You'll have read in the past of the Collie Care Fund which was launched last year to celebrate our 10 year anniversay at Colton. On Wednesday it's need was well and truly demonstrated. We received a phone call from a distressed lady who had three collies. The dogs had belonged to her mom who had recently passed away. The lady was on benefits, finding it impossible to cope with the three dogs and needed urgent help in rehoming the dogs. More worrying was that she told me one of the dogs was ill and couldn't walk. She had no transport, no friends and unless she carried the dog she couldn't get the dog to a vet.

She been in touch with a number of organisations but no one was able or prepared to offer any help. We immediately offered help and within an hour and a half the dog was being seen by a vet. The dog aged about 5 only weighed 8 kilos and whilst we could all ask questions about why the dog was in this state it was later obvious that the other two were probably getting the majority of whatever food the woman could afford and was providing.

The following day we collected the dog from the vet and the other two from her home. The underweight one spent another night at our vet as he was dehydrated and being on a drip helped considerably. I collected him this afternoon and he's now in our care and will be fed little and often to help him build up his bodyweight.

As always seems to be the way in these type of cases he's a real softy and it'll be interesting to see his development over the next few weeks.

In addition to these three another 9 dogs arrived today, as you can imagine it's been a buy couple of days !!

Bye for now

Ben