Mon 15th July: Happy start to the week

The big black boy is Fei Jei now Hugo

It's always good to start the week with happy adoption news, and there's another big one from Tai Po as Tibetan mastiff Fei Jai (now Hugo) left the Homing Centre to move in with his loving new family.  The only sad part is that his friend, Fei Mui, is now on her own and in need of a home like her brother's.   Fei Jai/Hugo has proved himself to be remarkably easy and tolerant of even the small dogs in the home, so we expect that Fei Mui will be the same.

Fei Mui is alone now :-(

German shepherd puppy Noddy is also still waiting for his perfect forever home, and although there have been several offers they're not really what I'm looking for.  Noddy is currently enjoying being loved and cared for by my neighbours, so he's got a big space with a garden and full time attention.  At four months he's a big boy, very sweet but a typical puppy in his behaviour and he'd really love to have a dog playmate.

Noddy

As arranged on Sunday, puppy Patch was picked up by his adopter, and as anticipated he's pretty scared in his new home.  It needs to be remembered that for most puppies this will be the first time in their lives that they haven't had other puppies, siblings or not, to play and sleep with, and it can be very traumatic for the less confident ones like Patch.  In the wild puppies will live with their parents and siblings as a family group throughout their life, so it's important that puppies adopted individually should have the comfort of their human family even if they no longer have other dogs around.  Ideally there should be at least two dogs in the home so that there is always a companion, but a single dog can be content as long as the human family include a new puppy in everything and don't keep it separated in a cage, or in another part of the home.  It's a very sad and lonely life for any dog to be away from its family, whatever the age.

Patch going home

Lucky Phoebe has a brother to play with

There was another very happy adoption at Ap Lei Chau as older puppy Phoebe joined her new family, and this time there's another dog for her to play and bond with.  Now only Sadie remains from that particular litter, and she's a wonderful puppy, very pretty, sweet and easy.

Lucky Wilby gets to stay in his foster home

Yet another lucky puppy also had his adoption confirmed after his foster family decided to make his stay permanent, and Wilby also has a big ex-HKDR dog brother to look after him.