Updates

From the kennels

We post in bursts, mostly when Tom is in Thailand, and whenever the family sends photos. If it has been quiet for a while, the cats are fine. They are just busy sleeping.

Nov 9, 2026

Lomloy needs a home

Lomloy is out of her cone, washing herself and walking around the clinic floor. After five and a half weeks in the animal hospital, nobody has offered to take her in.

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.

Oct 20, 2026

The site is back

Ten years on, julaluck.org is live again, and I'm heading to Thailand with a camera.

Nov 9, 2016

A home for Jumpy's kittens

The two surviving kittens with feline leukemia live in a small cage above the carport. We wanted to build them something better.

Nov 9, 2016

Building the new kennel

Wire mesh, posts and a lot of sweat. A look at the new kennel going up in Chiang Rai in November 2016.

Nov 8, 2016

Room to play

Inside the cat room at Chiang Rai: beds, boxes and a lot of cats in not very much space.