Meet Dominique Rousselle, a 70 year old retired schoolteacher devoting his golden years to rescuing stray dogs from Thailand and Egypt and relocating them into loving homes in Canada, where he lives.
Dominique is the cofounder of ‘Dogs without Collars’ an animal rescue on a mission to find loving forever homes for healthy, homeless dogs from parts of the world where there is no possibility of them being rehomed. He’s flown over fifty lucky street pups from Thailand to Toronto at his own expense and has kept his international rescue operation going through COVID-19 with the help of social media and crowdfunding.
For over fifteen years Dominique has been rescuing homeless dogs, starting as a volunteer dog walker for the Toronto Humane Society and then travelling to Thailand every year, where he spends a month riding a bicycle around the streets to care for stray dogs, feeding them and treating them for parasites and infection, often paying their veterinary bills out of this own pocket. On a typical day he’d care for 40 dogs and pay to have 10 dogs spayed or neutered weekly to reduce the number of strays wandering the villages of Thailand.
''If one day I get too old to go around on the bike to help these dogs, I still want to take care of them, even if it is only one or two. At least I get to help them."
