1ST JULY 2009 UPDATE

Welcome to our July update.  Not much to report this month.  We are however increasing the number of items on sale on our online shop and are getting closer to the release date of our BTW Calendar 2010.  Exciting times!

BTW CALENDAR 2010

Thank you for the wonderful Border Terrier photographs you have sent us over the past month.  They are most definitely what we had in mind.  Please send us more!  As promised last month, you will have at least one of your photographs included in our Calendar, perhaps even two.

We are looking to have our BTW Calendar 2010 on sale at our AGM in October so will be submitting the chosen photographs to our contact by the end of August.  We would therefore ask that all of you intending to send photographs should do so by the end of this month to be sure to make it for the selection stage.

Please email your  pictures (with an optional 25-word descriptive caption)to calendar2010@borderterrierwelfare.org.uk

For any queries about Border Terriers please email us to our usual address: mail@borderterrierwelfare.org.uk

BTW SHOP

We have added a couple of items to our BTW Online Shop.  Please go and have a look.  We are adding new lines all the time.  All profits go to BTW.

Our PayPal method of payment is available for your donations.  Please check out our Donations page.

Check out our Border Terrier pictures. Click here to see more...

A note from a couple of key BTW members:

Border Terrier Welfare is a national organisation established to promote and, where necessary, provide for the care and rehoming of Border Terriers.  We currently rehouse approximately 100 dogs a year, these varying in age from 4 months to 12 years.  It is not our policy to rehouse puppies where the breeder of the puppy is prepared to do so.  However we do find occasionally that our help is needed.

We did expect and have found that the number of dogs needing to be rehoused has increased over the last 10 years, as the popularity of the breed has increased.  This trend is likely to continue as more people discover this delightful breed and we have an organisation in place that will cope with this increase.

Border Terrier Welfare is a Registered Charity (Reg No. 1116853) in the United Kingdom and is funded by donations and occasional fund raising events.  The continued operation and prosperity of the organisation is dependent on the people who volunteer to work within the organisation and our success is due wholly to them.

Should you wish to volunteer or help BTW in any other way, please contact your nearest Area Representative who, I am sure, will be pleased to hear from you.

John Evans, Chairman

My name is Diana O'Grady and I am called the Co-ordinator of BTW, which means that I keep the records of those who are looking for dogs and also those who are having to move their dogs to another home.  I can also help the Representatives across the country to find the most suitable homes.

I have owned a border terrier now for 48 years and at one time had about eight living in the house when I bred and showed.  We are now down to five of whom one is sixteen and the youngest four years old.  I have worked with Dog Clubs and Border Terrier Clubs over the years and enjoyed all aspects of the border terrier even though sometimes this can be a challenge.  I have been lucky enough to judge at intervals, which gives the privilege of going over some dogs with superb conformation.

I have worked for BTW for most of the time it has been in existence.  We are now busier than ever though the work has changed but so have most things.  The one thing that does not change is that the welfare of the dog is paramount to our work and always our first consideration.

Diana O'Grady, Co-ordinator

Want to make a donation? Why not Gift Aid it?  Check out our 'Sponsor a Border Terrier' scheme.  Click here for more

Calendar of forthcoming events:

The next BTW AGM will be held on Sunday 18th October 2009

Registered Charity No. 1116853