Post by Caroline on Jan 28, 2009 16:00:12 GMT 1
I work for Doris Banham Dog Rescue. Every week, we get a list of dogs that will be put to sleep in pounds unless we get them out within a few days. Most of the time, we are able to find rescue spaces for the dogs, in which case we mount a cross-country transport mission to get them out the pounds and into places of safety and care.
Sometimes we cannot find a rescue space for a dog. In which case, we kennel them and rehome them ourselves. Sometimes we have to send them to a behaviouralist for specialist training.
On this week's PTS list, we had a 7 year old rottweiller called Tyson (renamed Toby by me to give him a new start!). He was abandoned in a garden following a relationship break up and was not touched for ages, just food thrown out to him,. He got picked up by the dog warden and taken to the pound - where they kept him locked in a kennel for months, not walked him and haven't attempted to touch him since October. As a result, he has become stressed out, de-socialised and dangerously nervous aggressive.
We don't give up on any dog. We don't leave them behind to die. So we are rescuing him from the pound this week and sending him to our behaviouralist for extensive training. I have faith that this will work and the trainer will turn him around as he has turned around many challenging dogs before.
When he has had his training (likely to be at least a month, maybe 2 or 3 months), I want to find a confident and experienced home for him. I think it needs to be someone with experience of the breed who will be capable of handling him appropriately and carry on his training. (We have home checkers all over the country, so location is not important.)
I will of course be speaking to various Rottie rescue organisations when he is ready to be rehomed, but if anyone here would like to consider taking him on, please contact me and I will keep you posted of his progress.
If anyone would like to contribute to his training expenses and sponsor Tyson, we would be immensely grateful. You can make a donation via paypal on the Doris Banham web site:
dogsos.co.uk
(Please add a note in the special instructions to say "IHDG - for Tyson training" so we know what it is for and that it is IHDG people helping us)
His trainingand kennelling costs £5 a night - so we are looking at costs between £150 and £450 I think, depending on how he responds.
I will be personally contributing towards his training expenses because I think he is a dog that represents our determination not to give up on any dog. So many people have just said "don't bother" and "you can't save them all". Please help us prove that we can - or at least can try our best! Just think - if 90 people paid for 1 nights training, we could completely cover his needs and achieve what some people are calling impossible.
At least 7000 dogs get put to sleep in UK pounds each year - and that's just the ones that get reported. In practise, it is thought to be closer to 25,000 dogs. A lot of people don't realise what is really going on. It's sadly inconsistent with a nation of dog lovers!
There are campaigns underway to bring this to public attention and reverse the surge of abuse and abandonment. I think we need to let people know what's happening and come together and say "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!"
Sometimes we cannot find a rescue space for a dog. In which case, we kennel them and rehome them ourselves. Sometimes we have to send them to a behaviouralist for specialist training.
On this week's PTS list, we had a 7 year old rottweiller called Tyson (renamed Toby by me to give him a new start!). He was abandoned in a garden following a relationship break up and was not touched for ages, just food thrown out to him,. He got picked up by the dog warden and taken to the pound - where they kept him locked in a kennel for months, not walked him and haven't attempted to touch him since October. As a result, he has become stressed out, de-socialised and dangerously nervous aggressive.
We don't give up on any dog. We don't leave them behind to die. So we are rescuing him from the pound this week and sending him to our behaviouralist for extensive training. I have faith that this will work and the trainer will turn him around as he has turned around many challenging dogs before.
When he has had his training (likely to be at least a month, maybe 2 or 3 months), I want to find a confident and experienced home for him. I think it needs to be someone with experience of the breed who will be capable of handling him appropriately and carry on his training. (We have home checkers all over the country, so location is not important.)
I will of course be speaking to various Rottie rescue organisations when he is ready to be rehomed, but if anyone here would like to consider taking him on, please contact me and I will keep you posted of his progress.
If anyone would like to contribute to his training expenses and sponsor Tyson, we would be immensely grateful. You can make a donation via paypal on the Doris Banham web site:
dogsos.co.uk
(Please add a note in the special instructions to say "IHDG - for Tyson training" so we know what it is for and that it is IHDG people helping us)
His trainingand kennelling costs £5 a night - so we are looking at costs between £150 and £450 I think, depending on how he responds.
I will be personally contributing towards his training expenses because I think he is a dog that represents our determination not to give up on any dog. So many people have just said "don't bother" and "you can't save them all". Please help us prove that we can - or at least can try our best! Just think - if 90 people paid for 1 nights training, we could completely cover his needs and achieve what some people are calling impossible.
At least 7000 dogs get put to sleep in UK pounds each year - and that's just the ones that get reported. In practise, it is thought to be closer to 25,000 dogs. A lot of people don't realise what is really going on. It's sadly inconsistent with a nation of dog lovers!
There are campaigns underway to bring this to public attention and reverse the surge of abuse and abandonment. I think we need to let people know what's happening and come together and say "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!"
