Dogs Friends

Fundraising, Rehoming, Information and Events for Needy Dogs

     Welcome to Dogs Friends

We hope you find this site easy to use, it is updated on a daily basis. On this page you'll find our latest news and appeals. Everything else you need to know is on the menu on the left hand side of the page.  Please check out our 'Dogs for adoption' page and 'Other animals' page. Thankyou!

Thankyou Claudia!

A big thankyou to Claudia aged 11 who organised and held a Teddy Bears Picnic, with prizes for the best dressed teddy bear at Redmaids junior School and raised £81.00. Thankyou so much!

Greyhound Gathering and Dog's Picnic!

We are running a stall at The Greyhound Gathering and Dog's Picnic on Sunday 27th July  at Eastville Park in Bristol. (entrance off of oakdene road/park ave.) It runs from 12pm to 4 pm. There will be stalls etc and don't forget to bring your picnic! Everyone welcome!

Lawrence Weston Community Farm Dog Show!

New posters to print

To print a poster off, please right click it and select 'save picture as', once saved to your computer you can then select the size you print it etc. Please let me know if you have any trouble doing this and I will email you a poster directly, thanks.

dogsfriendswebsite@hotmail.com  

Yate festival!

Here is a picture of our stall at the Yate festival, for which we won best dressed stall and £50 cheque for dogsfriends! We also raised £206 plus the cheque so well worthwhile, but hard work! Cheers, Diane.

Photos!

Here are some photos from our July dogshow! There were hundreds to choose from and obviously we can't put them all on the site, so we've picked out some of our favourites! Enjoy!

Sponsors

Thankyou Phyllis!

A big thanks to Phyllis who attended the Lawrence Weston carnival for Dogs Friends and raised a much appreciated £66 for our funds.  Thanks!

Thankyou!!!!

A huge thanks to all who helped make the show on 5 July such a success - our net profit will be in the region of £900!
 
Too many people helped to name them individually, but huge thanks to all the stall-holders, the class sponsors, those who donated raffle prizes, the judges and stewards and of course the dogs who brought their people along to enjoy the day.  A few passing showers kept things cool, but the real rain held off until we were packing up.
 
So thanks again to all who helped make the day a success.  We are already planning next year's show....
 
But in the meantime there are still plenty of events to look forward to.  On 12 July there is a stand at the Lawrence Weston Carnival, and on the 19 July we have a stand at the Yate Carnival and the 3rd leg of the Butcombe Brewery Trail.  On the last Sunday in July at Eastfield Park in Bristol we have a stand at the Dogs Picnic organised by Greyhound Rescue.
 
We have the Westie Walk on 5 October, and our Christmas Party on 7 December.

Butcombe Brewery Trail - 2nd leg!

 
Here are some pictures of the 2nd leg of the Butcome Brewery Trail which we did on 28th June.  The third leg - Bleadon to Rowberrow, is going to be on Saturday 19 July - all welcome to join in, just let me know and i will send more details!
Georgina Peacock
0794 1523 197

Calendars

So while it is the middle of June, and we are approaching the longest day of the year, our minds are obviously turning to 2009!  Or maybe it just feels like the middle of winter!  Anyway, the plan is to make a Dogs Friends calender for 2009 which we can sell to raise valuable funds to save more dogs.
 
So we would like to invite anyone who has rehomed a dog from us to email us an up to date picture of their pooch, with details of how said pooch has settled in and developed.  The aim is to produce an inspirational calender to encourage others to adopt dogs in the coming year.
 
If you would like your dog to be featured in such a calender, please contact Zoe at zlittlemiss@aol.com 
We look forward to hearing from you...

Thanks

Big thanks to Zoe and Jody who ran a DF stall at their local school's fete.  They made about £20, and as a direct results of their efforts on that day another puppy was rehomed.  Well done guys!

Sponsors

Thankyou

A big thankyou to the Langford Trust guys who let us have a stand at their recent show.  We made about £85, and gave out loads of details of our own up-coming show.

Thanks

A big thanks to those who worked tirelessly at the recent Bristol Vegan Fayre in May.  A magnificent profit of over £500 was made, not to mention a new fosterer or two!  I hope those who helped out had as much fun as I did!

T-shirts!

Fosterers, and those who support us by doing fund-raising etc, might want to consider the new look DF t-shirts.  Subtle they aren't - but they aren't supposed to be!  They were worn to great effect at the recent vegan fayre, attracting much interest in our work.

Essentially, you supply us with the shirt of your choice, and i'll get in printed with the usual DF logo on the left chest, and our web address in bold on the back.  We found navy shirts polo shirts with dayglo orange writing worked well!

A printer local to me does the print work for a flat fee of £5.

If you would like to discuss further, give me a ring - 01934 814237

Flax Farm Linseed

At the vegan fayre we were talking to the nice lady from Flax Farm Linseed.   She was extolling the virtues of linseed for dogs.  Apparently it is very good for skin and digestive issues.  Snowy the Westie, who suffers from collitis, is testing this by having a sprinkle of the linseed meal with his dinner - I'll keep you posted with the results!  If you would be interested to help the farm with its informal research on the benefits of linseed on dogs, please contact the farm via www.flaxfarm.co.uk.  They would love to hear from you as they are looking to recruit more guinea pigs (so to speak).

Please click here for some information on flaxseed itself. Thankyou.

Can you sew???

Is there anyone out there handy with a needle?  To help with our fundraising and awareness raising efforts, it would be really good to have some dog costumes made.  We have found that they have helped to attract people over to us!  If you could help, could you email Georgina at gcp123@btinternet.co.uk

Thankyou!

Dogs Friends would like to say a huge thanks to www.veganstore.co.uk
 
We ordered some lollipops from veganstore for our store at the vegan fayre on 31 May and 1 June - volunteers for the stall still needed please!
 
Anyway, the kind guys at veganstore not only sent us the lollipops, but added in a large number of other vegan items for us to use too.
 
To say we were bowled over by their generosity is an understatement - it was one of those rare occasions when Georgina was speechless!
 
So huge thanks to the veganstore, and check out their wide range of vegan goods on line!