Meet magnificent Pi-Pi, soon to be a new face at Tara's Babies; I caught my breath when I saw this photo - what a glossy, elegant majestic stance.
Since their childhood, Pi-Pi and his female companion/sister Ru-Ru, had wandered about at the rear of Yang Mei Senior High School, in Taiwan. Suffering from serious skin disease, they usually slipped into the school kitchen to find something to eat. Consequently, they were often beaten. Ms Wu, a schoolteacherwho began an animal rescue from the schoolyard, finally intervened, and placed the two dogs in an animal hospital for treatment and safety.
The skin disease cleared up, and Ms Wu secretly brought them back to the school dog park to settle down. Every weekend she took them to a department store to try and find adoptive homes. Unfortunately, it seems black dogs are not popular pets. They are friendly and playful, including with kids, and have never shown any aggression nor bitten - despite having been beaten.
They were briefly adopted by a factory owner, but it was not to their liking, and they escaped after two days. It took Ms Wu one month to locate them again, they were already sick and weak, and as thin as material draped on bone.
Now they are fully recovered and are healthy again, playing happily in the dog park at the school. However, those long agile legs enable them to jump over the fence into the campus whenever they get the chance. What fun for two young lovable dogs! But this has put them at risk, as this is breaking the rules, and the principal may decide to have them carted off to a detention place where they will be euthanized within 7 days if not claimed by an owner.
So now they are packing their trunks and moving not across town, but across the ocean. Hopefully their stay at the Valley will not be too long, but instead they will find a secure large yard to romp around in, without fear of execution for simply being big gorgeous dogs.
Ru-Ru
