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

Window Licking Day !

This is me at my window.

It is a special window that allows me to watch what is going on inside the part of the rescue that only Mutley and Spike and the humans are allowed to go.

Mutley and Spike have attained the ultimate status of being lifetime residents. They also have very stylish black collars with stars on them.

It is my aim to one day have one of these collars so that I can be just like Mutley.

Mutley is my hero and he often asks me to lick his ears for him, which of course is heaven for both of us.

I’m one of the few dogs that is allowed to be taken on walks with Mutley and quite often when he is running he crashes into me and knocks me off my feet, sending me sprawling and rolling in the grass. As you can tell from this, we are great mates.

Helen is wise to the fact that I want ultimate status and laughs whenever Mark asks her on my behalf about whether it is time for my collar yet.

One is the ways I’m trying to change Helen’s mind is by developing lots of great ways to make myself irresistable.
For example, the messy marks on the window are all made by me.

I’m very proud of them.

I often lick the window to make them and once I start the smooth glass just feels so good on my tongue that I can’t stop until I’ve licked the whole window, sometimes several times!

This morning I was able to give the window a jolly good lick until Mark tried to film me doing it.

I could hear him on about it making an hilarious screensaver, but I don’t want to lick peoples computer screens, just my own window thanks very much.

I’ve also noticed that when I do this, visitors on the other side of the window look at me very strangely, and sometimes laugh and point, but I don’t care because Window Licking is intensely absorbing.

I recommend that you try it!