Undercover boss - at the blue cross

elsien

Should be an interesting look at what really happens behind the scenes. How much say do you think they get in the editing?

rising_from_the_ashes

LOL - I'm watching on +1 @ 10!

Mama_Cat

Thanks for the useful posts, I didn't know about this, but have just turned over and will watch the rest on +1 at 10pm.

spike7451

Those dogs are from NORTHERN IRELAND,Not Ireland!! They are from the ASSISI which is where I got Daisy from,they're outside Bangor...100 odd Miles from the Irish border!...Cant even get that fact straight!

elsien

I was surprised to hear them say they turn 9 out of 10 staffies away. I know there's a real problem with staffies, but I hate to think what happens to the poor beggars that they can't take in.

SnowyOwl_2

spike7451 wrote: »

Those dogs are from NORTHERN IRELAND,Not Ireland!! They are from the ASSISI which is where I got Daisy from,they're outside Bangor...100 odd Miles from the Irish border!...Cant even get that fact straight!

We are all the same this side of the water to most English. What difference does it make, they are saving dogs' lives? Dogs don't care if a human is English, Irish, Northern Irish, black, white, brown, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim etc etc. We (as in we humans) could learn a lot from dogs.

SnowyOwl_2

elsien wrote: »

I was surprised to hear them say they turn 9 out of 10 staffies away. I know there's a real problem with staffies, but I hate to think what happens to the poor beggars that they can't take in.

I was quite shocked by that too. It's deplorable that the situation with Staffies has got so bad. The Blue Cross is stuck between a rock and a hard place really - they have such difficulty rehoming them - it makes sense to have a faster turnover of animals getting rehomed rather than having dogs languishing long term in their kennels. But all the same, there are too many Staffies out there with nowhere to go. I dread to think what happens.

spike7451

SnowyOwl wrote: »

We are all the same this side of the water to most English. What difference does it make, they are saving dogs' lives? Dogs don't care if a human is English, Irish, Northern Irish, black, white, brown, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim etc etc. We (as in we humans) could learn a lot from dogs.

Sorry...forgot the caps was on,I was just making a point that the dogs were from a NI animal charity.I don't really care myself about religious thingy's & all that,my GF would cut me cahones off..she's from Dublin..:p

SnowyOwl_2

spike7451 wrote: »

Sorry...forgot the caps was on,I was just making a point that the dogs were from a NI animal charity.I don't really care myself about religious thingy's & all that,my GF would cut me cahones off..she's from Dublin..:p

I was actually more surprised that they went all the way up to Scotland! If the dogs were being moved from NI then they could have been transported down to Dublin...it's really not that far at all with the Xborder big road, then boat to Wales, and M40 all the way to Berkshire. There are more ways across the water than Larne-Stranraer. I was taken aback when Mrs Boss Woman said that they would suspend the taking of dogs from over here. Yes, it's a temporary measure but undoubtedly some dogs will have been put down because of it. Though an occasional delivery of 12 dogs from over here is a mere drop in the ocean compared to the actual numbers of dogs which are "disposed of" here. BTW I think the record down south for killing healthy dogs simply because they are unwanted is as shameful as it is up here. Neither variety of Irish has much to be proud of when it comes to that.

bluebeary

good programme, i was pleased she offered the chance of a job to the lady who invited her round for tea, although im pretty sure she must have had an inkling about who she was

i appreciate her ideas for making the jobs of staff easier and offering the man and his disabled wife a long weekend away for his hard work, good moral boosting work but i dint see much of the actual animal problems being dealt with

spike7451

SnowyOwl wrote: »

I was actually more surprised that they went all the way up to Scotland! If the dogs were being moved from NI then they could have been transported down to Dublin...it's really not that far at all with the Xborder big road, then boat to Wales, and M40 all the way to Berkshire. There are more ways across the water than Larne-Stranraer. I was taken aback when Mrs Boss Woman said that they would suspend the taking of dogs from over here. Yes, it's a temporary measure but undoubtedly some dogs will have been put down because of it. Though an occasional delivery of 12 dogs from over here is a mere drop in the ocean compared to the actual numbers of dogs which are "disposed of" here. BTW I think the record down south for killing healthy dogs simply because they are unwanted is as shameful as it is up here. Neither variety of Irish has much to be proud of when it comes to that.

I was thinking that as well,the's the Liverpool boat as well as the Dublin one,I knew the ASSISI took dogs over to the UK mainland every now & again but thought it was to the RSPCA.Maybe the ASSISI use the Blue Cross as they,like ASSISI,operate a 'no kill' policy.

BTW,Now I'm not working due to my heart condition,I'm thinking of volenteering at the ASSISI for a couple afternoons a week to get me outta the house!