Sallys blog for Mon 13th Oct: Mon 13th Oct: Another Monday intake I spoke too soon about the new website being up and everything working normally again, because although I could post my blog I couldn’t share it on Facebook. It seems that WordPress had the same idea about upgrading their site at just the same time, so let’s see what happens today. (Whoops, I still can’t adjust photo size). I hadn’t been able to get to AFCD in Pokfulam more than once last week so I guessed there had been quite a few new arrivals since my last visit. It’s sad that this is inevitable, and if you remember that there are three other Animal Management Centres also taking in new strays and surrenders, you can get an idea of just what the situation is regarding unwanted dogs and puppies and what happens to the majority of them. Only a tiny percentage of these poor animals will survive, with the rest being killed and dumped in landfill sites. Take today’s new dogs: a one year-old beagle girl, very sweet and beautiful but also very active. People buy the pups because they’re cute and look like baby Snoopys, but beagles are sporting dogs that have a highly developed sense of smell and can run for hours and hours. They are also obsessed with food, or anything that they consider to be food which is actually everything, and the smellier the better. Beagles are not a breed that can be kept alone all day and walked once for thirty minutes, and the majority of adoption questionnaires I receive offer exactly that. However, if you love hiking, jogging or any other outdoor activity and you have the time to spend with a dog, then beagles are also loving and funny and this girl Sniffer might be perfect for you. She’s now at the Ap Lei Chau Homing Centre if you are interested (but please complete the adoption questionnaire first). Another surrendered small-sized dog had been closely shaved before being dumped, although I’m not sure why. This one is also a girl, only two years old, and a mix of what could be a shih tzu and a terrier, or maybe she’s just a mix of a mix. It became clear why she had been got rid of while I was in the waiting room at Acorn and the dog was straining to pee, over and over and with nothing really coming out. She either has cystitis or bladder stones, so we’ll try antibiotics first and then scan if there’s no improvement. Puddle, as I called her, was too freaked out to do much today so I want her to settle with us before putting her through any stressful procedures. A third small dog, another girl, looked as though she was an old dachshund that had been used for breeding many times, but her teeth were those of a young dog. As she hadn’t been microchipped and I had to provide an age for her license, I really didn’t know what to put and ended up calling her six years old. When Dr Tony checked her over and I asked him to estimate an age, he agreed she was a young dog of probably three-ish years. I can’t wait to see her transformation as she loses her drooping “undercarriage” and her awful skin heals. She’s a really sweet dog and I’ve called her Trundle. There were lots of new puppies of course, but I took only one out today. This poor boy has only three-and-a-half legs, with one of the back legs probably having been lost at birth. Dr Tony told me that sometimes the umbilical cord wraps round a limb and cuts off the blood supply, and it’s clear from the calloused end that this pup has been like this for a while. He’s a pretty boy, not older than three months, black and white with floppy ears, but he will need to have surgery to remove the leg entirely. If we can find a foster for him that would be perfect. I took the sheltie (another girl) that was picked up in Chung Hom Kok to have a rabies shot and to get Temporary Keeper status. I can’t imagine what sort of life this poor dog has had, as she’s so sweet but also scared, and flinches when you go to touch her. She’s another young dog at three years old, but her condition is poor and her teeth are very dirty, so again I look forward to seeing the changes as she blossoms into the beauty I know she’ll be. Chow chow Remus came back to Ap Lei Chau after his very short adoption, but the good news is that there is another home for him and he will be leaving again this coming weekend. It was obviously his time, and that only leaves the one chow chow Romulus (assuming Lion King’s trial works out) still needing a home. In case you missed the news during the few days when my blog wasn’t posted, the Peak to Fong T-shirt-tickets are now available at our two Homing Centres and the various outlets listed on the website. I really love this year’s Star Wars design and had my own T-shirt on for the Whiskers N Paws puppy afternoon on Sunday. We are also running the Barking Mail project and are getting close to the amount needed for the first stage of the mailing. The idea and hope behind this is that we can reach a targeted group of potential adopters, donors, volunteers and supporters, and that is invaluable to us. Maybe amongst the new supporters there may be a very wealthy dog lover who has a plot of land that isn’t being used, or who will make a donation large enough for us to buy somewhere. Dreaming is free so I can do that. Please visit our new website at hongkongdogrescue for details of dogs, Peak to Fong and the Barking Mail Project.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 01:24:24 +0000
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