progress update: 26th Sep

Trixie has gone to  her new home today !!

progress update: 23rd Sep

I have been told that I am very pretty and bearing this in mind I tried my flirting skills out on Fudge.
Fudge is the dog that lives with Keith, Helen’s boss and I went to play with with him for a couple of days whilst Helen was working.
Fudge is also a Dawgdog, he’s quite nice but was immune to my charms and was only interested in getting the stick off me.
I am full of bouncy energy just like Tigger and I soon had Fudge worn out.
I also met Buffy and Angel ( Keith’s cats! )
I was quite good with them, having lived with a cat before I know that cats are to be approached carefully.I did forget my manners a few times and thought that they may enjoy to run circles around the house as we dogs like to do but Helen was VERY firm about this and said it was not the polite way to behave in cat company. She said I need a little more firm handling with cats to learn that not all cats are like my old pal in my previous home.
I  need to learn not to pull on the lead and to come back when off the lead. I find the latter difficult as there are soooo many interesting smells to investigate.
In my old home there were four children and I love childen. I do miss playing with them and of course all the juicy titbits they drop when eating. Children are such messy eaters that a dog could get fat cleaning up after them.
At the rescue everyone agrees that I am a thoroughly nice dog and have gorgeous Autumn red highlights running through my coat.
Dooley and Rocco have told me that they are at the top of the homing list so I may have to wait my turn.

progress update: 18th Sep

Trixie is back at the Rescue because unfortunately she is not good with unfamiliar cats !!

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Trixie is a 9 month old red setter cross

She comes from a good home with four children aged 4-12 and a cat.

The family are moving and are unfortunately unable to keep her in their new accomodation.

progress update: 22nd Sep

I am just writing to let you know how the dogs have settled in.
When we got them they were called Chuckie and Tommy, and have now been
renamed Mizzen (the blonde one) and Jib (the black one).
They are now very settled. They love going for walks in the forest and down the
beach and have even been tempted to go for a swim in the sea, Mizzen
is not as confident with the sea as Jib but is very willing to give it
a try as long as he can be by our side.
They both have lifejackets that we are getting them used to before we take them out on the boat,
Jib does not mind his at all but Mizzen always sulks.

They both come when called so we are able to let them off the lead in
the forest and suitable walks. Mizzen from the start would simply walk
with us directly behind our heels whereas Jib runs off until almost
out of sight then waits for us to catch up before going on.

They love to meet other people and dogs and are very good with our
nieces who love them.

They act like typical siblings; they love each other but do growl over
food and cuddles. The way they are with the chickens also differs, we
have introduced them on a few brief occasions – Mizzen is nervous of
them and stays behind us, but Jib would really love to eat one given
the chance; so far he has been pecked by the chickens for his efforts.

I am also very pleased to say that they are getting the idea of
housetraining and are learning to look at the door if they need to go
out.

Kind Regards,

Justine

progress update: 14th June

Chuckie and Tommy have gone to settle in to their new home today!

progress update: 12th June

Pocket Picking Day

Today Helen took us to have our pockets picked.

We sat in the back and discussed in hushed tones what she could mean by this,

has she started to consort with Fagin like criminals?

If so we will have to contact the Police,

German shepherds are very good at catching bad people,

and once caught they will be taken to court to be tried in front of Judge Collie Jeffreys.

Collies are always judges because they are so clever.
Helen was late for this suspicious appointment and drove faster than she should.

Dooley had warned us of her bad taste in music and she was in a Bauhaus mood again.

I do hope she replaces her car aerial soon
and we can educate ourselves with Radio 4 next time we go for a drive.

We arrived at a place that smelt of lots of animals and there was a
few roguish looking characters there.

A Staffordshire Bull Terrier that won’t let anyone take his chain lead from him,

looked at Helen and sat by her and she told him that she didn’t have anything that he would
want to hold onto and he could take his eyes off her bag.

Stealing bags and pickpockets we were really starting to worry now !

A nice lady called Phillipa talked to us and before we knew it she had put a
long, sharp pointy thing in our necks and after a while we stared to feel sleepy.

Before we were too tired, we managed to scent mark a large
box with lots of papers in it.

Phillipa laughed and said it was only her 1998 tax returns.

Helen told Phillipa that we do this all the time and that Yvonne who has been
looking after us is going to have to completely replace her lino after we have gone.

Helen sat talking to us whilst we went to sleep and Phillipa made her a cup of tea.

Helen said that Phillipa is the only vet she knows that
makes a cup ot tea for her clients, we didn’t get offered one.

Before we knew it we woke up,

we felt a bit sore in the place we keep our manhood but otherwise felt fine.

Helen arrived to pick us up and
after a lovely sleep and a bit of chat with the other dogs who were
really quite friendly in spite of their rough looks we went back to
Yvonne’s.

We didn’t meet any pickpockets so are still non the wiser as
to what she meant.

Chuckie:

Tommy:

This is Chuckie and Tommy, they are a year old and are a cross shih tzu size.
They are not clean in the house as they lived outdoors before coming
to the rescue.
They have been clipped quite short as their coats were matted.

They were a little timid when
they arrived in but have now settled well into the foster home.

progress update :16th Sep

Tess has also now been rehomed and has gone to live with Oscar ( a.k.a Davy ) !!!

Tess was an unwanted farm dog
a 14 week old collie cross female pup,

she is a typical friendly puppy!