Weds 27th Dec: Counting the days until January

Baby Griffin at Whiskers N Paws

I got an extra day off today with my usual Wednesday tagged onto the Christmas break, although it was still a working-at-home day as the dogs don't take a holiday unfortunately.  One of the things that I had to do was to go through all of the files to check which dogs were due their rabies/license update in 2018 in preparation for the mass vaccination drive that takes place every January at my house when one of the Acorn vets comes over to Lamma.  It's always a shock to see how much time has passed without me noticing, and there are many dogs due a license update that I could swear were still only a year old, not three.  I also still have quite a few who have been with me since the official start of HKDR in 2003, although most of them have long since departed.  Even my special boy Griffin has all of a sudden become six years old, as has his sister Opal of course, while Murphy is now sixteen and still going strong despite being deaf and blind now.

A much younger Murphy

Teddy is the only poodle that seems to be on the website

In case you had been trying to take a look at our available dogs on the www.hongkongdogrescue.com website, we've been having some problems again with the listings so many dogs aren't showing.  I started to suspect something was up when all poodle enquiries were for Teddy, when in fact we have many poodles waiting for adoption.  Of course Teddy really does need a home, and quite urgently as his foster is leaving Hong Kong for her native Australia very soon, so the enquiries about him were welcome and he will be leaving for a trial on Thursday.

Toffee and Scrumpy love hiking.....

While Teddy needed a special kind of home (no children), we also have other poodles who are easy and without any specific needs or behaviour issues.  Two of them are staying in the same foster home and are doing really well there, living the dream as they enjoy real dog things like hiking and swimming, as well as cuddles in bed with the family.  If you would like to meet Scrumpy and/or Toffee please contact Cindy at foster@hongkongdogrescue.com to arrange.  They aren't particularly young at nine years, but they are still very active and with many good years ahead of them.  Poodles as a breed tend to be long-lived, as are many of the small breeds like Murphy.

.........as well as snuggling in bed

I hope I'm not being over-optimistic when thinking ahead to January and the end of the holiday period, and imagining that adoptions will start up again.  At any other time of the year the two pointer puppies, Dolly and Teddy, would have been in homes within days, although Teddy needs to have his hips fixed and will be seeing Dr Tony on Friday while Dolly will have her turn a day earlier.  Hopefully she will have escaped the genetic hip dysplasia problem, but we will have to wait and see.  Whatever the outcome of the checks and X-rays, these are two absolutely gorgeous and very sweet puppies.

English pointer puppy Teddy