Tues 7th March: Dogs of all shapes and sizes

Although we're no longer receiving dogs from the Kowloon and New Territories AFCD Animal Management Centres (and don't ask me because I don't know why either), there's no shortage of dogs arriving from other sources, whether direct owner surrenders, those that are found as strays or coming from breeders.  I hope the anticipated breeder dogs coming this weekend are due to the imminent new Animal Trader Licensing (ATL) amendments, and that many other breeders will be following suit and either giving up altogether, or at least reducing the number of dogs that they are keeping to fall in line with the license requirements.

Of course those dogs that are thrown out aren't the puppies or young adults, rather the sick, blind and old, or infertile.  Someone sent me this link to an article about the horrors of puppy mills, although I would also argue that there is no such thing as a good or reputable breeder either.  The fact that dogs are being bred to deliberately produce more puppies when so many millions (yes, millions) are being killed in shelters is hardly humane.  http://m.humanesociety.org/news/magazines/2017/03-04/rolling-stone-puppy-mills.html?credit=web_id254378824

Baloo is a gorgeous and sweet boy

Today was the turn of the new husky Baloo, and fuzzy mongrel Goldie, to go to AFCD for licensing and on to Acorn, and just as I was leaving the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre a pair of pomeranians were also dropped off.  They were father and son balls of fluff, nine and thirteen years old and without microchips or licenses.

Goldie is sweet but still quite scared

Luckily the husky's microchip hadn't been registered so I was able to get the license issued on the spot after Baloo had his rabies vaccination, and Goldie had no chip of course (having been part of a living-wild family).  So with all four new licenses in hand I headed off to Acorn, where I was extremely happy and relieved to find that there was no positive heartworm test and all dogs were in good health, other than the hideous and stinking poms' teeth.  That will need to be sorted out as soon as possible.   The father-and-son couple will have to be adopted as a pair as they are extremely close, but they are so small you'd hardly notice the difference.

Pom Son

Pom Daddy