As all of you in Hong Kong will know, we are currently being battered by a very serious typhoon and as I'm writing this I'm in the direct line of the wind and right on the sea so it's pretty bad. There's already a lot of damage with trees and fences down.
Still, this blog is supposed to be about Tuesday when we were all expecting another typhoon failure, the past few warnings having fizzled out to nothing but a couple of gusts and some rain. It's too easy to become complacent.
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| Tan puppy Jimmy at Tai Po |
It seems ironic writing this today and thinking about yesterday, when we experienced the highest temperatures on record and everyone was suffocating in the intense heat and the terrible pre-typhoon thick air. The smog hung over the city like a blanket, and there was one tragic victim, doglet Jimmy, who had only recently over to Tai Po from Lamma because I wanted him to have a chance of finding a home. He was rushed to Acorn in the morning suffering from heatstroke, and despite "Auntie" Sue's valiant attempts at CPR he had already stopped breathing on arrival. Dr Tony got his heart started again but the damage was too serious and Jimmy never regained consciousness. I had never imagined that a young dog could fall victim to overheating like this, and it wasn't even as if he was exerting himself on a long hike or anything. I feel terrible for the poor puppy, but these things happen and there's nothing that could be done that wasn't.
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| Jolene is a mess, poor girl |
The bulldog Jolene had to be taken to Acorn as an emergency case when one of the mammary lumps burst, and Dr Tony suggested going ahead with surgery and not waiting until after the heartworm treatment. I was happy to agree to that as the tumours may already be quite advanced and she will feel so much better once she's had her eyelid life for entropian, and the half rotted toe removed.
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