August News

August News

There has been lots of good news in the past few weeks and also some sad news.

Firstly the pound dogs who needed your help have all found wonderful homes:

• ·        Sparky, aged 14, has gone to live with Liz Williams and is very happy

• ·        Xena, 12 years old, was adopted from the pound by a lovely family who also had an elderly Lab

• ·        Matt, Yorkshire terrier with a heart murmur, also found a home with great people who were happy to cope with his medical problems.

• ·        Casper, the terrier with the bad teeth, also found a home and your donations went to the new owners to pay for his dental work.

Kim’s Home has also helped other pound dogs:

• ·        Snoopy, a white, abused, Boxer girl, was taken to Hollyhedge Animal Sanctuary

• ·        Amos, an old Labrador, also went to Hollyhedge at the beginning of September.

Kim’s Home paid £200 to get 2 dogs from Strayaid in Durham to rescue.  Nancy, a Saluki cross, and Lola, an elderly Whippet cross, were given back-up by GRWE and have already found homes.  Thank you, GRWE.

Molly, the elderly rough-coated lurcher who we featured here a couple of months ago,  had to leave her foster home but luckily a forever home came up for her.  Kim’s Home had the joy of organising a transport run from Sheffield to Orkney!  It was so worth it though because Molly now has a fantastic home.

Laurie, the Kim’s Home foster, who arrived in an emaciated state at the beginning of May, has at last found his forever home with a couple in Bedfordshire who have other dogs for Laurie to play with and their own fields for him to run in.  He has settled well and his new family are enchanted with him.

Nell, the nervous Saluki, who arrived last month, has decided to stay.  She is really happy here and has become a bit of a clown.   She runs well with Lucy (the only dog who will) and she feels like she should be family.

The sad news for this update is that we lost our dear Lily a couple of days ago.  She came from a traveller/gypsy site 13 years and 4 months ago at the age of 8 months.  So we’ve had a long and loving relationship with Lily.   Fourteen was too young to die but there was nothing that could be done to save her.  Sleep well, Lily – reunited at last with your Mum Suzi, your favourite running mate.

You can read all about her on the Dogs section of the website.

Thank you so much to our loyal supporters who donate money or items to help Kim’s Home carry on.  Thanks especially to the support from Lisa at Health Mutt for the natural products that keep the dogs healthy and the fund-raising activities, and thanks to Martin Player for the organic raw meat, to the sponsors of the Kim’s Home residents. If only there were more of you, I could do so much more to help dogs in trouble.

Ways to donate can be found on the website HERE.