April News

Kim’s Home has had quite a busy month so far.  We attended a Vegan Fair in Cowbridge last Sunday.  Most people had come for the food but we did meet some lovely people who made a big fuss of Ruby and Grace – my crowd-pullers.

All the dogs are doing really, really well on their raw food diet.  I’ve even managed to be brave enough to leave off their mixer for breakfast.  Their coats feel so much softer and shinier and they all smell so much fresher.  Lisa of Raw2Door  is my mentor as well as my supplier of raw food.

 There have been a couple of health scares: Zoe has had a lump removed and we await the result of an analysis.  Lucy is still bald but there are signs of hair regrowth.  Her blood tests came back clear.  I’m now hoping that her baldness and irritability are down to a vitamin D deficiency.  She was kept in a shed in the dark and came to me at the end of December and has been wearing coats until recently.  Now that she’s running around in the sunshine things are looking better.

Next week Kim’s Home is taking in a new foster dog.  He is from Strayaid in Durham and was picked up as a starving stray.  He was as skeletal as Biddy.  Thanks to the good care he’s had at Strayaid, he has got over the worst.  He’s only 9 months old and is coming to finish his convalescence.  He is a GRWE dog and will be up for re-homing as soon as he’s well. So far he doesn’t have a name.  Jan of GRWE has been tasked with that.

St Francis Dog Rescue in Newquay Cornwall has taken a lot of pound dogs from me over the last few months.  They have all been successfully rehomed.  Sue, the Manager, also took in Ripley from Strayaid.  She contacted me last week to say that she could take in 2 more lurchers from Strayaid.  Kim’s Home paid the donations to “spring” the dogs and so Sam and Harvey will be making the trip from Durham to Newquay on Sunday, 28^th April. Organising that transport and the one for Skinny Lad was a challenge!

In my last blog I gave a list of things that Kim’s Home needed.  Thank you so much to those of you who responded by sending various things.  That was so helpful.  And thank you too to you kind people who have sent money donations.  It’s made things a lot easier.  It has been a bit of a shock losing my salary and becoming a pensioner but your contributions are helping to make up some of the shortfall so that I can go on getting dogs out of trouble.  I couldn’t do it without you.