Happy 13th birthday Dodger
Dodger is one of the charity’s welfare dogs supported by the charity.
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Labrador Rescue South East & Central Blogs
New owner Alison sent us this update on Monty
Monty……AKA Red rocket…Monty Zoomer and squirmy wormer (due to the way he rubs his head all over me in the mornings!) Monty came to us Mid-May this year, joining Nemo, our 13-year-old yellow lab, and Goose our 18 month old yellow who had also come from LRSE&C a couple of months earlier.
He instantly established
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MONTY
by Marion Clayton
Monty came into rescue as an emergency at the beginning of 2024, as his owner developed a serious illness and could no longer keep him.
We therefore put him into a foster home with another dog and they got on well, this was a temporary placement as we knew it wouldn’t be long before we could find the right forever home for him.
Whilst in the foster home he sadly contracted Tetanus, a virus that is so rare that the vet had not seen it in a dog for 30 years.
Thanks to the decisive action by the foster home poor Monty ended up being transferred as an emergency to the Royal Veterinary College Hospital in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. He stayed there for about a week whilst they stabilised the condition. The tetanus affected all his muscles meaning that his limbs became stiff and other muscles in his body contracted. He had difficulty swallowing and the muscles in his face were also tense. Whilst in the hospital he was on a drip and a catheter.
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Do you remember Violet from our appeal?
She is the 10 year old girl who had been in our care for over a year, before she finally found a new forever home with Helen and Mark .
As you can see from these lovely photos, she is now settled and
extremely happy.
Orberry (10) Little ~Ted (8) Big Ben (14)
joining in support for Remembrance Day
Sheila Stevens
It is with very great sadness that we must bring you the news that our
Trustee and founder member of the charity, Sheila Stevens passed away on the 18th April 2024.
For all who knew her and were in contact with her, this is undoubtedly a shock as she had been an active member of the charity right up until the end.
When the charity was set up in 1996, Sheila co-ordinated a huge area with help from many who knew her and shared her passion.
Sheila was passionate about the welfare of labradors and actively helped set up the guidelines and working practice of the charity which we work to today. She was loyal, honest, extremely kind and if you were privileged, as I was, to call her your friend: the very best friend you could have. She will be so missed by the many who used to call and seek her advice, have a friendly chat, or just talk labradors
The Charity has been so fortunate to have benefitted from her wealth of knowledge, common sense and commitment over the years, and we will all feel her loss greatly.
Our condolences go to her family Mark, Wendy, Thomas and Sarah at this very sad time
This Lovely girl has now gone to her new home.
Alfie by Mark from our latest link magazine
Having lost our old dog we soon found we missed the company and the outdoor life which owning a dog involves. So eventually we felt we were ready to give another dog a home and felt re-homing a dog would be the right thing for us.
We saw a dog on the Love your Labrador website and thought we could give him a home and look after him. After completing the application form and a home visit we were pleased to be deemed suitable to look after the dog we had seen.
We attended a few training sessions but found this was not suitable for Alfie’s needs and by a stroke of luck met an old work colleague who understood Alfie.
We had a number of 1 to 1 training sessions in a local park and slowly we started to understand Alfie and he gradually became more comfortable in an open strange environment with dogs and people about.
When we first met Alfie he was a timid nervous dog who hadn’t really been socialised with either other dogs or people. This was evident straight away when we first took him for a walk and he completely shocked us by his reaction to both other dogs and people. He barked and jumped at everything aggressively to warn them off and protect himself.
We identified that he enjoyed doing agility and became really focussed and learned things quickly, but he gets bored easily once he’s done the task.
At home Alfie settled in very well, he’s never chewed anything or had an accident inside.
Slowly by playing with him he is learning how to be a dog and that it was ok to chase a ball, eat a chew and use his nose to find things. He came to trust us and to know he was safe.
Alfie attends training classes in a barn with other dogs each week and is working towards his Kennel Club Bronze good citizen award. He loves water and really enjoys the beach and sea. He has at least two 45min – 1 hour walks a day and plays with the football, practices agility and does scent work most days.
He’s been with us to Whitby, enjoys time at the pub and walks with his dog friends in the woods and nature reserve. We are due to go walking in the Peak district next week.
Occasionally if we drop something, move quickly or startle him, Alfie will run off an hide and every now and again bark at another dog.
We have identified he has a sensitive stomach and now eats half and half kibble and tinned natural food which he loves.
We are 90% there with him and will continue to exercise and stimulate him.
He is a very loving and intelligent dog who is now a part of our family.
