Our dogs started barking again. Klaus had come back just a few minutes after he had left for work. He looked very distressed – what had happened?

As every morning he had started the engine of his car and driven backwards. Suddenly he realized that he must have hit something. He got out of the car and saw with distress that his car had hit a little puppy that had been hiding under his car.

Nothing could be done to save her life, she must have got internal injuries and passed away very quickly - poor little soul. Then he discovered a second puppy, luckily not injured, but looking very scared. Someone must have dumped these two little two-months puppies in our carport, just next to the shelter. How could he have known that they were hiding under his car? Nevertheless he felt terrible.

I comforted him, then took the other puppy in my arms and went back to our house.

In the meantime our baby Benjamin had starting crying as he was hungry. As I was on my own I took the puppy with me to look after Benjamin. It was so touching to see: The human and the canine baby gazed at each other intensely, then Benjamins little hand touched her and later her paw would touch him - I wish to know what their little hearts felt at that very moment.

If Benjamin would have been older, I’m sure this would have been his first puppy. Pearl, how we called her, is absolutely adorable, long soft white coloured hair, one ear three-coloured (black, brown and white) and a big brown spot over her right eye. In the beginning she was quite scared, not knowing where she had landed and what was going on. But then she started to relax in my arms, yawned, and pressed her tiny little body against me. How similar humans and dogs are in their need of warmth and love.

I’d be highly tempted to keep Pearl, but when we adopted Tui Nui, dog no. 23, some time ago, Klaus had agreed only under the condition that “this would be our last dog for the next 5 years…”

Well, in the meantime dog no. 24, Yasmine, has arrived already… temporary for a year as her family has to go back to USA for medical treatment.

So not sure when the day will come when we’ll introduce dog no. 25 to our family, but I assume it will be ways earlier than Benjamins 5th birthday…

Pearl is at our shelter now, playing with other puppies who had a similar fate, being dumped, forgotten, neglected.

If you are interested in giving Pearl or one of the other puppies a loving family home, please get in touch with us.

**Update one day later**
Our dog caregiver, Khun Saay, found another puppy in front of the shelter. “Diamond” looks like the sister of Pearl and both are reunited now. We checked the area and couldn’t find another one, hopefully no other puppy was dumped in the area, it would have a hard time of surviving without food.