September 24, 2006

Eliza, Maggie and Jean-Paul

It is tough taking good pix of 4 exuberant, scurrying dogs who try to lick your camera lens. Pardon the blur shots. What's more important is all 3 pups - Eliza, Maggie and Jean-Paul - are having a happy, fun childhood with big bro Starjoy watching over them.

Eliza is the most wily of them all. She is the ring-leader, although she is the smallest in size. Petite gal with a small sweet face and frame.


Eliza (L) and Jean-Paul vying for cuddles.

Jean-Paul is a handsome boy showing his impending masculinity in his sinewy young muscles and manly paws. He takes time to warm up, scuttling for his fav spot under the shelf at the very moment of doubt. But he endears himself to L. A very loyal companion he is.


Jean-Paul giving L a big hug - dog therapy....ahh...

Maggie is a contented gal. The biggest of the 3 so far with lovely longer coat, she looks like her sis still living on the farm.


Maggie enjoying a head rub with Jean-Paul gazing at camera.

Starjoy is a jolly fellow, his life totally transformed by the appearance of this trio. He will whine and scurry for attention at the humans around, going from one to the other for hugs, oh so contented just to sit at your feet, gazing up with adoring eyes. He is a darling.


Starjoy (L) with Maggie.

I always catch myself wondering if we have done the right thing to pluck the pups from off the farms, where they are born, where they are familiar with, away from mom and siblings, right smack into a foreign land with foreign people.


Scruffy with Eliza's bro and sis at the farm.

Are we doing the right thing? For them or for us? Given a choice and a voice, what would THEY choose?

In this case of Eliza, Maggie and Jean-Paul, I am assured to say they are now both safe AND happy. The companionship of one another and L's dedicated love and care has given them the chance to live in happiness, peace and safety.

As for Eliza's sis and bro still at the farm, I would venture to say they are living a free and happy life too. But the only thing they lack is a good measure of SAFETY - the assurance that they be allowed the simple decency of living out their God-given life.


Scott

As for Scott, my heart feels regretful and sorry for him. That he could have been one of the 3 with L, safe and happy. Or at least he could still be living a carefree life with his bro and sis at the farm. His is a life in limbo. Taken under a concrete roof, made domesticated to an extent, and then given up. He may not adjust well in the stray pack environment anymore, nor may he be accepted by them. To find another home for him does not come at a snap of a finger. And especially for a 'returned case', all the more we have to be careful in his next home. We cannot let the boy suffer another reject in his young life.

Pls help us to find a good home for Scott. Thank you.

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