Letters

To all the CAESSR team,

Sue (or as I now call her - Susie) has been home with me for almost six weeks now. I rescued her after falling in love with her after becoming a volunteer dog walker for CAESSR.

Sue had never been given a chance in the short two years of her life - a failed worker, and returned to the rescue after a failed adoption. She had been kept alive for two years but never lived - she was not toilet trained or had lived in a house before.

Since coming home, little Sue has thrived. She’s such a smart little girl, who took to toilet training fabulously. She is ball mad (often falling asleep with one in her mouth) and the most loving, happy dog you’ve seen. She loves to be loved, and finally have a home she can call her own. I truly believe that little Sue is my doggy soulmate, and it was always meant to be.

She is my little shadow and loves nothing more than a long, muddy walk - ball in mouth (of course). She has finally been given a chance - and I’m just so happy I was given the opportunity to do this for her.

Thank you!!

Amber❤️

Hello Caessr.

Sorry it's so long, but I thought you might like to know how Charlie is getting on. We have had him for 5 months now and he has settled in and is running all about him!

He had a "wobble" just before Christmas where his amorous ambitions were getting the better of him. We had an implant to help curtail his hormones etc.

Since 5th February he has been fully castrated (this was always the plan) and he is very much calmer. He still gets excited for his meals, but that is a positive. He loves charging through the local woods and fields morning and afternoons.

He has " adopted" the boxes of our previous dogs toys (never tidies up though).

We have a very happy boy who can look forward to much content and safety as the years pass. 

We trust that everything is working out well with you and all dogs in your care and they are finding their forever homes.

Kind Regards
Ken 

Dear Di, Ian and Emma

Sorry for the delay in emailing you an update about Ollie. It's been a bit of a busy 3.5 weeks to say the least!

Ollie's a real sweetie, who loves a fuss. He has that big 'from the waist-down' wag that nearly bends him in half when he's happy to see you. He's gentle, taking a treat, and doesn't inhale his food (first for us!). He's quiet in the car - he just lies down on the back seat - and is ok being left alone for a while.

He has, unexpectedly, been getting to know my vet! I think a week after arriving, he chased something across our garden (give him his due, he stopped when I called him), but not before clonking a claw on something. No complaints from him, but a trail of bloody footprints down the path and into the house - and he wouldn't let me anywhere near it. So we left him to it (I made a vet appt anyway, just in case) and by the end of the day he was mostly on 3 legs, so off we went the following morning.

He's actually quite an anxious boy in new surroundings - or he's just not sure about going to the vets? Following a quick assessment from a distance, it was decided they'd have to give him something to make him slightly sleepy, so he happily wandered off with my vet for a quick socialisation visit around the practice and a 'sleepy treat' and I whizzed him home and then returned with a much calmer chap a couple of hours later. Having left him there, I awaited a call and eventually she rang to say he'd broken a claw right where it joined his toe, so she'd had to remove the whole claw.

Then the meds upset his system - whether it was something specific, or a combination of all the sedation and pain meds I don't know, but a couple of days later we were back at the vet because he'd started vomiting too, bless him. More meds, a jab, more fusses and he was really good, bless him, considering how awful he must have been feeling - at this point I was sleeping on the sofa with him every night as it was quicker to get outside every couple of hours. Things started to settle, then his meds ran out, so another trip to the vet, different meds and a first for me - a poop sample! Luckily all negative for bugs and his meds have certainly sorted things out, so we're finally, this week, back on an even keel.

We did another check up/socialisation visit with my vet yesterday (she's good at doing the odd foc visit for me ?) and she's really impressed with how much more relaxed he's become over the visits he's had with her and, she said, once he's chilled out properly, he'll be a fantastic dog.

Hopefully now his digestion is sorted, I can start to introduce him to my office at work and he'll be able to come to work with me a couple of times a week, rather than be at home on his own. Not that he seems to mind, if the squishy, you've just woken me up face is anything to go by when I've popped home!

So thank you for letting us adopt him. I'm sure once he's properly settled, he'll become less anxious. We're already getting half a spring sprawl on the sofa at night, so he's definitely getting there.

I've attached a picture of him from the day we adopted him (outside the kennels) and from later that day at home.

Jane

Hi to all the team,

We can't believe that we've had Gemma for a year! She's such a good girl, loving her walks where she meets lots of other dogs and their owners, she loves to meet the owners as much as the dogs!

We've had a couple of holidays with her and Tammy and she was great, apart from one cottage where she wasn't allowed upstairs! (She sleeps on our bed) She really wasn't happy about that!

Thank you for allowing us to give her a new home.

Kath and Martin

Hi all at CAESSR,

As you know, we were without a dog for a few years, our choice, travelling etc, but so glad we now have a dog again, Davut.

Folks say he is fortunate to have us, taking on a blind dog, but we feel like we’re the lucky ones, as he is such a character. We sometimes forget he’s blind, as he has mapped out our house and garden, also knows his walk route, apart from occasional collisions with parked vehicles!

His original CAESSR FB post had over 48,000 view's, unbelievable !

We actually think he is a cross, Golden Retriever and Cocker.

Thanks to all at CAESSR, keep up the good work.

Still attached to his ball and sleeps with a little bit of tongue sticking out!

He is the missing part of our jigsaw!

Jim and Clare