Thurs 18th July: Our German shepherds

This Saturday

I still get enquiries asking about dates for our "Adoption Days", so I want to reiterate that every day is an adoption day at HKDR.  We have two Homing Centres that are open to visitors every single day of the year without fail, and that means Sundays, Public Holidays, and typhoons up to and including T10s. The adoption events that we hold are simply in addition to our Homing Centre venues, and we'll be at Concordia Pet Care in Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon with a selection of puppies, and again at Whiskers N Paws on Sunday 2pm to 5pm. However you can meet the same puppies any time at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre if those days and times don't suit you.   Here's the video of last Sunday's Whiskers N Paws puppy afternoon https://youtu.be/QFAvE8ht2iw 


Our main Homing Centre at Tai Po is where most of our dogs stay, and that's four hundred-ish of them.  The site itself is huge and we're incredibly lucky to have it, and it's really worth a trip up into the hills to visit and see the work that we do.  All of the dogs that are living at Tai Po are waiting for homes, and although it's fair to say that a few of them are almost certainly going to be with us until the end we never give up hope that our long-termers will leave before it's too late.  We have dogs of all ages, medium to large-sized, long and short-haired, mixed and purebreeds, in other words the perfect dog for everyone.

Noddy's just starting to get his big boy teeth

Some lucky dogs are in foster homes, like German shepherd puppy Noddy whose just celebrating the arrival of his two adult front teeth.  He's also now fully toilet trained and will wait to go outside in the morning, so he's really ready for his forever home. Unfortunately the family that was going to adopt him didn't materialise so I'm waiting for another one that's suitable for a big and silly pup. 

Cooper is also long-haired but was shaved at AFCD

We still have one year-old German shepherd Cooper at Tai Po, and five year-old Moses, plus Jenna, another German shepherd who's been with us for some time now.  It's not that we haven't had offers of homes, but knowing that there really aren't that many places that are suitable for such large dogs we've been holding out until the right ones come along.  All four of these German shepherds have wonderful temperaments, but they do need space and an environment that is suitable (and by that I mean not busy and built-up city areas).

Jenna is the only girl German shepherd

Beautiful Moses

There was an error in the poster that I shared yesterday, so I want to make sure that the date of the upcoming event "Bohemian Pupsody" is corrected to Saturday 21st September in your calendars if you're going to be coming.