Pet Pamper & Dog Show

The weather held for our re-scheduled Dog Show on the 23rd September, the previous date having been a total washout. It was decided that we would combine the Dog Show with the Pet Pamper Day, the result - a great day for all. It turned out to be one of our best days ever for attendance. So much so that we ran out of parking space and had to make arrangements for additional parking at an adjoining farm, so thank you all for your support, we hope you enjoyed the day and hope to see you at out Christmas Open Day on 2nd December 2012.

Foster Homes become Forever Homes

Kennels flooded 

A week ago NCAR was struggling with flooding, one kennel block was flooded and we had to make an appeal for temporary foster homes for some of the dogs over the following 24 to 48 hours.

The response to the appeal was overwhelming, the phone never stopped and about 40 dogs went out that day.

One week later and not all the dogs have been returned, instead of returning the dogs some actually found their forever homes. In four cases these dogs made such an impression on the temporary foster family that the temporary foster homes became home for life.

A happy ending to what was at the time a disaster.

Floods

As you will have seen there was flooding at the Rescue on Monday, it was worse than last time and it was shown on the BBC and ITV News that evening. This time things were worse with over 20 dogs having to be fostered out over a period of 24 to 48 hours due to their kennel being flooded.
We asked via the media and Facebook for temporary foster homes and were completely overwhelmed by the response, the phone never stopped, as soon as we hung up from one call it rang immediately, a fantastic response. It is at times of crisis that you really find out how kind and helpful people can be.
The car park was under 1ft (30cm) of water with only our 4x4 being able to carry people and animals in and out of the rescue. Following an appeal on the television we had a fantastic response with companies offering to help solve the problem on a permanent basis, help we desperately need and hopefully now future problems will be avoided, depending of course on costs.

To help with the flooded car park we had pumps offered and a team of Marine Biologists from Anglesey, some 60 miles away, battled the weather to bring pumps to clear the car park and allow access.

We are very grateful to everyone that responded to the appeal and offered help in one way or another, it was an absolutely fantastic response, even people that had not seen the news or were on Facebook contacted us because a husband, wife, daughter or whatever had seen it there and rang them to offer help.


So a massive thank you to everyone, we were amazed at the response, diolch yn fawr i bawb.

Flooded - Again!!!!

 For the second time this year the Rescue has been flooded with water running through the kennels in New Barns. About 8am this morning we saw the waters rise until the car park flooded and the water started pouring through New Barns once again, this time we had to evacuate some of the dogs whilst we put others on pallets to keep them off the floor. The situation has not improved ands following a fantastic response we are fostering some 20 to 25 dogs out to temporary foster homes until the kennels are useable again.

BBC Wales News