Living and having Fun… Omero

Last Saturday I went for a small trip (about 2 hours) with my brother, my wife and my brother’s wife to the Taipei’s Animal Shelter because I wanted to see if they had any French bulldogs for available adoption and also to see if they had any nice cats for my wife… and we didn’t find anything like that, the shelter is not too big, it can host around 150 to 200 dogs according to my calculations, you can see many stray dogs and also a few pure breed like beagles, Labradors, golden retrievers, huskies and some others. From time to time they receive bulldogs or other expensive breeds, but those dogs are the first to be adopted… anyways when I was looking around I felt sad because of so many dogs, some old, some young and some puppies as well. At the beginning I didn’t really paid much attention on what dogs did they have because I was focused on looking for one specific dog, but when I realized that they didn’t have any then my wife got a little sad and we went back inside to take a look at what other dogs they had, then we saw a beautiful Golden retriever, around 8 months old that had been in the shelter for around 20 days already… I liked that dog immediately and went to ask for the adoption process and they told me that he could not be adopted yet… the dog has a chip and since the shelter is a government organization they have some rules to follow, like this one: if the dog has a chip the shelter will try to contact the owner and even if there is no response, the shelter has to keep the dog for a time between 3 to 6 months depending on the dog, and because this dog was young and very easy to be adopted they would probably keep it for 4 to 5 months… can you believe that…. My wife was heartbroken, same as me and my brother… that was a young dog that has to stay in the shelter for 4 more months just because he has a chip… so I went home and thought about that case… next day I went back to give them what I still think it’s a great idea, I offered them to foster the dog, I said that I could give them all my information and take the dog with me, my plan was to give the puppy a nice home and lots of good things, and I told them that as soon as the owner shows up I will return him without any problems, and if the time expires then I will just adopt him… that is a win to win situation but they said no…… what…. Yes, they said no because they cannot break the law or the rules or some more political crap that I don’t agree with because it makes no sense… but anyways there was nothing I could do about that… so I went out with my wife and my brother to feel more sad for that dog.. and then we met a guy that adopted recently a beautiful black female dog, around 6 years old with nice long hair, he told us that the day that he went there they had just “cleaned” some dogs, around 125 of them and she had been one of the lucky ones, so he took her home and now they are happy… he said that the puppy will sadly have to stay but it will not be an issue for him to be adopted so why wouldn’t we try to see other dogs.. And so we did.. we went back inside and then we saw another golden retriever, from 1 to 3 years old and no chip, he was rescued a few days ago but he could not be adopted yet because there was a small period of time for the owner to show up and for any diseases to appear, that means that we couldn’t take him until April 3^rd… but well it was only 10 more days so we decided to wait for him, we took him out to play and he was very nice and very active, I hope everything goes well and we can take him home with us on that date… on the way back home we came up with the name, Lucas… well next time I am with the dog I will take some pics to show you guys who am I talking about !!!

Until that moment see you guys and have fun