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Santas Little Helper


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After Morse won the Hot Dog show, we wrote a short schpill (and enclosed a couple of photos) about the event and the great work GAL do to our local newspaper.


O.K, so the article hasn't been published, yet! but it only took about 15mins to write and if it ever does make it to print it'll be good advertising and wont cost GAL a penny.


 



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Amber wrote:

Really? You turn down homes because people want a thorough assessment? I wouldn't have thought there is anything wrong with people wanting good information about the dog they are going to live with for the next 10 years or so before they make a commitment to adopt...especially if they have cats, kids or other dogs in the household. Obviously there are no guarantees, even dogs that have been fostered can behave differently in another home,  but I personally wouldn't have thought it a bad idea to highlight the ones that have, for example, successfully lived in foster with small dogs, kids etc. Assessment in a kennel is quite limited, I wouldn't really blame someone for wanting as much knowledge/assessment of the potential dog as possible. JMHO

Hi Olga, no thats not what I meant, if someone approaches GAL and specifically insists that out of the 90+ lovely dogs we have available and who are all thoroughly assessed they will only consider adopting one of the 20+ in a foster home then I get reservations. The reason for wanting a dog from a foster home is pretty apparent - they want one that they won't need to house train, the want one that they won't have to bother introducing to their own house etc etc..they want a dog but they don't want to put the work in. Happy to be proved wrong but there ye go thats my opinion..

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Sorry, Dave, I can't agree with you about people only wanting a dog from a foster home. Timmy had been fostered before we got him and I felt that was essential as I simply would not have had the time or circumstances to take on a dog which was not house trained etc. although I was in a position to offer a knowledgable and loving home to a greyhound. I am sure that there would be quite a lot of people in my position who would be excellent greyhound owners but whose circumstances would mean it would be appropriate to take on a dog straight from kennels. I think that if we exclude people like this we are depriving lots of dogs of potentially good homes.


On another theme - the website - I just had a look at it and I think it should be made easier to find the pics and profiles of the homeless dogs. I had a bit of a problem locating this part, although when I got there I thought it was well designed. Dumfriessshire Greyhound Rescue (of which I am also a member) highlight a "Dog of the month" on their home page and have a prominent link on the home page to the Homeless Gallery. Perhaps GAL could do that.



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Sorry, Dave, I can't agree with you about people only wanting a dog from a foster home. Timmy had been fostered before we got him and I felt that was essential as I simply would not have had the time or circumstances to take on a dog which was not house trained etc. although I was in a position to offer a knowledgable and loving home to a greyhound. I am sure that there would be quite a lot of people in my position who would be excellent greyhound owners but whose circumstances would mean it would be appropriate to take on a dog straight from kennels. I think that if we exclude people like this we are depriving lots of dogs of potentially good homes.


On another theme - the website - I just had a look at it and I think it should be made easier to find the pics and profiles of the homeless dogs. I had a bit of a problem locating this part, although when I got there I thought it was well designed. Dumfriessshire Greyhound Rescue (of which I am also a member) highlight a "Dog of the month" on their home page and have a prominent link on the home page to the Homeless Gallery. Perhaps GAL could do that.




Hi Sheila, I'm a tough homing co-ordinator lol I guess there is a lot of things that do come into the equation when homing dogs to folks so this conversatin is a tad narrowly focused so please take my comments as a 'high level' kinda thought process..


Anyone else think the website is a bit difficult to find things on??



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I think there should be a direct link on the home page to the dogs. I understand you want folk to read about them but if you had some quick access pics might get folk interested. Apart from that I think it fine if not quite good

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Dave i think the website is great and carries a lot of useful information, i do agree though that it would be a lot easier if there was a direct link to "see the dogs" from the homepage.


 If i'm honest, the very first time i looked at the GAL site i actually missed the dogs. Now i know where it is then it is simple enough to find but for new people logging in it could be made easier.



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I've said before how great I think the website is especially if you compare it to some of the other greyhound websites out there.  I have also admitted several times what a computer i am and i have to admit I visited the GAL web page 3 times before I found the dogs.    But what it did do was make me read ALL the info before seeing the dogs so it was facts first heart tugged later.


Landess


 



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Have to agree about having a 'Available Dogs' link. It did take a bit of digging when I first saw the site.
Maybe use the home page for a featured dog bit and change it every so often. A nice piccy and a wee blurb about them. It would be attention grabbing.

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Sunny girl wrote:

    But what it did do was make me read ALL the info before seeing the dogs so it was facts first heart tugged later.

Landess



I found the homeless dogs quite quickly the first time I looked on the website. I agree with Landess, in that if people just look at the dogs they wont read the really important stuff, and may not take into consideration all the key points in having a dog. I think the website is fine as it is, just my opinion.

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TeddysKirsty


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Why not create a few myspace pages or similar for the dogs so that they can keep blogs. Then you could have links to the pages...

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Hi Dave


 


re the web site. I tend to agree - think the dogs needing homes should be easier to find.


Could we have a photo gallery of one or two of them on the front page linking directly to the others? I think the site is brilliant appart from that.



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