Ok so I have been a bit of a bad girl in not updating my blog for so long but I have been a very busy girl indeed. By now you will have seen all my hard work on the fantastic new BWS website, lots and lots of hard work has went into. Hopefully you will now find MY website so much easier to navigate, have lots more information and loads more photos. Although I really think there should be more photos of me but mum said I had to give some of the other dogs a chance at the limelight to. Can’t say I’m too happy about that but what can I do… So please take the time to have a good look through the website, I’m sure you will enjoy reading through it.
Well last weekend I went on a trip to Falkirk, as mum had arranged a Cabaret night down that way. They wouldn’t let me in, can you believe it! The Cheek of it, after all everyone came to see me not some bloke dressed as Elvis. So me, Trevor and George had to wait outside while everyone else was inside laughing and dancing. I did get lots of people coming out to tell me how pretty I was, there was also some mention of the “handsome” George and Trevor. They were only saying that so they didn’t feel bad about me getting all the attention. Some people even commented on how big Trevor had got and how well he behaved. Hah! They obviously haven’t seen the big holes in the driveway he has been digging. Then that night we had our two drunken auntie’s stay with us, Kelly and Shona. I’m so embarrassed for them, what a state they were and auntie Kelly spent all night winding Trevor up, none of us could get any sleep.
Mum says her Cabaret night was a huge success with lots of money being raised and with everyone being so generous with giving tombola prizes. We also got two fab boxer cakes and a lovely boxer carving donated for an auction. Then the next day we were at Tesco doing bag packing. Over the whole weekend mum and her volunteers made £2240!
Mum got a sad but lovely phone call from a lady who had just lost her husband. She said they had had boxers all their life and instead of people bringing flowers to the funeral they asked if people could make a donation to Boxer Welfare Scotland instead. Well we were all very touched by this kind gesture at such a difficult time. We are very gratefully to the Brown family for the cheque we received for £3650.
Also need to say a massive thank you to Rhonda who raised £800 for BWS from a party that she had. We had a volunteer that ran a half marathon raising £520, well done Lisa. Carol and her mum have been busy again organising various stalls at craft fares raising lots of money. We were also at the vet school once again raising £514.57. Big thank you to Linda and her team for organising that.
We had another heart-breaking story from Ireland. We were asked if we could help save two boxers from Ireland, a young boy and an old girl. We after a frantic appeal for someone to go across to Ireland to collect them, Linda and Mark made their way across to Ireland to save them. The poor dogs didn’t even have leads, so Mark had to tie his socks to their collars to get them on the ferry. They managed to get both boxers home safely. We named the old girl Linda and the boy Charlie. Sadly it was discovered the next day that Linda had several mammary tumours, a very bad ear, epulis, possibly lung worm, a very bad cough, inverted eyelashes and she had been used as a breeding machine. Despite all this she was a lovely natured girl. In the end we had no choice but to let her go to the bridge. It’s heart breaking when we cannot save them, especially after such a hard life. At least in the end she was with people that cared for her and she will never be forgotten. Charlie is doing well and will hopefully be rehomed some.
Ok so I have rambled on long enough. I promise it won’t be so long in the future between updates but you have to admit I have been a very busy girl. That sounds like Trevor digging holes again I had better go tell mum.
