Chantilly Animal Rescue Taking In Thailand Dogs Amid Meat Trade Controversy

A Chantilly-based animal rescue foundation is on its way to rescue five dogs from Thailand in response to the country’s sprawling illegal dog meat trade.

A Forever Home Rescue Foundation (AFH) plans to bring four of the dogs to the D.C. area this Thursday and another dog on Nov. 23, WUSA-9 reports.

To find out how they could help, the organization reached out to Thailand-based Soi Dog Foundation, an animal rescue that cares for thousands of dogs in Thailand each year.

AFH hopes the move will “generate some buzz in the US about the dog meat trade survivors in Thailand, and that more dogs can be taken from Buriram more quickly with groups like AFH pulling as many as their funds and fosters will allow,” according to the organization’s website. “Dogs have a much better chance of being adopted by good families once they are out of Thailand since many folks don’t want to adopt dogs that they’ve never met, and can’t necessarily afford to have a dog sent from halfway around the world.”

AFH has a history of rescuing dogs where the need for rescue is greatest, from puppy mills in Missouri to the destruction left by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to Virginia neighborhoods where dogs are starved and beaten. The mission isn’t intended simply to bring dogs back to the U.S., but rather to document and raise awareness of the existence of the illegal dog meat trade in Southeast Asia.

Image: A Forever Home Rescue Foundation (Source: Facebook)