Fri 13th May: Cherry and Sugar

Cherry back home and looking very happy

The best news of the day (actually Saturday) is that lost dog Cherry is now safely back home thanks to the efforts of our amazing volunteers, including "Auntie" Sue of course, Stella, Yanni, Xanthe, Gigi, Peony, Yanki and Siu Pang, who were out searching for the entire day and into the night. Cherry had been with us at Tai Po for a long time so she was not just "someone's" dog but "our" dog too, and that meant never giving up. Anyway this particular story is over and has a happy ending, but I have no doubt there will be others.

The volunteers stop for a roadside pizza break

In fact I'm really hoping that the smallish dog I took out of AFCD Pokfulam today is also a lost dog, and that her owner would like her back.  I've called her Sugar because she is sweet and white(ish), and although she wasn't microchipped when she was found wandering in the Aberdeen area it seems that she has been well cared for.  If anyone knows this dog and can let her owner know that she is safe and with us at Tai Po, maybe this story too can have a happy ending.   Sugar looks like a very young dog, even an older puppy, but she's just a smaller-sized adult and a lovely girl too.

Little Sugar may be a lost dog

I had a sad (for me) job to do today, something I'd been putting off for some time even though I knew that the dogs concerned would never make it to the Sunday puppy afternoons again, and that their chances of being adopted under the current situation were no higher than zero.  This is the group of now one year-olds who grew up together but who were never chosen at Whiskers N Paws, or who missed even going over on a regular basis because of the transport problems that started last year.

Aladdin became famous for a while but it didn't win him a home

Today was the day when their paperwork was moved out of the puppy folder and into my Lamma Dog files (although not before they were stolen from the table top and half chewed-up), meaning the end of all hope as far as finding homes is concerned.  Aladdin is the leader of this group, which also includes Poker (the only one of his litter left behind), Magnus, Finn, Opie, George, Tilly, Iris, Gina and Robin, the latter pair being siblings of Martin who stays at Ap Lei Chau.  One day I hope I can find a way of achieving the dream of a home of their own, but until then they will stay with me.

Martin is also still waiting for a home