Bak Baan The Dog And Her Puppies

Ever since I met my uncle's dog, Bak Baan, for the first time in late January 2025 during Lunar New Year, seeing Bak Baan has become what I look forward to most when we visit our family's durian plantation, for which my uncle is the main caretaker, in my parents' hometown.

In early April, during the Qingming Festival, I learned that Bak Baan was pregnant, and then in late April, my uncle informed us that Bak Baan gave birth on April 29. Since then, my uncle occasionally shared about Bak Baan's puppies, often with pictures or videos, with my parents, often with pictures or videos who in turn share with me.

Bak Baan gave birth to seven puppies, but unfortunately, she lost two of them to a car that hit and killed them. Another one of Bak Baan's children got injured by another car, and according to my uncle, Bak Baan would bark with hostility at any vehicle not belonged to him that passed by the durian plantation.

Since learning that Bak Baan has become a mum, I had been looking forward to seeing her children myself one day. My wish came true recently on August 13, when we needed to travel to my parents' hometown to handle some official paperwork for our family's durian plantation. Naturally, we took the opportunity to visit the plantation. Naturally, the highlight of this visit for me was seeing Bak Baan again, and finally seeing her children for the first time.

Bak Baan's puppies are almost four months old, so they can already see and run, and bark alongside their mum when other dogs approached the plantation. I did not get the opportunity to take photos of Bak Baan and all her five children together, especially since our durian plantation is a huge place, and Bak Baan and her puppies moved around often, but I still managed to snap some photos of them.

A white mixed breed female dog with brown patches licks one of her puppies body, while another puppy stands close to the two. The two puppies have brown fur, and the three dogs are near a wood log stool at a compound in a plantation.

Two puppies with light brown fur near a wood log stool, with their faces being close to each other, and one puppy standing in the shadow of the stool and looking at the camera.

A white mixed breed female dog and three puppies with brown fur walk away from the camera into a grass field.

A mixed breed puppy with light brown fur stand in a grass field and looks the camera with its mouth open and tongue shown.

A white mixed breed female dog with brown patches scratches her head with one of her legs, while a puppy with brown fur stands beside her and looks away from the camera.

Update, 17 August 2025:

My parents and I currently have a dog, Yat Tong (一筒 in Cantonese), but have no plans for adopting another dog, so we are not adopting any of Bak Baan's puppies, at least for now. That said, my uncle is open for giving some of the puppies for adoption provided there is someone interested.

Bak Baan was named after a mahjong tile, so was our dog Yat Tong. None of the puppies were named after mahjong tiles though; instead, my uncle named some of them after different varieties of durians, such as Musang King and Black Thorn.

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