Sun 25th April: Frustration

 It was a frustrating day for more than one reason, and the first was that two dogs being surrendered from the same home, and whose arrival had been confirmed earlier in the day, didn't turn up. Both sets of adopters were waiting, one at the Homing Centre and the other on standby at home, and I'm still hoping to hear from the dogs' owner about what happened.  I can probably guess that there was a last-minute change of heart, the same as the first time we thought the dogs were coming, and while I understand that giving your dogs away is hard, I assume there's a reason why you need to do it.

This was on 9th April, but how old were they?

The second frustration was more of a mystery, as there was confusion about the ages of the newest litter of puppies to go to Whiskers N Paws for the first time.  As all six are in foster homes they'd been taken to the vet clinics separately and had been given different age assessments as well as potential adult size.  We tried going back to the original day when they came to us and their teeth development at that time, because that's the way you tell roughly how old a puppy is.  We didn't come to any real conclusion by the end of the afternoon so I'm now trying to get some information from the actual rescuer of the pups, hoping she knows the mother and perhaps even when the litter was born.  We can be fairly confident that these youngsters won't be large sized as adults, but we don't know if they're final size will be at the small end of medium, or the middle.  Having just this moment received a photo of the mother I think it's the latter. 

Edgar's new siblings

Edgar was the lucky puppy adopted at Whiskers N Paws while Pizza joined the Failed Foster Club, or rather his new parents did.   

Parley and Pizza came at the same time as the P Litter

Rodger So was today's photographer at Whiskers N Paws and the photos will be posted very shortly on our HKDR Facebook page. 

Ramen and his goofy smile

Another newcomer puppy was adopted at Tai Po too, one of three who would normally have been sent to Ap Lei Chau but stayed at the big Homing Centre due to lack of space.  Caramel has two siblings, Sundae and Romeo, also at Tai Po. 

Caramel, the lucky one of three

There were more "almost" adoptions at Tai Po,  one a double if it goes ahead, but as always there'll be no names until the paperwork is signed and the dogs have left.