Friday, 4 November 2011

Caring for animals in Thailand floods

A Thai boy wades through floodwaters as he carries a dog while leaving a flooded area in Bangkok, Thailand, on Oct. 27. Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane, and train, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a deluge rushed through the city.


A Thai villager keeps his cat dry while wading through floodwaters in Pak Kred district in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, on Oct. 15. Flooding that has devastated great areas of northern and central Thailand has taken nearly 300 lives since July.

A woman floats with her dog in a flooded street in Bangkok on Oct. 31.


A man rows a float with his dog on a flooded road in Bangkok on Nov. 1. Higher than normal tides pushing into the Chao Phraya river from the Gulf of Thailand have complicated efforts to drain floodwaters flowing from the country's central heartland.

A woman carries a cat as residents were evacuated from flooded areas in Bangkok's suburbs on Oct. 20.

A man carries his dog through water around a flooded temple where hundreds of victims found shelter in Bangkok on Nov. 1.


A two-day-old elephant plays with mahout or elephant keeper Suthon Swangwonganan while taking shelter at an area for flood victims in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand, on Oct. 31.




A Thai worker rests next to a dog at a flooded gas station in Bangkok on Oct. 25.


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