Mon 9th Nov: Back online

 Thankfully the online adoption questionnaire was back up today so I have a lot of applications to go through and respond to so please be patient if you're waiting for a reply.  If you're interested in adoption please go to our website for all information as well as the questionnaire: www.hongkongdogrescue.com/adopt/

You can also find all of the available adult dogs listed on the website at www.hongkongdogrescue.com/dogs/ but not the puppies.  For photos of puppies staying at our Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre you can check Eagle's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HKDR.DOGGIES, https://www.facebook.com/HappyWoofHK or  just come along to meet them all (after completing the questionnaire).  We also have some puppies staying at Whiskers N Paws, Horizon Plaza, and these change quite frequently as new guests move in to replace the lucky candidates that have been adopted. (The photos shown here of some puppies at the Homing Centre are by Harryn). 

Of course there are still many puppies in foster homes, and while meetings can be arranged through Cindy at foster@hongkongdogrescue.com not all of these youngsters are ready to be homed individually just yet.   The ideal age for a puppy to be adopted is around three months if you want to avoid the night crying, although that may happen anyway when a puppy is alone for the first time in its life.  Remember all HKDR adopters have free advice and support from our very experienced trainer Cactus, and this continues for as long as is needed.  It's frustrating to see adopters posting on Facebook groups asking for advice from random strangers when we have the best training and behaviour support right here.

Also frustrating and upsetting, is to find out that rather than take advantage of the excellent free advice provided by Cactus, as well as recommendations for other trainers who can provide individually tailored training, is learning that awful "thug" trainers have been recommended by friends, and even some vets.  The fact is that vets are specialists in the field of veterinary medicine and surgery, not training and behaviour unless they choose to do additional courses on top of their vet schooling.  As much as Cactus doesn't offer veterinary advice, nor are vets qualified as trainers. Also sending a dog away for training at one of the New Territories establishments is not only unhelpful, it also causes long-term harm to the dogs that are often traumatised by the experience, and I'm thinking of dogs like Obi who we recently took back from his now ex-owners.  Nothing is gained by sending a dog away to live in a kennel and to learn through fear to obey a trainer.