Don't Wait

A lot of things in our life that we cannot say, " Wait lah. Later only." or " Busy now, wait ah ". I used to say like this, a lot of things that happen to us stimulate me to " do it now when i still have the chance and ability." Once we missed it, we won't know what is the consequences. We will never know what will happen if we keep waiting.

My neighbour initially has 4 dogs, 3 males 1 female. 2 of the males are the sons of the female dog( we called her- Whitty). Even though the family have financial problems, they still willing to buy rice and chicken bones to cook for the dog. They even don't eat rice as dinner and give all the rice to the dogs. I was amaze of their good heart.

The problems is the Whitty still not spay yet and she likes to run away from the house. Recently she just delivered 4 puppies, 3 males and 1 female. We started to worry about the puppies, how the puppies can survive in such condition. The neighbour told us not to worry because there were people would like to adopt the puppies. We felt settle down after the neighbour told us.

The environment was not that good because of the neighbour's son bought in another 3 puppies, 2 rott (2 months old), the other female dog ( 6 months old,unknown breed). We felt so helpless for their condition. Now they had total 11 dogs in the house compound. Even though we had advice them send out few dogs. Nothing happen still. We were glad all the dogs fed everyday. The neighbour has a good heart indeed.

Somethings happen in one morning, I noticed there was one new born puppy missing (Whitty's children). It was a bad new, according to the neighbour, one of the dog every morning will grape all the 4 puppies (actually they are sibling, the one who grape just 6 months elder than the new born puppies) and put at the gate there. It was frozen in the morning due to the raining season. When the neighbour found out, it was too late, one of them didn't make it. Now left 3 of them. We were sad and they were so helpless. "What we can do now?", I kept on asking myself.

One day, one of the man with his family came by and see the puppies. They would like to adopt a male puppy. We happy to see that. Unfortunately, all 3 puppies seem like very sick.Then, the neighbour only noticed the puppies infected with tick. They were infected through one of the dog (which is infected with tick and cannot cure from the shampoo). The man refused to take the dog and will only come back once the puppies recover. We just didn't get it, why can't man just take puppy to the vet (If he really sincere in adopting the dog and love dog.). Poor little puppies... We wished we can do something.

The neighbour said, " Don't worry, we will clean the puppies with shampoo. " We believed in them because they should know better than us, they have being keeping dog for so many years. And we just have Mitra. But I wondered why don't they send the puppies to check up, I afraid it won't be cure just clean them. Mm...

We knew the puppies were clean with some shampoo which will kill the tick. However, the puppies still didn't look good. Moreover, the neighbour didn't show sign of worry about them. Am i guessing the neighbour correctly? I don't want to judge them, and i not suppose to judge people. Why? Everyone have their own reason when doing something. We have different perception in dealing the same thing. So, we can't really judge people. All of us grow in different back group, education, environment... Or , am I waiting the right moment to save the puppies? We felt helpless by seeing this happen in front of us.

The worst came and we still had to face it. After we came back from Chinese New Year, i looked at the neighbour house, there was only a brown colour female puppy left. We were happy initially, we thought the puppies were adopted. The news strive me, the puppies die of sickness. I suspect they might die of tick fever. What we can do now?

I lost my patient and decided to do something. I asked for help from the Animal Care, we would like to spay the Whitty, because we don't want incident happen again. We need to do something to stop it, so the best way is spay Whitty. The second thing is, we will bring the Brownie ( We name the brown colour puppy) to visit the vet because she look sick. Brownie is the sole survivor, we wish she can stay alive and healthy and wish someone will take her back.

I wish our task can be complete early. We can't wait anymore, if we still wait, the mother might get pregnant again, the Brownie will die. we can't take the risk. Pray for both of them.

There is why we can't always said, " Wait lah." , " later lah.". If someone in need and ask for help, and we only said wait lah. It might jeopardise other live. Just like the incident happent to us, if we take action earlier. The other 3 puppies might survive. If the neighbour spay or neuter the dog, they would not litter around. But there is not " if " in our life. So, when you feel you need to do something especially involving human and animal life, Please do now, and don't wait.

( ps: above the article i am here attach the mother dog, Whitty and the daughter photo that we going to save. )