Some time ago I sent out this email:
Hi everyone,
This is quite a desperate attempt to save some puppies from the fate of being roadkill, or eaten or die.
My cousin's golden retriever gave birth to 5 mongrel puppies. Their family have insufficient means to keep the puppies, and is going to just release them into the woods, or rubbish dump site, wherever is convenient.
If you have the means of adopting one of these puppies and give them shelter or save them from being left to fend for themselves, please call me at 012 *******. Bring one home so they don't have to die.
We could of course go to SPCA, but this would only mean the puppies would be put to sleep.
Otherwise, please help forward this to friends whom you think might be interested in giving these puppies a home.
The response was tremendous. I was inundated with calls from friends' friends' friends' friends', some eager to adopt, some concerned about the puppies. And now thanks to all my friends, their friends, their friends' friends', lalalala, all the five adorable little ones have been adopted.
My utmost gratitude to Jess, Juliet, Vianney&Michael, and Tony for the open arms they have provided to these puppies, for their willingness and readiness to give these puppies a good life. And for those that I have had to turn away, my apologies for I have found the above individuals to be the most suitable people to adopt them puppies.
Of course, as in all things in life, this didn't go smoothly down like beer in the throat la. There were strange phone calls from people who didn't only want the puppy, they were desperate for them. I had to stress time and again that we cannot just want a puppy for the sake of having one, we must be prepared physically and mentally to adopt a new being in our lives and the responsibilities that come with it.
*read: when you are too young/ not ready to have a pet, your golden retriever gets pregnant and have mongrel puppies*
And then there were those who were genuinely concerned about what would happen to the puppies. Thanks to Rena, I am now a firm believer that we can help if we really try. Also Lisa, whom I had a long conversation with, over the need for education of pet owners.
So many people actually came and played with the puppies. Kudos to Jess, who actually helped us bathe the pups, and towelled them dry (of course, kudos to Jess also, for bringing Lucky to a home with a massive garden and a swimming pool). Tiger will be having a good time frolicking in the garden and tugging at his owner's blanket at night, Princess will be absolutely at her Royal Highness best at Tony's, and Sasa is being fussed all over at Juliet's.
What of Jack?
He's now called Cody, and he lives at Jason's, which is a stone's throw away from my place. Yippee!!!
2 comments:
this is the first i'm reading this entry and i must say that it's brought me back to that nite when i came to see them pups and spent the saturday bathing and spending time with them before they were all moving homes. how we named them! jst a little update, lucky is indeed lucky. she's grown real big and is very playful... what with jess having taken another pup, panda. the two make quite a pair.
a tale to share when both were pups. u see, jess's inlaw's place is a huge bungalow up some hill.. one fine day, panda being a 4 mth old pup decided to climb that little hill behind the garden and got stuck. lucky being the 'older-sister-by-1-month' decided to rescue her. little did lucky knw that it was indeed very high and at the end KH (jess's husband) had to go rescue them with a ladder.
things dogs do to entertain themselves... and us along the way!
OMG! They're so so cute! I especially like the one with the eye patch!
This totally reminded me about how I felt when I picked up 2 strays early this month. They got dumped. But but but, they're still with me! Cute as ever. Check out Cream & Puff here. (Their names are lame, I know but we had reasons for naming them that. Haha.)
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