Record Numbers!

This time last year we had around 30 dogs looking for homes, as I write we have 65 dogs looking for homes. As you can see GAL is becoming a victim of it's own succuss with more and more owners and trainers asking us to rehome their unwanted dogs. At the moment we're just about keeping our heads above water thanks to our great foster homes and kennels and in fact the number of homeless dogs has actually decreased from 77 this time last week (yes we HAVE been busy!)

So Galaxy Defenders Christmas wish is for 65 loving homes to be found for these dogs (so we can make room for the next 65 that will inevitably come!)

PUPPY POWER (again!!)

It just wouldn't be christmas at GAL without PUPS. This will be the third year running that we've had pups looking for homes. No full litters this year, we've been handed in quite a mixed bag spanning a number of litters.

We currently have 2 Greyhound pups and 4 lurcher pups looking for homes, these all come from 4 different litters and are aged between 8 and 13 weeks, for fear of creating a mad puppy rush at Christmas we've not really advertised the fact we have pups, this is not a good time of year for them however due to space constraints at our kennels we've had to put some of them on the web....have a wee peek at the 'youngsters' page. Dead cute eh? (and quite a handful!)

Through word of mouth we've actually homed 3 pups already, Isla, Fudge & Annie will be spending Christmas with their new families!...

It's been a while....

....since I 'blogged'. I'm sorry for neglecting all you readers! GAL have recently set up a new forum and I've been spending most of my time there, I must admit to preferring the BLOG, people can't answer back to me here!

If you want to take a peek at the forum go here - http://forum.gal.org.uk/ - you'll need to register if you want to post anything!

I will return soon!

The New Boy

Here he is - Galaxy Force's first ever fawn foster dog. Try saying that after a few!



Puppy Douglas - his temporary name - is a special wee boy. He is very aware of the other dogs and gives them all the right signals, rarely getting into mischief with them. He's very submissive and tries his hardest to make friends. He's going to be a real softy.

He had his first jags yesterday and goes back in 3 weeks for the second lot. When he's there we'll have the vet (double) check him for a loud heart murmur. First time the vet wasn't sure if he was hearing it right and apparently murmurs can be misdiagnosed easily in pups, especially greyhounds.

We'll let you know how he gets on.

GAL Christmas Show

PHEW! Thats it over for another year. Despite having the show over 2 days this year we were still overwhelmed with the attendance on both days. Thanks to everyone who turned up and joined in the fun and congratulations to all the class winners, what a handsome bunch, we'll post the results here later.

On the homing front we had an excellent couple of days with 6 dogs homed on the day (Bess, Blondie & Mouse all went on Sunday, Isla (one of the Greyhound pups) went yesterday and Scooby & Abby are going this weekend)

3 dogs found new foster homes (Vixie goes in 3 weeks time and will be a 'keeper' if she behaves, Coll (another one of the Greyhound pups went yesterday) and Bella will also be another 'keeper' if she behaves with her new foster parents and their family.

2 dogs were booked pending Home Checks, Sim Card's adoptees were actually home checked on Monday and Sim went to live with them last night. Goldie's adoptees will be Home Checked in the next few days.

We also had 2 enquiries from the show about the Lurcher pups we currently have, both enquiries were from people with GAL dogs and following visits to meet the little rascals today 2 have found new homes.

Finally we received 4 application forms over the weekend and Home Checks are being organised for these.

Can't wait for next year!!