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Announcing The UK’s First National Dog Adoption Month
More than 100,000 dogs await new owners in UK adoption shelters. New awareness campaign aims to show the great benefits of adopting a dog.
For many, the idea of adopting or ‘rescuing’ a dog carries with it a certain image. A notion of doing a good deed, taking on a problem dog or an ill treated […]
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Rescue Dog Takes up Career in the Police
Theo, a homeless crossbreed dog taken in by The Blue Cross pet charity, is soon to embark on a new lease of life helping Dorset Police sniff out crime. Theo recently passed an intensive four-week training course to become a fully qualified, operational police dog and will soon be on the road searching for class […]
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Celebrity Dog Adopters
Dog adoption is cool. There is no escaping it.
Whilst the ‘designer dog’ craze continues to attract people who are easily tricked in to believing they are somehow getting an exotic or rare dog, people of sound mine and good taste have realised that dog shelters are full of nothing BUT cool, designer dogs.
Just look at […]
Adopting a Dog Changed Our Lives
For many, the very words ‘rescue’, ’shelters’, ‘adoption’ bring with them certain negative associations. For some reason, people will often view a ‘rescue’ dog as damaged goods, a dog to be pitied, a dog to be saved, a dog to be ‘rescued’. Nothing could be further from the truth. The genuine, practical advantages to adopting […]
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Dogs Blog Their Way to New Homes
Over 2,000 Dogs Get New Homes Thanks to Worldwide Web
A website, launched just 17 months ago is helping to redress the balance having successfully found new, permanent homes for over 2,000 dogs and unburdening the animal welfare industry of more than £4,915,181of financial strain1.
DogsBlog.com was launched in January of 2007 in an attempt to […]
Announcing National Dog Adoption Month (UK)
August 2008 will see the plight of thousands of rescue dogs take a turn for the better.
National Dog Adoption is set to raise awareness of the hundred thousand dogs seeking new homes in Britain’s rescue shelters and promote the concept of adopting a dog.
Throughout the month there will be various events, promotions and press stories […]
