This Beautiful A3 Painting was recently finished by Lesley Anns Paintings and one of our supporters bought it for us to raise some funds.  We decided to try a prize draw.  We have numbers 1 - 50 and will sell each number for £5 each.  Once all the numbers are sold we will use a number generator to choose the winner of the gorgeous painting.

To buy a number donate here: https://gofund.me/f6cfb128

and then email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or go to our facebook page to see what numbers are available.

Thanks to our wonderful supporters Allan Claudia & GSD Ava Lynn over in Tallahassee, Florida for their continued support of our rescue. Even although they are across the water they send a donation every year to help our dogs. We are grateful to them and all of our supporters.

A Massive Thank You goes out this morning to our Volunteers Davy & Susan for giving up their day for us yesterday at Tesco Dalkeith. Will the help of Santos and Rocky they raised £1476 for us and spread the word about our rescue.

Thanks to Tesco Dalkeith for having us in store and for all their fantastic and generous customers for supporting us

A Christmas story about an Angel, told by Angel 

"Hi my name is Angel, humans tell me im a pretty girl. Some time a while a go my family took me to a place surrounded by lots of other dogs. They used to bark and shout at me so I would put my paws over my ears and waited for my family to come back and collect me. I waited a long time and one day the lovely lady told me they wouldnt be coming back, but it wouldnt be long before I was snapped up as I was so beautiful.

I waited and waited, I just wanted to be back by the cozy fire and playing in my garden. The days turned to months and eventually I joined in with the other dogs shouting. I thought if I shouted loud enough my forever home might hear me.

The lovely lady spoiled me in the kennels and gave me lots of treats and toys. She said they were from something called a wishlist……..I wondered if she could put a Home for Angel on that list.

One days the kennel lady noticed my ribs starting to show. I heard her tell the rescue she was worried as I was loosing weight but still eating lots. I was always hungry I love my food.

She took a trip to visit someone called the vet who was also concerned. I was poked and prodded and had blood taken from my leg.

I was a very good girl but kept getting thinner. The nice lady put a cozy coat on me to help me keep warm.

I heard her say the vet man had ruled out EPI (whatever that means?), Cushings (I remember them from my sofa days) and a tumour (that sounded scary). The vet man scratched his head and didnt know what was wrong with me.

The ladies spent lots and lots of money on me, I heard them say they wouldn't give up looking for answers. So they took me on a road trip, I quite enjoyed that.

This time I got to meet a lady vet to see if she had any ideas - to save me I heard them say. The lady vet suggested a new expensive diet and some pills to help reduce my stress. The food was tasty and i started to chill out a bit in the kennels.

I think my heart was broken waiting on my humans coming back.

Today my weight is great so they tell me, my bones are not poking out anymore and they ladies no longer have a worried look on their faces when they see me.

Now I just need to find myself my forever family and everything will be perfect.

I would just like to thank the lovely people who have been looking after me, they spent lots of money making sure I got well again and it would be really good if you could sponsor me on the rescue's website to let them know how wonderful you think they are.

Thanks form the bottom of my doggie heart Angel "

************************************************
If you would like to support Angel she is now featuring on our sponsorship page with her sad story attached to her photos!

Angel won't be looking for a new home until the New year when we are sure her weight is stable again.

You can send your love to our Christmas Angel here: 

http://www.german-shepherd-rescue-scotland.org.uk/sponsor-a-german-shepherd/A-Christmas-story-about-an-Angel-Sponsorship-certificate-Angels-story-and-photos-sent-via-email-p714208429

Send a treat to our kennel dogs this Christmas.  You can donate food, treats, toys or vetbed to our kennel dogs via our Amazon wishlist.  (it will go direct to the kennels so dont worry when you put in your address - that just for the transaction)

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/9UB4SQLQ4JSV?ref_=wl_share

Are you looking to get something unique for someones Christmas?

Do they already have everything?

How about sponsoring a kennel dog and get their name added to the certificate.

Go to our sponsorship page here: http://www.german-shepherd-rescue-scotland.org.uk/sponsor-a-german-shepherd

Thanks to everyone who took part in our 2024 Auction. We raised £1230 for our dogs. Just a couple of payments still to come in. All the prizes won will be sent out over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone who donated some great prizes to us. We are truly grateful as this wouldn't work without you.

Our Annual auction is taking place on our auction facebook page between 18th - 24th November 2024.

If you own a business and have a prize we could auction please get in touch with us.  All offers are appreciated and 100% of the monies rasied will help keep our dogs safe and sound over the winter.

Find our auction page here: https://www.facebook.com/GSRScotlandAuction

The last date for order clothing from our website shop is the 6th December 2024.  This allows time to order your item and have it stitched up and sent out in time for Christmas.

Lots of great items for GSD lovers to be found.

Thanks to William Paterson and East Neuk Wobblers trials club for organising and holding a trial recently to raise funds for us. Despite it being a wet and dark night everyone had a great time and they raised £250 for us.

GSRS boy Diesel on tyre checking duties as always.

Our 2025 calendars are now on sale in our webshop. Stock is limited so if your dog is featured make sure you get your order in

http://www.german-shepherd-rescue-scotland.org.uk/shop/products.php?cat=14

The news everyones been waiting on is here!

Our 2024 show total raised was £8500! This is an absolutely fantastic amount and there are many people to thank for helping us along the way.

We were asked at the weekend by some of the stall holders if we would be holding another show this year - the answer to that one is no lol. It takes us 6 months to recover and 6 months to prepare for the next one

*Thanks firstly goes to the Judges who lets face it have the hardest job of the day! Cathy Gordon, Grace & Brian Thomson & Iain Butt.
*Our Vets on call Heritage vets
*All our volunteers and Friend and family helpers who helped us set up and run the day smoothly on our stalls and rings.
*George Bell our fantastic Compere
*The Hoopers Demo team B.K.9
*John McCue for providing our first aid cover
*All our stall holders
*Nick, Esk Valley Dog Training
*Nadia Yellow Dog photography and Riz from PentlandsDog Training for the super Portrait photography
*David from Canis Scotia for our ringside photography
*All our class, ring and show sponsors

And finally thanks to each and everyone of you who came along and supported our event without you all there would be no show. We hope you all had fun.

Our fabulous GSD class winners trophies for Saturdays show at Vogrie Country Park.
Winner of the short coat class will receive the Ben Trophy
Winner of the Long coat class will receive the Abbey Trophy.
See you all there Vorgrie Country Park, Gorebridge Midlothian Saturday 27th July  from 1030am

Did you know there is a Give a car scheme, where the money for your scrap car goes to the rescue of your choice?

Big Thanks to Liz & Derek our volunteers who recently sent their car to the scheme after GSD Bear had decorated the interior with his own uniques design. They were delighted to hear they raised £1600 for us

https://www.giveacar.co.uk/listing/german-shepherd-rescue-scotland/