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Rescue Update !
 July
2007 A Letter from STECS
Our reports usually start with the
words "well it has been busy" and this report is no different.I had thought after a busy 2006 that 2007
might be a little quieter after all there are only many Scotties in Ireland.
I was wrong and the first half of this year has seen 13 new rescues,two of which were Westies, and three of our previous rescues coming back to
us for rehoming.Chloe and Kim, two elderly Scottie
and Westie ladies had been homed in Nenagh but their adoptee mother could no longer care for
them so they went to live in Gorey instead
with another little Westie called Clodey. Jasper had been homed in Carlow and then was
moved up to Northern Ireland when again his adoptee could no longer look
after him.This is when our stipulation that all
rescues must come back to us for rehoming comes
into effect with good results.
As for all the new rescues they ranged
in age from 1 to 5 years old. It always surprises me that I do not get many
older Scotties in and at the moment I am getting an 11 month girl in to rehome.A stray. Peggy is absolutely beautiful and someone
somewhere must have paid a good price for her but for reasons unknown she
ended up on the streets looking for food.
At one stage I began to panic at the sudden
decline in potential homes. Because of the
number of dogs needing home's at one stage (6) I rang an existing adoptee who
already had Jack and asked her if she would like a little girl Scottie. She
promptly took Dotty and fell in love with this lovely, tiny brindle Scottie
girl. I am so lucky to have found so many lovely people to take our
rescues.
Rescuing can take it's toll on you,you become so emotionally involved with each and
every dog.Sometimes getting and rehoming the Scottie is relatively easy, it's the
preparations before and the follow up after that are the hardest part of
the rescue. But in the end seeing a Scottie go into a home where they
are going to be loved and looked after does really make it all worthwhile.
As always a plea for help is included
with this report. Probably more important now then ever. Dublin is by far where I get the most rescues and I need help to get these little
ones out of dangerous situations fast.
For those of you who have adopted dogs
from us please stop and look at your rescued Scottie. Someone,
somewhere helped me to help your dog. I need help in rescuing these dogs so I
can put them into safe homes and enable someone else to get as much pleasure
from them as you do from yours.Please help
me in any way you can and it will greatly appreciated. Thank you Karen
PLEASE HELP
I have now reached a stage where I have to seriously ask for help
with the
rescuing of Scotties. Sometimes I
get 2,3 or 4 dog's in to rescue at a time
and have had 6 dog's needing homes at the same time.The
practical side of
rescuing so many Scotties is
extremely difficult for me to manage. I have
huge problems transporting and minding the rescues especially if they
are
strays or surrenders and end up in one of the
pounds. In these cases I have
to act immediately in order to save the
Scotties life.
I need to build a network of volunteers across the country who can help.
This assistance could take the shape of getting dog's out of a pound
or bad
situation. It could be helping with
transportation or maybe fostering for a
little while. I need practical help in order to continue taking
in so many Scotties.
I know everyone has their own commitments and maybe have limited time
available but any offer of help
would be so greatly appreciated.
I find I am relying on the same kind people, Fionnuala
Malone, Sylvia Jameson, Joy
Saville and Brenda and Eileen
who have done home-checks for me. These
ladies,despite their own jobs, lives and
dogs help so much and often enable
me to save Scotties lives but sometimes their own commitments or
their
location means they are unable to
help.
I am not looking for a full
time commitment I just need a call from you to
say that at certain times you would be able to
assist with the rescuing.
Please help if you can, more and more Scotties are coming into rescue
and
each and everyone of them deserves the chance of a new and loving
home, I
just need help to be able to get them there.
Thank you. Karen
STECS Rescue Parade June 2007
Karen once again held the
STECS Rescue Parade with us at our Club Championship Show. Many thanks to all
those who have adopted dogs from STECS for attending. STECS UK have an annual
Garden Party at which all the dogs receive their Rosette and I think it is
important that the Irish STECS dogs are not forgotten. A huge debt of
gratitude is owed to Karen for all her work on behalf of the breed. Many
thanks to Margaret Quinn Fish who brought over the STECS merchandise this
year. This Stand is also a great
addition to our Show.
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A New STECS Letter from Karen
Clayton.
September 06
2006 has so far proven to be a busy time for Rescues. The age range goes
from 6 weeks to two elderly girls of 7 and 8 years old. There has been an
increased number of dogs coming from the dog pounds usually in Dublin and at one stage
I had no potential homes for these rescues. I have had to resort to sending
two dog's over to England
for re-homing, the lady who took these two Scotties came over to Dublin to get the dog's
herself. The dogs are coming to me from very different circumstances from a
lady who gave up her 5 year old scottie boy because
she was returning to retire in South Africa to a five month old Scottie boy
who was picked up whilst running down the main street in Wexford dodging the
traffic! and although we had a fair idea of who he belonged to I was not
willing to give him back to this person as they did not try and find for
almost 4 weeks.
The two elderly girls, a scottie and westie, were taken into Ashton Pound by their owner, she
gave their names, their ages and the fact that they were neutered and
although the staff offered to help her find a home for them together and
explained that the chances of them surviving the pound were very low she
turned and walked out leaving them there. It's only because I have built up a
relationship with one of the ladies in the pound that she rang me straight
away and told about the girls. I managed to get them out the next day and get
them down to cork. They were homed together eventually but the logistics of
getting dogs out of Dublin
pounds and transporting them is very difficult. Things usually need to be
done on an urgent basis and help is always needed. I have also had two very
young rescues lately with Gastro problems and almost lost the younger scottie boy but thankfully the vet was very dedicated and
Bailey pulled through.
There has been very little let up with the dog's and number of pure breed scotties taken into rescue so is almost 75 this is in
addition to the cross breeds and the few westies we
have taken in.
As always offers of help, for home-checking and transporting the dog's is
needed, all expenses would be covered, but it is the practical help that is
desperately needed and hardest to find.
As always I do what I can but sometimes despair at the breeders who do not
take back unwanted dogs or at least pass on the rescues details when they
sell a puppy therefore meaning the dogs may not end up in the dog pounds and
I may not have to pay to get them out and try to organize getting the
dog to me.
I know its not always possible to keep taps on puppies sold but surely
micro-chipping would go along way to safeguarding the dogs and maybe the
breed club could encourage this in their contacts with the breeders.
The rescue web site seems to be a success and any contributions from the
breed club could be included on it.
Finally I would like to apologize for not being able to attend any of the
recent committee meetings and the AGM and if the other committee members are
willing I would like to be considered for the committee in the coming year
and will try and attend the meetings if I am able.
Best
regards to the Club.
Karen Clayton
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A STECS Letter from Karen Clayton.
March 04
Once again it is time to update you on the Scottie
Rescue side. We had a busy Autumn with Seven Rescues within a two-month
period. The New Year began quietly until February when Bonnie came to us in a
terrible condition. She is two years old but is only the size and weight of a
six-month old pup. She has also sustained some brain damage and will never
recover completely. A very special home was needed for Bonnie and Mary, who
had previously taken on Dougal, another STECS
Rescue kindly agreed to take her. Mary
has the ideal environment for Bonnie to copy and learn from Dougal and the other Rescue dogs Mary has taken on. My
thanks go to Mary and her family for taking on a very difficult task.
I am currently waiting on the arrival of two
bitches they are being given up because their breeding days are over. They
are four and five years old and have five and six litters respectively. Their
owner wants to get rid of them because they cost him too much money. I will
keep you informed of their story and progress.
Regards.
Karen Clayton
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A Letter from STECS
June 04
Again
it has been a busy time for Scottie Rescue since the last Newsletter.
We
have had six rescues so far this year, two elderly Scotties had to go to England
to be rehomed, as I could not find anyone to take a
mother and daughter together. Ona brighter
note we had our Rescue Stand and Parade of Dog at the Breed Club Show in Dublin
on 19 June. Almost all the Rescue dogs re-homed in Ireland
attended and it was lovely meeting up with all the dogs and their Mum's and
Dad's. Everyone put a lot of effort into making it a success and my
thanks to all the people who brought their little mutts along. It does make a
difference seeing so many dogs of one breed together and realising that they
were all unwanted for one reason or another.
My thanks also to Fionnuala Malone and Joy Saville who have both helped with the Rescue and
re-homing og the latest dogs, help is always needed
and very appreciated! Thank you also to Anne O'Keeffe and Gavin Bradley for
their help with the parade, Anne organised the announcement of the Parade and
therefore a lot more people came and supported the Moms, Dads and dogs as
they paraded in the Show Ring. I would like to say a big thank you to
Patricia Byrned who manned the Rescue Stand for us,
despite having her own dogs there to show she organised the stand and manned
it all afternoon.
Last year we sold approximately € 350 worth of goods,
this year Patricia sold almost € 900 worth of Rescue goods, which is amazing
considering there are not that many Scottie people out there. Once again,
many thanks to Patricia for all her work and Oliver for his support. Finally
my thanks to those that supported the Stand and Parade, it really makes a difference.
Regards
Karen Clayton
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Rescue Report from STECS Ireland
After our Rescue Parade in June and a busy start to 2004
I was hoping that things would quieten down for the remainder of the year, no
such luck!! Fi and I have been busy again with
unwanted dogs and the number of Scotties that come into rescue is quite
staggering.
I had Bobby a mongrel who was given up with a Scottie
called Scotty. I soon discovered that Bobby was more dominant and showed
aggression whenever Scotty received any attention, this made for a very
nervous little Scottie boy. I tried to re-home them
together but after a while it was obvious that Scotty was suffering and Bobby
needed one to one attention, so I split them and both dogs seem to be the
better for it.
Then I
had a call from a Farmers wife wanting to give up three Scottie sisters aged
six. Fi and I
drove to collect the girls and discovered three smelly, badly matted little
girls that had been kept outside in a yard all their lives and have only been
groomed once with a sheep shears! We took
the girls to Claire Fitzsimons Grooming and Claire and Niamh
did an amazing transformation act on them. We then
spent the rest of the day re-homing them. Unfortunately I could not home them
together but the homes they have gone to are all perfect for them!
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One of the girls prior to her trimming,
you cannot appreciate from these pictures
the mats throughout her coat!!
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The same girl after
Claire and Niamh had weaved their magic!!!
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Three
days later I received a call from a lady wanting to give up her 5 month old Scottie
boy, he might trip her mother up and had to go. Needless to say the home that
Hamish has gone to is fantastic, Sylvia and Matthew recently lost their
beloved Scottie and Hamish has come at the right time. I am so very
lucky with all the new homes for the dogs and I end up meeting the nicest
people!!
As always my thanks goes to Fi for giving up a days
holiday to ferry the dogs and myself around and for doing all the home
checks. I could not manage without this invaluable help from a very busy person.
Best regards
Karen
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