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Elvis and Dora – welsh terrier and airedale looking for a home

Please meet Elvis and Dora.

Elvis welsh terrier is 12 years old. He’s still very young at heart, bounces around when it feed time, loves nothing more than cuddling up with you of an evening. Elvis loves meeting people, but can be a little grumpy around other dogs. From a youngster he’s had colitis, so his food is strictly hypoallergenic and with this he has no problems at all. He loves chicken and anything else that he’s “allowed” to have. Elvis lives with Dora – the 9 year old airedale, and they are a bonded pair and we are looking to rehome them together.

Elvis likes to sleep a lot now and are happy spending lazy days in the sun and rainy days listening to the rain in their beds. He lives wonderfully well with Dora and they really are happy in each other’s company. Dora has all the wonderful traits of the breed. She is friendly, loves people and sharing their lives with them. She loves her walks and being your companion on car trips.

Their owner has had a drastic change of circumstances – and sadly they find themselves in need of a new home late in life. They are both healthy dogs, just need a compassionate and caring retirement home.

Children: 10+ – no cats or small furries. They are in foster in Wales.

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Help a Traumatised Dog become a Pet: Foster with Terrier SOS

WE NEED YOU. We recently have taken in several dogs that require a very SPECIAL foster home, one that will be calm, compassionate and help the dog learn to trust again.

We are looking for foster homes in the South East – that will work with us to help some very hurt dogs become whole again.

We will have support in place and also have the family work with a Trainer – but these must be homes that understand that the dog will need extra TLC and understanding. Get in touch if you think you may be able to help. You can read more about the foster role and download the application form here.

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Photo: Have your world turned upside down, be rescued by a foster dog. Here Sally with her foster dog Archie.

Buy Paul Brett’s ‘Terry the Lakeland’ Prints and Support TerrierSOS

Paul Brett is a mountaineer and photographer, fundraising for TerrierSOS by selling stunning prints of co-mountaineer Terry, his Lakeland Terrier. Proceeds from the sale of his prints will go to our work fostering and rehoming terriers just like handsome Terry.

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Paul is the winner of the Trail Magazine Mountain Photo of the Year 2015.  We are really delighted that he and Terry are supporting TerrierSOS and hope all terrier lovers will purchase one (or more!) of his prints, priced at just £4 +P&P each.  Contact Paul to make your order.

You can follow Paul and Terry’s magnificent mountain adventures via Paul’s Twitter @properadventure

 

One Year On: Zorro Airedale Terrier

Zorro’s human, Deb writes… “I saw a Terrier SOS image of an Airedale Terrier needing a home. He looked so much like my Airedale girl Jansie who had sadly died 3 years ago that the whole family agreed that Azzaro looked like our kind of Airedale, so we applied for him.

We renamed him Zorro as it was easier to say and we are still learning about his funny ways each day. He hadn’t been mistreated and had obviously been loved and given some training in the past. He was obsessed with food though and we think he had some hungry times in his former life. We are hoping for a few more years with him as he has lots of energy and loves to play. He is just one of the gang now, it feels like he has always been here.

We are so delighted to have an Airedale back in our lives and feel very privileged to have been entrusted with Zorro. We all adore him, so thanks Terrier SOS!”

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News from Sidney

Quite a few of you followed Sidney’s story. You will be all pleased to hear he has found his forever home. His owner, Tim, has been in touch:

‘Sidney and I have been sharing a home together for nearly three months.

During that time, he has demonstrated what all those who know him would recognise: great good nature, up for just about anything and always positive and enthusiastic. For Sid, the glass is always half full if not overflowing and life is for living.

Before he arrived, I was confident that he would be a lovely dog, but a little apprehensive about how he would settle in with me, and particularly whether he would miss Sandy and Brian after all the love and care they brought to him in fostering. When they kindly brought him to me en route to Cornwall, he did indeed miss them, but his positive, optimistic self came to his aid and within a few hours he was keen to explore and learn about his new home and surroundings.

I am so glad to tell you that he really is enjoying his new life. He already knows his way around the locality and therefore where squirrels might lurk with that ever optimistic expectation that a squirrel 10m up a tree is fair game for a terrier. He is also becoming something of a star locally, his perambulations around the village are punctuated by ‘there’s Sidney, hello Sidney or isn’t he lovely’. At first I used to respond by saying thank you to the latter until I realised that it was Sid they were addressed to: I’m lucky to receive a ‘oh hello Tim’ as a coda, but that is Sid for you, and why not as he is such a lovely boy. It took him a little while to adjust to local dog society, but now he has, and meeting and greeting fellow canines is all part of the fun in his daily voyages of inspection around his new village. The good news is also that his health seems to flourish: I took him to the local vets who were marvellous with my lovely cat until I lost her (sorry readers, I am a dog and cat person), and they said ‘let’s try to reduce his medication significantly’. This we have done and he shows no ill effect, indeed he shows no signs of pain and, whilst vigilance is ever needed, I think he continues to improve after all the care given to him by or through Terrier SOS and his fosterers.

With luck, we may be able to reduce medication further over time, which is good news for him. And we beginning to extend the adventures we have as we get to know each other, and, for example, he has already woven the Sidney charm in making my elderly mother smile and respond when he visits her as she recovers from a second broken hip.

As for me, Sidney is the most loving, marvellous and vibrant companion that anyone could hope for, constantly bringing a smile to my face. I’ll do everything I can to ensure that he has a long, and very happy and healthy life, Oh and by the way, he does live up to the name on his passport when the urge to rush around grabs him: ‘torpedo’! Thank you Terrier SOS.”