Thurs 22nd March: On the move at last!

Our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre opening party in 2011

I can finally announce that our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre will be moving, not too far away and closer to the dog park, so we have a big task ahead with sorting, packing, renovating and finally moving both the dogs and the office to the new site.   I was at the lawyer's office today signing the lease, and afterwards Iris, Cactus and Ka Yan joined me at Ikea to choose some furniture, which after year of experience of chewed corners will all be metal.   We are hoping for volunteers to help with the move, as well as sponsors to cover the cost of the furnishings and renovation, as this time we want to make sure it's as good as we can make it, and also long-lasting.

There are other considerations too, such as changing the address on all of our cards and literature, so it's going to be quite tedious and a lot of hard work, but we all agree that the new place is ideal in terms of location, as well as uniting the office and the Homing Centre.

After a relatively quiet time in terms of small dogs coming in to our Homing Centre, we're expecting two poodles from the same home breeder as the previous group, as well as another young ex-breeder poodle and a six month-old corgi who already has cataracts.  We should be getting all of these dogs on Friday and will try to arrange for the corgi pup to see an eye specialist in the hope that something can be done surgically to help.

Heal is the blue building at 10 Second Street, Sai Ying Pun

This coming weekend we have two puppy adoption afternoons, with Heal in Second Street on Saturday and Whiskers N Paws on Sunday, so please come to either (or both) to meet the hopefuls.  I'm really a few of the slightly older puppies will be chosen as it's very upsetting for all of us to have to send these youngsters to Tai Po when they have been in foster homes since they were tiny babies.  Emu was the returnee last Sunday, and while they are loved by all the volunteers and have puppy fun together, it's not the same as being in a real home.

Emu is one of a family of black-and-tans, now 4 months old.

Still coming back as a puppy is better than being returned as an adult, and we took back yet another dog today who had been promised a forever home as a baby.  Ironically, just like Candy who was the last puppy-now-adult returned, and poor Chubba who we understand was sent to her death by her callous adopter, at the time of the adoption we had initially rejected the application only to be persuaded by the adopters that they were really good people who would take good care of the puppies for their whole lives.   It really proves that gut feeling and intuition is worth paying attention to.

Poor Rocco is a very sweet boy, just 1 year old

Baby Rocco