SINGAPORE — Law and Home Affairs Minister Ok Shanmugam has welcomed a brand new member to his household. In a video posted on TikTok on Saturday (13 January), he shared in regards to the one-eyed canine his household has adopted and lovingly named Princess.
“We adopted Princess because she had just lost her eye and she had just been moved into the shelter and totally lost. Compared to all the other dogs, I think she was getting much less attention. She was scared about everything,” mentioned Shanmugam in the postincluding that he needed to “give her a much better life” and “she is just full of energy these days”.
A brand new starting after the lack of his canine
He shared that he and his household went to the animal shelter a couple of months after the death of his dog Samsonwho was additionally a rescued canine.
“We ended up bringing in three. So now I have four,” he mentioned. He has beforehand shared that he had another dog Milliewho had retired from the Singapore Police Force’s Police Ok-9 Unit.
The video has since garnered almost 3,000 likes, with many netizens voicing their assist of Shanmugam’s actions and thanking him for adopting Princess.
Shanmugam has typically talked about how he objects to purchasing dogs and that every one his dogs have been rescue dogs. In 2021, he shared his support for an initiative in opposition to the usage of pressured coaching strategies on animals, and to unfold the message that electrical collars, prong collars and choke chains shouldn’t be used on pets.
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