When John Dalley held his dying wife Gill in his arms one last time, he made a promise to her, vowing to carry on their work to improve the plight of cats and dogs in Thailand. Recalling the day ...

Mr Dalley said that being gifted a replacement set of legs has been life changing for Cola, who cannot bear missing out on a walk. "You leave him behind, you can't take him for a walk, he lets you ...

“I’d say about 98% of them are domesticated – a lot of them are stolen pets,” says John Dalley of the Phuket-based Soi Dog Foundation. Soi is a Thai word meaning backstreet or alley.

John Dalley was named in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, published on Saturday, for his work co-founding southeast Asia's largest organisation helping stray animals.

Foundation co-founder John Dalley told ABC Cola was on wheels at firs t to keep moving on his back legs and to help heal. He also added that Cola was adapting well to new legs.

Image caption, Cola and John Dalley who adopted him through his dog foundation in Thailand. Mr Dalley said the prosthetic limbs, made by a firm in Stockport, had worked out well.