Wanna hear some GOOD NEWS?? :)

Yes! Your well wishes and hopes have manifested into a beautiful blessing for Ah Girl.

We spoke with the management and showed them photos of Ah Girl, recounting her harrowing experiences to them, sharing with them the simplicity of Ah Girl's needs - just a place to live. This is all she needs and I would like to believe that, whatever it is within our means, we will work towards giving her this very humble request.

Just a place to live.

And bless their kind hearts, the management has called to say that they were very touched and will certainly welcome Ah Girl back onto their premises!!

Right at this moment, contractors have been called in to build up a fence on both ends of a long strip of area on 1 side of the building, a portion of which is where Ah Girl was nursing her pups when they were born - so she is familiar with that area.

This will be the enclosure where Lucky and now Ah Girl will stay in - safely off the streets and away from any more threat of being caught and culled.

We will help settle all the paper work and licences, after which both dogs are legally permitted on the premises. They are now safe to live out their God-given life. Mother and son.

We are aware that Ah Girl is not your typically friendly, waggy, affectionate doggy. She has been conditioned to be wary of humans from a young age. When she somehow ended up by herself at that area, away from her pack. Very likely, she could have been dumped there by someone.

I believe she was fending for herself before she came to this area, met Ah Boy, and stayed on as his companion.

She is not entirely comfortable with us yet. And I am not entirely reading her thoughts and how she is feeling. Give her some time to know that we humans mean her no harm. That we would not again corner her when she was unaware, and forcefully take her against her will. That we would not decide to snuff out her life, just because she is a stray.

Whether a dog is friendly or not - that is NOT the reason at all for determining whether he or she gets to live. We each have our own character. There are obnoxious persons and individuals we hope we never have to associate with. What do we do with humans of that kind? We adapt, don't we? We sit down and take a look at the situation, and make the changes/moves needed to live in a semblance of harmony. We make an effort. Things CAN be changed for the better.

Even though Ah Girl may not be as people friendly as some of us may hope, a LIFE is a LIFE. And I believe the nature of our strays, those who wary, will be altered when we are patient to give them time to sense us. To re-learn their opinions of us. To re-tune their instincts of fight or flight.

I have confidence that in time, Ah Girl will understand that the people around her now will never mean her any harm. That within her enclosure with Lucky, she does not have to fight anymore. She will now be safe.

This is my good news for all of you today. :)