• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Free Korean Dogs

  • About
    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Media Coverage
    • Contact Us
  • Adopt
    • Available Dogs
    • Adoption Application
    • Adoption Process
    • Adoption FAQs
    • Adoption Resources
    • Adoption Stories
  • Our Work
    • Dangjin Dog Meat Farm Closure
    • Jeonju Dog Meat Farm Closure
    • Community Rescue
    • Public Awareness
  • Blog
  • Get Involved
    • Flight Volunteer Application
    • Flight Volunteer FAQs
    • Foster Care Provider Application
    • Volunteer Application
    • Our Partners
  • Donate

Adoption Stories

Life with Bean

December 13, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 4 Comments

You do your research. You follow your intuition and trust your instincts. You think you know what to expect. You’re prepared for this! You’ve been searching and looking for years (in our case, we wanted to wait to adopt until we owned a house with a yard). Then you see him/her – the one!

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, News&Stories Tagged With: Dog Rescue, Toronto Dog Adoption

Adopting Nikita and Molly: A Yin and Yang experience – Part 2

November 21, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director Leave a Comment

Now, we were all caught up in the idea of another dog and the personality traits in that we forgot to check one thing. What size the new pup should be. Only on the day of pickup my eyes widened realizing that Molly is the same size (30lbs) as Nikita, but is still a puppy. …Read More about Adopting Nikita and Molly: A Yin and Yang experience – Part 2

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, News&Stories Tagged With: Dog Rescue, Korean Dogs

Adopting Nikita and Molly: A Yin and Yang experience – Part 1

November 21, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director Leave a Comment

It has been a week since we moved to our new home. Strangers appeared on the front lawn. She froze.  Gasping, shrinking into her lead watermelon form – rooted into the grass beneath as if the world was tearing away. I silently lowered myself – enveloping her with my arms, breathing in deep to firmly…close …Read More about Adopting Nikita and Molly: A Yin and Yang experience – Part 1

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Rescue, Toronto Dog Adoption

How Barkley Met His Brother: Introducing a rescue to a resident dog

November 12, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 2 Comments

This story is not about blood-related brothers. However, they became brothers by household and bond. The Commitment My husband and I have had Barkley since he was a puppy. Barkley is well socialized, house-trained, and pretty calm and obedient. He loves being around other dogs of any size.  Although Barkley is a bit over 9 …Read More about How Barkley Met His Brother: Introducing a rescue to a resident dog

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Rescue, Korea, Korean Dogs, Toronto Adoption

Love paves the way

November 1, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 1 Comment

I have worked in the pet/dog business for quite a few years now. I have seen all sorts of dogs in all sorts of situations that I truly thought I knew EXACTLY what I was getting into. Boy. Was. I. Wrong.

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Rescue, Korea

Safety and Loss Prevention

October 9, 2019 by Sara Liao, Board of Directors & Adoption Manager Leave a Comment

Did you know that 70% of FKD dogs who have gone missing or run away have done so under the care of someone other than their family? The remaining 30% were a result of not having the proper safety measures in place. Dogs can back out of collars, contort out of harnesses, and take off …Read More about Safety and Loss Prevention

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, News&Stories Tagged With: Dog Rescue, Safety

Moon: the unexpected “therapy dog”

October 1, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director Leave a Comment

For years I have suffered on and off with anxiety. A year ago, the anxiety I was experiencing was the worst I’ve ever dealt with, and for a while it took over my life. There was a lot happening in my personal life and I couldn’t handle the changes, good or bad. As a result, …Read More about Moon: the unexpected “therapy dog”

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured Tagged With: Dog Rescue, Korea

Hehe, the source of love and joy

July 9, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 1 Comment

It has been a year since you travelled from Korea (where I was born) to Canada. It took 13 hours travel time and another 3 hours added for customs clearance at the airport. The day you arrived broke the record for the longest time taken at the customs accordingly because one of the flight volunteers …Read More about Hehe, the source of love and joy

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Toronto

A New Start for Leaf and I

May 30, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director Leave a Comment

After having gone through a tough moment in my life I was looking for something to help me refocus my priorities and bring me some companionship and happiness back into my life. I decided to stop procrastinating with things in my life and take more initiative in discovering my interests; one of them involved raising …Read More about A New Start for Leaf and I

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Rescue, Korea, Toronto

Hwani the pup with the huge heart

April 15, 2019 by Tatiana Thompson, Content Editor 1 Comment

The following is part of a series of interviews with adopters about their rescue pups. This particular interview is with Hyang-Sook and her husband about their dog Hwani whom they rescued almost 16 months ago. Hwani had a rough start to life but with love and patience he is flourishing!

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured, News&Stories Tagged With: Adoption, Dog meat trade, Dog Rescue, Korean Dogs

A Letter from a Foster Mom

March 6, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 1 Comment

Dear Gamza, (or “my big potato” as I affectionately called you, since your name means ‘Potato’ in Korean)

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured, Fostering Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Meat Farm, Dog meat trade, Dog Rescue, Fostering, fostering rescue dogs, Korea, Toronto

A thank you note about Rick

February 25, 2019 by EK Park, Executive Director 4 Comments

In March of 2017 I lost my best friend Dudley to lymphoma. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do. I also lost both my parents at age 60 and the only companion I had left was Dud who I had for almost 15 years. For a while, I struggled with the idea …Read More about A thank you note about Rick

Filed Under: Adoption Stories, Featured Tagged With: Adoption, Dog Meat Farm, Dog Rescue, Toronto

  • Previous
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 6
  • Next

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe

Sign up for weekly email updates.

Follow Us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Make a Donation

Footer

About Us

Free Korean Dogs (FKD) is a registered charity in Canada (BN:80580 0166RR0001). Free Korean Dogs US (FKD US) is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization #85-2573367 in the USA, with charitable organization registrations in the following States: Washington #2004912, Oregon #58908 & California #0274571. Learn more

ADOPTION PROCESS

Animal welfare is our top priority; especially because many of our rescued dogs were harmed either physically and/or emotionally in the past. Learn more

Navigation

  • Go to the front page
  • Adopt a Korean dog
  • Make a donation
  • Read news and updates
  • Read the terms of use
  • Read the privacy policy

Contact

Free Korean Dogs
ATTN: William Yang
2803-16 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M5E 2A1
Canada

Send us a message

© 2022 Free Korean Dogs