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| Teddy chose newspaper as his bed poor boy |
I thought it was going to be a regular weekday with not too much happening other than the intake of new dogs and puppies from AFCD, and they did arrive as planned but so did another dog, a stray teddy bear. He was brought to us in time to join the others going to Acorn in the afternoon and it was no surprise to learn that he's got heartworm. You can pretty much guarantee that any dog living in the New Territories or Outlying Islands and not on heartworm prevention is going to be infected, and while it's not such a high risk in urban areas there are mosquitoes everywhere. Teddy, as he is now called, didn't have a microchip so he was given the age of nine along with a chip and rabies vaccination. He seemed tired and obviously confused, but the blood test didn't show any problems other than heartworm so after he's settled I hope he'll be fine. If anyone can give this sweet boy a home or a temporary foster care please do let us know.
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| Twiggy and Dobby going home together! |
While I was at Acorn with the dogs, including poodle Penny, I got the news from Ap Lei Chau that Twiggy and puppy Dobby had been adopted together (yay!) while at the same time another older puppy was going home for a trial with ex-HKDR doglet Farley. No names yet but I hope and expect to be able to write "adopted" very soon.
I mentioned Penny because her case is an unusual one, and sad too. She was surrendered to AFCD by her owner who told the staff there that she had an incurable disease. However she was lively and appeared to be well other than having fluid in the abdomen, and luckily Acorn were able to get her previous vet notes from another clinic. It was just as well because the two drugs she was on couldn't be stopped "cold turkey", so she was put her back on steroids and another immunosuppressant while changing her diet to a low fat one. Gradually the steroids were reduced without any effect, and today's check with Dr Andy showed her blood results to be normal, meaning we can now take her off the other drug. However as happy and lively as Penny still is, a scan showed she does have an adrenal tumour, and the next step will be to see how she copes with not being on any drugs at all. After two weeks we'll check again, with the best case scenario being that the tumour is encapsulated. The reason I'm giving all of this information about Penny is because if you met her all you'd see was a happy and loving little poodle who showed no signs at all of being ill, and she should be in a home. All she wants is love and cuddles, and whetever the long-term prospects are we all want Penny to enjoy being in a home environment and being treated like a princess. If there's anyone who can offer this please come to meet Penny at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre and you'll see what I mean about her sweet personality.
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| This Saturday 2nd Nov 2pm to 5pm |
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| In and out without even a name |
Back to the new dogs and puppies, we had already received a lot of enquiries about the Yorkies in particular and one adopter was waiting when I got back from Acorn with all of the dogs so we now have only one Yorkie available.
There's an adoption event this Saturday at Concordia where you can meet puppies and small adults but we'll keep the new three at the Homing Centre as we're expecting potential adopters to be coming to meet them.
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| Papillon cross Hannah |
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| We're hoping the poodle Nancy will be adopted on Friday |
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| This Yorkie girl Twiglet is 3 years old but shy |
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