Rudozem Street Dog Rescue

Just shows you what fate brings.......I bought some tablets off ebay for Zeus, Diane and Tony's old German Shepherd dog to try and ease his arthritis. Being cheeky, and as I always do when buying for RSDR, I emailed the seller to see if they could give me some discount or reduce the postage. The lady, Sally and I exchanged a few long emails after this. She was touched by the plight of the dogs in Bulgaria and having seen the work Diane and Tony are doing (I also sent her the website link!) said that not only would she do a discount that she would pay the postage costs as her donation.

We continued to share emails and phone calls and she told me more about the work she does with another dog charity who had been offered to share a stand at this year's Crufts dog show. For those of you not familiar with Crufts, it is the worlds biggest dog show, hosted by the Kennel Club and which has been running since 1891 in the UK.

To cut a long(ish) story shorter the other charity decided that they would not attend Crufts but by this time, Sally had mentioned to Marc another deserving charity she supports, and they too had to contemplate if they could go or not????? Sally spoke again to Marc and it was thought that possibly Marc might let RSDR have the stand. For a few days, I had to wait to hear if they were going to attend....and luckily for RSDR, they couldn't rally enough troops. Sally gave Marc all our information, he then contacted me, we chatted for ages, as Marc wanted to find out more about RSDR and he had clearly been through the RSDR web site with a fine tooth comb. Yes, we were offered the stand for the day! and on the busiest day - the Sunday!!

So, on Sunday March 14th 2010, you will be able to see RSDR sharing a stand with Marc Abraham, a fantastic vet who has been on TV and who campaigns against puppy farming and animal cruelty. He supports many charities, not just in the UK but around the world and is excited about having RSDR along on the final day of the show.

You can find out more about Marc and see the link to RSDR on his blog by clicking on this link http://www.marcthevet.com/2010/02/dfs-crufts-vip-guests-line-up-announced/

If you are in the UK and can make the trip to Birmingham NEC, please come along to the stand and say Hello; it will be great to meet fellow supporters of RSDR.  We will be selling some of the items on sale in the webstore, T shirts, wristbands, greetings cards etc and my (small) team of volunteers are going to be shaking tins to try and raise funds for the cause.  We will also spend the day visiting other stands to raise awareness amongst exhibitors and suppliers taking whatever 'freebies' we can get to send on to Diane and Tony.

I am so excited about this fantastic opportunity who would have thought that RSDR would ever receive such a chance to reach so many people in just one day. Our stand is right opposite the main entrance so we're hoping to attract lots of attention - you won't be able to miss us I'm sure!

Anyone who would like to help on the day can contact me for more details by emailing julie.lewis65@yahoo.co.uk  but please, only definite offers of help please as I don't have time to sift through the maybe's.  I'm sure you can all appreciate, we have a lot of work to do from now until the big day!!

So to finish, I would like to say a HUGE thank you to Sally for arranging all of this and to Marc for welcoming us to his stand. Also big thanks to Anita, RSDR's Fundraising and Media Co-ordinator for offers of help with posters etc and of course to our founders, Diane and Tony, without them RSDR would not be in existence.

Julie Lewis
Joint UK Fundraising & Shop Co-Ordinator

Rudozem Street Dog Rescue
Registered Foundation No: 175647065
Email:  julie.lewis65@yahoo.co.uk 
http://www.streetdogrescue.com/

Last year, well renown author, Dean Koontz donated signed copies of his books to the RSDR to help with fundraising.   (see link for details on why Dean Koontz donated)

We are holding an Auction for the books in April 2010 on Ebay.  If you would like a chance of owning a signed copy of a First Edition book by Dean Koontz. 

Please keep checking this page for the date in April when the auction will be held on Ebay!! 

Sign up as a member on this site on the home page, and you will be notified when the Auction will be held.

If you have any questions, please contact Anita Parsons,
Fundraising & Media Co-Ordinator streetdogrescue@gmail.com

The raffle is now closed and the winner is Diane Avenell. many thanks to Brigitte for the lovely prize and to every one who donated.

French Artist Brigitte Faur has kindly offered to do another fabulous painting of hers as a donation for the next Raffle.  Her painting has been specifically inspired for the RSDR.

If you would like to enter the Raffle, Raffle entries will be € 5 euro each and you can enter as many times as you wish.  Anyone who also donates over € 5 euro will be automatically be entered into the Raffle Draw.

Entries can be paid for through the Raffle Widget on the left hand side.   The Raffle will be drawn on the 5th December 2009.

The winner will be notified by email. 

Please view a copy of the interview on our blog or videos. 

 A clearer copy will be also available at the http://www.digitalhubfm.com/ website under the at

Thomas Janak (Wild time host) INTERVIEWS RSDR founder Diane Rowles

TIME:  11.00am  GMT
DATE:  27th November 2009

The show features a 30 minute interview with Diane Rowles from Rudozem Street Dog Rescue in Bulgaria as well as footage from the protest outside the Charles River Laboratories in co. Mayo..., staged by NARA

Listen ONLINE HERE at: http://www.digitalhubfm.com/?_c=1
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Wild Time Website: http://www.wildtimeradio.blogspot.com/ 
Wild times facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91471057668&ref=ts

Wild Time" - the new animal/nature show on THE DIGITAL HUB FM (94.3FM.) - WILD TIME every Friday at 11a.m. GMT on 94.3fm or "ONLINE" on http://www.digitalhubfm.com/  (listen in your own home!!)

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If you need to work out what time the interview is in your TIME ZONE:

Please go to: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/  OR
Go to http://www.worldtime.org/

If anyone misses the show -  the interview will be available later on the archives section on the digitalhubfm website.

Win $ 50.00 worth of goods from the Animal Rescue Site Shop. 
(This prize has Kindly been donated by Nanette Ruth)

Raffle entries will be € 5 euro each and you can enter as many times as you wish.  Anyone who also donates over € 5 euro will be automatically entered into the Raffle Draw.
Entries can be paid for via paypal by pressing the donate button on the How you can Help page.  Please state "RAFFLE" when making your payment.  The Raffle will be drawn on the 2nd November 2009.

(If you cannot enter a message with the word Raffle on your paypal donation, please email streetdogrescue@gmail.com letting us know you have entered the draw - please include your paypal details.) 

The winner will be notified by email, and will be asked to select goods from the Animal Rescue Site Store up to the Value of $50.00.  Shopping at the store also gives a portion of every purchase to charity.  The store has a huge selection to choose from - clothing, jewellery, bags & purses, home & garden gifts, pet gifts, kids gifts, calendars and many many more categories. 

Check out the Prize website and view their store:  http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Also by clicking on the Animal Rescue website, you help charity.  Sponsors for adverts on the website, will donate money to charity for every click, please check out the website to do your daily click.

The raffle has now been drawn and the winner is Silvana Di Giovanni. Congratulations Silvana and thank you to Brigitte for donating such a lovely prize and to everyone who took part in the raffle. 

French Artist Brigitte Faur has kindly offered one of her fabulous paintings as a donation for the next Raffe.  

Raffle entries will be € 5 euro each and you can enter as many times as you wish.  Anyone who also donates over € 5 euro will be automatically entered into the Raffle Draw.


Entries can be paid for via paypal by pressing the donate button on the How you can Help page.  Please state "RAFFLE" when making your payment.  The Raffle will be drawn on the 30th September 2009.

(If you cannot enter a message with the word Raffle on your paypal donation, please email streetdogrescue@gmail.com letting us know you have entered the draw - please include your paypal details.) 

The winner will be notified by email, and will be asked to select one painting out of 4 options that she has selected.

 Congratulations Julie and Colin for completing the run today. Thank you and hugs from us all.

Julie and Colin Lewis are kindly raising funds for Rudozem street dog rescue. Julie has a fundraising page on the Dovetrust's charity giving website.
We wish them the best of luck and thank them for doing this.

Julie Lewis Fundraising Page - Please press here

This event will take place at Graves park, Sheffield on Saturday 12 th September 2009.

To sponsor Julie you can click on the above link to her page. 

If you wish to do your own Fundraising Event for the RSDR please see the How you can help page.

Would you like to name one of the 7 puppies recently found?

The mother of these pups was shot and killed, and the puppies were crying for her. 

Luckily RSDR was told about these babies, and managed to rescue them and bring them home.  We estimate that even though they are big pups, they are approximately 4-5 weeks old.

RSDR are offering the chance that if anyone would like to name a puppy, that the first seven people who donate over €30 euro, will be able to name one of these 7 gorgeous little pups.  View the photo to see which puppies are males & females. 

All donations towards the puppies will go towards their vaccinations and microchipping.  To donate, please go to the How you can Help page and make a donation.  After you have made your donation, please email streetdogrescue@gmail.com within 24 hours with your request for a name.  Please note: Names will be only given to the first few people in.

 ALL PUPS have now been named. 

Pup E has been named Elke & G has been namd Ginger, by Judi Abbott. 
Pup C has been named Peanut, by Leanne Harrold.
Pup D has been named Spetter by Sil and Vera
Pup B has been named Flappy by Brigitte Faur
Pup F has been named Sefa by Angelies Earlnus
Pup A has been named Katie by Annick Gabrielle

Thank you to everyone who has donated.   All donations will go towards the vaccination and microchipping of the puppies....  xxx We will be updating the website in the next day with more photos of the puppies.   xx Anita

The Raffle has now Closed.  Winner of Tshirt and CD Raffle is Susan Brennan.  Thank you to everyone for entering.

This beautiful T shirt and Moby CD have kindly been donated by Nanette Ruth, for a raffle. Entries are 2 euros each and you can enter as many times as you wish. Entries can be paid for via paypal by pressing the donate button on the How you can Help page. Please state "RAFFLE" when making your payment. The raffle will be drawn on 19th August 2009.  Nanette has sent us a size chart, so the lucky winner can let her know what size T shirt they would like and it will be ordered and shipped to you.  (If you cannot enter a message with the word Raffle on your paypal donation, please email streetdogrescue@gmail.com letting us know you have entered the draw with your donation.) 

Many thanks to Nanette for this lovely prize to help raise funds, to make life better for the street dogs.