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| Someone walked into the Homing Centre with this dog |
As I've written many times before we really never know what to expect on a daily basis, and today's surprise was a young schnauzer boy brought in to our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre by someone who had been given the dog by a friend to look after and then got left holding the baby, so to speak. Actually it's not a baby but only three years old, still young for a small breed, so I think this boy will be in a new home very soon.
Another surprise is that we haven't been inundated with enquiries for the very sweet corgi girl we took in recently, and I can only assume it's because people are now wary of the breed - once the number one fashion accessory - because they have realised they're not that small and often quite bad tempered. Kerry is lovely though, and sweet to all other dogs as well as humans. She went in for her routine desexing today which turned out to be anything but routine as a lot of her internal organs were stuck together and needed to be carefully separated. This often happens after careless surgery when scar tissue forms but in this case it was something else that resulted in the adhesions. Anyway it's all fixed now and Kerry will be ready to go to a new home whenever the right adopter comes along.
A lot of potential and actual adopters ask for background information on the dogs and it's as frustrating for me as it is for them to not know. I don't know why people give up their pets and whether it's due to behaviour or one of the other commons reasons, such as living or moving to a "No Pets" building, expecting a baby or just having no time/interest. We rarely get any vaccination history and don't even know if the females have already been desexed. A recently adopted schnauzer girl taken from AFCD had been picked up as a stray, and when she went to be desexed it was found that it had already been done. Sometimes there's a faint scar but often nothing at all, and while we can assume that males who have no testicles have already been castrated, there are rare cases when both are retained, that is still inside the body.
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| Poor Mango had already been desexed |
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| Cassius has left for his foster home |
Cassius the bulldog went off to his new foster home today, and he is doing well if seeming to be bemused at his new surroundings. It can take some time for older dogs especially to adapt, and even more so if they have spent their whole lives in one previous home. Even something like not peeing or pooing is very common when a dog has always used a particular place and suddenly it's not there, and I know from my own Lamma dogs that they always choose the same precise spot for their toilet needs.
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