TEETH INTO YOUR SUMM GET ER! WAG: THE MAG FOR DOG LOVERS SUMMER 2016 MEET THE TEAM NEWS HEATHER INTERACT MORE WAGS WREN PER HOUR Wagulous news! Kevin Jackson Kevin Your Wag will now be available online and updated regularly with even more news, videos Photos: WHY WOODY and lots of photos – so for some extra juicy bits visit dogstrust.org.uk/wagmagazine ANYONE and wherever you see this sign DO SUCH Photo: Martin Phelps Name: Heather Wren variety of tasks each day means I have A THING? to manage my time carefully to ensure Job title: Training and Behaviour everything gets done. You have to be Advisor, Dogs Trust Loughborough good at prioritising. How long have you worked at Dogs What is your personal highlight? Woody the Lurcher was found tied to a tree with his lead in Trust? Three years the woods in Harrogate in May by a man who was going for I love seeing long term dogs find their What do you like most about it? a stroll. He called the local dog warden, who brought unlucky perfect family. There is one very special Woody straight to Abbey House Veterinary Practice, as he I like the variety of my role; no two days dog who stands out; Dougal, was with dogstrust.org.uk was clearly suffering from a broken front leg. Following his at work are ever the same! us for 18 months while we helped him emergency surgery, Woody was brought to Dogs Trust Leeds overcome a fear of new people, and the Wag extra meaty chunks One day might be full of appointments for a good rest and plenty of TLC from our rehoming staff. guarding of food. Seeing the delighted Dogstrust.org.uk/wagmagazine where I prepare rehomers to take their Amanda Sands, Manager at Dogs Trust Leeds, says: reaction his new ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ got Instagram: new dog home by demonstrating the @dogstrust after they had dedicated so much time training their dog has received while Send us your Dogs Trust dog ‘It’s hard to imagine how anyone could abandon a dog in this way coming to hang out with him at the pics to #DTDogOfTheWeek he was here; or supporting families but it’s even more upsetting that he had a broken leg and so was centre was incredible. He would nearly who have already rehomed and need Twitter: in a great deal of pain. He hadn’t been left with anything to lie take off from wagging his tail like a @dogstrust help with behaviour their dog shows on and he hadn’t been left in a busy area, so what would have helicopter as soon as he saw them or once in their new home. The next day YouTube: happened if he hadn’t been spotted doesn’t bear thinking about. heard their voices! youtube.com/dogstrust may be assessing dogs and designing Facebook: their bespoke behaviour modification Visit Dogs Trust Loughborough, facebook.com/dogstrust We don’t know how long he had been there but we think it may programmes. Hill Farm, Wide Lane, Wymeswold, have been quite a while as he’d tried to chew through his lead. Phone: Loughborough LE12 6SE. Open 0303 003 0000 Although I’ve worked here almost 30 years it always shocks me What do you find most challenging? that people can treat a dog in this way.’ every day 12 – 4pm, closed Email: I suppose what I like about the role is on Thursday, late night opening [email protected] also the biggest challenge! The wide on Wed until 7.30pm Woody, who Amanda believes is around 18 months old, recovered well under the close eye of the centre’s veterinary team. Happily, once Woody was well on the road to recovery, he was rehomed by Louise. Louise met and fell in love Editor: Deana Selby Readers’ Dogs: [email protected] High-res Jpegs only please! with Woody while he was still at the vet surgery where she Front cover: Penny the Golden Retriever, rehomed from Dogs Trust Manchester. To see tons more fun photos from our watermelon photoshoot go to: works, and used to prepare his medication for the vet nurse to administer following his operation. Louise tells Wag that Designed by: Anthony Oram anthonyoram.com Print by: Eclipse Colour Print, managed by Red Mist Woody is recovering very well, and has kindly shared some photos of him enjoying his new home, see them here Editorial address: A dog is for life, Reg charity nos. 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Find out how you too can take part in a fun challenge in aid of the dogs by emailing [email protected] 04 Summer 2016 www.dogstrust.org.uk 05 Summer 2016 www.dogstrust.org.uk REET PETITE NEWS NEWS STUDY FOR YOUR 180 SMUGGLED PUPS: DOGTORATE If you’ve ever wanted to study canine SAVED behaviour in an academic setting then Bristol University’s two year Higher While the illegal import of young puppies into the UK from Education Certificate in Companion eastern and central Europe continues, Dogs Trust is stepping Animal Welfare and Behavioural in to save those pups seized by officials at the UK’s ports of Rehabilitation could be the one for entry. Around 180 puppies have now been cared for, and you! The course is taught by Dr Emily rehomed, by Dogs Trust since we began working together Blackwell, whose role is funded by Dogs with Kent’s quarantine kennels and the Animal Plant and Trust. She is now appealing for anyone Health Agency in December 2015. We continue to put who is seriously interested in expanding pressure on the government to improve the enforcement of their behavioural knowledge, and is the laws concerning international pet travel and border control. perhaps already working within the In the meantime, we’re doing all we can to rescue smuggled animal welfare world, to apply online pups from an uncertain fate. at [email protected] This To see our latest film about puppy smuggling go here year’s course starts in October 2016, so get your skates on! FUN TIMES! CANINE LOOKALIKES! HUGE thanks to If you squint a bit you may be able to make out... Alfie, nicknamed Ronaldog by owner ‘We first noticed his precocious talent everyone who has Peter Simpkins, can dribble at speed, when he took a shine to my daughter’s already been to ‘Sylvester Stallone’ - aka Sizzles at Dogs Trust Canterbury balance a football on his head while footballs in the garden, which at the time a Dog Trust Fun Here’s Rocky Bow Wow-a! Six year old Sizzles first arrived at Dogs sprinting, bounce the ball off his body were the same size as him. The fact that Day. They’re Trust last summer, and with his brooding stare and furrowed brow onto his head and even side step a ball to he plays football is a big bonus, but we great fun for reminded staff of everyone’s favourite action movie star. Tenacious fox his opponent. do not love him because he knows how all the family, staff are refusing to throw in the towel until they find Sizzles a to play, we love him because he is part of including your The two year old crossbreed, who was the family.’ knockout new home (huge flight of stairs upon which to train dog, and help us rehomed from Dogs Trust Evesham two optional.) If you think you could be Adrienne to Sizzles’s Rocky raise much need years ago, demonstrates silky ball skills He really has to be seen to be believed - then call Dogs Trust Canterbury.