The last few days have seen the arrival of 4 new puppies and a new kitten.
Linzi and Hilda – two tiny 4 week old pups that were left in a box outside the shelter gate last Friday morning. Unfortunately both were found to be suffering from respiratory infections and fungal infections. They spent the weekend at the vet clinic. Sadly, Hilda, the smaller and weaker pup didn’t make it. Linzi is now home with us for intensive nursing care.
Last Friday too, saw the arrival of Ceiba, an 8 week old kitten who had found her way up a Ceiba tree and couldn’t get back down again!
Leika is a 10 week old little green-eyed girl who was found in the street by a young boy. He very badly wanted to keep her but his mother doesn’t want the commitment of a pet. He left little Leika with us on Saturday and we told him he can visit her often until we manage to find her a loving new home.
New 6 week old pup ‘Tulum’ arrived. He had been found two weeks ago in Tulum by a lovely young Swedish couple who wanted to take him back to Sweden with them. Unfortunately it was proving too difficult and they were sadly forced to leave without him.
On Saturday our beautiful Bethany flew to Wilmington, North Carolina. Bethany has been with us since her arrival as a sickly puppy in 2008, so we are thrilled that she is finally getting the chance of a new life. There was a sweet sadness about saying goodbye to Bethany as she has been a part of our lives for so long.
With tears and heavy hearts, we made the sad decision on Monday to send our darling little Pippa to her rest. In spite of new medication, she continued to deteriorate and was becoming increasingly distressed at her lack of mobility.
Sweet little Pippa Pipsqueak, you live on in our hearts R.I.P.
Yesterday, little Chuka, the smallest of Biscuit’s pups and 5 month old Tilly both flew to their new homes in Minnesota. A great week for cross border adoptions!
We returned from the airport to find Adam cradling Houston in the throes of a massive seizure. The seizure lasted so long and was so violent, we knew that nothing and no-one could possibly survive it. We could do no more than protect him from injuring himself until his poor heart failed. In our country, a call to our vet would have found him racing to the rescue, but we live in a different society and in fairness, I don’t think that there is anything that could have been done in time to save him. Poor Houston, he had been through so much in his short life, it’s just devastating that this should happen when he had only recently regained his full strength following his road traffic accident. It brought up such unhappy memories too of the loss last year of my beloved epileptic Snauzer, Henry, one of the big loves of my life. He too passed away following a massive seizure.
Sweet Houston, we will always remember his smile. R.I.P.
No matter how many times we go through this, it never gets any easier. There are times when the sadness becomes almost too much to bear. This is one of those times.









































