Chiang Rai and Bangkok, Thailand

A home for the cats Yeepun saved.

My wife Yeepun spent her life pulling animals off the streets of Bangkok and nursing them back to health. She died in 2016. Her mother and sisters still care for nearly a hundred of her cats, and a few dogs, in three kennels in Thailand. This site is their stories, and a way to help.

How to help Meet the cats
Tiger, years after his rescue from a Bangkok parking lot

Latest from the kennels

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Nov 4, 2026

The yellow house

A normal home in Chiang Rai with a cat kennel built into it, and Lucky, Snow and Manui, about ten years after their stories were first told here.

Oct 27, 2026

Why there is a fence

A pit bull, a canal, and my mother-in-law in the water. The front of Phanu Garden, and the reason it looks the way it does.

Oct 26, 2026

Lomloy walks

A kitten Mee found bleeding at an orchid farm on 1 October could not use her back legs. Twenty-five days later she walked across the clinic floor to Mee's hand.

The kennels

About the kennels
Cham Phak Kut, Chiang Rai

Cham Phak Kut 1

The main kennel, in Cham Phak Kut in Chiang Rai province, on land owned by Yeepun's aunt: a large kennel behind the brown wooden family house.

Cham Phak Kut, Chiang Rai

Cham Phak Kut 2

The yellow house in Cham Phak Kut: a normal family home with a cat kennel built into it. Lucky, Snow, Manui and Gift's family live here.

Bangkok · 18 cats

Phanu Garden

Mee's cats: thirteen at Phanu Garden, the family's place in Bangkok, and five more, Own and her children, at Mee's orchid farm in Nakhon Pathom, thirty-five minutes away. Food and litter for the house cats alone run about 15,000 baht a month, and Mee thinks the real figure is higher.

Their stories

All stories
In memory
In memory

Tiger

Found dying in a Bangkok parking lot, living in a cage made of trash. He went on to a long, healthy life with the family.

healthy

Snow

He fell from under a moving car on a Bangkok bridge. Two months in the clinic and a maxed-out credit card later, he was fine.

healthy

Manui

A black kitten from our nightly walks, rescued from a security guard who was about to put him back on the street.

In memory
In memory

Nuu Yim

A lost kitten who played with a dry leaf in our Bangkok garden until we let him in. Independent, clever, and the only cat who ever obeyed me.

In memory
In memory

Bang-earn

Found sitting quietly in a box by the roadside in southern Thailand. His name means “by chance.” He had FIV and lived in his own room.

five cats, all healthy

Gift's Family

A stray mother cat, a kitten stuck inside a wall in a rainstorm, and a neighbor with small hands. All five are still together.

About this site

Family, not a foundation.

We are Yeepun's husband, parents and sisters. We are not a registered charity. Every gift goes to cat food, vet bills and building better kennels. None of it goes to people. Here is exactly how it works.

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