Mon 20th July: Saving and changing lives

Dublin is 9 years old and seems not to like other dogs

The new dogs and puppies arrived as scheduled and all will be having their health checks and vaccinations on Tuesday.  They include three young puppies, a Yorkie,  poodle and a larger mixed breed who's now moved in to our Tai Po Homing Centre.  The puppies are too young to be adopted as singletons at this point unless there's already another dog in the home that can be a playmate and companion.

The 3 new puppies are still very young

Rachel is a lovely young dog

At the same time we're continuing to see surrender requests for mostly older dogs, the catch-all excuse being that the owners are leaving and can't take the dogs with them. I'm starting to become rather suspicious of these stories given that the Yorkie Jelly, who was returned after a few years, had serious problems including a chronic ear infection and a dislocated hip that appears to have been like that for a long time.  Both ear and hip would have been causing her a lot of pain and discomfort.

Barney had braely been dropped off before he collapsed

The senior poodle that was surrendered and then had to be sent to Acorn as an emergency case probably has a brain tumour and will need to be euthanised on Tuesday if there's no improvement in his condition, so once again the real reason for the surrender appears to be rather different from the standard "leaving Hong Kong".

Macy-now-Mishy living the dream

It's not all sadness though as I received some wonderful and very happy updates on dogs that have been adopted.   Macy, who's now called Mishy, is even enjoying paddle boarding in her new life, and if you remember that she was one of the dogs rescued from the terrible cruelty case where so many died it's just the most amazing happy-ending story.

Tommy (l) with Lang Jai

Tommy is another dog who was rescued from a horrible shelter situation, and after two years of living his new life he couldn't be happier. "Tommy is with us two years tomorrow and we love him more and more as he is a really funny boy with full of characters!

He will go down in the morning and steal the best part of his brother Lang Jai’s food and save his own one to eat after hiking!

He will tell me to give him treats when I come home as he has been a good boy!

He loves his bed and the air con but also loves being in the sea or cool water in the summer!

He gained his weight from 12kg to now 17 kg since we got him, with good muscle can go for a good walk daily!

This is what adoption is all about, saving and changing lives, and surely nothing could be more joyful than that.