Thurs 15th Nov: A late arrivals for 3 new small dogs

 I was at Elgin Street in the afternoon for a meeting regarding an exciting upcoming collaboration with a very famous brand, and I'll be able to talk more about this later.  Coming up with new ideas and ways to spread the word about HKDR and adoption is always important, and even more so now that many things have changed so much in terms of big donations.  Nobody has deep pockets these days, and you will have noticed I'm sure that all of the animal NGOs are struggling financially, HKDR included.  Everything has become harder, including finding homes for our dogs and puppies when there are so many other organisations, and puppies illegally flooding in from the Mainland. 

Unfortunately I had to keep an eye on my phone during the meeting as we had a few things going on, including the expected arrival of three new dogs at Kennedy Town.  They were due in the early afternoon but seem to have gone missing somehow, and it wasn't until closing time that they eventually turned up. The explanation for the delay was that it was a woman driver, which in this day and age was both funny and quite alarming.  I didn't know that women were still considered to be useless drivers. Anyway, the dogs are now with us and will be going for their vet check on Thursday so they can be ready for adoption as soon as possible.  They're all young adults, with Charlie being only a year old so hopefully they'll quickly find homes.

Yesterday I mentioned a shiba inu puppy that we'd received a surrender request for, and true to form the poor pup had been passed on to a friend after we had said we could take it.  It hadn't even had one vaccination, and I'm sure that it won't be long before it's passed on again, with it ending up being abandoned with serious behaviour issues, as so many shibas do. 

I had also mentioned another surrender request for two chow chows, and while we had a new home (and a very nice one) for the pair, the owner changed his mind, even though he is living in Public Housing and has been given notice to get rid of the dogs.  Then during today's meeting at Elgin Street, Yannie told me that the dogs' owner had come back to say that he would have to give them up, so Yannie had arranged for the potential adopter to come to get them after the agreed surrender time.  It seemed that the matter was finally settled, but in the evening the owner had once again changed his mind and said he wouldn't be bringing the dogs after all, and now we're wondering what will happen to them. 

Today's surrender request was for a young adult black labrador, but until she actually turns up I'll say no more.  

Only smaller sizes are now left

If you are only now trying to buy your T-shirt/tickets for Peak to Fong (on Sunday 26th November), we only have the smaller sizes left.  That might mean squeezing into one that's too small, or you can be innovative and sew the small T-shirt onto one that fits.  Maybe if it's going to be cold you can wear a small T-shirt as a hat, or some people put them on their dogs.