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Sat / Sun : Cakes at Pets at Home, Branksome!!

[update Sun 11th pm]

The cakes and dog delights that we have taken into Pets at Home this weekend have been a great success.
There may well at the end of the day be a few left over for tomorrow if you are lucky so do come down to Pets at Home at Branksome and buy a few raffle tickets.
I had to test them of course and can confirm they are heaven in cake form.
Lord Ash tested the dog delights and has confirmed they too are worth a second tasting if he can nick a few from the table.

Thank you to Viki, Angela, Scarlet and Stephanie for keeping us supplied with cakes
( I do hope there are a couple left over for me to finish off tomorrow. They are well worth breaking a diet for)
Thank you also to Lee , Marjorie and Webster who cooked up lots of dog Doughnuts, Muffins and Paw shaped carob treats for the dogs.

[update Sun 11th am]

Spike has been hard at work this morning and all day yesterday helping to sell raffle tickets.
Here he is taking a well earned break.
This afternoon Lord Ash known as Ash to his friends will be helping Pat and Frankie.
Lots of delicious cakes left so do come along and buy a ticket to support the Rescue.

We will have in addition to cakes;- Muffins and Doughnuts specially made for dogs for all those woofers that may want to buy three tickets and grab a treat!

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Ask Spike nicely and he’ll let you have one for free if you buy some raffle tickets from him!

Hope’s appeal 2014 – £1258 raised > target £1990

progress update: 11/05/2014

To date we have raised £1258 for Hope’s Appeal.

We are still collecting in sponsorship money from Sam’s Marathon runs and as soon as we have all of this in we will put up the final total raised by Sam.

Thank you to everyone who has helped raise money for Hope.
Firstly Sam who is just incredible in running not just the London Marathon but The Silverstone Half Marathon as well.
Claire at The Candlejar who has raised money for both Hope’s appeals and has so far has raised nearly £850 since she started, Marilyn and Mike who held an Indian and Italian meal at their house and asked the invited guests to donate, Afrivets who have raised money in the sugery, Claire and Jane who did a car boot last weekend and everyone who kindly sent in donations.

We still need car boot stuff and clothes please if you have any that you would like to donate to us to raise money please phone the Helen at the Rescue.

Continue reading “Hope’s appeal 2014 – £1258 raised > target £1990”

Sat 3rd – Mon 5th May : Cakes at Pets at Home, Branksome!!

Update on raffle ticket sales from Helen – 2/5/14

People were queuing up to buy 3 tickets and the delicious cakes today.
Viki has been busy today baking even more cakes and tomorrow Hope and Nell will be at Pets at Home, Branksome selling them and meeting and greeting people.
Nell is looking for her forever home.
Please pop along and buy some tickets and cakes!

Thank you to Angela, Viki and Scarlet for the cakes and posters!

April 27th (Sunday) : Boscombe Charity Dog Walk [update]

We would like to thank Linda and the the Beach Rangers at Boscombe Beach office for arranging the sponsored dog walk for the rescue at which a £100.00 was raised.
Thank you also to the supporters who turned up with their dogs to do the walk.

Thank you so much

Helen and all at DAWGdogs

Continue reading “April 27th (Sunday) : Boscombe Charity Dog Walk [update]”

Mystery dog Illness confirmed Puddletown / Wareham

This came via Lynwood Veterinary Group:

Kirk, the black Labrador has been a recent victim of cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy also referred to as New Forest Disease and Alabama rot.
Kirk sadly lost his battle with this disease on 6th March 2014.
Kirk was walked in the Dorchester and Purbeck area.
In the light of this further case we would like to highlight to everyone to check your dogs regularly for any unexplained wounds on the legs and face and to seek veterinary attention if you notice anything.
Cases only seem to occur between December and March and only small numbers of dogs are affected overall.
As Kirk was only walked locally in the Puddletown Woods and Wareham Woods, we would like to highlight to dog owners that this disease is not restricted to the New Forest.
Therefore it is important to check your dogs regularly for any wounds and monitor particularly for lethargy and reduced appetite.
If you have any concerns please do not hesitate in contacting your local branch of Lynwood Vets.

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Mystery Dog Illness New Forest update

NFDOG and Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists are very grateful for all the donations (totalling over £10,000 now!) they have been receiving for the aim of furthering research into ‘Alabama Rot’.
Two projects have already been undertaken and although nothing positive has been detected, a few more possibilities have been ruled out. Urine toxicology tests have been carried out on a number of sick dogs in an attempt to identify a toxin that may have been ingested, but nothing definite was discovered.
A very kind and grieving family agreed to a full post mortem on a dog they had sadly lost, hoping that this would help the cause. The knowledge base continues to be built.
NFDOG Chairman, Heather Gould, said “We are not expecting any exciting break throughs in the medium term, but believe that every test that rules something out is a small step forward. The research fund is open to any vet who wants to research something specific about the illness and applications should be made via Anderson Moores.

The Forestry Commission have asked for our help to make more information widely available to the public. They have a downloadable poster at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/eng_NF_AlabamaRot_Mar14.pdf/$FILE/eng_NF_AlabamaRot_Mar14.pdf and would like members of the public to print out and display this in areas of the Forest that do not already have it up. If posters are to be displayed outside of the New Forest, the FC logo must be removed please.

Please keep an eye on Anderson Moores website – www.andersonmoores.com for updates on the illness and a table of confirmed and suspected cases can be viewed here – http://www.forestry.gov.uk/alabamarot

Sent by NFDOG. Contact:

New Forest Dog Owners Group
Racecourse View
Lyndhurst
Southampton, Hampshire SO43 7AQ

Samantha Fry runs for DAWGdogs !!

Samantha Fry is running the London Marathon and Silverstone Half Marathon.
She has set up an account to raise money for DAWGdogs.
If you would like to support Samantha, monies can be paid directly into Lloyds Bank, Poole High Street branch. A/C number 47167160 sort code 30-96-73

The monies raised will go towards Hope’s further treatment for cancer and the care of all the dogs at the Rescue.
Please let Helen know if you have supported Samantha so Hope and all the DAWGdogs can say a big THANK YOU !!

NFDOG Research Fund into New Forest Illness

The New Forest Dog Owners Group, worried about the mystery dog deaths from kidney failure,

has decided to set up a fund and collect donations to help facilitate further investigations into this disease.

More details at:

www.newforestdog.org.uk/researchfund

We [DAWGdogs] have also received word of a possible new case at St. Catherines Hill,

and so, although we stress that, as yet, we have been unable to get this report independently confirmed,

if you walk your dog/dogs in that area you may wish to avoid it for the time being as a precaution.

New Forest dog illness update

Mystery Illness Update

There has been another death from the mystery illness.

A dog has had to be euthanised after falling ill, he had a lesion on his leg and the blood tests

initially showed no problems with his kidneys.

Sadly, a few days later he was very sick and this was the start of the renal failure.

He had been walked around the Holmsley area.

Anderson Moores have published an information sheet for dog owners regarding the mystery illness.
Please visit http://www.andersonmoores.com/vet/news

Sent by NFDOG.

Contact:
New Forest Dog Owners Group

Racecourse View

Lyndhurst

Southampton, Hampshire SO43 7AQ

Thank you Webster’s and Zoukinis!

DAWGdogs would like to thank Webster’s doggie delights for the delicious treat bags given to the rescue dogs at Christmas.
Scamp liked them so much he raided everyone else’s bags and scoffed eight of the doggy paw shaped treats !!
Shame on you Scamp…….

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Thank you also to Kelly at Zoukinis restaurant in Westbourne for the money raised from the coffee morning and raffle and to everyone who donated raffle prizes.

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