​70 people attended (about 40 dogs) and we took £1250. Over 50% of the funds raised were from registration and donations on the day- you were so generous! 50% will go to our neutering arm, Spay It Forward, so it can continue it’s vital work paying for small trusted rescues to neuter their dogs and those outside their shelters
Sincere and eternal thanks to all those lovely people who made the effort - we know who you are and we bless you!

We have two legs that make us high off the floor. This makes a hello very difficult for our dogs. And when they do go to say hello with an appropriate muzzle sniff, they are often met with people shouting at them and pushing them away.
We leave food in easy to reach places, kitchen worksurfaces, coffee tables, bins. Perfect places for our dogs to do what has kept them alive as a species for thousands of years. scavenging and foraging, using their nose to find food. And us weird humans shout and get angry, wonder why our dinner got stolen and think of them as bad dogs.
We think sniffing natural things like dead animals and urine is disgusting and yet we constantly try to cover up any natural smells we have with chemicals, often toxic to the world around us. Detergents, perfumes, chemical sprays. We must smell overwhelming and pretty horrid to our canine friends.
We greet each other with a friendly smile, only touching each other when we give consent to do so. And yet we often greet out dogs by leaning over them, patting them on their head. If we greeted humans the way we greeted dogs it wouldn't be long before we had no friends and were arrested for assault.
We leave our dogs alone when we go out or put them in separate rooms. We use doors to confine them when it suits our daily needs. Then we wonder why this hyper-social animal feels distressed.
We have these rather odd things called hands. We touch and feel things with them. We use them to navigate the world, we grasp and pull, we hold and touch. Our dogs don't have hands, they have mouths. They use these to navigate the world around them and yet when they bite and chew, they are often told off.
We talk. We natter away, this jumble of noises that only people from the same place as us can understand. Some of us may be able to speak to some other humans from a few different countries but often struggle even with our own language. Dogs are fantastic communicators. Being able to communicate with other dogs all over the world. How confusing must our jibber jabber be to them? They often understand us a lot better than we understand them and when they do communicate with a bark they are labelled a nuisance.
They can only eat, sleep, have sex, play, socialise, run, sniff, hunt, be free, be dogs! when we enable or allow it.
Our dogs are ridiculously tolerant of our weird human ways.
We owe it to them to be just as tolerant. We owe it to them to learn more about them, communicate and teach them in ways they understand.
They do not have unrealistic expectations of us, they don’t judge or shout at us when we get things wrong. Let's try and be as tolerant and patient with them as they are with us.

Credit - Speak Dog Education with Rebecca Hanlon

The team at Give a Dog a Home know more than anyone the responsibility of taking on a dog whether that be adopting or fostering. 
We want to touch on what a complicated mass of emotions fostering a dog is. As a fosterer you need the knowledge, experience and intuition. Alongside these emotions comes a large amount of uncertainty about the outcome, ambiguous feelings on taking this often disturbed living being into your home, worrying about whether you can make a good job of it, feeling obliged to others, often unmet, who have either cared for the dog themselves in some way or are willingly taking on that grave responsibility. No wonder people rarely put their heads and hands above the parapet to volunteer as a dog fosterer. 

Good rescues will facilitate this whole experience by easing you through the process and gently guiding you along the way providing you with the knowledge and training in whatever form you can digest it, paying necessary expenses and taking into account your situation, whilst always putting the dog first. We want to emphasis that fostering a dog is a life experience which is a growthful and ultimately deeply rewarding one. 

Give a Dog a Home are seeking a rare and special type of fosterer, one who knows dogs and respects their needs, who either has no dogs at present, or alternatively has one other older, bigger dog who can wisely show her the way by taking no nonsense. This fosterer will in turn guide our little Lizzie (12kg) through adolescence, spaying, learning how to be a good adult and eventually be integrated into a home where she can spend the rest of her life. 

If you, or you know anyone who may be suitable for fostering Lizzie please contact at [email protected]. 

What a success our Give a Dog a Home dog walk was!! We just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who came along and made it a fantastic day. Due to the turnout we had we was able to raise £1272, which is amazing! 

It was so nice to see old fosters to be reunited with thriving dogs who have now all got loving family homes, but also so see how well our adopters are doing! Everyone at Give a Dog a Home is so thankful and we can't wait to see you at the next walk which will be 15th October 2022. 

Introducing Herbie, who was rescued from Romania in the summer of 2020... over a year on, Herbie is loving life with his adopters in Kent and has learnt a few tricks along the way!

If you would like to send us an update, please email [email protected] with your photo and a little background info.

We are really impressed with this addition to the Indi Dog range, and recommend it for all our dogs!
All the details and purchasing options can be found on the Indi Dog Website 

Finally most of the management team were able to come together, travelling from all corners of the South, for some cake and planning!

It's Foster Fursday!! A new regular post written by our team of fosterers - wisdom, laughs and tears...
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Lorraine - Gabby and Zac taught us that sometimes when things don't go as planned, it can turn out to be a blessing in disguise. We were only meant to foster Gabby, but Zac's fosterer fell through so we took him too. It was hard work but worth every second! We had the best time with these guys and we all learnt from each other. And sometimes when things don't work out at first, as in Zac's first home and Gabby's potential adopters, it is all for a reason because now they are with their forever families who love them just as much as we do x