Weds 31st May: Finally after 10 long years

Our Foster Coordinator Cindy

We have many dedicated volunteers working with HKDR, the too-often unsung heroes of animal rescue, so it's always a pleasure to be able to acknowledge the many unpaid hours of work that they put in.  This time it was our Foster Coordinator Cindy Fong who received the Kiwani Club Community Service Award, and to say it was well deserved would be an understatement.  Cindy works every day and all hours on her volunteering, as well as having a full time job and looking after a human and dog family.  So thank you Cindy, and congratulations!

I'm looking forward to seeing HKDR on Allan's Instagram account

We've had a well known Instagrammer Allan Dixon in Hong Kong this week, and he's due to come to Whiskers N Paws on Sunday to take photos and videos of the puppies to share with his 434,000 followers on https://www.instagram.com/daxon/ after a visit to our Tai Po Homing Centre earlier this week. Sunday afternoons are always fun anyway but this week could be especially so, and hopefully he'll catch some adoptions during the time he's there.

Adoptions are obviously the highlight of any day at HKDR, and probably at Tai Po in particular as we have so many lovely dogs there that are waiting for homes, some of them for a very long time.  For one at least the waiting is over after ten years as Pogo's adoption was confirmed.  You can imagine how happy that makes all of us, not least Pogo himself of course.  Ten years is almost a lifetime for a larger sized dog, but I hope there will be many years of happiness left for this finally-lucky boy.

Pogo waited 10 years but got there in the end

As you know Hong Kong Dog Rescue is a No Kill Organisation, meaning that no dog will be put to sleep for any reason other than if it's genuinely a necessary kindness.  There have been a very few situations when serious aggression has forced us to take that awful step, but they have been very rare (and all purebreeds including golden retrievers and bulldogs, French and English).  So now after having been around since 2003 we are faced with losing many dogs to old age or sickness, and today we said goodbye to Pistachio.  She had been ill for a while and died naturally on her way to Acorn, but in my mind she will always be the beautiful black fluffy puppy from Pokfulam days, the ones I called the Nutcases (Pistachio, Macadamia etc).

One of the black fluffy Nutcases from a long time ago