Happy Hoochoo!

Update: November 30th

It is with great pleasure that we are able to move HooChoo's profile into the Adopted section! HooChoo is already settling into her new home with her new toys and mama! Can't wait to hear how she is doing in the weeks to come! We are going to miss this little one but are extremely happy for her!

Update: November 27th

Cross your fingers for this little one! Good things may be happening in her future! HooChoo is still as happy as ever. Even though we are feeling incredibly sad that her time with us may soon be coming to an end, we are very excited for her to find her forever family.

Update: November 17th

Hoochoo has finished her vaccinations! She is improving all the time with her potty training, rarely having accidents anymore, and is a great, affectionate, fun little dog! But she's not so little anymore!

Update: October 10th

Hoochoo has settled in wonderfully to her foster home in Bucheon. She gets on great with our dog, Midori, and the two of them love to play and cuddle up together. She is doing really well with her house training and, after the first couple of nights when she was understandably a little stressed, we have had no issues at all with barking or whining. She happily runs into her crate at night, and makes no sound until the morning. She has such a fantastic personality. She is playful, loves to fetch a ball, and is learning her sit and stay commands quickly. She is such a beautiful looking dog, she is the star attraction everywhere we go - everyone in our building knows her and she is very popular with the high school students next door!

We have loved having her, but Hoochoo is now ready for her forever home and to start her new life. She has lots of energy, so she needs an owner that is ready to dedicate plenty of time to walk with her and play with her. She currently gets 2 long walks a day with lots of bathroom breaks in between. She would also fit in great to a household with another dog, as she will just play and play and play!

Please consider adopting little Hooch into your home! After a rocky start in life, she deserves a fantastic forever home, and will give you untold love in return!

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Hoochoo's Story, August, 2013

"I was on a bike tour towards Busan, and in Chungju, I found a motel for the night, and the next morning this little bundle of puppy joy was chained to a tree in front of the building in this sort of no-man’s-land area between a major road and a service/turn-off road. I was considering cutting my trip short anyway, so I took the morning very slowly, and kept watching the situation with her, as well as going over and playing with her several times. Between about 8am and noon, when I had to check out, she was still there, and there are no homes anywhere near where she was, and one small gardening supply business. I gestured to them as if to say “is she yours?” and the answer was "no".

So my trip was over, and I got on an intercity express bus with my bike down below ALONG WITH this little cutie in a makeshift carrier: a box with holes cut in it.

I took her straight to my vet, so she has been checked out and vaccinated. She is healthy except for roundworm, which she is taking the medication for now. She is highly energetic in the typical puppy way: curious, wants to meet/sniff/see everything.

NOW: full disclosure: I actually thought I HAD already found her a home within 2 days of being back (after all, she’s so damn cute and a more rare breed for Korea, so I had gotten a lot of responses to an initial post on the ARK Facebook page) but the first night she apparently barked a lot. That’s it. She got along well with the other 2 dogs of the house, but they kept her somewhat separated because of the roundworm, and she barked a lot. Their landlord threw a fit, and as they had just moved in they didn’t want to cause any problems. (Now, in my own experience, she had been a little yippy/whimpery each time I left after playing with her that morning before I decided to take her, so this was not completely out of the blue, but I also do not think it will be a permanent habit. She’s been abandoned, stuck in a box in the belly of a bus, ridden in that box on a bike, kept in a vet’s office, then she was brought to a new house with two other dogs but also left separated all night in that house.) I think it’s fair to conclude she was just feeling separation anxiety, and general anxiety, and that it will pass with time. Crate training should be a powerful tool for fixing this.

So, we’ve got an adorable mostly-pitbull-plus-something-else mix puppy who is checked, vaccinated, and ready for a foster or to be adopted. And trust me, she is incredibly adorable."

- Andre