hand to break up fights on the odd occasions they arise but you should be aware that, coming from a shelter environment, your dog may need time and training to help them adjust to life in a home and learn perfect pet etiquette.
Fostering a dog is one of the most incredible things you can do to help transform the life of a street dog. It’s a selfless act of love and support that provides invaluable stability at a time a rescued dog needs it most.
In choosing to foster a Jai dog, you’ll be opening your home to them while they await their forever home. We’ll arrange the logistics to ensure that the process is as seamless as possible: your role is to provide a safe space and a happy halfway house for your foster dog.
There are a wide number of reasons that a dog may need fostering. It’s an unfair myth surrounding foster dogs that they are more difficult than most, that they’re “unwanted”. In fact, most dogs need foster care for far less troubling reasons. The most common of these include:
An adopter is unable to collect their new dog on their day of arrival
With limited transport opportunities available for rescue dogs flying from overseas, we’re always keen to take advantage of flight spaces whenever they arise. Sometimes this means a dog’s adopters may not be available on that date (especially if these have changed at short notice) and in these instances, having a foster to bridge the gap for a few days or weeks ensures the dog doesn’t miss their chance to start a new life!
We haven’t confirmed adoption yet
As above, if we feel there’s a good chance that a dog will quickly find a good home in the UK once arrived, and there’s a free space on a freedom flight home, we may choose to fly the dog over and place them in foster care while their permanent home is arranged.
An adopter’s circumstances change
In the rare event that an adopter is no longer able to care for their dog, we may be able to help them find a new, more suitable home. The majority of the time, this need for rehoming bears no reflection on the dog themselves, it’s simply no long possible for their adopters to keep them.
A dog will benefit from in-person meetings
If a dog has more bespoke needs (for example, if they are disabled), we sometimes choose to place them with an experienced foster who can meet with prospective adopters and allow them to learn more about caring for the dog in person. This significantly reduces the risk of the dog being “returned” and provides a vital opportunity for us to find the perfect adopter.
Some dogs may be seeking a bit of extra care and attention – they may have behavioural issues or bespoke needs. In these instances, we usually look for experienced foster carers who have experience training or working with rescue dogs. But many are simply looking for someone to take good care of them while they wait to find their forever family, and in these instances, beginners are very welcome!
As with our adoption service, we pride ourselves on our careful matchmaking process. We know our dogs very well and have a detailed knowledge of their individual needs: this allows us to match each dog to the right home. We take into account your own experience, lifestyle and location as well as the needs of the dog before placing a dog into foster.
If for some reason we don’t select you to foster a dog you may have been interested in, please know that this is simply because we’re looking to find the most stable and suitable home for them to ensure they won’t need to be moved repeatedly prior to permanent adoption. We will of course keep you on our foster list and will be happy to suggest other suitable foster candidates in the future when the opportunity arises.
Our adoption team are always on hand to support our foster carers: throughout the time of your foster, be it for days or months, we’ll be here to help and advise you whenever you need us.
As well as a wealth of advice and support, we’re also happy to provide key resources for those who need them. If you’d like help sourcing essential items for your foster dog (toys, bedding, food, etc.), please don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll do our best to help.
To register your interest in becoming a foster carer for a Jai dog, you’ll need to fill in a Foster Form. This ensures we have all the information we need about you, your home and your lifestlye to hand, helping us to match you to the right foster.
Once you’ve submitted a form, we’ll add you to our foster mailing list to ensure you receive any bulletins regarding dogs in need of foster care. This means you’ll be the first to hear of any new foster opportunities, which you’ll be welcome to apply for.
Sadly, it is not possible to rehome every dog in our care. Age, temperament, disability or illness are some of the factors that determine whether a rescue dog will be able to adapt to life in a new home.
But regardless of whether they end up living in our home or yours, we make a lifetime commitment to each and every Jai Dog: for those unsuited to adoption, we go to great lengths to ensure they have a happy, comfortable, and enriched life at our shelter.
You can find out more about each sponsor dog’s unique history and circumstances on their sponsorship page.
It costs as little as £10 a month to sponsor a Jai Dog. This will contribute towards the monthly food and basic supplies needed to keep them and their friends at the shelter healthy and happy.
You can choose to increase your sponsorship to £25 a month – in addition to their food and supplies, this will cover any medical costs they may incur.
Alternatively, for £50 a month, you can know that your sponsorship has helped still more of Thailands strays, preventing thousands more unwanted puppies from being born into a life of hardship and suffering – for £50 a month, we’ll also sponsor the sterilisation of one stray dog in your name.
If you’d like to set up sponsorship of an alternative monthly amount (£10 minimum), please don’t hesitate to get in touch: info@jaidogrescue.org
Your support will help fund our residents programme, providing food, medication, toys and other supplies for the dogs in our care.
In return for your generous sponsorship, we’ll send you:
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