Tues 21st Dec: Winter Solstice and an important announcement

 I realise this is coming a day late, but I hope you all enjoyed a Happy Winter Solstice with friends and family.  I also hope it was an auspicious day to be signing the leases on two new properties which will become the new small dog Homing Centre and the office-plus, the "plus" being the "Red" dogs, shy dogs and anyone else who doesn't fit in at the Homing part of the operation.  We didn't plan it this way, and in fact didn't want to split the two different sections of the Hong Kong Island HKDR Centre, but after searching for many months we couldn't find a space large enough to accommodate everyone, at least in a dog-friendly area that was also accessible to staff, volunteers and potential adopters.  It was frustrating finding a fantastic property as far as the dogs were concerned, but nowhere near an MTR or even on a regular bus route, or another great space that didn't allow dogs. 

How the new Homing Centre looks right now!

So where did we finally choose to move to (I know you're asking)?  Kennedy Town is the answer, which means that the Ap Lei Chau (ALC) Homing Centre will become the KT Homing Centre once we have fitted out the currently bare space, and that will take a couple of months.  For now you can continue to visit us at 5 Wai Fung Street, a place that we will all be really sad to leave. 

Some of you will remember that big day back in May 2010 when we made the "Big Move" from Pokfulam to Tai Po, and how a convoy of volunteers with cars lined up along the road as we filled each one with dogs for the drive to the new space.  That was a day I'll always remember, and when the time comes I imagine we'll be asking for the same, except with fewer and smaller dogs to move the convoy will be less dramatic. 

The dog on the bag of food represents the real dog that will be Preston's "brother"

One dog who won't need to be making that move with us is Preston, a wonderful little boy who was born with a nose defect, but it hasn't affected him at all.  That's just one of the great things about dogs, they don't have mirrors or care at all about how they look, or anything that we humans would consider to be a handicap, they just accept everything and get on with living their best life.  You can see the video on the HKDR Facebook page showing happy Erin and Beemer, both missing a leg but not being in the slightest bit bothered. (https://www.facebook.com/hkdogrescue/videos/1049655602493688).  Both Erin and Beemer are waiting for their forever families, as well as many other smaller dogs and puppies at Ap Lei Chau.