Today we wanted to highlight one of our special rescue dogs, an older poodle named Adi, who some readers may remember from some of our social media posts. Adi was rescued from an owner who regularly beat and tortured her. Hearing Adi’s constant crying, a neighbor had begged the owner to let her take Adi. When he refused, the neighbor ended up stealing her and bringing her to our shelter…

Despite import restrictions and COVID regulations, we were fortunate to have had multiple successful rescue missions from November last year through until April. We were definitely looking forward to giving more of our precious dogs their happily ever after, come the end of Summer. And things were looking up further with the lifting of the US import ban…

After the first family we had adopted out to Canada (which you can read all about here!), we were lucky enough to get another little family perfectly situated over there. This time it was a family of four dogs - Ozzy (formerly Keke), Bao Bao, Jen Jen and Akela (formerly known as Bei Bei), and their mother, Sugar, who had been rescued during the harsh Beijing Winter…

Thankfully, our next rescue mission in March was a little less chaotic! This time, we had 21 dogs coming into Vancouver, with zero floods included. Our only real hiccup came in the form of custom delays once the dogs touched down in Vancouver, meaning that some the families had to wait longer before they could collect their dog…

In recent months, we’ve had a whole family of 5 of our dogs fly overseas to find forever homes in Canada. Even before this gorgeous family came to be, their mother Falah, had an extraordinary journey of her own… Pregnant, and saved moments before being loaded onto a meat trade truck in rural China, she underwent a harrowing journey of …