Bauhaus Day

Today Helen and Emma told me that because of my errant swimming habits I wasn’t to be allowed near the river.

I don’t mind because at least I can still bark in the car.

I barked a lot today and Mutley could see I was having so much fun that he joined in.

Mutley is my hero.

I was barking because Spike was sitting on top of my cage and also there were soooo many cars to herd into a tight circle.

I heard Helen tell Emma (who had her fingers in her ears) that the only way to not hear me and Mutley was to put a tape in and turn the volume up.

Helen put on a tape which she said was Bauhaus and it should be loud enough to not hear me.

It was so loud that the car was throbbing which made me bark more as it was very confusing.

I thought we were under attack from that loud clappy thing that the sky does sometimes.

Helen started to laugh and said that she was sure that the man was singing “I am a dog and I have to pee, I pee everywhere on grass and trees”

Personally it was so loud I don’t know how she could hear a word and his singing was awful.

We at last arrived at the field and boy were we dogs glad, her taste in music is just awful!!

They decided that it would be easier to drive up the track and let us straight onto the field.

HA HA, the car started to slide from side to side and then it nearly got stuck.

We could have been there for ages and not had any bonios.

Helen’s language was not ladylike and I think Emma was starting to wish she hadn’t come on the walk.

They told us that as Spike and I had been so troublesome yesterday that they were going to sit by the tree and that we were to run about and do doggy things.

I don’t know what she means, I was doing doggy things when I was barking!

On the way back I sat in the front with Emma and was very good and very quiet as you can see from my photo.

I let Emma stroke me and Helen said that I am getting better all the time but still needed work.

I don’t know what she means by this as I work all the time at barking, cleaning her windows and washing Mutley’s ears.

I am a very hard worker!

I know that she loves me because, even though I wasn’t eavesdropping, I heard her say that I am her little fruitcake and she is not letting me go to anyone that doesn’t understand Collies.

She said Mark or Griff weren’t to hear this as Mark would think I was going to get a collar with stars on it like Mutley and Spike’s and that Griff said he lived with enough crazy fruitcakes.

I thought fruitcakes were those squashy sweet things that sometimes drop on the floor to be eaten !!

Mutley and the moaning at 5:30

When I first arrived in the rescue I had been used to getting my own way and would bark at precisely 5.30 for my tea.

If this didn’t work I would flip the food bin and nip Helen on the bum,
I thought if I did this enough I would get what I wanted.

But Helen is a tough cookie and not one of those types you can steal.
She made me wait until very late before she would feed me.

I still moan a bit at 5.30 and know the time even when the clocks change.

Mark brought a very large box of bonios for me when he last came to stay,
I let the other dogs have some but as I am very good at stealing food I eat most of them.

Helen decided to stop this and emptied them into various dog proof containers and as you can see I am helping her arrange them.

If I sit long enough with my paw on her knee she drops one on the floor.

Helen's diary and Dooley's diary!

We are starting to include some new features into the website,

beginning with a diary by Helen of anecdotes from her animal rescue activities,

and also a diary from Dooley, who is a dog currently in rehabilitation at the rescue.

These will updated occasionally as time allows.

HELEN’S DIARY

DOOLEY’S DIARY

( You can also now find links to them at the side of the website )

We will also soon be having a section for Tales of Dastardly Dogs,

so if you have any stories to share of incidents featuring

any animal which you have had from Helen or the rescue

either recently or at any time in the past,

please send them in to Helen

Some new dogs have arrived today and details and photos of them will follow soon,

please also continue to send us progress updates and photos of your dogs!

Dastardly dogs!!

I think the following tale of our walk with the dogs is a Dastardly Dog story!

Emma and I take Mutley, Spike, Dooley and Harley up the field
today, leaving the new dogs that arrived today to settle in.

We leave Mutley in the car whilst we walk the others planning to come
back for him later (he and Rocco aren’t getting on too well)

All is going well the rain has stopped and the sun is out, that is
until we reach the river.

Spike and Dooley launch themselves in
obviously not realising that after recent rainfall the river is
flowing at a 100 mph.

Rocco who is usually first in the river is much more suss as he has looked at it and thought “No way Hosea”

They refuse to come out and are last seen at this point not actually swimming but
flowing backwards whilst barely holding their own.

Total panic!!

I race back down the field and realise that i need to get into the next field
to get to them.

So I climb up onto the fence, hop over and land in a ditch up to my knees.

Fight my way through nettles from hell that are chest high,
run down to the riverbank and can hear frightened squeals coming from
the river.

I realise that I may have to go in so throw my mobile down
and rush to the bank.

Harley and Rocco are behind me (don’t have any
idea how they managed to get in after me as the fence was high)

Emma is close on my heels.
Dooley and Spike are still swimming backwards and I call to them to
encourage them to swim towards me.

Dooley does and I pull him out but Spike doesn’t,

so I run further down and yell at him to come several times.

The little bugger then leisurely swims to me and pulls himself
out.
Emma also landed in the ditch and her wellies are squelching with each
step.

Then we realise that we have to get out and are surrounded by
nettles, we don’t fancy the ditch again as I have seen leeches in the
mud before.

So our only course of action is to battle our way round
the riverbank through the nettles to get out.

Off we go with the dogs following, after half an hour we reach a fairly clear bit and realise
that Dooley and Spike have gone back in the river, this time luckily by
the reeds.

We get them out and Spike disappears.
No amount of calling brings him back so back I go the way we have come
only to find the rascal has given up on the nettles and gone back to
the field, refusing to go any further.

You can imagine by this time I am thinking

“Your on your own mate either follow me or stay there!”

I get back to where Emma and the other dogs are and continue to fight our
way through to a piece of fence that doesn’t have 6 foot nettles on
the other side tunnel our way under the barbed wire and finally get
out. Of course Spike appears too.

Back to the car put Rocco in and bring Mutley out,

head back to the riverbank to get the lead I left there.

What does Dooley do but launch himself in again and off he goes having swum out to the middle.

NOT AGAIN PLEASE!!

Emma holds the dogs I battle my way back through the
nettles into the next field run to the river just as he hauls himself
back out.
Emma and I are soaking, covered in mud and our hands and legs are
throbbing from the nettle stings, what are the dogs doing ?

Chasing each other round the field without a care in the world

and completely ignorant of our ordeal!

Important: please note

Since this website is now getting a lot of visitors from all over the country,

( and some international ones too!)

we need to stress the following important points:

We will only rehome dogs within approx 30miles of the Bournemouth/Poole area

in order that we can ensure the continued well-being of the dogs in our care.

Also:

We are NOT looking for just ANY home for these dogs.

All potential homes will be assessed to try and ensure the best possible home to cater for the differing needs of each individual dog that we look after.

We would rather keep a dog for longer at the rescue

than send it to a home that may be potentially unsuitable for any reason.

Thank you to the K9 Rescue Knitting Club !

The K9 Rescue Knitting Club is a group of knitters from all over the country that knits coats for dogs in rescues.

They have most kindly sent a big bag of dog jumpers to sell to raise funds or use for the dogs.

Please take a look at their website and see the range of coats they have for sale,

donate to them any spare wool or other items that you might have,

or even join in and become a K9knitter yourself!

Thank you to Burns Pet Nutrition and Peter and Beth of Pets Direct!

We would like to thank Burns Pet Nutrition who kindly donated

two bags of Burns dried dog food to the rescue.

www.burns-pet-nutrition.co.uk

This gift came via Pets Direct pet food supplies,
5 The Parade,
Waterloo,
Poole,
Dorset.

Peter from Pets Direct quite often arrives at the rescue to donate
sacks of dried dog food and always seems to know just when we are in
need of this.
Thank you Peter and Beth!

Thank you Mr Andrew Evans of Vet-Medic Pharmacy!

Earlier in the year we were
collecting worming tablets and antibiotics to go to
AnimalSOS

a rescue that works tirelessly in Sri Lanka to treat, neuter
and improve the conditions of street animals..

We would like to thank Mr Andrew Evans of Vet-Medic Pharmacy for his donation.

Mr Evans when asked donated without hesitation this generous gift

of a large box of Drontal worming tablets.

www.vet-medic.com
www.animalsos-sl.com