This dog is called "Lung" (pronounced "loo-ng") and he has been staying at the Tiger Cave Temple for around 3 years.   He has in the past been a bit too aggressive towards other dogs especially when it comes to food.  This shouldn't happen because at the Tiger Cave Temple it is one of the few places in all of Krabi province where all the dogs staying there have more food than they actually need.  Some of the dogs there are actually overweight and could stand to lose a few pounds.  

Lung was recently one of the few male dogs that we took to get sterilized - due to financial restrictions we normally will only sterilize females.  Ideally we would like to sterilize all of them but we simply don't have the funding.  Lung was chosen for sterilization because when you sterilize a male dog it will normally have a calming effect on them as well as prevent a ton of potential diseases in their future.   

Since we hadn't sterilized a male dog in quite some time, I wanted to come back and check on him regularly after we dropped him back off post operation.

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Lung is the one on the right and the one on the left is just a buddy that he frequently hangs out with.  Like most of the dogs at the Tiger Cave Temple none of them are very difficult to find other than "Panther" who likes to hang out on the top of the mountain.  Despite having this rather enormous plot of land, all the dogs that live there tend to stay in the same little area and while I think this is lazy of them, it does make my job a lot easier when I have to find a particular dog. 

I don't normally go to the temple at night and this time, even though they know who I am and are mostly accustomed to seeing me, there as some territorial barking at me when I first got there.  Once they saw that it was me the barks turned to tail wags because they know that I am that guy that always comes with food gifts. 

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Now Lung isn't one of the dogs that I would try to pick up or even handle all that much because he does have a rather aggressive attitude.  He is one of the few at the entire temple complex that behaves this way.  So even though he is wagging his tail I still approach him with caution and people out there in the world really should do the same.   I've seen plenty of people that have gotten bit by a street dog and this isn't because the animal is mean or anything like that, it is just that they aren't really all that used to humans touching or even approaching them.  

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A good trick it to just let them come to you.  Even if you mean no harm, if you are approaching a dog that doesn't want you to approach it, it can trigger a violent response.   

At the moment Lung is on a tapered down diet including milk, rice, and softer food while he recovers from his recent surgery.   It was good to see that he is moving around and not licking the recently operated on area excessively, as dogs tend to do.  

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I made sure Lung got his food, gave him a couple of treats and since he wasn't in the mood for being handled a great deal I just left it at that.  He'll come to me when he is ready.  I think we have made real progress because even though Lung wasn't exactly wanting to shower me with kisses, he did sit a little bit away from me and we just chilled like that for about 10 minutes before I got back in my truck and left.  

He is doing fine and since it has been a week or so since the surgery, I think we can conclude that he is going to do fine.  It's good that this has been a success and we have asked the monks to keep an eye on him to see if his bullying ways have tapered off a bit.   I don't normally do night missions, but at the end of my regular work day I started thinking about Lung and was wondering if he was doing ok.   I left there with my mind at ease.  Lung is going to be fine.  

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