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Mimi and her puppies need our help!

26/11/2017

Mimi found her rescuer when she stopped for coffee... and a day later, gave birth to her gorgeous little puppies. Our hope is to raise enough money to cover the needs of the puppies - puppy food, vaccinations, microchips and passports and pay for mummy Mimi to be neutered. You can follow their journey from day one on the Give a Dog a Home facebook page and on here... maybe one day, even offer them a loving home of their own!
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Rachael's post for Fosterer Friday!

11/11/2017

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One of our lovely new fosterers, Rachel, has written this sweet piece about her first fostering experience with Give a Dog a Home...

I have grown up around dogs – I was born into a household which included three rescue mongrels and was brought up with a constant succession of canine companions, big and small, rescue and non-rescue, pedigree and mongrel.
My partner Lewis, on the other hand, was rather nervous of dogs until the day he was introduced to Brian, my home-bred Border Terrier puppy. Lewis was smitten and quickly transformed into as big a dog-lover as I am.

Fast forward a number of years, and Lewis and I moved into a cottage in rural Hertfordshire, with plans to adopt a rescue dog as a friend for Brian. We knew of Give a Dog a Home through our good friends Emily and Rob Lucas (adopters of the awesome Arild), and a few weeks after we moved in we adopted Nero, our wonderful chocolate Lab x.

Fast forward a further eighteen months; scrolling through Facebook, I saw a plea from Lynne, Give a Dog a Home founder, asking for a fosterer for a puppy who was in transit but didn’t have a home to go to.The timing was ideal (Lewis and I could arrange time off – a rare occurrence at such short notice!) and so we volunteered to foster him. That Saturday morning we picked up Chance, an eight-month-old Shepherd x.

Chance was understandably very nervous when we first met him. He didn’t make a sound the whole journey from Faversham back to Hemel Hempstead – even when we were parked on the M25 for a good half an hour – and I was nervous about how he would adapt to life at ours.

Initially he was very timid. We had to start off by carrying him in and out of the house, and we were careful not to let Nero, who is very boisterous and excitable, completely overwhelm him.

We introduced Chance to our dogs slowly, following the Give a Dog a Home guidelines, and far from making him more nervous, their presence actually seemed to help enormously. He drew confidence from their blasé attitudes towards loud noises, sudden movements and open spaces, and within just a coupleof hours was coming out of his shell.

Just a few days later, Chance is happily playing with Brian and Nero, zooming round the garden,enjoying a tug of war, and is really starting to show his real personality. The change in him has been incredible. He is staggeringly smart, mastering ‘sit’, ‘paw’ and ‘lie down’ within three days, and is thoroughly enjoying his walks in the Hertfordshire countryside. He has even been introduced to our eight rescue chickens, which he found rather underwhelming. The chickens seemed more interested in Chance than he was in them!

Fostering has been so rewarding, even though it’s only been a few days. Seeing Chance blossom from a timid and tense little creature into such a playful and delightful dog has been wonderful, and although we can’t foster regularly, due to work commitments, we are looking forward to supporting Give a Dog a Home in other ways. I would recommend the experience of fostering to others – it really is so worthwhile, both for the fosterers themselves, and the dogs in need.

If you are interested in adopting Chance, please view his profile page here and fill out an application form.
If you are interested in fostering a pup like Chance, please visit the fostering page and fill out an application form.

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Spay it Forward

9/11/2017

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www.spayitforward.org.uk

An exciting development for Give a Dog a Home! We are forming a new activity that will be dedicated to promoting, facilitating and funding small scale canine sterilisation programmes in the countries we have links with. This division will be known as Spay It Forward. In due course this will become a self standing charitable organisation, separate from Give a Dog a Home. Initially the work of Spay it Forward will be sponsored by Give a Dog a Home from its mainstream activities and supplemented through other fundraising. It will share the same leadership team. We hope it will help small private rescuers to prevent unwanted births in their own localities. It will fund the spaying and neutering of street dogs and thereby help prevent some of the terrible suffering we witness now.
As our first project, we have funded the spaying of three females outside the shelter belonging to Roxana Tudose and Eugen Rotaru. A further 6 sterilisations will follow. We are pleased and excited to be able to help some of the disadvantaged dogs in this way as well as homing them.

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Mimi and her puppies need our help!

Rachael's post for Fosterer Friday!

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