Our friends at Musa Masala asked if we wanted to talk more about dogs in Nepal and what it was like to volunteer there- you know can’t say no!
I first visited Nepal in 2007 and stayed until early 2008. Freshly out of university I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I was interested in learning about people thanks to a degree in cultural anthropology and a prof who did her research in Nepal. I also knew I liked hiking from living close to mountains and spending summers camping as a child. But other than that… what did I like, what didn’t I like?
I met Jan Salter, the founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre, (KAT) in a bakery in Nepal in 2008. She seemed like a neat woman and, as everyone has a story in Nepal, we started talking. She told me of the cruel and sadly predictable way the government tried to stifle the street dog population in Kathmandu: culls and poisoning. It wasn’t that they were heartless, it was that 2/3 of rabies deaths in the world were in Nepal and India and they didn’t believe there was another solution to protecting their citizens.
To read more check out the full article here: https://musamasala.com/animal-experience-international-in-nepal-with-nora-livingstone/
