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| The 4 new puppies are (from left) Jet, Woody, Chipper and Dotty |
The poodles we were expecting on Thursday arrived today instead, two very happy siblings, a girl and boy. They were surrendered due to serious illness in the family meaning they no longer had the time or ability to take care of pets, not because there is any problem with the dogs themselves. Both licenses had expired so I had to take the poodles to AFCD for a rabies vaccination, and while there I was told there were four puppies waiting for me. They are lovely, healthy and very friendly, and just at the right age for adoption, so Chipper, Woody, Dotty and Jet will be at Concordia Pet Care on Saturday afternoon if you're interested. The poodles are staying at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre of course, so you can meet them any day of the week, every day of the year.
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| Inky and Jacob are just that little bit older |
There are lots of puppies of all ages waiting to be chosen, from the very young ones who have recovered from parvovirus to the slightly older ones, four to five months old. Every age has its pros and cons, with the older ones being already fully vaccinated and ready to be taken for walks, although while still growing the walks should be short and frequent, not long hikes. At four months you can also see more of what the personality and character is, and the baby teeth will either have started to be replaced by adult ones, or almost totally. That means no frenzied attacks with needle-sharp baby teeth, something that all very young puppies do. It doesn't mean they are aggressive or have a behaviour problem, it means they're behaving in a totally normal and natural way, and that's exactly why we always recommend a sightly older puppy if there are young children in the home. As a reminder of the older puppies here's a link to last Sunday's puppy afternoon
The younger puppies almost always attract more attention than the older ones and they tend to be adopted first, but you need to remember that there's really only a few week's difference between two months and four or five months, but a lot less work in terms of training and cleaning up. The benefit of the young ones is that they will grow up never remembering anything else but their adopters, and the transition from Homing Centre to home is pretty much instant.
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| Pancake's only eye will be removed |
We ended the day at Ap Lei Chau with a horrible emergency, thankfully just in time to send pug Pancake to Acorn for immediate vet attention. Like other pugs that came from the breeder-from-hell, Pancake already had an eye problem when she arrived, with one being under-developed and blind. The latest arrival, Twiggy, had the same small and useless eye, and she has now had that one removed. Another one of the first group of pugs that came to us had to have immediate surgery to remove a bulging eye that looked as if was about to drop out and was already blind, and this is exactly what happened to Pancake, very suddenly and without warning. It's clear that all of these pugs are related and being bred with a genetic eye problem that's being passed from generation to generation, and it's as shocking as it is cruel. Pancake will have her eye removed on Saturday which will leave her totally blind. That's not entirely the end of the world, but it will certainly greatly reduce her chance of adoption unless an understanding family can give her a home. (Apologies for the horrible photo but it's important to show what inbreeding means and the result).
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