Mon 12th Dec: An early Christmas surprise

 Is there ever such a thing as a normal day at HKDR, other than normal meaning crazy in most languages?

"F" is for fluffy 

I did have some plans, but they were nothing more than having to meet up with Margaret, our HKDR Administrator, to update my HKID on some documents.  We'd arranged to do this at the Elgin Street location so I could take a look at the "F" puppies and see how they were getting on, and I was reminded of just how fluffily gorgeous they are.  A few are still a little bit shy, but others are very happy to say hello before flinging themselves back into the wrestling games.  

What changed what was supposed to be a relatively quiet day into mayhem was the message that arrived while I was walking the dogs in the morning, asking if we could take in quite a large number of dogs and puppies.  I asked for details of size and was told they were small, or smallish, so that was OK, but still, accommodating seventeen newcomers in one go was never going to be easy.  They all had to start off being checked at our North Street Centre, and I arrived there halfway through the process.

A totally mixed group of adults

If you had to describe what kind of dogs these are, if you can imagine wearing a blindfold and picking a variety of breeds to mix together, the result would be what we got.  There's one dog, now called Hector, who's the size and shape of a corgi, but he has the large head of something completely different. Helga is a petite scruffy terrier type, while Helen and Harlow appear to be related and are more medium than small.  Hester looks very much like the oldest of the puppies, a very cute black boy now called Harvey.  He's about five months old and he's definitely going to be  a small dog (as an adult). 

The head shots of the dogs and puppies can't convey what they really look like, or their size, so we're going to have to sort them out properly and decide where they're going to be staying.  The puppies do look as though they're going to grow to be either small or medium sized adults, but we can't give any guarantees about final size unless it's really obvious (like little Harvey). 

Tuesday will now mean more vet visits for health checks and licensing (for the adults), and hopefully sending some out to foster homes.  We're always worried about the health of these intakes as we have no idea where they have come from, although it does seem that at least some of the adults have been in homes before. 

Watch this space for updates if you're interested in potentially adopting, and in the meantime remember we have plenty (meaning a lot) of puppies and adults that are fully ready to go to their forever homes.