Mon 21st Jan: More and more unwanted puppies

Four of these were from AFCD today

I can't say it enough times, desexing is an absolute must with all dogs as the only way to prevent the thousands of unwanted puppies that are being born all the time.  I don't care if your dog is a purebreed that you bought for a lot of money, all animals have the same sex drive and strong urge to mate when in season if a female, and any time for a male.  The number of times we hear "it was an accident" is really upsetting, as if the owners of the dogs were completely ignorant about how babies are made.  To make it easy, if you have a male and a female and they haven't been desexed, they will produce puppies.  The lucky few that are born unwanted will be taken in by rescue groups but there are just too many to say yes to all.  Of those taken in it will again only be the lucky few who find good homes, the majority ending up in really awful homes where they are likely to themselves be having puppies at a young age, or end up on the street. 

Another new litter are now safe and warm 

Talking to other rescue groups we are all experiencing the same, multiple requests to take in litters of puppies, and the problem will never go away until people start taking responsibility.  One request was from someone whose dog had just had a litter of twelve, yes twelve puppies, for the second time.  That is totally unforgiveable.  At AFCD there is a dog with a litter of nine, currently too young to take from their mother but we will start removing them when they are three weeks old to allow for adequate milk for those that stay a bit longer.  We'll need foster homes for these babies so please let Cindy know if you can help by emailing foster@hongkongdogrescue.com.

By the end of today we had eight extra babies in addition to the puppies we already have at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre, with a further two coming back from their new home when the adopters admitted they had made a mistake.  Better now than later, but still it's upsetting that adopting impulsively happens even with seemingly sensible adults.

Swimmer is a very lovely boy

As well as four babies, I also took a young adult from AFCD Pokfulam, a very lovely boy who had been spotted swimming in the water in the Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter and luckily fished out before drowning.  This boy is now called Swimmer and you can meet him at our Tai Po Homing Centre.  I esitmated him to be young, maybe a year old, and he's very sweet as well as being a handsome boy.

Squash with the long legs and determined face

Pug Squash was adopted almost as soon as the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre opened, so we now have two left from the first ex-breeder group with the two new ones bringing the number back up to four.  It's been lovely seeing their individual personalities start to show, with Squash being the funny-bossy one.