Back in July I took a trip to the Noah’s Ark Lodge to shoot for the Noah’s Ark CARES 2011 Calendar. In case you missed the posts on the 2010 calendars just a quick intro to this wonderful place.

It was founded by a man called Raymund Wee who quit his day job to do animal welfare work full time. The huge compound has a over 600 dogs and 300 cats with many of the dog free roaming.

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Given the sheer number of animals, he would not be able to manage this alone and has a team of full time caretakers as well as numerous volunteers.

Volunteers that were with me that day

The dogs there tend to form thier own small packs and will hang about particular areas. Some of the dogs will follow their favorite volunteers (usualy those that rescued them) or thier fav caretakers.

Some portraits of the many many dogs..

Afew cases of species confusion. On the left we have Tumis. Tumis thinks he’s a cat but the cats think he is just a huge smelly furball

And here on the right we have Durian who thinks he is a Horse :O he has a stable next to the three horses that live there and enjoys running with them as well as eating, well, durians.

And then there was Jill who knew she was a dog but still loved the company of cats.

Some cats dont like the extra loving though..

Speaking of cats, there were various catteries of attention starved kitties all around.

You can view the full set of pics over at flickr

Remember the calendars are up for sale and can be ordered over at this link!

If you are not in Singapore or Malaysia you can drop me an email and I’ll see what I can do to help you.