FOSTERED: Beau

5 year old mixed small dog.

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Adoptable: Lash

5 year old male mix.  He was one of the original BAPS dogs, so since 2008 he’s been waiting for his home…

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Adoptable: Hanna the mix

Around 1 year old, mixed fluffy dog. Has become very friendly. When she arrived she was very recessed, shy, and distrusting. With love from our many volunteers she has really progressed!

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Adoptable: Spartacus the Spaniel

1 year old friendly boy.  Spartacus is soo cool. Very young and trainable. friendly and energetic.

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Adoptable: Naevia the Glorious

1 year old Malamute

She came from the dog pound. Friendly to all people, but dislikes loud small dogs.

 

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FOSTERED: Eva

1 yr old mix.

Hello, 
My name is Eva and i’m looking for a forever home to call my own.

I didn’t have the best start in life; I was found with my mum Hanna and my brother Fred on the side of the road when I was a puppy. We were in pretty bad shape, had a nasty skin condition so we spent some time in foster care before moving to BAPS.

My brother Fred got adopted pretty fast, people seemed to like him as he was more outgoing and friendly than me, I was happy for Fred though he was a great dog who deserved a great home. But me, I was just shy and nervous, I had never seen so many dogs or people before so I hid away in my kennel too scared to come out.

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FOSTERED: Myles the Mix

Less than six months old, friendly puppy!  Picked up from the dog pound in February

the following written by his foster mom:

 

He is an adorable little lad. Still a puppy, he has not mastered any commands, but we are working on this! He gets very excited during meal times and I think treat training him could work very well because of his love of food.

He has only had accidents in the house the first few days he was with me. Now he happily uses the potty pads. He has only gone to the restroom a few times outdoors. Although the odor of an indoor potty isn’t the best, if pads are refreshed often, it’s really not so bad. I also feel better knowing he has the opportunity to relieve himself during the day when I’m at school instead of having to hold it for 8 hours.
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FOSTERED: Rosemary

female Golden Retriever, 4 yrs old

We picked her up from the pound on Feb. 26 2012. She is very friendly, mild, and cheerful. Seems to be house trained.

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FOSTERED: Hue-Ji

 

4 yrd old Mix

 

here’s the LONG :) writeup that her foster mom prepared for us:

Hueji

Obedience indoors

Hueji is, on the whole, a very, very well behaved little dog. She has never chewed on any wires or clothes or any furniture, even when left alone. The only things she will pick up and nibble on are pieces of paper lying around, although if you own fluffy slippers, she will play with them. I do not leave her in the cage when I’m out, because she tended to whine when left in there and as she wasn’t doing any damage at all in my apartment, I didn’t really see the need to lock her up. Hueji does have the habit of sometimes MOVING stuff from one place to another, so I do sometimes have to go on the hunt for a missing shoe, or sock, or whatever. But she’s never destroyed a single thing.

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Adoptable: Milo

Milo, 2 year old mix.  Very friendly and cheerful, always ready to play. healthy.

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FOSTERED: Matthew

Male Beagle, one year old.   A puppy beagle, friendly and cheerful. Needs experienced handler.

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Adoptable: Marilla

Female Beagle, three years old. Friendly, and playful, a typical beagle.  Requires handler used to beagles….

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ADOPTED: Monica

Female Cavalier, 2 years old, about 4-5 kilos
from her foster home:

This sweet adorable pup is Monica. I am currently fostering her and am looking for a more permanent home. She is about 2 years old and needs a loving home to call her own. She is a kind of cocker spaniel mix, she looks just like one, but miniature. She is so extremely cuddly and loves being held. She will snuggle for hours. She is very playful, but also loves her naps. She has a hilarious personality, she’s very floppy and is always rolling around. She has a wonderful temperament and is perfect for apartment living in Korea. She never ever barks and she doesn’t whine. So if you know anyone who would like to adapt a snuggly, loving, playful, and quiet dog please let me know. I will be sad to see her go, but even more happy to find her a permanent home.

ADOPTION EDIT: She is now part of the Home Shindogs, in Leo and Jin’s house!

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FOSTERED: William Tell

Male, Spaniel 1 year old.

William Tell got his name due to his usually bow-shaped front legs. there is nothing physically wrong, it is simply a birth defect. He has no impaired movement, and walks like any other dog. He is happy, cheerful and ready to find a good home!

 

The following is from his foster home:

 

This is the adorable Willy, we are currently fostering him and he is looking for his “forever” home. He is an amazing dog, he loves his cuddles and is very sweet and loving. He is also quite a playful dog as well. Willy is more suited as an indoor dog becuase of his legs. When he was a pup he may have been quite malnourished and had a severe calcium deficiency. Because of this his 2 front legs are bow shaped. But they do not hurt him or affect him in any way at all. He can only go for about 20 minute walks a day because if he goes longer then the padding in his paws start to hurt a little (it doesn’t cause him much pain though)

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Adoptable: Tom Sawyer

Male Spaniel, seven years old. Calm, friendly.  He was rescued from a pet hotel where he had been kept for the past five years.

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Adoptable: Huck Finn

Male Spaniel, seven years old. Calm, friendly.  He was rescued from a pet hotel where he had been kept for the past five years.

 

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FOSTERED: Anne Shirley

Female Spaniel, three years old. Friendly and loving. good with other dogs, children.

the following was written by her foster mom:

Anne is such a sweet heart. She’s a truly wonderful dog/companion/friend/snuggle bunny! Her favorite things are snuggling, walking, eating and being admired by everyone who passes her by on the street! She’s also exceptionally chilled for a Cocker. I’ve trained her to potty in my bathroom (more specifically my shower!). I leave a puppy pad in there and that’s where she does her business. I have another dog who I adopted 2 years ago and she’s wonderful with him.
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ADOPTED: Bella

Female Spaniel, four years old. Friendly and calm. Rescued from the pound on November 18th.

 

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Adoptables: Wil Wheaton

Male Schnauzer, one year old. Friendly and cheerful. rescued from the dog pound on November 18th.

 

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ADOPTED: Dr. Rajesh Kootrappali

 

Male Maltese, seven months old.  Friendly and playful. Rescued from the dog pound on November 18, 2011.

UODATE: FOSTERED

 

 

 

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ADOPTED: Dr. Leonard Hoffstadter

Male Spaniel, two years old. We got him at the dog Pound on November 7th. He is a year old, cocker spaniel, and very friendly.

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Adoptables: Dr.Sheldon Cooper

 

Male Spaniel, one year old. He is on the left (better picture coming soon). We got him at the dog Pound on November 7th. He is a year old, cocker spaniel, and very friendly.

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ADOPTED: Penny

Female Poodle, one year old. We picked her up at the dog pound on November 7, 2011. She is young, about 1.5 years old.

Very friendly and loving.

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FOSTERED: Howard Wollowitz

Male Yorkie, seven years old. Howard is a Yorkshire terrier. He is friendly and seems to be 6-9 years old. he is TINY! he came from the pound on November 7, 2011.

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Adoptable:Amy

 

Female mix, two years old.  Amy was hit by a car on a street in Seomyeon. She was picked up by a caring lady who took her to a vet for care.  Amy was unhurt from the accident, and received all her vaccinations.

However, she has heartworm.  this means she needs fostering ASAP.  She needs to go to a house for two months while she gets healed. HW fostering is life-saving, and we pay all the costs!

Please contact us if you can help.

 

 

She is friendly, alert and cheerful.

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ADOPTED: Jewel and her eyes

ADOPTED ON 10/15/11

Jewel was saved from the dog pound and euthanasia. Jin and I were looking at Cocker Spaniels, and two Korean ladies walked into the pound looking for a dog to adopt. The worker brought this little fluffy ball of love out, but when the ladies saw her unusual-in-Korea eyes, they said “We don’t want that dog! It has scary eyes!”

Jin felt so sorry for Jewel being rejected (the ladies took a maltese), that was decided to bring her to BAPS, as her eyes would certainly scare off any other potential adopters, condemning her to euthanasia in a few days.

She is a great loving do, perfect for any type of activity levels.

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Stories: Our Dearest Hani

This was Hani. She was found wandering around in a tunnel here in Busan. When she was found she had various injuries, bleeding, and some obvious internal injuries. It took many months of care to get her healthy again. When she was found, in 2008, she was at least nine years old. She was also very agressive towards any other dogs, and terrified of human contact.

with many dogs, even though they can’t tell us their story, their bodies have evidence of the path they traveled. Hani’s face and body were full of scars, evidence that she was a fighting dog, used in illegal dog fights. Her teeth were filed down and she also had evidence of having bore many litters of puppies.

As her body tells the story, she was a successful fighting dog,  who survived many fights. At some oint she was turned into a training dog -hence the filed down teeth.  Eventually they turned her into a bredding dog, and she had many pups, destined to be fighters too. Then, when she was unable to breed anymore, they probably loaded her in the back of a truck, and when they were driving in the tunnel, where no one could see, just pushed her off the moving vehicle.

When BAPS took over Hani, she was already phisically healed, but her emotional scars were deep. She would cower away from us when we attempted to touch her, and once cornered she would bite.

But with patience and perseverance, we slowly gained her trust and confidence, and over the next two years as a shelter dog she slowly became socialized to humans, and eventually dogs.

3 years after joining BAPS, Hani was fostered by a lovely elderly couple, school teachers for England. She spend several months of glory with them, having daily walks to the beach, being showered with love, treats, and peace.

In those last months she developed a large tumor, and had to have a very risky surgery to remove it. She survived, against the vet’s expectation, proving that she was a fighter.

Hani also had heartworm, but due to her advanced years our vet said that treatment would be dangerous, and should be used only as a last resort.  The moment of last resort came, and as she was very ill, it was time for one last battle.  At last, Hani was defeated.

Hani passed away in her sleep, peacefully and stretched out in her carpet,  by a window overlooking the beach.

Hani’s life was undeserved, but we did our best to give her beautiful golden years. And as a last point of joy, a few weeks before her death, the couple who was fostering her declared her adopted.

So Hani Kent, the extraordinary lady, did not die a homeless dog. She had a family. She was free.

 

 

 

 

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Stories: Needles and Bear

The black one in the middle is Needles. I named him that. here’s why…

We first met needles in spring of 2008. He was one of 120 dogs in a Korean “shelter” (by wester standards it was a hoarder).   This dog was set apart from the others, chained to a pallet out in the open, and when we asked about him, the guy that was running the place said: Stay away from him. he is very dangerous; he bites anyone who tries to touch him!

A few months later the guy went bankrupt and was forced to abandon all his dogs. He was going to send them to the city pound for euthanasia unless someone took over. Jin and I (Leo) took over the financial burdens of these dogs, and with two Korean helpers we started BAPS.

At that time, we were researching a lot about sheltering, and one of the things we read over and over was that most shelters usually euthanized any dogs that bite humans. This is because they are unadoptable. Since euthanizing is done with a syringe, I decided to name him Needles… because in any other shelter, he would have gotten the needle. I made it my objective to “tame” the dog.

To gain his confidence, I started by sitting near him, for 10 or 15 mins at a time. I would do that maybe once an hour, about 4 times a day ( a few times a week)… at first he would growl at me being near, but in time he just let me sit there, and ignore me.

after about one month of sitting near him, I began sitting near him while holding some doggie snacks…   Ah, now I was interesting! About a week later, I offered him a snack, by placing it on the floor, at the midway point between us. After about 5 minutes he picked it up. then I placed it closer to me than to him… and so on.. this went on for about 2 more weeks. Then, it got to the point where I was putting the snack on my leg. After he started picking the snack from my leg, it took about two more weeks for him to let me touch him while he was eating the snack… and once he let me pet him, and scratch behind his ear in that place that dogs just LOVE to be scratched, he finally trusted me.

Soon enough, as soon as I would sit next to him, he would jump on my lap and put his head under my hand to get rubbed! Ever since then, he furiously greets me when I arrive, and jumps into my arms licking my face!

Now,  four years after we met, Needles is a changed man. He loves people, and loves going out on walks. Anyone can come up to him, and he accepts love from all. He has become ‘top dog’ at BAPS, and it is a joy seeing him come out of his cage like he owns the place.

But the story of needles has to be told with the story of Bear.  Even though Bear was one of the 120, he was not caged or chained at the shelter. He was running around free, and was impossible to catch. Not even the hoarder could get him. I guess one day he was brought to BAPS and at some point escaped from his cage. Then he decided to hang around.

The reason he never went far was that his best friend in the world is Needles.  When no one was around Needles, (who you’ll remember was not caged, but chained in the yard), Bear would be inside Needle’s house. If someone came near, he’d immediately disappear. No one could catch him.

From a distance, Bear observed how Needles and I became friends, but it was still not enough to make him trust me. In fact, we never actually caught him, despite many comical attempts (I’ll tell the full story later).  The way we were able to confine him was by putting Bear in a playground, and waiting for Bear to join him.

Ever since he’s been caught, he has also accepted our contact, and over the past year has learned to walk on a leash and be handled by people.

Needles and Bear need to be together wherever they are. Especially Bear. If we ever take Needles out of the cage they share, Bear starts crying, pacing, and whining. As soon as Needles returns, Bear has a sniffing party!

 

Leo and Bear, 2009

 

 

 

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ADOPTED: Matt the Poodle

 

Matt is a sweet and loving dog; energetic and always ready to play, he is the perfect dog.

He is currently in foster care in Ulsan.

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ADOPTED: Kod the fluffy mix

Kod was in foster care until her foster mom suffered an accident that left her on crutches (the human, not Kod). She is hoursebroken, and friendly to humans. She is not fond of other dogs. She was cured of heartworm.

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ADOPTED: Zoe the Shitzu mix

ADOPTED! THANKS STEPHAN!

 

Zoe is a gentle girl who loves people and is always ready to express her love. She is quiet and gentle. She was healed of heartowrm and in her foster care she became pad-trained. The haircut is Ruth’s fault.

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FOSTERED: Mia, fluffy mixed terrier… maybe

Mia is a loving dog, calm and gentle. She recently finished her heartworm treatment and returned from 6 months of foster care. She can be active or relaxed, and gets along well with everyone.

 

From her former foster home:

Mia is a beautiful and affectionate dog. She is about 5 years old. At first she may seem shy, but it doesn’t last for long! Very shortly after, she is looking up at you with those beautiful brown eyes, and wagging her fluffy tail just yearning for some attention.
She is housetrained and very friendly with people. She doesn’t bark and is very easygoing, calm and loving. She spends most of her time relaxing, but is always up for going for a walk and being cuddled.

 

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ADOPTED: Kido, Maltese

Kido means prayer in Korean. We call him this because of his habit of putting his hands together and waving at you… hard to describe, but it looks like he is praying. He was in foster care for nearly a year, so is used to living with people. He is kind and loving to humans and dogs, and can adapt to active or passive lifestyles.

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FOSTERED: Jack The Jindo….ish

IN FOSTER CARE

Jack is a Jindo mix boy. he is about one year old, and is very active and energetic. He is large by Korean standards. Despite his size, he is a big lump of love! He is ‘puppy playful’, friendly to everyone he meets, and gentle around other dogs. He would do well in an active environment.

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ADOPTED: Clint the mix

ADOPTED ON AUGUST 5TH BY HIS FOSTER FAMILY!

Clint is one of the original BAPS dogs. He is about 4 years old. He is loving and friendly.  He likes going on walks, but would proably do good in a calm lifestyle too. He has conjunctivitis in both eyes, and needs treatment. We have the budget to give him treatment, but home care is vital for his recovery!

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ADOPTED:Ginger the Spaniel

Lovely is an English Cocker Spaniel. She might be around two years old. We rescued her from the city pound. She is loving to people and dogs. She can be energetic but also has a mild streak in her! She would do well in both active and passive environments.

EDIT: She has been adopted!  Thanks to Willy and Jinbok. Her new name is “Ginger” – in homage to the hair color that she shares with Willy! Dogspeed, Ginger.

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ADOPTED: Malia the Spaniel

 

ADOPTED!

Malia is another pound rescue. She is around one year old. She is very eager to play, energetic, and full of love. She seems very smart, and would do great in an active home.

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Adoptables: Alice the Spaniel

Vicky is a one year old cocker spaniel.

 

Alice in Wonderland…

Over the past four years of sheltering, one thing I’ve seen is that some dogs have inexplicable bad luck… Through no fault of their own, life deals them unjust cards. Of course dogs have no space for self pity and moping, so they keep their spirit for a long time, no matter the suffering.

Such is the story of Alice. She is a little Cocker Spaniel, full of love, energy, and devotion. This is her best quality. And it may be her worst. But more on that later.

Alice came to BAPS with the first group of intakes we made from the Gijang dog pound, back in May of 2011. She was nearly starved to death, nothing but skin and bones. You could count every rib in her side. But despite he severe malnourishment, she had an explosive joyfulness to her personality.

her first roommate at BAPS was Ginger. Just a week later Ginger got adopted. So Alice moved in with Phoebe and Malia. It was a few weeks later that Phoebe found a home too. A couple of months later, Malia moved to Goeje Island with a loving family. So Alice was left alone for a while… then it seemed her luck changed! She was fostered herself!

But just six days later, she was tumultuously returned to BAPS, with a cloud of complaints about how she was too “clingy” and would always follow her chosen human everywhere… So back she went into a cage by herself. Then followed a brief socialization foster, but the time came to return to BAPS.

New intake groups came and went… She saw Leonard bunk next door to her, and he quickly left too. Then there was Bella, who was her roommate for about 3 hours, and she got adopted the same day she came in.

Last week, her most recent roommate, Anne Shirley went to a home, after two weeks since she moved in with Alice. So once again, the lovely Alice saw a friend leave. She’s now seen six leave. And yet she remains.

Seeing her breaks my heart like no other dog has since Naomi. She looks at me from behind the bars every day, with those big black wet eyes. Alice hasn’t lost her joy and spunk. She is always ready to hop for a treat, and when she gets a chance to walk on weekends, she’ll do it with so much joy and abandonment, you’d never know she has spent a sub-zero week locked in a cold steel cage. And she keeps looking at me. Her eyes fixated on me, from the moment I enter her line of sight until I move beyond it. And she’ll remain in the corner of the cage where she lost view of me, waiting for my return.

She breaks my heart because with each passing day I feel I’ve let her down. I promised her a home, and for the reasons that only fate knows, she’s been passed over time and again.

Is it because she’s too intensely loving? Does she seem desperate and needy? If she toned down her excitement, would she be more attractive? I don’t know. I don’t know if I should train her to be more quiet, or try to encourage her to be still. All I know is that Alice is still waiting. Waiting for her Wonderland.

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