News

Ever wondered where a Oldies Club entry you’ve read previously has suddenly disappeared to? Here’s a quick guide to how the website is organised…

Being an oldie doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. Some of the Oldies met up for a camping weekend this month.

This week is Greyhound Awareness Week, when we remember the plight of the thousands of racing and ex-racing greyhounds.

Dorothy, one of our first poster dogs, and Tango have both won prizes at the Northern Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rescue sponsored walk event.

It’s the Oldies Club’s first birthday this month, so for a bit of fun we’ve put together a fun oldies quiz.

Appeal for Information: A male Staffordshire Bull Terrier has been found burned alive. He was wearing a collar, harness and had been muzzled, tightly tied to a tree and set on fire, his remains were found by a dog walker on the outskirts of Handsworth Golf Course, Birmingham on Wednesday 15th February.

Oldie dog Seb and his owner have been working hard for the Oldies Club and have appeared on BBC local radio.

Submit your photos of oldies and not so oldies – help the Oldies Club and maybe win a prize!

Alice, an oldie terrier, is the first Oldies Club dog to qualify as a visiting Pets as Therapy dog!

Castledon Greyhound Rescue Kennels is appealing for permanent foster homes for Dreamer or Wolfie (they don’t have to go together!). All vets bills will be covered…

We’ve put together some ideas for Christmas, from dog toys to books! All benefit the Oldies Club if you buy through these links.

Special appeal for anyone that wishes to help with transportation of dogs for the Oldies Club.

A new organisation – Staffycross.org has been launched to campaign for Staffordshire Bull Terriers and Staffy crosses and help coordinate finding them homes and rescue places.

Update 2/10/05 Benny has found a new home, at last. Good luck Benny!

Hello again :-) I have been running a “guess the name of the dog” competition and still have some names left to choose from! We are also running a raffle, and if you buy one of our raffle tickets, you are in with the chance of winning a pet portrait and loads of other prizes […]

Loveable oldie Dan has a perineal hernia. Dan’s foster home has offered to lend the Oldies Club the £650 for his operation so he can start getting better quickly, but they can’t afford to pay for it out of their own pockets permanently, so we are now desperately looking for funds to cover this. If […]

At last, the Oldies Club application for registered charity status is almost ready to go, but there is one thing that needs to be done before it can be submitted. We need to adopt a constitution and elect Trustees and Officers. We are doing this through the Oldies AR forum, as a virtual meeting of […]

July has seen the number of dogs featured on the OC website that are now rehomed cross the 100 mark! It never ceases to amaze me how rapidly some of the dogs get rehomed. We had Amy, the staffy with a severe skin condition for only a couple of weeks before her new owner came […]

Oldies Club normally rehomes old dogs rather than other non-human beings, but we have been asked to rehome this house elf as a special request for a well known wizarding household, so we will do our very best to ensure that he goes to a loving home. Dobby is quite small for a house-elf, being […]