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Update 1 April 2007 – the auctions have now closed. Thanks to everyone who bid, all monies raised go directly to the Oldies Club :) The wonderful people at Patch and Scott have very kindly donated a number of truly luxurious leather collar and lead sets to the Oldies Club. A small red leather collar […]

We’re delighted to announce that the Oldies Club is now officially a registered charity. Our shiny new Charity Number is 1118246. Huge thanks to everyone who worked to get this sorted out, particularly our marvelous Special Ops team of Frances and Gio for wrestling with the paperwork, Liz our hyper-efficient treasurer and Cindy our Chairman […]

In a few weeks time, we’re going to be giving this website a bit of a cleanout. We will soon be coming up to 900 dogs listed on the website and rehomed, which is excellent news! However, unfortunately we cannot really store all the photographs and records in public forever: it’s getting harder to run […]

The second birthday of the Oldies Club is coming up at the end of March and we’re planning a few different events. In particular there will be three Anniversary walks: one in Norfolk, one in Cheshire and one in Gloucestershire. See details of times and locations below: If you are in the Norfolk area: The […]

January 2007 The Oldies Club has added its support to the new ‘Say No to Breed Specific Legislation‘ website, set up due to recent media reports calling for more legislation for “dangerous” dogs. The Kennel Club and Dogs Trust have both made statements (which can be found on the above website) opposing Breed Specific Legislation […]

The K9 Rescue Knitting Club makes dog coats for sale, with all the proceeds going to Dog rescues. This year they have chosen to help the Oldies Club.

Max was distraught and crying in his kennel at The Ark in Lincolnshire. Things looked bleak: Max was pining away. But Max’s story captured the hearts of so many Oldies Club readers that The Ark was inundated with people wanting to help him…

Brindle had been in Oldies Club care for months and, up until this weekend, hadn’t had a single enquiry. But he’s now in a wonderful new home!

There will be a march protesting the continuing abandonment and killing of greyhounds, inspired by the Sunday Times news stories from July 2006, in London on November 18th. This is a general protest and a chance for all doglovers, whether greyhound owners, owners of other breeds or people who just like dogs and don’t like […]

Get your Oldies Club Christmas cards – two designs available.

Regular readers will have seen lovely old Bella the Staffie who has been waiting at The Ark, for the chance of a new home, since her owner died.

Springer Spaniel, Tess, went missing from Ockwells Park in Maidenhead, Berkshire at around 7pm on Thursday 28 September. Have you seen Tess?

The owners of Tess, the oldie Springer who went missing in Maidenhead recently, are organising a search party for Saturday 14 October. Please can you join the search?

Are you with AOL or NTL for your internet access? You may not be getting our email updates! Posters and memos are on our website too, please check them here!

Bit of a hiccup on the email front…

The Oldies Club stall at the 2006 Wag & Bone Show raised nearly £250 and lots of awareness. Many thanks to our kind sponsors, Initial Ideas & WOW

The Oldies Club is formally supporting the proposed Greyhound protest march, and if you are an Oldies Club member, you’ll be getting an email to let you know more about this as soon as we know more.

Billy may have reached the tender age of 13 and be partially deaf with his eyesight not as good as it once might have been, but he still has an important job as Office Dog at WOW, a graphic design company based in Swindon

Staffycross aims to obtain 8,000 “signatures” online, one for each of the 8,000 dogs destroyed in council pounds in the UK last year, according to the Dogs Trust 2005 Survey.