Weds 1st Mar: Piles of puppies

We've got piles of puppies needing homes or fostering

Puppies go to foster homes in waves and come back the same way, and right now we're in an "incoming tide" situation which we urgently need to reverse.  I took three additional babies from AFCD on Tuesday when I happened to be there, and they have joined the recent eight that I already have on Lamma, in addition to those now back at the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre or still in foster homes.  You might ask why I continue to take puppies from AFCD when we already have a full house and the answer to that is very simple.  If I was the sort of person who could just walk by without wanting to help then I wouldn't be doing this work in the first place. All of these puppies are sweet-natured, happy and beautiful, and they didn't ask to be born any more than their mothers wanted to give birth to a litter. It's quite pathetic when people say they want their dog to experience being a parent, especially when it's a male dog, but that's how many dog owners think.

One, Two and Three are the unluckiest pups in HKDR history

Two of the puppies that were returned have already been adopted more than once and they have to be the unluckiest litter in the history of HKDR.  There was no reason to think that lookalike babies One, Two and Three wouldn't be snapped up because they were - and are - small-sized, and indeed they were quickly taken into foster as a threesome to begin with, and were then adopted as a pair and a single, returned and adopted again, and then went back to foster and now two of them are once again back with us.  There's nothing wrong with these gorgeous little puppies (although admittedly one was treated for tick fever while in foster), they have just been incredibly unlucky.

So right now we are in urgent need of new foster homes for all of the puppies, and anyone who thinks they can help out please contact Cindy at foster@hongkongdogrescue.com for details and information.

Goodbye sweet Frizzy!

I know it wouldn't take long at all for the recently surrendered bichon frise puppy (Frizzy) to find a home, and as expected he left today to start his new life.  In his place, although in a completely different age category, we took in a nine year-old peke-ish boy who we had first been told was around three years old.  Apparently a vet had made this assessment, although I suspect the vet may have been suffering from the same eye problem that the poor dog has.  I'm not sure how anyone, even a totally random and inexperienced non-dog person, could have made that mistake.  Still, the dog is with us now so we'll take care of him and treat his sore eyes.

Guess why I called this poor boy Buggy?

We are also waiting to see if another batch of smaller dogs will actually arrive on Thursday.  I have said we'll accept them but in many cases these types never arrive, having been picked up by someone else in the meantime.  That might seem like a good thing, which it may well be, but the concern is always about the adopter's suitability and commitment to long-term care - and desexing.

Summer's new life starts now

Adoptions at our main Tai Po Homing Centre tend to be much slower than at Ap Lei Chau because the dogs there are almost all larger sized adults.  Still, there are luckily some people who are open to taking mixed breeds (the best breed of all of course) and we're always very happy when one of our lovely dogs leaves the Centre.  Today it was Summer whose adoption was confirmed after a trial period, so thank you to her new family for giving a wonderful dog a chance.