VANCOUVER -- Seven-year-old Beatrix got the best Christmas present a kid could wish for this year: a puppy. “We’ve been thinking about getting a dog for a long time,” her mom Erin Hannah says. “We were actually looking into getting a puppy when the first lockdown happened, and you could not find a puppy anywhere.” Puppies were hard to come by. Rescue organizations had fostered out all their dogs, or sent them to new homes. And scammers had started taking advantage of the high demand – online puppy frauds are still an issue. “When this second round of restrictions happened in November, we thought let’s get back on trying to find a dog, 'cause I think it’s going to be a very long winter,” Hannah says with a laugh.