Karlin
22nd February 2011, 02:35 PM
I have posted about this in a couple of places but also want to put a notice up here. :)
This Sunday at noon I have organized a meeting to be held at Dog Training Ireland in Blanchardstown to help form a new group to take over Cavalier breed rescue in Ireland, as I am unable to do this any longer. I've run it primarily on my own for seven years now with much support from volunteers, many of whom have a fairly good sense of what is involved without perhaps having a complete picture.
It would be fantastic to organize a new group that can take over this responsibility and continue to give support to the breed. Dogs can arrive in a variety of ways, from general rescue groups, from national groups, from pounds, breeders, owners, and welfare cases. Sometimes there can be many weeks in between being contacted about a new case, and sometimes there can be several dogs coming in in a short period–it varies greatly. I have homed several hundred dogs now, and the good news is that I have never been unable to find a home for any dog, no matter the age or potential issues. There is always a home for every dog needing one, and it always shows up sooner or later. :)
I am hoping to get a group together to talk through how I've run rescue, what a new group can expect, what I see as best practice, and to supply all of the contacts I have built up over many years. I will be there in the background to help in future as a new group gets underway.
I would invite anyone with any interest in the breed and rescue to come along on Sunday for tea and coffee and some sandwiches. As always there is a need for interested fosters, people who can do transport, and for the new group, all sorts of skills would be helpful, from someone who can post up new dogs to the Facebook page and website to people who can just make phone calls, organize homing applications, set up a vet appointment for a dog, etc. Also feel free to come along if you aren't sure whether you want to do anything, but just want to meet other people interested in the breed and consider whether you might want to get involved at some future point.
Right now because I am unable to do rescue, there is no support specifically for the breed and I have had to turn away several dogs (all of which are safe and will be re-homed, but it would be better if breed rescue could take these cases off the hands of very overworked and overcrowded general rescue groups). So it is really important to try to get a new group up and away as soon as possible.
I am trying to compile a list of people who will definitely be coming along as I don't want to show up out there and just have a couple of people turn up–this won't be enough to get a new group started and if people can't come on Sunday, I would rather postpone the meeting until later next month. However, I don't want to put this off for too much longer and leave this breed rescue gap in Ireland.
So please let me know either through this post or one of my others elsewhere, if you plan to come along. :)
This Sunday at noon I have organized a meeting to be held at Dog Training Ireland in Blanchardstown to help form a new group to take over Cavalier breed rescue in Ireland, as I am unable to do this any longer. I've run it primarily on my own for seven years now with much support from volunteers, many of whom have a fairly good sense of what is involved without perhaps having a complete picture.
It would be fantastic to organize a new group that can take over this responsibility and continue to give support to the breed. Dogs can arrive in a variety of ways, from general rescue groups, from national groups, from pounds, breeders, owners, and welfare cases. Sometimes there can be many weeks in between being contacted about a new case, and sometimes there can be several dogs coming in in a short period–it varies greatly. I have homed several hundred dogs now, and the good news is that I have never been unable to find a home for any dog, no matter the age or potential issues. There is always a home for every dog needing one, and it always shows up sooner or later. :)
I am hoping to get a group together to talk through how I've run rescue, what a new group can expect, what I see as best practice, and to supply all of the contacts I have built up over many years. I will be there in the background to help in future as a new group gets underway.
I would invite anyone with any interest in the breed and rescue to come along on Sunday for tea and coffee and some sandwiches. As always there is a need for interested fosters, people who can do transport, and for the new group, all sorts of skills would be helpful, from someone who can post up new dogs to the Facebook page and website to people who can just make phone calls, organize homing applications, set up a vet appointment for a dog, etc. Also feel free to come along if you aren't sure whether you want to do anything, but just want to meet other people interested in the breed and consider whether you might want to get involved at some future point.
Right now because I am unable to do rescue, there is no support specifically for the breed and I have had to turn away several dogs (all of which are safe and will be re-homed, but it would be better if breed rescue could take these cases off the hands of very overworked and overcrowded general rescue groups). So it is really important to try to get a new group up and away as soon as possible.
I am trying to compile a list of people who will definitely be coming along as I don't want to show up out there and just have a couple of people turn up–this won't be enough to get a new group started and if people can't come on Sunday, I would rather postpone the meeting until later next month. However, I don't want to put this off for too much longer and leave this breed rescue gap in Ireland.
So please let me know either through this post or one of my others elsewhere, if you plan to come along. :)