Dear reader,
Over the years Helen Bozas and other volunteers have taken photos of the shelter, in this
post I want to share some of those wonderful original photos with you.
The original photos were taken over 25 years ago, you will notice a big difference on how it looks today.
Simon and Lars are two of our volunteers, who thankfully are very handy at DIY, they are
repairing, building and restoring many parts of the shelter, this is an endless and ongoing project.
While reading this our handymen are currently replacing doors, reinforcing fences to prevent gravel spilling over into other pens.
In the coming weeks, we will jet wash, deep clean, paint, laydown concrete, fix story boards and hopefully make 3 new temporary pens, all this before Spring!
Who needs bob the builder? Our very own incredible handymen Simon (left) and Lars (right)–No matter what the job, they can fix it!
In this photo, is where we currently house all our smaller dogs and puppies. In
the images below: we have a small sleeping area, which is protected from the wind and to make it more hygienic the outside pens are concreted.
For the last couple of years this larger pen was used for smaller dogs, but with most of the residents finding their forever homes, we thought it was time for a change and have moved
our medium size dogs in there, hopefully you’ll get to meet Dolly, Milly, Betty, Sky, Twirly and
Lucy.
Enjoy our recent video from this particular pen.
We have two areas, that you only see the dogs from behind the shelter. The first is at the bottom end, it is an open pen that houses: Walnut, Samson, Princess, Bentley and Aston.
The other area is what we call the “run” these are separate pens, where dogs are isolated, mostly for their own security, unable to mix, medical issues.
Today they house: Pickles, Bella and Blu, they receive daily walks, downtime in the playpen, peanut butter game, and they each take it in turn, to have the run overnight and annoy their neighbors.
You might be wondering why the pool noodles above the doors? If you speak to the volunteers, many will show you their cuts, bruises from banging our heads so often! One of our winter volunteers came up with this brilliant idea – thank you!
This is it for now, next addition we will continue Helen’s footsteps and find out more about the everyday happenings that she encountered.
Please follow our blog, warm furry wishes Jenny
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