Tues 11 Jan: Back again

Bernie went home today

 As some of you noticed (and thanks for checking that I was OK), I completely missed writing a blog yesterday.  I was so caught up in multiple things which urgently needed doing that it just got pushed to one side, and then forgotten.  As it happened I didn't have much to write about as the follow-ups from weekend meetings are taking place during the week, but I can now report that puppy Bernie was adopted today, just after his brother Bill left with his new family on Sunday. 

Luna at Sunday's puppy party

Luna was also chosen after a meeting at Whiskers N Paws on Sunday, and she'll be moving to Singapore with her new parents very soon.  I hope that I'll have more adoption news to follow in the next few days, with some happy surprises included. 

Solo was cruelly abandoned

I agreed to take in another puppy because she was a singleton who had been found abandoned on a hillside in the New Territories.  I called her Solo for obvious reasons, and at four-plus months old she's in good condition so has clearly not been living as a stray since birth but had just been taken out and left.  This is what happens when people adopt baby puppies, thinking that it's easy enough to take care of a tiny ball of fluff and that they won't grow too big.  It doesn't take long for such illusions to be shattered and before too long the puppy has to go, one way or another.  I know this to be true because of the number of surrender requests that come in for dogs and puppies that have been picked up, adopted or even bought on a whim, and then the reality sets in.  Taking care of a dog is like having a child that never grows up so never becomes self-reliant, and you have to fully commit to every single day of that dog's life until it dies. 

The two dogs that were surrendered on Sunday turned out to be older than we were led to believe, with poodle Coffee actually thirteen years old (not ten), and Beagle MJ is ten, not eight.  Maybe the ex-owner thought we wouldn't have accepted the dogs if their real age had been declared, but at least we have their correct dates of birth now.  The beagle had surgery on his cherry eyes today, and it was apparent that the condition had been there for a long time.  I'm sure once the post-surgery healing is complete and the eye infection  cleared, MJ will feel a lot more comfortable, not to mention look a whole lot better. 

Now that Christmas and the New Year holidays have passed, we have the Lunar New Year and coming Year of the Tiger to look forward to.  As always we have our special Red Packets which you can pre-order at  https://hongkongdogrescue.com/cny2022/