I'm hoping today's adoptions will have unblocked whatever it was holding up all of the others and that Sunday will see more decisions made about which dog to take home. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of visitors and potential adopters, but there haven't been any new small dogs coming in to our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre, only puppies, while we always have a huge supply of lovely adults at Tai Po.
Puppy Muffin went home today with her new family and I'm sure she'll have lot of attention and fun ahead.
Tammy was Tai Po's lucky girl as her adoption was confirmed, and hopefully other will be following suit very soon.
With HKDR having been in operation for so many years it's inevitable that along with the happy updates on puppies growing into wonderful adults, and dogs moving to other countries across the world, there are the sad messages about much-loved family members having come to the end of their lives. In fact over the past week or so there seem to have been more than usual, but I'm grateful to the families for taking the time to let me know.
Volunteers from our Pokfulam days will remember a dog called Oona, who escaped from the kennels and ran away but was later discovered to be living not too far from where we were. All attempts to catch her failed, but she was fed by some local workers and we knew that she was OK. However she kept having puppies, which we were able to bring back to the kennels, and they were all amazingly beautiful. Big Bear was one of them:
"Back in November 2009 we adopted a dog called Oreo (Originally you called him Big Bear). His mother was Oona and had Gala (which was kept at your home), Crumble and Freya as siblings.
Unfortunately, last week he had to be put down due to an aggressive cancer in his stomach, which affected him eating and eventually walking.
I still have your blog from the week before he joined our family (28th October) and you wrote “I have two current favourites among the older puppies on Lamma. Big Bear, one of Oona’s pups, has turned into the cuddliest, sweetest fluffy boy imaginable. He’s also not as big as I thought he was going to be, and he’s going make such a lovely family pet”.
Well you was spot on regarding the last point. Having spent nearly 11 years with us in Hong Kong he was indeed the best family pet we could have ever imagined (also being our first dog), having grown up with my three children, he enjoyed his walks in Lamma and lots of tummy rubs.
I would like to say a big thanks to you and your team in providing a great match.
He will be missed loads, however we are really thankful that he joined our family."
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