Unwrap the Joy for You and Your Furry Crew!Huge thanks to our incredible customers this Christmas. Your support makes our tails wag!
Here’s to a Christmas filled with happy barks and cheery purrs.
And Happy New Year to you all!
Remembering our beautiful Tilly
Who doesn’t enjoy a homebake? Your furry friends will go barking mad for these Christmas treat recipes!
Tuesday the Cat, who adopted us this year!
From all of us here at Training Lines, we hope you have the very best Christmas possible and roll-on next year!
As it’s the season of giving, we would like to mention five charities that we think are pretty special, thank them for all their hard work and wish them all the best for the coming year.
A UK based dog rescue with a team of dedicated volunteers with many years experience of the breed & rescue work.
Just look at how delighted Balto was to open one of the many Christmas boxes donated by supporters.
Balto could smell the treats and decided he wanted them and wanted them now 🤣#SantaPaws #Christmas #GermanShepherd #Thankyou pic.twitter.com/cCwM42GIHt
— German Shepherd Rescue Elite ( GSRE ) (@gsrescueelite) December 19, 2021
“Our goal is to increase awareness, educate the public about this dreadful disease, and to help fund continuing research, that looks for additional causes, better treatments and ultimately, to finding a cure.Â
Dealing with the heartbreak of DM is both stressful and costly. Helping your companion to cope with the paralysis that comes with the disease, by the use of special equipment can help your companion to have a better quality of life”.
When we were floundering, wondering how best to cope with Daisy’s DM, this charity’s Wheels to Help Me programme, helped us out with the loan of a wheelchair and plenty of advice, until we had found our feet (or wheels!). They have branches in the UK and the USA.
Our Daisy in her wheelchair
“Garbo’s GSD Rescue is a non-profit rescue organisation, set up not only to ease the lives of German Shepherds that need to find secure and responsible homes, but to provide education and assistance in getting the most out of every GSD”.
Many years ago Garbo entrusted us with two of her rescue dogs, Blitz and Fin, who were both fabulous dogs. We had many happy years with these two and our other GSD’s – adopt don’t shop!
Blitz and Fin
“We are the UK’s pioneering kennel-free dog rescue, saving dogs in desperate need from the UK & around the world. Our rescue is powered by love”.
This is the most amazing charity where the dogs live together and help each other and if you need cheering up, take a look at their videos and keep a special eye out for Lollipop – he will be sure to bring a smile to your face on the gloomiest day!
We are the UK’s pioneering kennel-free rescue, rescuing dogs in desperate need from the UK & abroad. Our rescue dogs lives together as packs, never knowing they are homeless or feeling isolated & alone. There is an alternative to traditional kennels 💜 #dogsoftwitter #kennelfree pic.twitter.com/KdZAjd1Q30
— Dogs 4 Rescue (@Dogs4Rescue) September 1, 2021
“We are a non-profit animal sanctuary located in Israel, we rescue and rehabilitate donkeys and horses which undergo cruelty and abuse in Arab and Bedouin villages and cities in Israel and the Palestinian Areas. We also save farm animals.
This charity is based in Israel and we were contacted by them earlier this year as they had a lamb, Malbi, suffering from a neurological injury. We shipped them a Walkin’ Wheels Wheelchair and just look how happy Malbi is now!
Malbi the Lamb
It’s been one hell of a year! Who could have imagined this time last year when we were sending out our Christmas greetings, what was in store for us all?
So many people have worked so hard during this awful pandemic to keep us all going and none more so than our outstanding National Health Service. We hope that everyone involved will have some time to chill-out over the festive period and maybe reconnect with loved ones, even if it is at a distance.
And for us, it’s quite poignant as it was just days after Christmas that we lost our beloved Daisy. She has left a massive hole in our lives.
Remembering our beautiful Daisy dog 2009-2019
But we can only look forward, so out with the old, in with the new – make way for 2021! Wishing you and your fur family a peaceful, safe and healthy Christmas, and much happiness, and prosperity in the New Year!
