Mon 22nd Feb: Puppy Sundays

I'm not sure if this link will work but I wanted to share the lovely photos of our available puppies, all of whom you can meet at Whiskers N Paws every Sunday from 2pm to 5pm.  Our website is down at the moment so there are no dog photos or profiles available to see other than on our HKDR Facebook page, but in any case we don't include puppies as they grow and change so fast.  With luck they are also adopted before there is time to sort the photos out and post them, but this year so far has been a difficult and slow one.

Hong Kong Dog Rescue (HKDR) added 76 new photos to the album Puppy Adoption Day 21 February 2016 — atWhiskers N Paws.

Published by Semirah Darwin · 12 hrs · 

All photos by Chantal Brands of Capture Life by Chantal at Whiskers N Paws.

I spent today getting two of my Lamma dogs to Acorn for dental treatment, one of them being my 14 year-old little dog Murphy, and the other another long-term senior called Ginny.  Murphy has been and always will be mine, in the sense that he chose me the minute we met at AFCD, while Ginny is a very sweet and easy girl who should have been adopted a long time ago.  So many of my now-old Lamma dogs are lovely, gentle characters, and I am surprised at how calmly they accept the trip to the vet having not seen a car or busy streets for pretty much their whole life.  Without a van I had to walk along Second Street in Sai Ying Pun to find a taxi, and both dogs trailed behind me as though this was something they did every day.

As happy as I was about that, I was also pleased to find out that Murphy is very fit for his age, with everything checking out fine in his pre-anaesthetic blood test and only three teeth needing to be extracted.  Ginny, on the other hand, had many that needed removing although she is also fine in all other respects.

Now that so many of my early HKDR dogs are reaching their senior years the need for veterinary attention becomes increasingly necessary, and the value of the Life Saver Club sponsorship ever more apparent.  Other older Lamma dogs such as Cindy and  Hilton have required surgery for cancer, while Jeremy is another recent casualty with a detached retina and early signs of kidney failure and little Sandy hangs on life with stubborn determination.

If you can help with contributing towards the cost of giving these older dogs, both on Lamma and our two Homing Centres, the care that they need you can do this through sponsoring via our Life Saver Club volunteer Shaline at lifesaver@hongkongdogrescue.com.  Thank you.