My Saturdays recently have been taken over by visits to the New Territories to look at potential sites, not at this point for the Tai Po dogs but more for my Lamma lot, restricted as we currently are by transport and the weather. There's a possibility that this time it might really happen but as always I won't say any more until everything is confirmed. What I can say is that if and when the time ever comes to actually make a move it will require planning on a major scale, and I can't even bring myself to think about the logistics. I've lived in the same place on Lamma since 1986 and my roots are very deep.
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| Patchi has waited many years for this moment |
Anyway that's something for the possible future and for now it's business as usual, with the good and bad to deal with. The good is actually very good, as long-termer Patchi finally left Tai Po for a home of her own. Patchi has been with us since she was a puppy a long time ago so it's really time that she was given this chance. She's always been a very sweet girl but luck wasn't on her side until today.
The bad is yet more adopters wanting to "return" (actually abandon) dogs, one because there is a new baby and the other because they are leaving Hong Kong. Both of these possibilities are addressed very clearly in our adoption questionnaire with potential adopters asked specifically if they would take a dog with them if they moved to another country, and if they had considered future children if young and childless at the time. The dogs are the innocent victims in these cases and it's incredibly upsetting for all of us to have to deal with such situations. Dogs and puppies have absolutely no choice when it comes to adoptions, and while most go to lovely homes where they are loved until the end of their days not all are so lucky.
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| Petra was taken home last Sunday and her adoption paperwork was completed today |
Sunday brings us back to Whiskers N Paws and hopes for all the puppies that they will be the lucky ones. I'll have Stanley and Sandy with me this week, the two Stanley Barracks orphans, as well as the remaining siblings of the three lucky baby pups who have found homes over the past couple of weeks (Debra, Petra and Panda). Sophie and Babette are the only doglets still at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre from the very large group of puppies that moved there early this year when I was in hospital (which seems like a lifetime ago to me), so I'm really hoping that this week will finally be their time.
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| Lulu, six months |
Other hopefuls include pretty Lulu (six months), beautiful brother and sister pair Camille and Buster, best friends Trixie and Fanta, lookalike brothers Sammy and Beefy and many more. You can take a look at their photos on last Sunday's Facebook photo album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1195675133778550.1073742182.111369775542430&type=3.
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| A home for Sammy and Beefy together would be perfect |
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