每周日都是好朋友/義工Carrie在狗中心當值的日子。
我們的動物機構有兩個收容中心，所有人，由每天在中心當值，負責幫貓狗洗澡、食藥、接待領養人到處理行政工作的都是沒有收錢的義工。
Carrie 比我早很多就當義工了，周一至周五都上班，每個周日什至是打風日子都會到狗中心當值，我們的貓狗中心都對外開放，多數義工九時多就要回去，好讓苦等了一夜要外出的狗狗可以逐一去散步大小便（有些狗狗是長期住客，等了數年都未有家）
也有一眾剛被救回，還未懂得外出大小便的狗狗，要義工清早回來收拾房間滿地屎尿的「殘局」
假若當天有新被救回的貓狗，很多時都要幫他們捉蚤洗澡。
我們中心是一年365 天都開放的（打風貓狗都要人照顧）所以所有義工都好厲害，犧牲了拍拖行山游海hea 或者係在家中跟自己貓狗玩嘅時間，來幫助其他動物。
昨天來了兩隻被繁殖場丟棄的狗狗，今早Carrie 回中心時發現其中一隻pom pom 除了張開眼睛一動也不動。
大家緊張安排他往獸醫，早上只有她一個義工，沒有人陪小狗從荃灣的狗中心去西營盤的獸醫，於是便要叫gogovan, 放在小籠裹送去。
（坐車看獸醫都是錢，所以你們的donation 是很重要的）
Carrie 說抱起小狗時他還尖叫，應該是那裹不舒服。
過了一段時間，收到獸醫的message ，驗血後情況很不樂觀，估計他該是十歲左右，我們的獸醫是香港幾個大嘅charity 的獸醫，見慣世面（跟平日看家養貓狗不同，剛救回的很多時是情況最惡劣的貓狗）
不過他們說 "Will stabilise him with drip and supportive treatment. Sadly may pass away over night as weak" 及估計他應該很久很久沒有吃過東西。
我都做了幾年動物義工了，也見過很多這種可憐貓狗，我很少很少哭，但今早聽這隻狗狗的故事還是覺得很傷感。
又想，究竟啲人做醫生係點樣可以成日面對呢啲嘢。
i mean of course 見得多，同埋professional training, but at the end of the day 都係人心肉做。
不過呢啲繁殖場狗狗慘啲，都一世受苦...
人類起碼都預知自己係會死，同埋可能有開心傷心過。
如果你覺得你已經喺我個IG 睇我寫過呢啲嘢好多次，很抱歉，但是因為還有很多人不知道，而這些事還是一年到晚不停發生，所以依然在寫。
Sunday is my good friend's on duty day at LAP Dog Adoption Centre.
Our charity has two adoption Centres that opens 365 days a year.
Every single person you encounter at our centre are unpaid volunteers.
They take care of the homeless animals, from showering them on intake, feeding them medicine, speaking to adopters, cleaning after their poop.
Carrie started out as a volunteer much earlier than me.
She has a full time job during weekdays, but still tends the dog centre every single Sunday.
A typical day starts at 9ish am, volunteers always start out earlier, so that the doggie who has waited a whole night gets to go pee/poop outside sooner one by one . (Many of these doggies are our long term residents, and has been waiting for a home for years)
There are also newly rescued doggies, that are still sick and weak, and leave their little room covered with pee and runny poop, awaiting our volunteers to clean up.
On days when there are new intakes, extra work will be needed, sometimes that includes picking ticks and fleas.
These volunteers sacrifice their hiking, dating, napping time on their weekends to help these homeless animals.
Yesterday two new doggies arrived our centre abandoned by breeders. (They were used to make babies all their lives, but when they are too old, too sick, they get thrown out)
Carrie found that the pom was not moving at all, only blinking his eyes.
We arranged vet for him, and since she was the only volunteer, we had to send him in a cage by gogovan (Calling a van, seeing vets all cost money, and this is where your donation goes)
Carrie mentioend that the dog squeaked when she held him, it must be that he was in pain somewhere.
Vet messaged us after blood check, it was not optimistic, guessed that he's around 10.
Our vet is experienced with these homeless animals, and is the vet for a few of Hong Kong's major charities (newly rescued animals are very often in worse state as compared to those at home)
They told us that they "Will stabilise him with drip and supportive treatment. Sadly may pass away over night as weak" and they guess that the doggie has not eaten for a long time.
I've been volunteering with LAP for a few years now, and have seen many many equally or worse state dogs and cats, I don't cry often, but still feel very sad for him.
Also make me wonder how doctors deal with all these emotional stuff daily. Ofc they see more of it, or it's their professional training, but at the end of the day, they are still human.
*But then these breeder/puppy mills doggies are sooo poor, they have been living in a cage and suffering in heat, with fleas, with stinky environment, stepping on steel bars ALL THEIR LIVES*
As human beings we at least know we will die, and we have experienced some love, some happiness in our lives.
If you think I've wrote about this type of things all the time on my IG, I still write them because there are still many people who didn't know about this yet.
And these things are still happening in our city /world daily.
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我時不時聽到___同啲無養動物嘅人講：「人生苦短，點都要養狗，養狗是很幸福的事」同埋「人好複雜，但狗就好單純」
係真的。不過他很喜歡某些純種狗。
我總是跟人說，其實現在什麼純種狗都可以領養到，如果真正喜歡動物的，真的不應該選擇購買.
他也養了一隻唐狗，偶然會聽到他說越來越喜歡唐狗。
希望越來越多人會這樣子。
同埋之前寫《家寶》讀後感時提到我個中學同學，自小無父無母，大學畢業後找到工作自立後，第一件事做的便是養狗。果然，成為了她一直的家人，很好的陪伴。
