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Thank you for all your videos Niall, whether they be happy or sad or difficult to watch. You’ve made a big difference in my life - I also suffer from anxiety and I worry about a lot of things in my life and difficult decisions I have to make. Your videos are one of the few bright spots in my life and I look forward to them every single day. Keep up the good work Niall. I’ll try to help out as best I can with my donations and sharing your stories on my IG page. Saving one dog will not change the world, but for that one dog, its world will change forever.

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Dear Niall, I hope that you will not second guess yourself or your decisions. If you never helped another dog, you have done far more than the rest of us will do. Every day, so many of us reach for our phones to get an update on the dogs. You have made us care about & love each one of them. The sad & horrible parts of their lives, the rescues, feedings, vet visits, surgeries, adoptions, the happy beach days, walks, new beds with stuffed animals, swinging in the hammock. They are all a piece of the fabric of their lives. Thank you & your team for all that you do. You change lives, both canine & human. I have donated once & will do so again when I can afford it. Take care & be kind to yourself. 🙏💜🐶🐕

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You are getting it 100% correct, Niall. Your positive (pawsitive) posts are eagerly awaited around the world & are achieving all your goals, and with bells on them! I hope donations are also reflecting this. Keep on doing just what you are doing & people will respond (& learn kindness to all), just by seeing Jumbo’s delighted grin, Tina’s “if I am dreaming, I never want to wake”, Penny’s joy despite the horror. And your chuckles, your caring head-pats & belly-scratches, to which each dog responds with absolute joie-de-vivre. Thank you ten thousand times over🙏🏼

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Niall you are literally one in a billion and you should continue doing exactly what you’re doing as you are literally changing lives for the better on a daily basis! Nobody wants to see or hear some of the horrific stories about the cruelty these wonderful animals have to often endure and your approach is exactly what is needed to bring a smile to the faces of thousands of people worldwide! Thank you for everything you do for me, for the dogs and for countless people around the world who smile as a result of you’re hard work and dedication.

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Owww the picture of Lady “swimming” with the noodle is adorable! You can just feel her enjoying her swim. Always great to read about your life Niall. Chuckles (the 7-11 visit) and tears (how can people abuse those innocent dogs) fight eachother while I’m reading. I cannot always watch the videos because they upset me so much, but your stories leave me feeling happy for the dogs. Thank you for all that you are doing.

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Reading this bought a tear to my eye, you are 100% correct, watching you and the dogs does brighten my day, especially the beach visits! I can have depressed days and social media content largely only compounds that, until I look at your stories! 🥰 I am a recent follower of yours and I think the work you're doing is truly inspiring, you're making such an important impact by helping so many dogs everyday and you can see that in how the dogs love you.

Thank you from a vet in the UK 🙏🏼🐕

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Everything you have said touches a chord Niall. Your approach to solving the problem of street dogs is admirable and clearly successful. I look at your videos and posts every day and they lift my heart. They are light in the darkness of a mad world. Thank you for all you do. Big love right back to you, your dogs and your helpers 💕💕💕💕💕

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I could write endlessly about what you are doing but I keep it short and simple.

I will always donate to you because your content gives me so much joy and hope. Sometimes anger about the people who torture animals but mostly joy.

Keep up the good work, we really appreciate it!

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I'm awake at 3am..first thing I do is go to your page on Twitter. First thing! I would give everything to logistically, financially and emotionally do what you do. For many reasons I choose to play it safe and stay in my little world. Because of you and your videos I can at least, through you feel somewhat satisfied in this crazy, scary world. Your dogs are in it too...they suffer, if not more than we do. I do believe that the suffering we as humans feel are extremely important to rid, ease, help,and eliminate the pain we feel for their's so please please post and support both, we need them just as much as they need you. I have shared talked about, written tweets to the President of the USA to acknowledge and support you. I will continue to do that because that's what I can do from my little suffering place in the world. I feels like as you said, it's not enough. There are millions of us that feel the same way about our lives and what we're doing in it. Supporting you and all the gang is the least i/we can do and the most I/we can do to continue to help. It's an absolute honor to watch, be part of and share financially (small) to the monumental , life changing, amazing love you get to share with us and your beautiful pups everyday.

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This is exactly why I’m addicted (in a good way 😁) to viewing your posts on social media. As I love how you share inspiring posts of the dogs & the work your doing. Seeing Tina at the children’s school made me shed tears of happiness as she is giving back & getting lots of 💖 that she deserves - it’s a win win.

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Hi Niall, I just wanted to say keep doing what you do. Your posts of the dogs having fun and being happy is absolutely the highlight of my social media timeline. Thank you for all you do and I hope you never lose your ambition and compassion. God bless you and your dogs.

Best Wishes,

DC

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Niall, you're spot on. Even for your own head and heart it's better to try to focus on the positive. It isn't always easy and there will always be low points which is why it is essential for you and the dogs to have these outings. You have to celebrate the milestones and the love stories or you risk becoming burnt out too.

I love all your stories and all the dogs and i know this is an intense responsibility in itself that you feel deeply but i never take you or your time for granted ❣️

Never apologise because you feel you owe us anything. You don't ❣️ thank you for helping those beautiful dogs and please mind yourself too 🙏

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Thank you so much Niall for loving these beautiful souls who deserve the best life they can live. I hope McMuffin will be okay. I love hearing about her and all the other dogs. When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is look at your posts. Have a great weekend Niall take some time for you ❤️

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May 20, 2023·edited May 20, 2023

You are amazing and I wish I could be able to save so many dogs like you as there are so many strays here in Bali as well. I am still rescuing dogs that I can and rehome them but I know as an Independent rescuer, it could be so exhausting sometimes. Please be safe, healthy, and have a long life Nial. We love you and appreciate you so much! 🥰

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Thank you for the update and thank you so much for everything you do for these dogs and for us, your followers on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube 🙏🏻🥰.

I am happy and very grateful for every type of contents you are providing on different medias. Giving each dog a name, descriping their personality and telling their individual stories you bring them so close. They starts to feel like friends to me and I as well as so many other followers care for them as if they were part of our own families.

It is a happy day to see them getting better and their joy is my joy as well, their suffering makes my heart suffer too. I am espcially worried that the human tortured Penny or the ones that kept Tina on a short leash without proper care will take another dog and do the same. I really don't know what can be done to stop that happening again 😔. Isn't cruelty towards animals punishable act by law in Thailand ?

Can these people be held accountable for their actions ?

Thank you for visiting local school with Tina and telling and showing her story to the children. It is so important to show them that animals are just like us, they feel pain and sorrow, joy and happiness, every life matters. When you get that message as a child you hopefully will remember it as an adult too.

I wish you strength to keep doing what you do 🙏🏻I think you are doing all the right things in right order🥰 I am sending virtual belly rubs to every street dog and wishing you all great weekend ❣️

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You are so right. I cannot bare to watch endless suffering videos. It honestly immobilizes me with secondary trauma. I can't say I am more likely to reach for my wallet, either. Your work makes me want to watch every day. Check up on these babies as I feel like they are part of my life and that sense of belonging in caring results in $. Unfortunately, that is a large part of what is needed to end this crisis of animal suffering. Imagine if the humans who had these animals near them had all the $ they needed? I believe that would result in seriously decreasing dog and cat suffering for sure. Big issues, big problems, but one small step at a time and changing one's attitude to hope is a start!

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