Can you sign up to walk the 2022 Kiltwalk for us?  Sir Tom Hunter will add 50% of all the money you raise for us, that has to be worth it!

Sign up here: https://www.thekiltwalk.co.uk

Who has missed our Vogrie dog shows? (Vogrie Country park, Midlothian)

Well we are going to try again this year. Pop Saturday 30th July 2022 in to your diary.

We will need your help though. Its been tough over the last 2 years for businesses, and we normally rely on local business to help us with our raffle. If you have a business or know of one thats able to give us a prize we would be really grateful as its a very good fundraiser for us.

We will also be looking for smaller bits n bobs n alcohol for the tombollas, sponsorship for classes and (nearer the day) baking for the cake stand.

If there is ANYTHING you think you can do to help us please get intouch.

Thanks Team GSRS x

Thank you to Pets at Home Wishaw for having us as their partner store this year. We have been lucky enough to receive £1372.49 from the Christmas Sant Paws appeal which we are extremely grateful for. Thanks to everyone who donated when they visited Pets at home.

Wishing our friends, supporters and volunteers a very Happy New Year for 2022.  Hoping this year brings together many forever homes for our dogs in need.

And here are the stars of the show waiting on Santa-paws and looking very dapper in their festive bandanas at the kennels. They will have a very special Christmas with all the goodies you have sent them from the wishlist. Lets hope the new year brings them their forever they are wishing for.

A special thank you mention to our overseas supporters Allan & Claudia Stodghill and beautiful GSD Ava Lynn who sent our dogs a wonderful donation for Christmas all the way from Tallahassee in the USA.

You our supporters have all super generous to us this year and we are grateful to each and everyone of you who has donated and fundraised for us as its been a tough one. In return we thought it would be nice to let you know how some of your money is spent (out with our everyday food, kennel and vet bills).

This is one very special story from one very special boy who deserved a second chance so we gave him his new name 'Chance'. You might need a tissue or two but fear not it has a happy ending..........

Hi my name is Chance and I wanted to tell you my story about my life so far. (no photo of chance as he wishes to remain anon)

I did not come from a very good home and I wandered the streets most of the time with my previous owner. I then had to spend 2 years in kennels waiting to see what was going to happen to me. Eventually it was agreed that I could go in to the care of GSRS. 2 GSRS ladies drove to find me (apparently one of them was very pleased that she managed to drive to the correct place without getting lost !) It had been a very long drive they said, nearly 3 hours and an early start that morning.

I am told that I am a very long haired GSD but I had been shaved completely. When I met the GSRS team I was happy to see them and wagged my tail and gave kisses. I said my goodbyes to the girls who had looked after me and jumped in to the GSRS van happily. When we stopped driving for a coffee and a roll, I was offered half an egg sandwich which I took very gently because I do not snatch food.

We drove for another couple of hours and then I got out the van at a new place, my new kennels and I met a lady called Carol who would look after me, she also got some tail wags and kisses. Funny looking birds there too but I didn’t bother, I just looked at the chicken things... Lots of other strange noises but I didn’t react.

After an overnight rest, the next day Carol noticed there were flies around my manhood area, and I was very itchy. So off to the vet it was. However it was a man vet and I did not like him at all, I don’t know why, so I had to have a muzzle on and then more appointments were made for me. The next appointment, I saw a lady vet called Natalie and I liked her, she was very patient with me and took her time to get to know me and did not rush things.

So, I have blood tests done, I was given antibiotics and other medicines. There was a deep weeping hole in my belly that needed urgent attention and I also had a lump on my neck.

After quite a lot of vet trips I had the lump tested and sent away for investigation. Luckily this was not a bad lump and it was removed and while I was in dreamland on the vet operating table they operated on my belly and took out the bad bits and stitched me back up. My necked healed up within a week or so but my belly took ages to heal properly. Just now it is looking good.

However, I was still very itchy all over and other tests, blood and urine and things did not show up much. I then got a special injection and after about 3 days I stopped itching and scratching. This injection only lasts about 4 weeks and so after about 3 weeks I started to itch again, but I had an appointment for another injection and after 2 days it worked again. While all this was going on I could not get my boosters restarted but I have had them both now so all is good.

While I have been living at my new kennel home I also get walked by a lovely couple called Vicky & Chris. My kennel mum says I am a bit of a celebrity in the area, lots of people know who I am when I get walked in the woods.

At the kennels I get to play in a big garden area , with tyres and sand pits and stuff and I get my girlfriends Bella and Lexi to play chase with me in the garden and I like that.

Then there are people who the GSRS folk call “Supporters”, and they send stuff to us by a magic thing called a “Wishlist” ....we get balls and toys and lovely healthy treats like pigs noses and hairy rabbit ears and other things and it gets delivered (I know this coz I eavesdrop when Carol is talking to Dorothy & Carolyn)......

Now, there is super duper good news............... I am going to a new home and family very soon, if the vet says I am ok this week! The GSRS team know my new family and home and they say I will be very spoiled, so fingers crossed.

I will really miss Carol and her husband, and the other dogs in the kennels but my new mum & dad will send pictures to them when I settle in. I will also miss my walks with Vicky & Chris, but im promised lots of new adventures in my new home.

I will also miss my lady vet Natalie, but I am going to a new lady vet at my new home and I am going to visit just for treats and to say hello before my next injection is due.

I want to say thank you very much to everyone at GSRS who helped save me and to the lady vet Natalie too.

I am told that my hair will eventually grow in to be long and shiny and it’s already starting, Woo Hoo, I will look even more gorgeous!

So very much looking forward to the next stage in my life with my new family..

Love and kisses from Chance xx

THE TOTAL COST TO DATE FOR VET TREATMENT FOR CHANCE IS APPROXIMATELY £2000.00 and German Shepherd Rescue Scotland will continue to support the new owners with the monthly injection for as long as needed.

If you would like to help us support Chance and dogs in need just like him you can donate here (don't forget to add gift aid - it costs you nothing):

https://www.gofundme.com/charity/german-shepherd-rescue-scotland-limited-1?utm_campaign=p_charity-overview+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=customer

Diesel and Kia (2 of our rescues) have been at it again, fundraising with wheels. This time motorcycles instead of cranes (they sponsor our calendar). Massive thanks to everyone at East Neuk Wobblers Trials club for their fundraising efforts we are as always extremely grateful to you all for supporting us

A smashing result at our online auction last week, raising us £2357 for our dogs. Thanks to everyone who took part and to everyone who donated the fantastic prizes we had on offer. We couldnt have done it without youA smashing result at our online auction last week, raising us £2357 for our dogs. Thanks to everyone who took part and to everyone who donated the fantastic prizes we had on offer. We couldnt have done it without you

A few months ago we had a glitch on our website and we lost all the images from our in Memory & Success story pages.  If you have a dog who features on one of these pages and can re-send us thier images so it can be added please get intouch

Sadly we have had to make the decision to cancel our summer show at Vogrie. We can't guarantee the venue or the virus will let us go-ahead this year and it takes a massive amount of organising.

We have decided to try and run another online auction to help us raise the much needed funds. Thats where you all come in.

We need prizes!

Can you donate from your business, or have new items lying at home that you no longer want. Are you an artist or photographer , A behaviourist, trainer or groomer or have a hydro pool, or do dog physio/massage and could donate a voucher. Do you have a great prize that we could raise lots of money from. It doesnt have to be dog related, pretty much anything goes ????

Please get intouch if you do and share for us so we can raise a fantastic amount.

We got a lovely Valentine surprise from Support Adoption For Pets this Valentines weekend. This will help support our kennel dogs and take the pressure of for a wee while so THANK YOU to them. Thanks and a big shout out to the amazing team at Pets at Home Wishaw for looking after us too - we hope to be back in there soon.

A Massive thank you today for the Team and customers from Pets at Home Wishaw who are the store who support us.

Today we received £1105.75 and voucher to spend in store from the Santapaws appeal we told you about in December. We are normally instore promoting our rescue but last year we were unable to due to Covid restrictions.

We are really grateful to the team who we know will have put in a huge effort for us. Thank You all, hope we can be instore again soon.

We have a few awesome thank yous to post this week. We will do them one at a time to give them all the credit they deserve. It's fair to say our kennel and foster dogs will be having a very Merry Christmas this year thanks to all the amazing generosity of people. (it will be shared amongst them all)

The first thank you goes to volunteers Derek Adamson and Gail Williamson. They lost their gorgeous boy Kohl (pictured on the canvas so he could be there) suddenly this year. Derek decided to do a Christmas collection for ours dogs in memory of Kohl, and what a memory it was. Look at all these toys and treats, not to mention towels which are really useful at this wet and mucky time of the year!

THANK YOU

Lucky Lucky dogs

A massive THANK YOU to Lynn and Andrew Scott and GSDs Zack and Ava for this amazing donation which arrived via Charities Trust. We have a dog that has needed vet treatment recently and another of our dogs who we are supporting with epilepsy medication so this will really help us out.

We have such awesome supporters. We couldn't do it without you x