NewsStory Writing Competition WinnersTuesday June 29th 2010 Haunted Liverpool Ghost Story Winning entries First Prize to read the winning entry please visit http://www.hlg.stevenmarshdigitaldesign.com/index.php/news/ Second Prize Third Prize Many thanks to Chris High from Liverpool Hope University for judging the entries and choosing the winners and of course a thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winning entrants.
MadisonMonday June 28th 2010    Meet Madison, This morbidly obese Rottweiler came into the rescue as her owners were no longer able to look after her. As you can see Madison is in a pretty bad way, she is so fat that walking is proving an effort for her. Pictured here, we see her after being led out of her kennel to see our onsite vet. She has made it half way back to her kennel but decided that enough is enough and lay down refusing to move further. Our only hope of getting her moving again is to place sheets underneath her and hoist her to her feet. Madison is so fat that her health in seriously at risk, and life in this heat, carrying that much fat is going to be pretty unbearable! Our reasons for showing you these pictures are to make the point that sometimes, being kind is actually being cruel! What Madison needed was a reduced diet and a regular amount of exercise. All pets come with a certain amount of responsibility and allowing your dog to get into this condition is really not acceptable. If it's not possible to walk your dog as much as you would like, look for alternatives and quickly... never, ever substitute that attention with food. The end result could prove fatal! We hope to keep you up to date with Madisons progress over the coming weeks. The Haunted City - A New Ghost Walk Tour!Saturday June 26th 2010 'The Haunted City' launches on 9th July 2010 from Peter Kavanagh's pub in Egerton Street, L8 7LY. - Advance booking required
We have held our ticket price for the last two years but the time has come to catch up with inflation, not to mention the price of dog and cat food... don't forget that all profits from our Tours go directly to Freshfields Animal Rescue, registered Charity 508579. There are no booking fees whether you book online or by phone.
New Fundraising InitiativeTuesday June 8th 2010 Why not pay a visit to :- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330440033802&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT Lots more of our animals will be appearing soon - keep watching! Unique fund raising ideaMonday June 7th 2010 Pauline and Chris Davison of Southport have transformed their home into a restaurant on two occasions and have raised £392.50 for Freshfields. What a great idea and looking at the menu and photo thoroughly enjoyed by all! A very big thank you from all at the rescue!
Successful Vigil in St James’ CemeteryMonday June 7th 2010 The Haunted Liverpool Ghost Walks raised £640.00 on their overnight vigil and would like to thank, Penny, Fred, Andy and David Nicholas for volunteering to help. It was not an easy night with the weather and the wind and they did a sterling job setting up camp in the Cemetery. Rescue Centres, Reality and Hard Truths !Thursday June 3rd 2010 'Tough love, school of hard knocks, reality check, hard but true', these are all expressions that are often used in relation to those more difficult realities that we as individuals have to deal with every day. Life isn't simple, it isn't straight forward and at times life takes the word 'challenge' to a whole new level. In a rescue centre situation we deal daily with those 'hard knocks' that hit you, the general public, and this can be for a number of reasons... your personal circumstances might have changed, a friend, relative or even a stranger may have put you in a position where you are responsible, or feel you should take responsibility, for an animal that is not yours. Indeed, chance alone might have caused your path to cross with a four (or two) legged creature in need of help and you may have placed yourself as the medium by which this animal is transposed from unwanted or abandoned to rescued and therefore safe. When I say we deal daily, our 'tough but true' reality is that each day may bring ten, twenty or more calls from individuals who have in their possession an animal they are no longer able or in some cases willing to care for. Their answer... to pass that animal on to us! And it sounds so, so easy doesn't it? After all that is what animal rescue charities are there for, to take in every single animal that needs rescue and to take them straight away! And no, I'm not being facetious here... that is our purpose, that is what we all in some perfect, parallel universe wish we were able to do and what we fail in this cold reality to achieve. Sadly it's a dream out of reach! If you think about it logically, no capacity will ever be great enough, not just in an animal rescue but in any area where deprivation exists, in any walk of life, in any country. More 'tough love'! Face it now or let it drag you down! All we can ever hope to do is our best! Sometimes our best will mean keeping the door closed to one animal or another, after all we have a responsibility to those that we have already rescued, we, the rescuers have a duty to maintain the level of care that those animals should expect as a minimum and working far beyond that capacity would be a breach of trust not to mention down right irresponsible. I say 'far beyond' because we all push the boundaries ... yet another facet of being human? And whilst some of us don't know when to stop, thankfully most of us do... generally just before the walls tumble down! So, really what I want to say to the people out there is ... if you need help, please ask us. If we are able to help you then we certainly will, if we personally are not able to help you then we will offer suggestions, give out telephone numbers of others that might, and generally we will care. We will be sad, sorry and disappointed if we fail to find a solution for you or to point you in the direction of an adequate conclusion. Ultimately we will do our best! And sometimes that best will just NOT BE ENOUGH! So many times recently I feel I have watched my staff (reception, kennels, cattery, small animal and farm, both managers and assistants) push themselves to the limit and sometimes I have seen them fail, not through any fault of their own, or mine for that matter but simply because there is never enough... space, money, bodies, hours in the day etc, etc, etc. I have seen them take abuse (and swallow it), I have watched the stress on their faces and known only one certainty ... that tired, hacked off, mostly right, sometimes wrong (I am not deluded, we are none of us perfect), occasionally miserable because the job itself is so overwhelming... they won't give up, not a one of them. They will keep on fighting, looking for those answers, for the solutions to the problems and the challenges that a world of insufficient capacity brings! And they will be grateful, probably without voicing it, to those of you who understand, who empathise, those of you that recognise the difficulty of the task at hand. And with those of you that don't they will be tolerant, mostly (like I said none of us are perfect), and those of them that fail in their efforts to be tolerant will accept the telling off that follows (not without a fleeting taste of bitterness in their mouths perhaps) and move on because of the bigger picture. Because if the anger and the dissatisfaction from those we are unable to help, prevented us from moving forward then in that 'bigger picture' how many lives would be lost? How many of the 2000+ animals and birds that are rescued and rehabilitated by this charity every single year would be, not alive, happy and re-homed but... less than a memory now? And yet still to those of you (human and animal) who we have not been able to help, I will say again ...WE ARE SORRY! We really, truly, genuinely wish things could be different. Your 'hard knocks' for a time join our personal 'hard knocks' and it can become overwhelming, yet still we rise above it! Should we be condemned for failing to achieve the unachievable? I don't believe so, and truthfully, looking deep within yourself... do you? Helen Stanbury - General Manager (Liverpool rescue)
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