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| Bertie leaving again |
Bertie's adoption (again) started off the list for December, after his first attempt didn't work out as planned due, I suspect, to the children being over-attentive. He's been nothing but very sweet to everyone at the Homing Centre, so I'm sure this was just one of those things.
Other than the puppies that come to us at an early age we don't know anything about a dog's past, or very rarely anyway. However one thing we're pretty sure about is that the smaller dogs that arrive in groups are related and have always lived together. We can see that the young "P" terriers are brothers, the black-and-white dogs are family, while the "Cricket" group are so bonded that they always sleep together on the same bed. It's always a difficult experience for a dog to be taken away from its family, and while puppies adjust quite quickly, the longer a dog has spent in the company of others the harder that separation becomes. It's not a natural state of being for a dog to be a singleton, and I wish more people would adopt pairs. It's not double the work, it's half, and the only difference is that there are two small mouths to feed.
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| The Ap Lei Chau dogs have always lived in groups like this |
The adoption numbers for November are high again at forty seven, and most of those are the smaller dogs from Ap Lei Chau. However you will see that the incoming total means we have an excess of twenty, not a great situation but expected when the dogs are arriving in large groups.
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