We have a few dogs who require on-going medical treatment and they all need extra special care
and attention. These are our forever foster dogs.
We also have dogs who have had severe
problems, because of their previous treatment, who have been adopted by IRR team members
but who are delighted to be sponsor dogs in order to raise money to enable us to help others like them in the future.
For a donation of £10 a year, you can sponsor one of these dogs, and in return,
you will receive a Certificate of Sponsorship with a photo of your chosen dog as well as quarterly updates about their progress.
Your sponsor dog will also remember your birthday and greet you at Christmas and
you will also get your name on our Sponsor Page.
You can also sponsor a dog as a present for someone else.
You can choose from these very special dogs.
(click on the dogs to find out more about them,
to see their current sponsors and to sponsor them).
Renewing a Sponsorship
If you would like to continue your sponsorship of your chosen dog(s),
please click on the dog(s) to fill in the form and select "Renewal" as the sponsorship type.
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Eric and Hilary
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THE STORY OF A VERY SPECIAL SPONSORSHIP |
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Hilary Cassidy and Eric Wilson are getting married on 3 September 2008.
We have awarded honorary sponsorship to 5 other goldens for this occasion, namely Danny, Honey, Bunny, Connie and Penny to make the number of dogs up to 20, one for each table.
The 20 wedding tables will accommodate 8 guests on each. Every table will have a picture of a sponsor dog, in the form of a wedding congratulations card and every guest will be given a small gift from our range of merchandise such as a key ring, fridge magnet, notebook or book mark. Hilary and Eric have now received all these items, together with the sponsorship certificates for each dog and are absolutely delighted with everything. Huge thanks must go to Belinda and Terry, our marvellous merchandise wizards, for all their hard work. Because of Hilary and Eric's generosity, we will be able to pay for the transportation, neutering and microchipping of a future rescue dog from Ireland so another life will be saved. Sponsorship will start from 20 August which is also Hilary's birthday so all the dogs have been busy putting pen to paper to send their birthday wishes and to introduce themselves. They will also be sending quarterly updates and cards for Eric's birthday and for Christmas and, of course, in this case, to congratulate the happy couple on their Wedding Day. We all send Hilary and Eric our very best wishes and heartfelt congratulations on the occasion of their forthcoming wedding and cannot thank them enough for their very kind and generous support of Irish Retriever Rescue.
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URGENT MESSAGE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SPONSORED ONE OF OUR DOGS
Unfortunately, due to lots of difficulties with more than one computer, we have encountered a few teething problems during the first year of our Sponsor a Dog scheme. Thankfully, for the majority, all has worked very well but a few people have missed out on their updates etc for which we can only apologise profusely. We very much appreciate your generosity in sponsoring our dogs and hate to feel we have let you down so badly.
If you sponsored a dog for yourself, or on behalf of someone else, and haven't received all or any of your updates and cards, could you please email Gizmo on GizmoJefferey@aol.com ASAP. You should have received a certificate, four quarterly updates, a Christmas card and a birthday card from your chosen dog. For anyone in this unfortunate position, we are giving a year's free sponsorship commencing now.
If you have successfully sponsored a dog and think your sponsorship may now have expired, but have not been contacted as yet, could you also email Gizmo on GizmoJefferey@aol.com to either renew or cancel your sponsorship.
Our system has now changed with a brand new database in operation so, hopefully, everything will run smoothly from now on and nobody will be disappointed.
Again, many apologies to those affected and thank you to everyone for supporting us
and helping us to help so many needy dogs.
HOW WE SPEND DONATIONS
A £10 sponsorship will pay for us to microchip a dog or purchase a bottle of flower essences to help our dogs overcome their past traumas gently and naturally.
Three people sponsoring gives us £30 to pay for a bioflow collar for an elderly dog.
Six people sponsoring gives us £60 to pay for arthritis medication for our forever fosters.
Eight people sponsoring gives us £80 to pay for the transport of another dog over from Ireland.
Ten people sponsoring gives us £100 for a male dog to be castrated.
Sixteen people sponsoring gives us £160 to pay for spaying a bitch.
Vet bills can be crippling but we always do our best for every dog. Occasionally, dogs sometimes need major surgery whilst others just need a short course of medication, but every £10 of sponsor money helps to lessen our load. Every penny counts, so bless you all for your generosity and for sponsoring our dogs.
Another way to help, and at the same time have a lovely gift for yourself or a friend, is by buying merchandise which has all been lovingly created for us by two of our adopters, who also happen to be extremely creative and talented. Many, many thanks to Belinda and Terry.
SPONSOR DOG MERCHANDISE NOW ON SALE |
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