Doggie Tea

02/11/2021

It’s finally here!! Today is our inaugural annual Day Of Giving (DOG) where we are aiming to raise $50,000!

Today on we have the DOG that stops the nation! That’s right, our inaugural Day Of Giving (DOG) gives you the chance to say and instead and help us to save more lives at threat of euthanasia. Your money can be doing something really worthwhile instead of lining the bookie’s pockets.

DONATE NOW: http://www.awdri.dog

Our passion is saving the lives of Australia’s herding breeds and we’ve been doing it since 2007 with the help of our amazing supporters. The pups in this photo would not have been alive today if we hadn't saved their mum, Honey, from being killed in the pound.

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted us badly by closing borders and council regions and with people out of work our donations have diminished. We are counting on you to help us get there by donating the cost of a cup of coffee. Just think what we could do if every one of our supporters donated a small amount!

Just this year alone we’ve saved over 120 dogs and puppies with many of them going through foster care at our HQ in Ballan, Vic. With so many dogs and puppies needing our help we need YOUR help to give them the very best chance at new lives.

DONATE: http://www.awdri.dog

Think of Winnie, Missy, Peanut, Deeks, Crossy, Sunday, Buddy, Rory, Pepper, Bundy, Boss, Patsy, Piglet, Digga, Rex, Ivy, Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe, Frost, Felix, Jingles, Jock, Emma, Matisse, Boomer, Patty, Nic, just to name a few of the lives saved by coming into care with AWDRI. Just think how many more dogs we can save if we can reach our target of $50,000!!

We’re asking for your help to get to our target so as to give us better facilities to provide even better care for each dog or puppy that comes through our organization. That way our passion becomes yours too. If you can’t foster or adopt then please consider donating as your role within AWDRI.

We need your help more than ever to get us to our goal. It’s our biggest annual fundraising day of the year and we need you more than ever.

DONATE: http://www.awdri.dog

Anyone who donates goes into the draw for a prize pack.

♥ Donate now to our Giving Day! Help get us over the line! ♥

With huge thanks from our co-founders Di & Carey Edwards





DONATE: http://www.awdri.dog

12/08/2021

This is the change we need to to start regulating the pet food industry in Australia 🇦🇺

Sign this petition to keep our pets safe:

Protect our pets: food regulations now!

05/07/2021

21/06/2021

How cool are these?

It's officially here! Our Duggie, the ultimate pet buggy, is now live! 🤭 Oh my dog!

🏋️‍♀️ 60kg weight capacity
🇦🇺 Aussie owned and designed
🐾 Fully collapseable
💪 Ripstop fabric & reinforced mesh
💚 Vegan leather handle & cup holder

Shop them now at www.dundies.com.au

13/05/2021

Help if you can...

02/05/2021

Doggy day spa day today

28/04/2021

Who has one of these?



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27/04/2021

Help if you can...

We need your help with some extraordinary vet bills. We've taken a few dogs from a regional NSW pound who have health and physical issues requiring surgery.

First up is Deeks who has bilateral luxating patellas and needs surgery which has been quoted at between $1600 and $1800 per leg. With follow up care and examinations we estimate he will cost around $4500-5000.

Second is Paddington who has been a victim of dog fighting and has multiple wounds and scars which need debriding and treatment. We don't have a quote for him as he is very much a case of whatever is needed to get him well.

Thirdly is Wellington, so named because he was found dumped in a well in the country and was severely emaciated. We don't know how long he was down there. 😢 He doesn't have any specific injuries but he deserves to have his story told. He was very lucky to have been found.

These dogs didn't ask for these issues, they have not had easy lives and we want to do everything in our power to help them get back to full health and find new homes for them.

Can you help please? Even $5 from many will allow us to get them what they need. It's the cost of a cup of coffee. Can you go without one day to give these boys a chance?

Thank you so much in advance.

Donate by SMS - text the word DONATE to 0417666938
You can also donate by credit card or Paypal through the AWDRI website: https://www.awdrishop.com.au/product/donate-now/
Donate via Direct Deposit to BSB: 124044 | Account: 21374846 | Name: Australian Working Dog Rescue | Reference: DONATE
Give via credit card or PayPal through our GiveEasy appeal page: https://awdri.giveeasy.org/campaigns/deeks-and-paddington-need-your-help/
Direct Paypal donation: to [email protected]
Or just click the Donate button on this post.

25/04/2021

Dogs had many roles in the wars; from messengers, to carrying supplies, to alerting soldiers of approaching enemies, to guarding their soldier while he got some well earned snatches of sleep, to general companionship.

On this ANZAC Day, we salute the dogs of war.

Lest We Forget.

25/04/2021

Thank you for your service...

23/04/2021

Dogs are incredible....

Smoky was found in a foxhole in New Guinea in Feb 1944. The American thought she must have been a Japanese soldier's dog, but when he took her to a POW camp, they found out she didn't understand commands in Japanese or English. The soldier sold Smoky to Cpl. William Wynne of Cleveland, OH for $2 Australian.

Over the next two years Wynne carried Smoky in his backpack, fought in the jungles of Rock Island and New Guinea, flew 12 air/sea rescue, She survived 150 air raids on New Guinea and made it through a typhoon at Okinawa, made a combat jump in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, in a parachute made for her. She would warn G.I's of incoming artillery and was dubbed the "angel from a foxhole."

Early in retaking the Philippines combat engineers were setting up a telegraph line to an airfield. The joints collapsed filling them in with sand. Cpl. Wynne knew that Smoky could climb through the pipe with a new line and that is what she did. Smoky's work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around and keep operational 40 fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway, placing the men and the planes in danger from enemy bombings. What would have been a dangerous three-day digging task to place the wire was instead completed in minutes.

In her down time she preformed tricks with the Special Services to improve the moral of the troops and visited hospitals in Australia and Korea. Visiting with the sick and wounded, she became the first recorded "therapy dog".
After the war she became a sensation back int the states, had a live TV show, and often visited Veterans hospitals. Smoky's work as a therapy dog continued for 12 years. Wynne had Smokey 14 years before she passed away. He buried her in a 30 caliber ammo box in Rocky River Reservation, Ohio.

Smoky, the smallest war hero weighing in at 4 lbs even and standing 7 inches tall.