Yesterday’s news. I came across the 2015 Dog Control Statistics for Ireland. Superficially at least, the headline figure in the Euthanasia section seemed like good news, half what it was when we first adopted KiKi, standing at 1,824 rather than in excess of three thousand dead dogs. Move over a couple of columns though and…
Category: Dog Rescue
The Twilight Saga
It has taken three weeks to sit down and write this post. Django bolted. Gone into the darkening evening and out of sight. Where I stand, the road forks in three directions and I have long since lost sight of him. Leica is stumbling as we go, our attempts to follow this far have been…
Other Lives, Loved
In the two year life of this blog, I’ve talked mainly about our personal, direct, real life experiences with our dogs. At the heart of it though, the issue that prompted its inception, is the needless euthanasia of so many dogs around the country, and our apparent willingness as a society to allow it to…
Kindred
One more week will see the second anniversary of KiKi’s arrival here with us. Two years ago she was still in the care of ASH Animal Rescue in County Wicklow, two days ago, we went back with her. In her life with us KiKi has been an unexpected mixture of delight and at times, distress….
3000 Dead Dogs 