Fri 22 Feb: Finally it's time for the young puppies

It's time for these kiddies to find their own homes

Three more puppies joined us today from AFCD, now named Smudge, Gilbert and Chimney, and they are available for immediate adoption from our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre, or Whiskers N Paws on Sunday.  There will also be a lot of young ones also making their first appearance at the Puppy Afternoon, so we have planned to keep them inside in the closed-in puppy area while the older ones can play outside on the terrace as usual, weather permitting.  You can never know from one day to the next if it's going to be blazing sun or pouring rain, but I'm sure I don't need to tell you that.

Pancake is such a sweet girl, sadly blind now but she'll cope

We're still on standby for any news of the ex-breeder dogs and their arrival, and it could happen on Saturday or then again maybe not.  I was at Acorn today with pug Pancake, one of the previous escapees from the House of Horrors, as she was having yet another blood test and check-up.  None of the dogs from that place are fully healthy when they arrive, and in addition to ringworm (fungal skin infection), many also have tick fever. Pancake had both of these as well as one small and useless eye, and she is the pug who also lost her other eye last week.  Now she is completely blind but at least everything else is better, and she does also have the best news of all - the promise of a home.  Like all of the pugs, she's incredibly sweet and loves being cuddled more than anything else.

Portia arriving at the Tai Po Homing Centre

Portia left the Tai Po Homing Centre for a trial adoption today, and this beautiful girl holds a special place in my heart.  Well, all the dogs do of course, but Portia very nearly got left behind at AFCD because she was so scared she didn't want to be touched.  It was only thanks to one of the AFCD staff, a man who has a unique connection to the dogs, that I saw Portia was in fact a very sweet and loving girl so I took her out.  The second she was out of the kennel her behaviour changed and there was no looking back.  She loves the Homing Centre and all of her many dog friends, but now it's time to move on to having a family of her own to love her.

Portia's first experience of a real home