Last night while many of us were ensconsed in a room dealing with the formal side of things at the SPA’s Annual General Meeting, an adoption was taking place! Pirate had been in foster care with volunteer Isa since his arrival 10 days ago, and his new family was very keen to collect him. Isa…
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Adoption of Valmi
Today was a busy one at the SPA, with lots of walks, an adoption and several reservations. Three to my certain knowledge, and it looks like a couple more are in the pipeline. Today’s lucky dog was Valmi. This young lad arrived in mid August already identified. However all attempts to find his owners failed, and so…
Scary stats!
It was a quiet start to the week, with two dogs arriving. One of them was reclaimed but the other, a puppy, is still with us. More information on him in due course. How many of you saw the article in today’s Depeche newspaper, talking about the number of dog and cats who have been abandoned…
News from afar, and how NOT to abandon your dog(s)
As promised here is a photo of yesterday’s arrival, Auguste. Sadly for him he looks like so many of the dogs at the SPA, but he has a lovely friendly face, so we are hoping that should his owner fail to reclaim him, at least he might not have too long to wait before finding his…
Urgent Appeal: Tag
Tag is one of our dogs who just seems to be left behind. He was nearly adopted a few months ago, when the family chose another dog in preference (although they were very torn) and again just last week, when another dog “won” instead. What usually clinches the deal is that Tag is not…
More midnight manoeuvres!
Well we knew for definite that today we would have at least one adoption! We did in fact have 3 but tonight we will talk about our long timer Gus. At 1am Darcey crept into the refuge to hand Gus over to the doggie transporter and he is now well on his way to his…
Two years is two years too long.
Today Dog Rescue Carcassonne celebrates its second birthday. We officially became an association on July 1st 2014, although Moira and I were both SPA volunteers well before that. This got us thinking about the dogs who were already at the SPA when DRC came into being, and to highlight a few of them. Believe it…
Fundraising in the Gardens
Every year at this time La Petite Pépinière in Caunes Minervois holds a Porte Ouverte, and we have had a stand there for the last 4 years. Among the the stalls for beautiful glassware, garden tools, musical instruments, metal garden sculptures, and fabulous water colours, to name but a few, we try to raise awareness…
New puppy alert!
There is not much news from the SPA today, so perhaps it would be a good time to introduce you to three new puppies. These three arrived last night, just as the refuge was closing. I cannot tell you how this ruins the evening of the employees. Not just that inevitably they stay late as…
Monday Catch up…
Tonight’s blog is a catch up of Saturday’s news and it’s mostly good! Four dogs left on Saturday, that was three adoptions and one dog who was reclaimed by its owners. The first adoption was Basile, a seven year old Pyrenean sheepdog x. He has been with us since August which was in fact his…