Happily the five new puppies from AFCD Sheung Shui all had foster homes to go to by the time they arrived, and they were a little bit older than we'd been anticipating so they were able to tuck into a big meal by themselves before heading off to their temporary families. We seem to have a conveyor belt rotating baby pups from their arrival to the time when they're ready to come back to the Homing Centre for potential adopters to meet. It seems like only the other day that the "Water Babies" were rescued, but now Ocean is even old enough to be one of the two staying at Whiskers N Paws, along with Tickle. River is the other remaining Water Baby while four have already been adopted.
There's another up-and-coming litter too, still in their foster homes, doing well and now transitioning from milk to solid baby food, so it won't be too long before they start coming back. Checking back these eight week-old babies came to us on the second of September so they're a month old now.
Bichon frise Baguette went to have his really bad teeth sorted out today, and the poor guy had almost all of them removed as they were completely rotten at only seven years of age. This is invariably the result of a dog being fed only soft food and it hopefully explains why Baguette was head shy as his mouth must have been painful. In fact the vet at Concordia Pet Care said they were the worst teeth she'd even seen, rotten from the root up. I asked that the canines (the longer side teeth) be left so that the tongue didn't loll out, and learned that things like chipped enamel can be restored by a dog dentist. I didn't know this was available in Hong Kong.
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