Tessa and Sonia after a long journey which started in Ireland in the early hours on Saturday morning and ended in England at 8.00 pm Saturday night.
Tessa and Sonia frequently make these trips to England to bring dogs to our rescue where they can be homed.
There are many good people in Ireland who put their hearts and souls into saving dogs from an unhappy end to previously unhappy lives.
They collect the dogs, find rescues to take them too, have relay systems of volunteer drivers to meet up along the route to hand over dogs and eventually board a ferry to bring them to England.
All of this is paid for very often out of their own pockets or from money raised at car boots etc let alone the time and effort put into these exhausting journeys.
Behind the scenes of this rescue was also Eileen, Moira and Brigid who gathered the dogs together and met Tessa and Sonia to hand them over.
Jan fostered Flint for many weeks before this trip could be made.
After a bite to eat and a couple of Barcardi Breezers to relax you can see from the photos Tessa and Sonia having a good laugh over a Fred cartoon book!
Tessa and Sonia have a wicked sense of humour and when they stay with Helen overnight before driving back to Wales the following morning to catch the ferry back to Ireland, they have Helen in stitches with their stories.
Very often the people that do this sort of work are never noticed or heard about as they quietly get on with the job of saving these dogs and they are not the sort of people to seek recognition for it.
They have seen and heard of the evil deeds commited by man on defenceless creatures that only ask to be treated kindly and yet where some people couldn’t cope with this they keep going.
We have been taking dogs from the Irish rescues for the last seven years and Helen who for many years collected dogs from the Welsh pounds knows how difficult it can be to place dogs with rescues, transport them all over the country and has also seen how the spirit of these dogs is broken.
So we know how hard their job is and would like to thank them a thousand times for what they do and so would the dogs because without them these dogs would be dead.
Tessa and Sonia in stitches laughing at Fred cartoons!!
