We've taken 10,000 dogs for rehoming!

spike7451

As some of you know,I volunteer at ASSISI Animal Sanctuary,not only looking after the Feral Cat Clan,but also driving for the C.O.A.L (Chance Of A Lifetime) programme.

As of the run yesterday,ASSISI,in conjunction with various pounds & dog shelters here in NI,as well as Dogs Trust,have saved 10,000 dogs & pups from an uncertain future here in the province.

Tommorow night I leave on another run to England with more pups..:T

FROM HUMBLE beginnings nearly ten years ago, Chance of a Lifetime (COAL), an Assisi Animal Sanctuary run programme is celebrating saving their 10,000th dog from certain destruction.

Founded in the autumn of 2003, a small group of five people with a rickety old van, set about to rescue as many of the 8,000 dogs that were being put to sleep in council pounds across Northern Ireland that year as they could.

They would collect fit, healthy dogs from the pounds and transfer them by boat to animal sanctuaries in Scotland and England which were running at 40-50% of their capacity. There was and still is a greater demand for dogs across the water because of the obvious difference in population meaning the majority of these dogs are re-homed within three weeks.

More here;

http://www.assisi-ni.org/?p=9176

gettingready

Going via East London by any chance?

spike7451

gettingready wrote: »

Going via East London by any chance?

Fraid not...and we wont take Fred!!..(we dont have enough food on the van for a start....:p)