Weds 25th Jan: Puppies will still need homes over CNY

How could you choose?

The two polar bear sisters went off today for fostering with a view to adopting one of them, and the remaining four littermates should be following in the next couple of days.  It's feels like getting ready for a siege when Chinese New Year comes around and everything (except our Homing Centres) closes for the four days of celebration. It's also the only time of the year when there is no Sunday puppy adoption afternoon at Whiskers N Paws, so if you are interested in taking a puppy home to join your family you can do so by arrangement.  We have lots of pups from medium to large (when grown) including two very big and beautiful brothers, Dallas and Cabo.

Dallas is one of Noelle's puppies

I've heard some pretty sad stories during my time in dog rescue, but this one is truly appalling. Someone contacted us about taking in two dogs whose owner had passed away.  The dogs were very much loved and we agreed to accept them, and they arrived at our Tai Po Homing Centre today with a friend of the now-deceased owner.  She told the Tai Po team that the owner had left $4 million to her brother on the understanding that he would take care of the dogs for the rest of their lives, but instead the dogs were thrown out.  With the Chinese beliefs in ghosts and superstition, I hope there is some retribution for such an unkind and callous act.  At the very least if the dogs weren't wanted in the home a donation could have been offered to any charity that would look after them, but no doubt there are jewels, cars and holidays that need to be paid for.

As an update on some of my previous posts, the corgi puppy that was found abandoned in a garbage collection point and suffering from parvovirus made a full recovery and has since been adopted.   However Gem the poodle is still missing after having run off from the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre just the day after arriving, and we assume she was quickly picked up and taken home by someone.  If that's the case then we may never see her again but can only hope that at some time she will be noticed and returned.

As for our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre situation, we will stay for one more year and re-assess the situation then.  Hopefully the surge in rents will have settled and we can combine the office, education and homing centres in one place.  If you want to know more about Ap Lei Chau and the Southern District situation, here's a link to the TVB Pearl Report http://mytv.tvb.com/tc/cat_news/pearlreport/293251