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  • Could you help transport a dog?

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

  • Questions for Adopters

    If you are considering rehoming a dog from a private owner, then you should be aware that you will not have the advice or back up that a reputable rescue would be able to give you. What questions should you ask if you are considering a private rehoming?

  • Rescues overflowing with Staffies – how can we help?

    Staffy 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.

  • Overlooked Benny has found his new home!

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

  • Dylan

    Dylan has settled down well in his new home which he shares with two other Yorkies, Trixie and Jayne. Already he rules the roost with those two!

  • Molly the Collie

    Molly was thought to be almost blind and partially deaf, and was the victim of a neglect case. Now she has a loving new home with the experienced owner she so badly needed. Molly sadly passed away on 26th September 2008.

  • Dorothy

    Dorothy Dorothy’s foster parents fell in love with her, and she stayed forever!

  • Guess the Name of the Dog! & Pet Portrait Raffle!

    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 […]

  • Kids and Older Dogs

    Looking for an Older Dog with Kids: 1) Look for a dog that has been fostered in a home with children or well exposed to children of varying ages and in varying situations to see how the dog manages. Try to think of things a child may do and see how the dog reacts. 2) […]

  • Flora

    21/10/2005 Flora has a new loving home – for good this time. :-)

  • Poppy (Suffolk Animal Rescue)

    Poppy found a home with a lovely lady but, very sadly, after a couple of months in her new home Poppy’s health deteriorated rapidly and she died whilst being treated at the vets. Sleep tight beautiful Poppy.

  • Monty (Newport RSPCA, South Wales)

    4/3/2006 Very sadly, Monty had to have an operation and he subsequently died. Sleep tight, Monty.

  • Jodie

    12 year old almost-Lab Jodie found herself in rescue when her elderly owner became too ill to care for her. Just as she had found a new home of her own, she was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and pancreas.

  • Barley (Labrador Retriever Rescue Southern England)

    29/12/05 Sadly, Barley has recently passed away. However, he spent his final months having happy times with his wonderful new owners who doted on him.

  • Funds urgently needed for an operation for Dan

    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 […]

  • Sweetie (formerly Hetty) – Derby

    Ginger - staffie - Derby Handed into a Derby vet, Sweetie, formerly known as Hetty, had only a few short months with her new family. We are sad to report that she passed away in October 2005.

  • Storm (Dan)

    Storm came to the Oldies Club in June 2005. Nursed through a perineal hernia by Oldies foster carer Jan, Storm is now in a new home – find out more here.

  • Lottie (formerly Erin)

    Originally found as a stray in Rathgar, oldie terrier cross Erin came to the Oldies Club under The Alice Project. This is her story.

  • Alfie

    Collie cross Alfie was taken in by Limerick Animal Welfare after one of their volunteers found him staggering, dehydrated, in a busy road on one of the hottest nights of the year. This is his story.

  • Augusta & Victoria Plum

    In June 2005, the Oldies Club received a call from Meadow Green Dog Rescue, Norfolk. They had been asked to take in two oldie terrier bitches whose owner had been hospitalised and would not be able to care for them in the future, but had no room to accept them. It normally takes much longer to rehome pairs of dogs, but these beautiful girls were off to their new mum in Derbyshire within just one week – read how here!

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