Home Checking ? Are you an experienced home checker? If so we would love to hear from you.
Fund Raising? Like most rescue organisations we rely solely on adoption fees and donations, and struggle to make ends meet and raise the transport costs involved in transporting dogs to the UK. Can you help at all?
Fostering - We also need Foster Homes.

Contact-Joy Dickinson   j.c.dickinson@ntlworld.com  Tel: 01235 204180 or Pauline Jefferey  paulineavonwt@aol.com Tel: 01761 434611

My Life so far By Molly

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I never realized just how horrible my exsistence (I could not call it a life) had been until I was rescued, fostered and finally adopted. For nearly three years I was chained up in a field with no company. I did have some company once when I was found a friend and became a mum but other than that it was just me with only my dreams as friends. One day a kind lady gave me a friendly pat, her name was Sandie. I was a bit scared but Sandie comforted me and told me she was saving me and that I would never know loneliness again. I went with her to a place called home and was giving a clean up as well as some refreshments. I met lots of people and dogs there. A man called Colin told me I was going on a journey with some other dogs to start a new life in the UK. After a very long trip we arrived at a house where I was greeted by more humans and another goldie. This was to be my foster home, I liked this place and wanted to stay so I made myself at home by jumping on the settee and playing with toys. Kerry (my new goldie friend) has been very nice to me and sometimes I forget and snatch toys from her and she never tells me off. Over the weeks my foster mum has helped me learn to behave like a family dog and forget my past. We had another boy goldie to stay for a while, he liked me bossing him about. Then some people turned up and took him away, mum said this was ok as they were his forever family and one day I would have my own family. I felt sad as noone wanted me. A thought entered my head perhaps if I worked hard and looked cute I could stay here? Finally after 12 weeks of looking cute and learning manners mum said she had some good news and gave me a huge hug. I had been adopted and the really good news was because of a really special lady called Maxine I was allowed to stay exactly where I was. YIPEE I barked in excitment my own forever home.
BESTFRIENDS
Thankyou for reading my story and please remember there are many more dogs like me who need help. Without transporters, fosterers, adopters and all those other special people who work behind the scenes, I would not be here today.

Could you help in some way please?

The Rescuer's Final Reward

Unlike most days at the Rainbow Bridge, this day dawned cold
and gray. All the recent arrivals at the Bridge did not know what to
think, as they had never seen such a day. But the animals who had been
waiting longer for their beloved people to accompany them across the
Bridge knew what was happening, and they began to gather at the pathway
leading to the Bridge.
Soon an elderly dog came into view, head hung low and tail dragging. He
approached slowly, and though he showed no sign of injury or illness, he
was in great emotional pain. Unlike the animals gathered along the
pathway, he had not been restored to youth and vigor upon arriving at
the Bridge. He felt out of place, and wanted only to cross over and find
happiness.
But as he approached the Bridge, his way was barred by an angel, who
apologized and explained that the tired and broken-spirited old dog
could not cross over. Only those animals accompanied by their people
were allowed to cross the Bridge. Having nobody, and with nowhere else
to turn, the dog trudged into the field in front of the Bridge. There he
found others like himself, elderly or infirm, sad and discouraged. Unlike the other
animals waiting to cross the Bridge, these animals were not running or
playing. They simply were lying in the grass, staring forlornly at the
pathway across the Rainbow Bridge. The old dog took his place among
them, watching the pathway and waiting. yet not knowing for what he was
waiting.
One of the newer dogs at the Bridge asked a cat who had been there
longer to explain what was happening. The cat replied, "Those poor
animals were abandoned, turned away, or left at rescue places, but never
found a home on earth. They all passed on with only the love of a
rescuer to comfort them. Because they had n o people to love them, they
have nobody to escort them across the Rainbow Bridge."
The dog asked the cat, "So what will happen to those animals?" Before
the cat could answer, the clouds began to part and the cold turned to
bright sunshine. The cat replied, "Watch, and you will see." In the
distance was a single person, and as he approached the Bridge the old,
infirm and sad animals in the field were bathed in a golden light. They
were at once made young and healthy, and stood to see what their fate
would be. The animals who had previously gathered at the pathway bowed
their heads as the person approached. At each bowed head, the person
offered a scratch or hug.
One by one, the now youthful and healthy animals from the field fell
into line behind the person. Together, they walked across the Rainbow
Bridge to a future of happiness and unquestioned love. The dog asked the
cat, "What just happened?" The cat responded, "That was a rescuer. The
animals gathered along the pathway bowing in respect were those who had
found their forever homes because of rescuers. They will cross over when
their people arrive at the Bridge. The arrival here of a rescuer is a
great and solemn event, and as a tribute they are permitted to perform
one final act of rescue. They are allowed to escort all those poor
animals they couldn't place on earth across the Rainbow Bridge."
The dog thought for a moment, then said, "I like rescuers." The cat
smiled and replied, "So does heaven, my friend. So does heaven."

?2006 Irish Retriever Rescue UK