Fri 6th Dec: Just $100 to show you care!

Just donate $100 and tag 3 friends

You get most news here on my blog first, so you'll be ahead of the game when it come to new dogs and puppies arriving as well as other news such as the just-launched $100 Challenge!  This is a very simple way to show you care enough to donate just $100 (could be more of course) and then to challenge your animal-loving friends to do the same.  The game is very easy, as simple as 1-2-3, so please join in and help us save more lives.

Thursday's intake

Meet Igloo and others on Saturday 1pm to 4pm

We have two bundles of new puppies ready to go to Saturday's WeWork LKF event on Saturday, and this time I had names ready for all of them. There's also a poodle arrival, not a youngster but very lovely, however she'll stay at the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre along with Twiglet, still recovering from knee surgery, and her friend Bongo.

Friday's group

If you're thinking of coming to the WeWork event or Whiskers N Paws on Sunday afternoon, or either of our Homing Centres for that matter, please help us by completing the adoption questionnaire in advance.  In that way we can recommend the dogs that would be best suited to your home and family, or tell you which Homing Centre or event would be most appropriate for you to visit.  The form is also there to help you think about the realities of having a dog at all, and you can find it at www.hongkongdogrescue.com/adopt/adoption-questionnaire/

Poodle girl Inca arrived today

There's something I need to mention yet again, even though it's on the questionnaire and explained to every potential puppy adopter, especially those with young children.  Puppies bite, and they have very sharp needle-like teeth which can easily pierce the tender skin of little humans.  It doesn't mean the puppies are aggressive or naughty, in fact it's totally natural behaviour which is part of the learning process.  Ideally every puppy would have another puppy to play with so all biting would be directed at each other, but in most cases there isn't anyone else except the human family. If you can't handle this then PLEASE don't adopt a baby puppy but choose one a few months older.  Puppies have milk teeth the same as humans babies, and these little teeth fall out at around five months, being replaced by much less-sharp adult teeth.   Children tend to scream and run around a lot, and that encourages puppies to join in the games, inevitably ending with biting.  Don't blame the puppy for being what it is, a baby dog in the process of learning in exactly the same way a human baby has to learn what's right and wrong.  Punishment for natural behaviour is not only confusing to the puppy, it's unfair and just wrong.  Gentle training, patience and understanding applies just as much to baby animals as it does to human children, so ask yourself how you would treat your child and then do the same to a puppy. 

Maddie and Rio have their new adult teeth so are much more suitable for young children