Having battled addiction and saved himself, Niall Harbison has become a saviour of Thailand’s street dogs

Niall Harbison is very slightly late for our Zoom chat, but is full of apologies all the same. “I’m never late,” he insists, talking to me from his cottage in the middle of the Koh Samui jungle. “I got caught up in a dog drama. And now I’m pigging out on chocolate,” he says, waving a Kinder bar wrapper in the air. “It’s been a tough morning.”

He’d received a text from a local person warning him that seven puppies were about to be killed – either by being crushed by a bulldozer or poisoned by site workers. The litter was living among rubble on a building site, the mother nowhere to be seen; the building work was starting first thing the next morning.

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