Sun 21st July: A sad day

Dorothy needs a home or a foster please

I want to find a forever home, or even a foster, for older puppy Dorothy who is currently staying at Whiskers N Paws and has been for a while.  She's due to be desexed this week but apart from that it's time she learned what living in a real home is like, as well as how to deal with scary things like traffic and lots of people, all the normal aspects of everyday Hong Kong life.  Her brother Perkins is already in a foster home and doing very well, and he is such a gentle boy that he can play happily with the young puppies, while Dorothy is too rough with them.  They're six months old now and both more than ready for their forever homes, although Perkins has a head start by living with a family temporarily.  If you are interested in adopting any dog or puppy please complete the Adoption Questionnaire on our website www.hongkongdogrescue.com (under Adopt), or contact Cindy at foster@hongkongdogrescue.com for information about fostering.

Perkins is a very sweet and easy boy

It's a mystery to me why puppy Judy hasn't been adopted yet

Tiny Z Puppy Zara had a lot of fun playing

Regular volunteer photographer Eric Tang was at Whiskers N Paws today, and as always he did an amazing job at capturing the puppies while they played, then later napped, and here's the album for you to look through  Puppy Adoption Day 21 July 2019.  It was a first time for a few of the puppies, including the Z Litter and three foster puppies, still without names. Two of those nameless puppies were adopted together and (probably temporarily) called Aston and Martina for photo and record purposes.  They should both have been called Lucky really.

Aston and Martina adopted on their first attempt

Dachshund Toffee was adopted 

Over at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre dachshund Toffee was adopted, followed later in the day by Tia, one of the small-sized mixed breeds.

Tia and her new family

One of the many wonderful TNR volunteers who do such amazing work all over Hong Kong, especially in the New Territories and Outlying Islands, contacted me today to tell me that she had found two puppies tied to a tree in the middle of nowhere, and asked if we would accept them.  We don't usually take in puppies this way as there are plenty waiting at AFCD, but because of the great TNR (Trap, Neuter and Return) work this volunteer does I agreed.  The puppies were dropped at Tai Po where hudreds of ticks were pulled off them, one by one.  I can't imagine what would have happened to the puppies if they hadn't been found during a TNR mission, but I suppose the result would have been inevitable.  There are some very cruel people around, that's for sure.

These 2 pups were tied to a tree and left to die

It was a sad day in multiple ways, and more directly for myself and the Ap Lei Chau team because new arrival to the Homing Centre, Dakota, had to be sent to Concordia Pet Care as an emergency case where she later died.  She had been brought to us by some girls who said they had found her wandering on the Peak, and as she had no microchip we didn't have any owner information.  Normally I would take such dogs to be licensed and vaccinated immediately, but as Dakota had bad diarrhoea I chose to treat the gastrointestinal problem first.  She seemed to be fine otherwise but this morning she wasn't at all well, and X-rays later showed acute pneumonia.  Despite doing whatever could be done, Dakota passed away late in the evening.  She was a lovely dog, young and very sweet, but whoever was heartless enough to have dumped her - and almost certainly without having had any kind of vaccination - needs to know the consequences.

Dakota arrived on 16th July and died today