Donna, left, and Sanni, two of the 14 rescued dogs from Romania at Hillside Animal Sanctuary and Dog Rescue, needing a good home. Picture: Denise Bradley
Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Frettenham helps Romanian dogs find new homes
By EMMA KNIGHTS
Saturday, February 4, 2012
6:30 AM
Unwanted dogs from Romania have been given a second chance in life after a Norfolk sanctuary brought them over to England to find new homes.
Fourteen Romanian dogs arrived at Hillside Animal Sanctury, near Frettenham, on Thursday after the organisation joined forces with Happy Angels House Rescue, an animal shelter in Romania.
One of the dogs, Petronel, has found a permanent new home, but the rest of them are still seeking families to care for them.
John Watson, from Hillside, said the sanctuary had been aware for some time that there were many dogs in need in Romania, and the sanctuary hopes to save many more dogs now that UK quarantine laws have been brought into line with other EU countries.
Mr Watson said: “Every one of their stories is a real tear-jerker and we want to give these dogs a new start. They are such friendly dogs. Please give one of these dogs a chance. Come along and meet them because they are so deserving and so lovely. The more we rehome now, the more we can rehome in the future.”
For more information visit www.hillside.org.uk or call 01603 736200.
Among the dogs brought over from Romania are:
• Seven-year-old Brick was abandoned after probably living his whole life on a chain. He is a gentle soul, great with people and fine with other dogs.
• Jaggy, about a year old, was found wandering the streets and has lost his sight. He loves people, but is frightened of other dogs.
• Sanni is under a year old and was found on the streets. She is a happy puppy and good with cats, dogs and people.
• Wendy, perhaps a year old, was abandoned by her owners when she developed sight problems and she is now blind. She loves people and is excellent with other dogs.
• Donna, about two or three-years- old, was found in a bad neighbourhood. Two of her puppies had been killed and her front legs had been cut by a knife. She is gentle, peaceful and delicate, and is one of the sweetest dogs.
• Nine-month-old Lord was found poisoned but has been nursed back to health. He is a big dog, but very gentle and sweet.
• Mosu is an old male dog who is very gentle and sweet.
• Dalma was blinded in one eye when she was attacked with a pitchfork.
• Petronel, between four and five- years-old, was found injured, blinded.
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25 comments
well said queenie, and blister stop being so sarcastic, a dog is put down if it hurts an individual, but somebody molesting a child gets a new identity!!! and if a dog attacked a human it is because the owner is from the abusing humans category!!! i live on a farm, and my dogs ( 5 in total) they are never on the lead and they never hurt anybody pasing by. Dogs tend to do what the owner has taught them, a bit like kids really.... isn`t it???
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coffeetea
Monday, February 6, 2012
Have allways had rescue dogs, and have received much happiness from them.These organisations do a great job in difficult conditions. (It's a shame we are not able to put some humans down as easily as we are prepared to put dogs down!)
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Queenie
Sunday, February 5, 2012
And I feel its you that is clearly lacking something in your personal life to have such contempt and spitefulness towards the innocent. You are clearly a very sad and bitter individual with little love in your life.
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hfen
Sunday, February 5, 2012
anyone that thinks dogs are wonderful should look at the photos of the little girl in North London who had her face ripped off by a dog off it'slead, guess they won't be contributing to Hillside animal sanctuary
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blister
Sunday, February 5, 2012
hillside you are doing a fantastic job! i have been watching you for years, and everything you do is fantastic!! Piggy has grown beautifully, the sheep who`s wondered in someone`s garden looks so happy.... petronel found himself a lovely lady owner. From all the living forms of Earth, humans are actually the worst. Thank you for looking after those in need. me ( proud mum of two, with an extended family of 2 dogs, 5 cats, 5 goldfish, 1 rabbit, 73 chickens, 12 domestic ducks and 1 wild duck and 8 pet sheep)
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coffeetea
Saturday, February 4, 2012
First of all, Hillside Animal Sanctuary do a fantastic job rescuing animals that have been subjected to abuse, taking in stray animals found wandering the streets that have been abandoned by their owners and exposing animal cruelty within the factory farming industry. All these cases of cruelty and abuse have one thing in common, they are ALL caused by people. As a so called "nation of animal lovers" this is disgraceful and I for one applaud Hillside for the work they do. Dogs and animals don't have the control over how and when they breed, it's no fault of their own, again it is down to the irresponsible owners that should be controlling the situation. As for the comment, quote - 'dog lovers must lack something in their personal lives' - this made me chuckle because I have often used the same quote about people having children. I really cannot think of anything more selfish than bringing a child in to an over populated country where all our resources are already at breaking point, murders are at an all time high as is general crime. Animals are far more civilized than a lot of people that roam our streets. I am sure that these rescued dogs will end up in a loving home where they will be treated like one of the family.
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Jack Daniels
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Once again the words of St Francis of Assisi come to mind when reading these comments. "Those who would exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of Compassion and Pity would do likewise to their fellow man"
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Ira Rose
Saturday, February 4, 2012
dog owners should ensure that they pick the dog mess up as it causes blindness. also people go to work leaving the dogs alone barking all day. i only give to charities like the big c or for the blind.
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bookworm
Saturday, February 4, 2012
always think dog lovers must lack something in their personal lives which make them unable to communicate with fellow humans and so have to rely on something that cannot answer back or engage in conversation
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blister
Saturday, February 4, 2012
with a shortage of food in the world , it seems wrong that so many people put the welfare of animals before the provision of clean drinking water and medical treatments for humans
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blister
Saturday, February 4, 2012
' BLISTER ' : YOU LOOK AFTER YOUR "HOSPICE" AND WE'LL LOOK AFTER OUR DOGS.
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FLAME
Saturday, February 4, 2012
i agree blister--i would never donate to animal charities.There are too many dogs about messing and barking everywhere.
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bookworm
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Blister you are such a loser. People can look after themselves, animals can't. I suppose you donate to druggies incorporated etc.
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Jack
Saturday, February 4, 2012
would never give money to an animal charity , there are far to many other charities trying to help sick people who are more deserving than those trying to help dogs etc
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blister
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Unless an organisation campaigns for licences for breeding and ownership of dogs and minimum conditions for horse ownership it doesn't do enough. Wringing hands over the bad cases is too late. And Paul Kersey is right-what are all the bleeding hearts going to do if rabies gets in the fox and badger population in the UK?
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Daisy Roots
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Yes I would Natthehat because it is my firm belief that the activities of many so called animal welfare organisations are founded not on knowledge of animal welfare or husbandry, nor in the case of many volunteers of much expertise, nor any objective compassion or care, but on self indulgence, a strange concept of the relationship between man and animal and sentimentality which has no place in animal care. All dogs are useless unless they are working dogs or companions for a sound reason . Other wise they are a luxury, consume huge amounts of food annually and contribute to pollution of the environment and disease-as well as biting people. I have seen poor old greyhounds kept in concrete huts for months by fools who seek to rehome them when their lives might have ended less miserably if they had been destroyed ( or never been racing at all) I have seen rescue kennels strugglig to "rehabilitate" dogs from breeds not intended ever to be pets.Bringing ragged mongrels from Romania -well it might have made the volunteers feel good but is it a rational thing to be doing? And yes I am one of the offending dog owners, but I hope I know the boundary between soppiness and real care and between people and animals.
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Daisy Roots
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Dear Daisy Roots, It's interesting to read your comments, which are as blinded as most of these dogs. Yes, we still have a problem with animal cruelty in this country but by far not on the same level as Romania and similar ill-educated countries. We have a role to play in these countries to raise awareness and standards. We also still have problems with child poverty and cruelty here. Would you also suggest that UK-based charities stop their work overseas and focus solely over here? It's exactly the same argument. We have a number of excellent organisations such as the rspca fighting animal cruelty nationally. Leave them to focus on.here and let other organisations such as hillside to cast the net further. And at the end of the day these organisations are entirely funded by people like myself who choose to give our money to the causes we feel strong about. If you cant look at their Romanian campaign pictures and not want to help then you cant be human.
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natthehat
Saturday, February 4, 2012
I have worked in rescue for twenty years and never met a 'useless dog' onlu useless people. I have three rescued blind dogs and I foster Jaggy the blind terrier....my dogs love life!! Should we put all blind people to sleep too!?! What an offensive attitude!
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kelly
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Had people of bothered to look at Hillside's website before sprouting off they would see that Hillside does campaign to stop irresponsible breeding. In fact they worked with channel 5 to expose these practices at a breeder in Wales, what they found there was 1 reasons for starting their dog rescue service. Hillside campaign for ALL animals in need, they receive no government or local authority funding and rely on public donations from other like minded people who want to help animal
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Derek60
Saturday, February 4, 2012
I love Dogs and own a Jack Russell myself. I am very concerned that the loosening of the Quarantine laws and the arrival of these Dogs will mean that Britain will no longer be Rabies free. Once that happens,it will be too late.
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Paul Kersey
Saturday, February 4, 2012
This confirms my opinion that these rescue organisations are completely daft. There are quite enough useless dogs destined for destruction in the UK ,breeds of dogs which have no purpose here- mostly of foreign origin- like boxer dogs which were originally bred for fighting ( lots of those), guard dogs and aggressive types of herding dogs. All kept as pets and many temperamentally unsuitable. And these fools bring in dogs that are blinded and expect to rehome them when the sensible thing would be to put them down. All animal welfare organisations should have their charitable status removed unless they give equal prominence in their work to promoting responsible breeding and ownership and stop being such wet hens.
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Daisy Roots
Saturday, February 4, 2012
the problem is that there is no valuable end product with dogs, and no control for street dogs.The same goes for other eastern european countries.when you next visit a country and there are puppies tied near shops,avoid those shops because you will add to the stray dog problem.
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grasshopper
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Yes John Norton we sure have too many, people dumping puppies in sacks,dogs left tied to buildings, greyhounds abandoned, ahhr our animal lovers aren't they wonderful? Also too many two legged variety about.
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Paul Platten
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Haven't we got enough of our own dogs looking for re-homing?
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John L Norton
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Judging by the "bad area" statement and the other accounts of cruelty to the dogs, why the hell was Romania ever allowed to join the EU club??.....Not forgetting the human tragedy and abuses that are rife in children's homes and asylums in Romania.
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nrg
Saturday, February 4, 2012