How much do we love animals? Two women show us how to count the ways

Published: 12:00am, 31 Jul 2009

Can anyone resist cute and cuddly animals? Probably not. Two local animal-lovers are pursuing their affection for animals in different ways. Former marketing executive Jen Chan (pictured below) has just started a website offering more than pet supplies and toys. She is also promising home-cooked meals for pets to be delivered to clients' doorsteps.

'The website has been up for only about 10 days,' she said. 'My background is in advertising, but what I love is just being home and staring at my dogs the whole day. I have four dogs now. I will do the cooking myself and delivering along with a friend who has nothing better to do.' Eventually, Chan hopes to expand her portal www.wahfugu.com into an all-encompassing brand as an animal talent agency, resource base and dog shelter. 'The name comes from my dogs - Wah Wah, Fu Fu and Gu Gu. I only picked up my fourth last month, an abandoned poodle.'

Another notable pet story is a new book from Ocean Park Conservation Foundation chairwoman Judy Chen (pictured right).

The animal-lover decided to express her fondness for pandas by penning a book about Qing-Qing, the panda she 'adopted' at the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Sichuan . The book, In Love With Pandas - The Story of Qing-Qing and I, is appropriately heart-warming and sentimental. But it also includes some conservation information on the centre as well as plenty of pictures of the black and white endangered pandas at the site.

She officially launched it at the Book Fair, which ended on Tuesday, and will be donating all royalties to the Giant Panda Base Rebuilding Fund to help repair facilities damaged in the earthquake last year.

However, it is in Chinese only, for now. It's published by Cosmos and costs HK$100.

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