This is my blog’s first birthday! How exciting.  I was waiting at the letterbox for all my fan mail this morning but I think the postie must have gotten lost? Mum says that not all boxers are as clever as me and can’t write, she is probably right, I am one in a million.

In my last blog I was telling you about special Sophie who needed a new home.  Well guess what??!  She went to her new Mum and Dad last weekend! I was so excited, Mum said she is such a beautiful girl (although not as beautiful as me of course!)

Mum said that, not only have we rehomed lots of dogs this month, but we have also had a great month for fundraising. She said that all the volunteers worked really hard at Falkirk Pets at Home and raised over £1,400 for us!  I got all excited but Mum said that it’s not to spend on biscuits and new beds for me, it’s actually to help look after all the dogs we have in kennels as it costs a lot of money.

Finally the summer is coming and that means I get to go and visit lots of car shows.  I know people think car shows are all about looking at the old cars, but I know that people are coming along just to see me, I can’t help being famous and gorgeous.

If you see a big camper van with the Boxer Welfare Scotland logo on it, please come and say hello.  I love meeting people and I am sure you will be very happy to meet me (oh and George and Millie will be there too, but they aren’t as special as me!) Boxer Welfare Scotland is having a stand with lots of cars at Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond on 21st June, my Dad is taking his Westfield.

Well the sun is out and the garden is calling, I am having great fun finding lots of new places to dig, sshhh don’t tell Mum.  I think I shall go and chase a cat around the garden or something, it’s so hard being a celebrity.

I was so excited when I heard we were going to the Glasgow Vet School Rodeo again this year.  This is the third year running that Boxer Welfare Scotland has been invited to come along and have a share in the proceeds.  Unfortunately Mum said we couldn’t go as it would be a very long  journey and day for us and that it would be too stressful, but she promised to bring us back some treats, so I let her go.

It was probably a good idea I didn’t go as I would have enjoyed chasing Scooby around the field all day.  Lloyd did a fantastic job and Mum said Richard looked great in his bucking bronco outfit!  I often wonder if folk realise what my Mum will get them landed in when they volunteer for Boxer Welfare Scotland.

Apparently the whole day was a huge success and we had lots of visitors, of course most of them wanted to ask about me, but who can blame them.  Mum said they raised just over £1,100 which is just amazing!

Being serious for a moment, I have to point out that these events are mainly to help people understand exactly what Boxer Welfare Scotland does and to help find homes for boxers who need them.  I remember needing my home and wondering if anyone would ever love me how I should be loved.  I also remember feeling so happy when I knew I was staying with my Mum & Dad and George and Millie.  Even when I chew my bed, my Mum still loves me and that’s how it should be. I really hope poor Sophie can find her new home soon too as she looks so beautiful and is a very lovely boxer girl.  Poor Sophie has a bad heart so really needs a special home.

Looking at the photos though, I think it might have been a good idea for me to go along and keep an eye on Mum.

Honestly, she says I can’t be trusted to behave in public!  Thankfully, Mum decided to wash off the paw prints and take the cowboy hat off for travelling home.  Can you image what her and Karen would have looked like on the train dressed like that – so much for giving BWS a good impression.

Right I am off to chew another bed, I think Mum has just ordered a new one for me, but  I don’t think she realises I just think they are big chewy toys!

Well what a busy month it has been for my Mum and her volunteers.  There have been loads of calls for boxers to come in and they have been very busy trying to find homes for them all.  Sometimes if I think hard, I can remember what it was like to need a home and I do hope that all my boxer friends who have had to come to us find a home soon!

Mum says that no so many people are looking for boxers at the moment because of the credit crunch. I thought that that credit crunch was a new type of biscuit but Mum explained it all to me and now I understand better!

I have been very busy offering my support to all the volunteers who have been helping raise funds for us. At a recent microchipping day they raised over £1,740!!  Sometimes I think that if it wasn’t for my gorgeous face on the posters that we wouldn’t get any interest at all and I know it is is very important that everyone knows how wonderful I am and that it is good to help lots of other boxers like me!  Of course, they aren’t all as fabulous as me, but they are all pretty special too.

I have also been doing my work for Help the Aged Boxers, as you can see from this photo. Poor Millie is getting on a bit and she can get a bit confused at times, but I don’t complain when she sits on me!  Ha ha, wait til Millie reads what I said about her!!  I am only joking we are best sister buddies really and Mum did tell her to move off me eventually.  I don’t think the star of a rescue should be sat on like that, do you?

Well that’s it for now.  I have discovered a great place in the garden to dig holes so I am off for some more muddy play.  Can’t figure out who keeps filling them back in, but it all adds to the fun!

Hope you all have a good Easter and remember the doggie chocolate eggs for your babes.

Four years ago today my Mum decided that it would be a good idea to set up a rescue!  She had been involved in rescue for over 10 years, but felt that a rescue charity was needed in Scotland, specifically for us boxers.

So, thanks to Mum, boxers in Scotland had a new voice!!

The first boxer to be officially rehomed as a Boxer Welfare Scotland babe was this chap, Bruno.  I have to say, he is very handsome!!  Our George was rehomed quite soon after, so it is quite an honour to be living with him (shhhhh don’t tell him I said that!!)

Since then, the hard working folk at Boxer Welfare Scotland have rehomed nearly 300 boxers across Scotland. From the Highlands to the Borders and Ayr to Fife, us BWS boxers are everywhere!

My Mum says that she can’t believe just how much Boxer Welfare Scotland has grown and says it is because we have so many lovely people who help her with all the work that has to be done.   It is still sad to see these babes come to us, but we do get very excited when they go home.  We have lots of sad stories to tell, but lots of happy ones too! Mum says it’s the happy stories and lovely photographs that people send that make everything worthwhile.

So, my Mum says she wants me to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has adopted one of our boxers since 2005 and an even HUGER thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to help Boxer Welfare Scotland become what it is today.

But the story isn’t over. What will the next four years bring? Apart from lots more photos and stories from me of course … what more could you want?

Watch this space!

Wow what fun I had!!  On 6th December we all met up at Pets at Home in Aberdeen to draw the raffle.

Of course I was in the store having lots of fun dragging Auntie Karen around.  She let me go where I wanted and I got to see the rabbits!  I met other doggies too and I was a good girl (of course).  George and Millie came too and I said they could come out and say hello as well, but only if they behaved (which they did).

Alison came up from the Elgin Pets at Home and did the draw for us.  It was great fun waiting for all the tickets to come out.  We also did lots of collecting on the day and everyone sold more tickets!!  Everyone said how lovely I was, which is true, but I always like hearing it.! All the tickets sold raised just over £700!

After the draw everyone went to have their lunch at Jimmy Chungs. Ayden, Andy, Dad, Karen, Rob, Natalie, Michelle, Craig, Kirsty, Christopher, Amanda, Carrie, Mum & Lorraine all had a lovely lunch.

Mum said I couldn’t come but she did say that, if I was good, I might have a treat when she came back.  I told George and Millie to be extra good as I didn’t want them being naughty and spoiling my surprise.  When Mum & Dad came back, they had a bag of fresh cooked beef for me!!  Because I am so lovely, I shared it with George and Millie and we all agreed it was delicious. I did ask Dad where it came from, but he refused to comment ……..??

It was a lovely day out and I had a lovely time being spoilt by all my Boxer Welfare Scotland friends, but while they were all busy relaxing and eating, Carrie H, Shona, Mary and Lisa were all working hard at a coffee morning in North Berwick.  They worked so hard that they managed to raise a whopping £870!  Mum as just amazed and so grateful that we have such lovely volunteers who work so hard to help us raise so much money.

Well I am off to chew on a chair now, it must be that time of day already.

I am so excited!!  We had a massive fundraising weekend on 29th / 30th November and all my hard working volunteers (I say mine because they work for me really) raised over £1,300 for Boxer Welfare Scotland!  How amazing is that!!  First of all lots of people went along to ASDA in Edinburgh and did some bag packing for lots of lovely people.  Because they were so happy with their bags being packed, we got just over £500 on the day.  Wee Kelly (that’s what Mum calls her) worked very hard and organised everything on the day.

On St Andrew’s Day there was a big sponsored walk.  I was really cross because, once again, I couldn’t go on it.  Sometimes it is no fun living all the way up here!!  Perhaps I should go and stay at Auntie Carrie’s or Auntie Lorraine’s so they can take me – I am sure they would love to have me to stay over, after all I am wonderful.  Anyway, back to the walk.  Well there were two walks, one at the Falkirk Wheel and one at Cathkin Braes in Glasgow.  Between them they managed to raise just over £800!  All those lucky boxers got to have fun and party together, and they raised money for us at the same time.  What fun!

I have had my staff upload lots of photos on to the website, so you can go and have a look.  Of course I wont be in them, but they are still worth having a look at!

Well I must go now, George is playing with my favourite toy so I need to go and annoy him now!

I can’t believe that it is nearly Hallowe’en! That means it’s nearly Bonfire Night and then Christmas!!  Yipee, new toys for me!!

Mum says it always starts getting busier now because some people want new dogs for Christmas!  I can’t believe there are people that do that, but thank goodness that all the lovely people at Boxer Welfare Scotland are there to help the boxers that aren’t wanted anymore.  I heard Mum saying that the phone hasn’t stopped ringing and I know we always have lots of new boxers coming in for us to help.

But, on the good side, I know that we have lots of dogs going to their new homes too!  Mum says that’s her favourite bit, when she sees them in their new homes, surrounded by their new families and lying on a comfy sofa!  It’s good that she gets to see that a lot!

Mum also says the new Boxer Welfare Scotland calendars are really good this year and look fantastic!  I can see her point, after all, my face is on every page!  I am looking forward to the raffle draw on 6th December too! Last year I got to go to Waves Radio station and help draw the tickets. I wonder where I am going this year?

We are having a Hallowe’en photograph competition over on the forum!  It is a lot of fun and such a laugh seeing all of those fantastic costumes.  I am not allowed to enter, as I would obviously win, but Mum dressed me up anyway just for a bit of fun.

So what do you think?  Mum says I am dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the North, but she also said something about not needing a costume?  I was too busy playing to listen to her properly!

I think I look cute but everyone else laughs at me.  You wouldn’t laugh at me …………………… would you????!!!!!!

I hope you all have a happy Hallowe’en and remember to look after your pets with all those strange and scarey faces coming to the door.  We don’t have to worry here because we have George, and he is the scariest face around here by far!  Oooops he heard me, better go and hide now!

Wooohooo we went away for the weekend again!!  I love going away as I get a chance to run around in new fields and meet lots of new people!

Mum and Dad had to get a new campervan for our holidays as Mum couldn’t sleep in the old one! She said it was too cramped and she got panicky.  Poor Mum.

I did offer her a bit of my bed, but she said I snored too much?  Anyway, they got this new one and now us three have a special area to sleep in.  It was so warm and cosy in there that I didn’t want to come out for the whole weekend.

We went to Scone Palace so Dad could see all those old cars and we met up with Isla again as her Mum and Dad like cars too.

It was great fun and there was lots of long grass to run around in.

Here I am with George and Millie.  I thought I would be nice and let them in on a photograph for a change!

Before I forget, I must say a huge good luck to Conor Stephens who is doing a bungee jump on 20th September at Xscape in Braehead at Glasgow.

I really wanted to go and watch, but Mum said I would be too much trouble.  Why does she always think I am so naughty?  I am a good girl really – I just like to chew beds and talk to everyone!

Conor is raising lots of money to help lots of other boxers find the perfect home like I have.  I hope that there are a lot of people who go along and cheer for him as I think he is very brave.  I shall have to send him lots of licks by an email!

Well that’s it from me today, I need to go and find some food, it must have been at least 10 mins since I had my last snack.  Now where are the cats??????

Hello everyone, sorry I haven’t written much recently.  Everyone has been really busy and Mum wont let me type my messages myself!  She said something about boxer slobber on the keyboard?  I don’t see why, I only lick the screen??!!

A few weekends ago Mum and Dad took me up to Elgin to Pets at Home again.  Boxer Welfare Scotland were doing a microchipping and information day and raised over £500!!

They all did such a wonderful job and of course I had to go along and say hello.  George and Mildred came with me, but only because I let them, they aren’t as important as me of course!!  I got to meet lots of people and everyone thought I was lovely, and I was on my best behaviour!

Everyone was very very busy and there were lots of other dogs who came in to get chipped and even some cats!!

It was all very exciting and I had a great time.  I love going to these events and seeing my friends, and of course I love all the fuss and cuddles I get from everyone!  I can’t blame them of course!

Mum said that I should say a special thank you to Kelly and Carrie because they came such a long way and poor Kelly’s car broke down.  I hope they got back ok, but at least they got to see me, so that must have made their journey worth while.

Right, am off to annoy George now, he is being a good boy again!

Well it’s just not fair, I have been missing out on so much fun that everyone has been having at Boxer Welfare Scotland.

Firstly, on 27th June, loads of people and boxers went along to the Dog’s Trust Funday in Glasgow.  It’s too far for me to travel, so I have to miss out again!

It’s too far for me, George and Millie to travel, so I have to miss out again!  Everyone had a wonderful time and they manage to raise over £400!  That’s wonderful and Mum says it is going to help us pay for some of our kennel and vet fees. I just think that they should all come and live here, but Mum says I am too grumpy!!

It looked like everyone had a lot of fun and I have enjoyed looking at the photos, I just wish Mum would let me use the mouse sometimes!!  If you want to see some of their pictures, they are on the website.

Hopefully, if I am good, I will be able to go next year.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that everyone got to meet up there, they are all having monthly boxer walks at Falkirk and Glasgow!  Can you believe it!!  You would think that as I was the mascot, that they wouldn’t hold these events without me, but obviously not.  I really really wish I could go on one of these as they look like so much fun.  All those boxer buddies to run around with.  All I have is grumpy old Millie and that lunatic George and I get into trouble if I chase him too much!

These walks are happening once a month and if you would like to join in, just pop along to our forum and join in the chat and find out when the next one is happening either at Cathkin Braes in Glasgow or the Falkirk Wheel.

Before I go, I had better let you know that my leg is now so much better. Mum had so much trouble keeping me quiet, I really don’t like being quiet you see! I like it best if I can run around the garden at top speed, but I kept making my leg bleed and had to come in again. The vet phoned Mum though and said that the lump was just a hystiocytoma. I don’t know what that was, but Mum seemed very pleased about it, so that’s good. I am back to normal now and causing as much trouble as I can though!

Oh I am a poorly, sore boxer girl just now, although you wouldn’t think it to look at me!  I had to have an operation today on my leg – I shall tell you why!

The other day, I found a gap in Mum & Dad’s fence, it was big enough to chat to Diesel the Rottweiler who lives next door.  Of course me being me, chatting through the fence wasn’t enough and I needed to get closer so we could play.  Well I was taken home with a really bad cut on my leg and Mum had to rush me to the vet.  I have a lump right where the cut was and my leg wouldn’t stop bleeding!

So today I had to go and see Margaret, my vet, so she could make my leg better and take the lump out.  I had my operation first thing, but Mum had to come and get me as soon as I was awake.  I am so scared of being in a cage, because of that horrible man I lived with before, that I got all stressed and upset.  I make so much noise that no-one else can concentrate or get better, so they have to phone Mum to come and get me!!

They have been trying to keep me quiet since Monday, but that’s not easy.  I don’t like being kept in while George and Millie run around the garden and I am not even allowed to chase the cats, it’s just not fair!  So now I have a huge bandage on my leg and Mum keeps coming at me with a collar to put on me, but there is no way she is catching me to put that on!  I have to be good …………………. I suppose I could manage for an hour or so??

Off to get some more sympathy now!

I had to tell you about all the fun I had this weekend.  We went to Dunfermline so Dad could see some more of those old cars, but I stayed with Mum and lots of friends came to see me us – well me really!

Lorraine & Carrie came up from Falkirk with Roxy and Teenie Annie and Ailsa came with her family from Dunfermline and they bought Spice.  It was great to meet so many other Boxer Welfare boxers and I did try my best to behave – honest!!

Here is Mum with Lorraine M and Aimee.  Old Spice is next to Mum and Lorraine has Roxy with Teeny Annie looking on.  Everyone had great fun and Aimee went off with her friend and managed to raise some money just by shaking a bucket!  It was great fun!  As you can see, I was being a good girl and lying down nicely some of the time.

I am a bit cross though, because Mum is going to Edinburgh next week to do the Great Scottish Walk and she said I can’t go because I wont be good on the lead.  I am going to practise all week to see if I can get better now!

Last weekend we had the Rouken Park Gala.  We couldn’t go because we were travelling down to Dunfermline, but Mum says everyone worked really really really hard and got Boxer Welfare Scotland £425.  That is wonderful, because I know there are lots of other boxers who need help and this will help everyone find them new homes.  I hope they are all as lucky as me, even if they aren’t as pretty as me, because I am very special you know!

Mum had a lovely weekend relaxing you know, while I did a lot of hard work and made sure everyone knew all about Boxer Welfare Scotland.  It’s hard work being a mascot, everyone wants to speak to you and spend time with you, but I don’t mind really, although I wish Mum would help more.  Look at her resting while I do all the work!!
Anyway, I had better go and annoy Millie and George now!

Well I have been very busy helping my Mum with all the rescue work she has been doing.  There have been so many dogs coming in recently that my head is spinning with all of the names!  My Mum says her head is spinning too, but she says that’s because I am such a toad!!

We have been away in our campervan a couple more times and I was kind enough to let Millie and George come too.  Everybody just loves to see us, especially me of course because I am the cutest!!

I am really excited about going to Dunfermline next weekend because I am going to meet up with some of our Boxer Welfare Scotland friends.  It is always lovely to meet some of the people that help my Mum so much!  Shame we can’t go earlier though because we are going to miss Rouken Glen on 14th June, but I am sure everyone will have a wonderful time.  I am really looking forward to seeing all the photos of my boxer buddies enjoying themselves together!!  I bet they cause as much chaos as I do!

What has made me really sad recently is poor Biff.  He is 9 1/2 years old and needs a new home – how sad for him.  Hopefully someone will have a heart big enough to take him home soon. I think he looks like such a friendly chap, it’s just a shame that he doesn’t like other dogs otherwise I would demand he comes and plays with me!!  (and I always get what I want, that’s what George says)

I am very excited though because I might be going to Pets at Home in Aberdeen soon!  Mum says that ALL the Pets at Home in Scotland are going to help look after Boxer Welfare Scotland and help us raise some money and let people know what we do.  It is very exciting and I am sure it is only because of my gorgeous face on all the logos!!!

Well, how lucky am I??!  I got to go away this weekend to Bridge of Allan in our new toy – woohooo! Dad had a car show to go to and  I was very kind and let George and Millie come too!

I don’t think Mum liked it VERY much as there were lots of cars, Dad said it was a car show after all.  Well there was loads and loads of people there too so George, Millie and I had to be really really good and that’s a hard one for me!!  I did have some fun though …………………….. Mum was sitting quietly, reading a book and not really paying me a lot of attention (I don’t like that!!), so when some people lovely people came over to see me, I went over to see them – because I am nice like that!  Well I had to go under Mum’s chair to get to them and well, oops Mum fell off her chair and landed on the floor!  I thought it was funny, but Mum didn’t laugh much???  The people changed their minds then and didn’t say hello – I think it was because Mum looked so silly on the floor!!  I saw a lovely white boxer called Casper. He was deaf but so so smart, but then aren’t all we boxers???  We all got to meet Craig. He’s nice and I think he likes me too, I am sure I heard his saying to Mum that I was cute, but then I think so too.  He was really nice and came to meet us all to collect all the goodies, it was ever so nice of him.

George and Millie were sitting on the seats looking out the windows at him, lol they did look funny. Lots of people came to talk to us today and they gave us all cuddles, but I think it was me that they really came to see, because I am so special!! That’s us just home now and I have had a mad run around the garden with Millie and George so that’s me pooped. We are going on holiday again I think, well Dad says so anyway but I think Mum will choose where next time!

Hello Everyone, my name is Lucy and I was rescued by Boxer Welfare Scotland in 2007.  I was so gorgeous and cute (well that’s what I think) that my foster Mum, Lorraine Cumming, couldn’t bear to part with me, so I became part of her family.

I live with my other boxer buddies, Millie and George and we have great fun together all the time.  We drive Mum nuts running around the garden, but she loves us all to bits!! I also live with some cats who I torment whenever I can!  Smokey tends to put up with me, but the two siamese, Pepsi and Max, get a little cross with me sometimes!

Because I was so cute, Boxer Welfare Scotland decided to adopt me as their mascot, so it is my face you will see on all the BWS logos.

Because I am so nosey and want to know everything that is going on with Boxer Welfare Scotland, Mum tells me all the gossip, so we thought it would be fun to pass it on to everyone else!!  What else is gossip for!  So keep checking back to see what I have been up to and what exciting things are happening with Boxer Welfare Scotland!