LL 2024 Calendar Competition

The Lurcher Link Calendar Competition is BACK!!

We are asking for YOUR photographs to be included in our 2024 Lurcher Link Calendar.

You don't have to be a member of the Lurcher Link forum, or have a Lurcher Link dog. You just have to have a keen photographic eye and fantastic photos you think suit the different seasons.

We need your HIGH RESOLUTION photographs to show how amazing our community, and the dogs we all love, are!

If you are interesting in joining in, we have a Google forms document where you can upload your photos. We are putting a limit on 1 entry per person this year, but you can enter all 4 seasons and the front cover!

We need PORTRAIT photographs for our FRONT COVER.

We need LANDSCAPE photographs for WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER and AUTUMN.

You can upload your photos on the following link: https://forms.gle/ba8fLY58BjrFE5ZJ9

We will be creating photo albums where we will be uploading the entries so you can see what photos we have

The competition will run until Sunday 13th August

Get snapping!

(If you have any difficulties with uploading photos, please contact kaye@lurcherlink.org)

Last year’s Calendar to show the format

T shirts with Lurcher Link's past designs

We don’t have the space or the funds to keep in a stock of T shirts in various style / colours/ sizes, but we’re trying a Redbubble shop to see if this might be a way to supply people with clothing (and other) items.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/lurcherlass/shop?asc=u

It’s still early days and I’m still learning, so bear with me….. but if there’s anything you want to say about this, you can email me on kaye@lurcherlink.org

Beautiful Joe's Liver Treats

I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the folk who run “Beautiful Joe’s” and our LL supporter Catherine Hutchinson for nominating Lurcher Link to receive such a fantastic donation of their liver treats.

We had a parcel arrive today which the dogs were VERY interested in…I let them all have one in the interest of quality control of course, and they seem to approve as they all wanted seconds. :)

They’ve sent us the equivalent of 45 x 50g packets of their liver treats so that’ll last a while. Plus some lovely little tins to keep them safely in your pocket which is very thoughtful. This is what the company says:

For every packet of treats we sell, we donate the same volume to a rescue centre or other good canine causes. You were nominated by your friend and supporter Catherine Hutchinson ( bcathfc@aol.com ).

Since we were founded in 2012 we have given away over £400,000 of treats. Some rescue centres use them for training, others are grateful to have a treat to give the dogs in their care.
Beautiful Joe's are made from air dried, pasture-fed, beef liver. Nothing is added and they are completely natural. It is fair to say that dogs go crazy for them.

Incidentally, our treats are named after a dog called Beautiful Joe who lived in Canada in the 1890s. He was rescued from a brutal farmer and became the subject of a best-selling book. Its author, Margaret Saunders, devoted her life to championing the rights of animals. As, in our small way, we also aim to champion the rights of animals, we decided to name our dog treats after him.

Isn’t that lovely?

Our goodies

Absolutely starving dogs

Quick update on T J Newton

Just wanted to let folks know that the lovely and mega-expensive (shattered leg repair!) T J Newton has been adopted to a fab new home with some long time LLers :)

TJN looking well suited :)

BATTERSEA and LURCHER LINK

Due to the horrendous influx of dogs needing homes after the Covid Lockdown Mad Puppy Rush, Lurcher Link and Battersea have pledged to work together to try and find homes for as many Lurchers as possible.

This will mainly be by advertising each other's dogs on the Internet and via social media, but we may occasionally need to take in a dog for them or vice versa. We both have much the same rehoming criteria and policies, but if you want to know anything, do ask

https://www.battersea.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/animal-partnerships

Burgess donation

Burgess very kindly donated a load of their Greyhound and Lurcher food to us. so now all the dogs that go to their new homes will go with a sack of this to keep them going :)

https://www.burgesspetcare.com/shop/dog-food/supadog/greyhound-lurcher-chicken/

It also means we can cut down on the cost of our dog food (normally over £100 per week) which is a HUGE help. Plus for every sack they sell, they donate 20p towards rescue!

Thank you so much BURGESS

Belle and TJ Newton can’t believe their luck!

Lots of food!

Donations for the dogs

We had a lovely surprise donation of treats from The Innocent Pet care company the other day and the dogs are going absolutely doolally over them :)

They’re air dried and grain free meat proteins such as duck, beef, chicken, lamb and different vegetables. They’re little “training treat” size pieces and smell lovely, even to me and I’m a veggie :) I heartily recommend them, check them out :

https://theinnocentpet.co.uk/collections/healthy-dog-treats

They do complete food / cat food/ toys and gift idea too……. not the cheapest in the world, but, as I’ve discovered, “you get what you pay for”. Also supplements such as Turmeric and Pepper (I take that!) and and Aloe Vera and Spirulina.

And the best bit is : They’re from Yorkshire and they have LURCHERS :)

Box of goodies!

Mudz hoping for some more

Easter Pressies for the LL dogs

The Easter Bunny came early for the LL dogs and brought them, not chocolate eggs, but "Yak chews" (made from really hard yak milk cheese, not Yak meat) which they all think is the best thing ever. Even the dogs with sensitive tums, like Benny, have been able to have a good chomp on them…. thank you to everyone who donated towards the Yakky fund and to Carolyn Savage from the Canine Cavern https://www.caninecavern.co.uk/ for facilitating this.

Benny

Frank

Flash

Rogue

Aurora

Special Sighthound Sundays Scarf Offer

Sighthound Sundays has teamed up with greyhound Long Boi Duggan to to keep you stylish, cozy and on-brand with a very special Nordic inspired scarf!

Friends of Lurcher Link Rescue will receive a special 5% discount on scarf orders placed using our special link or by simply entering LLR during checkout. 

What’s more, proceeds from each LLR sale will go to support the hounds in our care this winter. 

Pre-orders are open until 18th October at a special price of £16 plus shipping, then are available for £19 and will be fulfilled from mid November. 

https://sighthoundsundays.com/collections/frontpage/products/2020-nordic-scarves?discount=llr

Can we help Jessica reach her goal???

Jessica has done her million steps and has raised £220 for Lurcher Link :D Thank you so much Jessica, we really appreciate your dedication x x x

12 year old Jessica is about 4000 steps from her 1 million. She will reach her target on time tomorrow. She's just finishing her blog post off to say where she is up to. Not sure if we can give it one last push as she's walked over 995,000 steps, 390 miles since the first of July. She's only on £200 at the moment

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lurchers?utm_id=2&utm_term=XvxZZ5VzE