Updates On 9th May 2014
SPCA Singapore 
May 9, 2014 
NGOs, SPCA Singapore 
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Hippo, Happily Ever After!
(14 years on, and going strong!)
Hello, my human friends! My name is Hippo!
I was adopted from SPCA Singapore’s shelter, about 14 years ago, in September 2000.
My name was originally “Toto”, but my new owners thought that to be a silly name, so they changed it to “Hippo”! As you can probably work out from the adoption date I am getting on a bit. While my health is good, I am now a little slower than I used to be, though not slow enough that I don’t chase the odd squirrel.
SPCA Singapore, with gentle barks, I am writing to you to thank you for giving me such a good start in life and for introducing me to my owners, Jonathan and Nicola Short.
After adoption I lived for three years with my new family, Jackson (another SPCA alumnus), Caterpillar (a cat found in the middle of Mount Pleasant road) and the humans in a house on Merryn Road. Shorty (the male human) was then moved to New York and our family was split – Caterpillar stayed in Singapore with some friends, while Jackson moved to the UK.
That left me to move with the humans to the Big Apple. I arrived in September 2003, the city was big, noisy and scary at first (I even had to be interviewed for kennels but in the end the humans got me my personal dog walker Latanya who is wonderful!) but after a while I have grown to love it. We live in Brooklyn, now, which is way cooler than Manhattan, and I take the humans on many trips around my “hood”.
I have travelled all over the US, including Washington, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, well, basically, the whole of the eastern seaboard, but my favorite place – apart from Brooklyn – is Vermont. We bought a place in Vermont a few years after we moved here, though I’d have to remind you that I was born in the tropics and you can imagine that snow was a big shock for me when I first encountered it (especially 6ft or more of it, and you’ll see me right on the snow in the picture here!).
Let’s put it this way – I’ve had to grow some more hair, especially on my belly. The smells in Vermont are amazing, and what have you – those of bears, moose, deer, even wolves – are certainly not quite what I’ve been used to in my growing years.
The only downside is that it can get real cold, and in such settings I would definitely pee and poop quickly and then race back home right towards the roaring log fire! The summer in Vermont, though, is glorious, and I get to hang out on the deck and in the garden all day long!
Anyway, thank you again, SPCA Singapore, for rescuing me and giving me the chance to travel. I hope all the animals you have with you now have been, or are being, adopted. I wish my animal comrades there luck and joy, to be, like me, privileged to travel out into the big, wide world. I would be an even happier canine, if I could see this story of mine on facebook for everyone out there!
Woof woof, world!
Barks & Licks,
Hippo (née Toto) Short
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