Basenji, Manchester Terrier [Mix]

Name: Lan

Renamd: Mika

Adoption Status: ADOPTED 09-09-09

Arrived at YVR: 10-04-2009 by taking China Airline CI032

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Age: 4 months old (as of Apr 13, 2009)

Sex: Girl / Spayed

Weight: 13.42 lbs / 6.1 kg (as of April 28, 2009)

Color: beautiful black hair with half circle of white ring around her neck and white chest. And Lan also has 4 white socks on her legs.

Breed: Manchester terrier and Basenji mix (our best guess) or we call Formosan Mountain Dog

Personality: very affectionate and cuddly, love to be patted on the head and belly, love to social with all dogs and cats, very friendly to people, especially with children, quick learner, absolutely a sweetie.

Medical record: has up to date vaccinations including rabies vaccination, de-wormed, heartworm tested negative, micro-chipped, and spayed.

Apr 28th 2009 Blood Test Report:

If you are interested in adopting Lan, please email your completed Adoption Application Form along with Preliminary Adoption agreement is initialed to Tina qantas260270@yahoo.com Please note Lan is part of our international rescue efforts and will be flown to the Bay Area (YVR) Vancouver International Airport on the next transport ONLY if a permanent home can be found for her beforehand. Please consider Lan for your new addition. There is a $500 adoption fee (Cash, VISA or Master card only) which goes to help cover only a portion of each dog's medical and transport expenses. A home check will also be required because we do want to be sure that each dog goes to an environment suited to them. Please note that we don't have shelter facility in Canada, so please considering carefully again before this overseas adoption.

More about Lan:

Dr. Lin got a phone call from a lady asking for help. She saw a group of 4 little puppies May, Lan, Boot and Ju Ju roaming around on the busy road near the mountain area. When we got to the scene, we only found a very tiny black puppy (May) walked around seemed like looking for something. We called her over and she responded us straight away by running towards us with her tail wagging so hard. We quickly located 3 other puppies down a dried out ditch on the side of the busy road which was quite a height for the puppies to climb up. We were not sure if the puppies felled down the ditch or someone put them down there on purpose.

We opened a can food and the puppies down the ditch seemed like very hungry. We don’t know how long they have been down there. Dr. Lin picked them up one by one and did a quick check to see if any of them were injured. Fortunately they were all well. We put them in the crate and headed back to Dr. Lin’s animal hospital followed by a series of health check up. Everything went very well. They are 4 very healthy and happy puppies. They kept licking us while we were drawing their blood for numerous tests. They didn’t seem mind the needles at all and kept on licking us. Maybe they realized that they are safe now and will not be straying and starving anymore.

These little puppies are 4 months old girls with “white socks” on their legs. Unfortunately most of the people in Taiwan think dogs or cats with “white socks” or “white boots” will bring bad luck to the family so they tend to throw them out in the mountains or near the sea side so they will not be able to find their way home. Actually this is a superstition in Taiwan. These incidents happen a lot here in Taiwan especially in the countryside. And these 4 puppies are females. Most of people in the countryside here do not neuter or spay their dogs and cats. They just throw out the female puppies or kittens and keep the male ones because they do not give birth. I am very shameful to say that in my country there are a lot of dogs and cats been thrown out of the house after they were born because they have white paws. I still don’t understand why this will bring bad luck.

Dr. Lin’s animal hospital is now filled with 42 rescued dogs and puppies and 10 rescued cats and kittens. It is very full but we just could not walk away from these 4 tiny abandoned puppies. They might be hit by cars or been attacked by snakes or even fall down the cliff. It was just too dangerous to leave them right there.

We now can only leave them in Dr. Lin’s ensuite bathroom temporarily. Hopefully we will be able to find them great sweet homes very soon! These sweet girls deserve to be loved and pampered. We promised them that they will go to their forever homes and no one will never ever abandon them again anymore. They love people so much. Whenever we go up to feed them and play with them; they want to be picked up and be cuddled. They have been fairly well-behaved. They eat, play, sleep and repeat the same cycle again. They hardly bark and get along with one another very well.

This is the best time to train puppies and to encourage them to have great interaction with people and other dogs even with cats. These 4 girls love Dr. Lin’s rescued cats and kittens.

This is Lan She has beautiful black hair with half circle of white hair around her neck and white chest. And Lan also has 4 white socks on her legs.

This is May. She has the smallest figure among the 4 puppies. May has shining black hair with white chest and a bit white on her left rear leg.

This is Boot She has healthy black hair with white chest and well-proportioned white high boots on her 4 legs which look really unique.

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This is Ju Ju She has beautiful black hair and with only 3 white socks. Two are in her front legs and the other one on her right rear leg.

Click here to see Ju Ju's adoption info

If you would like to make any one of them a part of your family, please email your completed Adoption Application Form along with Preliminary Adoption agreement is initialed to Tina qantas260270@yahoo.com We are sure they will bring you lots of happiness and make your daily life more colorful. Thanks very much for considering giving them a sweet forever home.