You may have seen us talk about being a "No Kill" organisation without understanding what it means. Quite simply, it means that once a dog or puppy comes to HKDR we promise to care for him or her for life, with euthanasia only being an option when the dog is very sick, old or suffering and it's the humane thing to do. It's one of the reasons why we can't operate on an open-door, all welcome policy, which would become completely unmanageable very quickly. We're asked all the time to go out to pick up strays that people have seen, however not only is that an impossible task, but these dogs are often born wild and would never adapt to being in kennels, let alone homes.
Even so, with few adopters willing to consider adult mixed breeds, we always have around four hundred dogs at our Tai Po Homing Centre at any one time (that number being the limit), and both Kennedy Town Centres being constantly full, even if the turnover of smaller dogs is much higher.
We also have a group of what we call "Red Dogs" at Kennedy Town, these being mostly poodles who have defensive behaviour problems. They're not bad dogs, they just need understanding and patient adopters who can see them through the initial period of not really trusting, but of course they're not suitable for homes with children or for inexperienced adopters. Given the choice of a sweet and friendly dog and one that is challenging, of course almost everyone opts for the former, so the "Red" group stay with us until they get old.
From time to time, and really very rarely, a "Red" dog is given the chance to start a new life, and today that happened to poodle Carrot. He has been with us since he was a youngster twelve years ago, so you can imagine the joy and excitement of the staff and volunteers who have known Carrot all that time. I don't know if I should even be writing about this as Carrot has a week's trial period, but his adopters have previously taken other "Red" poodles home with great success.
As Carrot left Kennedy Town today, we took in another young poodle boy, now called Rowan, as well as another puppy, Riley.
On Monday we received three other puppies, a French bulldog and a corgi, with Rosie the corgi leaving today after a very short stay.
Almost all of the dogs are very sweet and not at all "Red", so I want to share the list again as we already have so many Small Dogs available in KTHC (FEB2025).,
As always, if you're interested in adopting, take the first step by completing the questionnaire at www.hongkongdogrescue.com/adopt/adoption-questionnaire/.
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