Not a conventional kennels.

BEAGLE WELFARE REHOMING CENTRE

  

  

THE BEAGLE WELFARE REHOMING CENTRE......

Many people when enquiring to re home their beagle are hesitant to want to put them into kennels before they are re-homed. I thought i would do a little blog on what the rehoming centre at East Staffordshire is like and what the beagles do day to day.

Above and below are just a few photos of the beagles playing in the huge grassed and beagle proof paddock. The beagles have plenty of toys and things to play with and a big fort to climb and spy on passing people, cars, horses or just anything a beagle can nosy at.

They live communally in a wooden cabin, kitted out with chairs, beds, a radio and heating for winter and fans for summer.    

                                                                       

 For the beagles who prefer a little peace and quiet they have kennels where they can live in pairs, also kitted out with a long run area and bedroom with beds and heating for winter.

The beagles get their breakfast at 7.30am daily then have a kip to let their breakfast go down. At 9am they are all let out to run freely around the paddock and yards while the humans clean the kennels and change the beddings. Around lunch time the beagles all come in for a siesta for a couple of hours and are let out again about 3pm for another play and run around. The staff at the rehoming centre go out daily to play with the beagles either running around the paddock throwing a ball or just generally being with them, which beagles love. 
At around 4.30pm they go in for their dinner, if it is a nice light dry evening they get to go and have another little play and run around to stretch their legs and tire out before bed time at approx. 9.30pm.

We also have several volunteers who come to walk the beagles so they get to go out to parks and towns etc to meet people and other dogs.

We also have a indoor play area called the Jerry Meek building.

This is great for when it is a rainy wet day or just for some fun on the agility equipment.

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                BEAGLE OF THE MONTH SEPTEMBER

                                                 TOBY

Our Beagle of the Month for September is Toby.

Toby is in the care of Beagle Welfare in Burton-Upon-Trent. Please read his post in full and if you have any questions or are interested in rehoming him please contact Clare Clark on 01283 575175 or email info@beaglewelfare.org.uk

Toby is a three-year-old, castrated, tri-colour handsome male who is vaccinated & micro-chipped. 

Toby needs to either be the only dog in the home, or he could live with another dog but just not be walked with the other dog he lives with.  This is not because he’s doesn’t get on with dogs he lives with but his reaction when he is on a lead meeting other dogs/traffic/bikes/passers-by etc. He barks & howls at them. His new owner would have to continue with one-to-one training when out and about to build his confidence up with everyday life and not be scared to socialise him. He is less reactive off lead and has quite good recall if you have treats!

Apart from his reactive behaviour Toby is the most loving and funny hound you could ever meet. He is great with children 10+, he loves his furry duck, is very smart and catches on very quickly when teaching him a new game or a trick. He is very loving towards people and if he did live with a dog he would be loving with them too. 

Toby has lived with cats so could live with a dog savvy cat in his new home. He is housetrained, will eat his food in a crate and is also good at travelling. 

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If you are interested in re homing a beagle please fill out the application on our website. APPLICATION TO ADOPT A BEAGLE


If you are looking to surrender a beagle please contact our rehoming co-ordinators on 01283 575 175 please leave a msg if no answer and we will get back to you, or email info@beaglewelfare.org.uk  

Are you rescue ready?

                                                                                    

ARE YOU RESCUE READY?  

Beagles are not always the easiest breed; whilst they are certainly adorable, loyal, affectionate and entertaining, beagles need a lot of stimulation, exercise and companionship. If you are thinking about getting a dog of any breed, from a breeder or a rescue centre, it is imperative that you know what you are taking on. Where beagles are concerned being forewarned is forearmed, you will need to learn about counter surfing, stealing socks or your dinner, running away after a scent and general wilful behaviour. 

That said, you will also learn about a fun and exciting breed that can give back the love it receives tenfold.
Before rehoming, think carefully about the size, sex and age of your preferred dog and what would fit into your lifestyle. If you have a dog already you need to ask yourself whether your existing dog would welcome a friend into his home, and if so, what sort of dog will he like. Is he going to want a puppy jumping all over him or would he prefer a more relaxed, older dog?
Beagles are hardy but sensitive and rehoming is a time of massive upheaval for them. They need time to realise that they are now in a safe and loving environment. before you take home any new friend it is vital that you are fully committed to giving him the best life he can have.
Don’t rehome a dog on a whim. Make sure you are prepared for all eventualities and give him the time and devotion he so deserves.

Cooper who was a resident at BW centre for 18 months and BOTM a few times. He found his forever home,



Taking your Beagle Home


Do you remember when you got your first beagle? You thought you’d done your homework? Knew what you were letting yourself in for? And then you got home. And THAT is when reality kicked in, when you were on your own with this adorable new member of the family that escaped, stole food, howled, chewed, rolled in and ate poo (not only his own) and resolutely refused to hear a word you said to him.
How much of a shock was all that? How much would you have liked to have seen all this in action before you took your beagle home? No, you wouldn’t have changed your mind. But you might have been better prepared!
But now, this is exactly what is in store for new adopting owners of Welfare beagles. Thanks to Cooper Beagle, Clare Clark, Emily Turnbull, Suzanne Carr and her wonderful production team, Beagle Welfare now has its own DVD, Taking Your Beagle Home, to be shown to every new owner as part of the adoption process. Not only does it show exactly what life is like with a beagle, it is also full of helpful tips and practical advice. But be prepared to be amused as well as educated: the scenes where Cooper steals a ham sandwich from the worktop and Harvey climbs over the gate are laugh-out-loud moments that all beagle owners will recognise! Well done to everyone involved, and to Sue Ding whose marathon fundraising effort enabled Beagle Welfare to establish a specific budget for this and other educational projects.
Education is an important part of Welfare’s work – the more we can inform people about what it means to own and understand a beagle, the fewer beagles will be given up for adoption in the future.
• To view Taking Your Beagle Home click on the link below. And please do let us know what you think of it

 Beagles as pets

Understanding your beagle

BEAGLE OF THE MONTH

BEAGLE OF THE MONTH

It all started with a beagle named Jack and a sad plea on the rehoming list...

On April 14^th 2013 Jack’s write up had changed from the usual standard to a more personal one that stated ‘I’ve been waiting two years... watching my friends come and go...’.  Jack needed to be an only beagle with no children and proved to be very hard to rehome. His details were plastered all over Facebook, we wanted every beagle owner on Facebook to know his name and it seemed to work. A week later a small team of Facebook friends started emailing a poster of Jack to every vet in the country asking for help. A day or so later a lovely lady saw Jacks poster in her vets and called the rehoming centre. 13 days after his campaign started, Jack went home. 

After the success of Jacks campaign, we decided to try a Beagle of the Month campaign, an initiative for the harder to re-home beagles and the ones overlooked for a long time. Each campaign starts on the Beagle Welfare Facebook page and then is shared across timelines, beagle pages and rehoming pages.

Daisy was not happy at the rehoming centre so in July 2013 she became our first ever BOTM. Daisy was re-homed within her month and now lives with two other BW hounds and competes in cani-cross races.

More success followed in the subsequent months with Monty, Chester1, Alfie1, Chester2, Willow, Buddy and Charlie, with Clare Clark saying farewell to some big characters whom she had known for some time. The most notable of these were Alfie and Cooper who had been at the rehoming centre for 18 months waiting for the right people to call their own.

                                                                      ALFIE 

COOPER

Coopers story

In October of last year, Cooper had been waiting almost a year for his forever home so, as an ‘overlooked hound’, he became Beagle of the Month. He had a couple of small issues but we felt that these could be vastly improved in a caring and loving home. Sadly, he did not find a family during his campaign so was featured in the last edition of In Full Cry, again with no success.

            He was moved from the kennels into Clare Clark’s house to be rehabilitated into a home environment and then in May of this year a huge Facebook campaign ensued for Cooper; he had now been waiting 18 months and we wondered if he would ever be rehomed. Then came along Ann and Louie. . .

Ann says

‘The Beagle of the Month posts show on my Facebook newsfeed and I often share them with my friends and family. We spend many weekends away in our caravan and my husband would often comment that I hogged Louie when he was on his lead, and how nice it would be if we had one each. Well, talk about great timing, who should appear on my newsfeed as an update? The one and only Super Cooper! He had spent the past three months in Clare's home with her dogs and seemed to be more settled, and was minus his food issues and only dog status. There was a huge emphasis on being ball crazy, which would make a nice change because Louie's not interested in playing ball at all.

            We had a family chat about how we felt about welcoming another dog into our home and there was a big thumbs up with no hesitation. Obviously our main concern was whether Louie would be happy with this, so I rang Clare at Beagle Welfare in Burton-Upon-Trent and arranged to meet Cooper. We took him home the same day.

It's hard to put into words how amazingly Cooper has settled into our family and impossible to believe that he was overlooked for 18 months. He is so loving and cuddly, he just plonked himself in our laps and instantly won our hearts. He is such a wonderful character and brings us so much happiness, it's like he's always been here. ‘

Our Beagles of the Month for March are Barney and Hollie, they both have sad histories and are looking for permanent, loving homes. You can see more information about both these wonderful hounds on our rehoming list http://www.beaglewelfare.org.uk/rehoming_list.php.

April 1^st 2016 will bring us a very special Beagle of the Month, Daisy Doo, an 11-month old pup looking for a person with a very big heart and a home to call her own. Please see our Facebook page on April 1^st for more information. https://www.facebook.com/beaglewelfare/

                  

http://www.beaglewelfare.org.uk 

Adopting a Beagle – The Process

1. Download, complete and submit the APPLICATION TO ADOPT A BEAGLE

2. A Beagle Welfare Rep. will contact you to arrange a Home Visit.

3. When your application is approved, start looking for the Beagle for you!

Also take a look at this video about taking a rescue Beagle home....

Taking your Beagle Home
Do you remember when you got your first beagle? You thought you’d done your homework? Knew what you were letting yourself in for? And then you got home. And THAT is when reality kicked in, when you were on your own with this adorable new member of the family that escaped, stole food, howled, chewed, rolled in and ate poo (not only his own) and resolutely refused to hear a word you said to him.
How much of a shock was all that? How much would you have liked to have seen all this in action before you took your beagle home? No, you wouldn’t have changed your mind. But you might have been better prepared!
But now, this is exactly what is in store for new adopting owners of Welfare beagles. Thanks to Cooper Beagle, Clare Clark, Emily Turnbull, Suzanne Carr and her wonderful production team, Beagle Welfare now has its own DVD, Taking Your Beagle Home, to be shown to every new owner as part of the adoption process. Not only does it show exactly what life is like with a beagle, it is also full of helpful tips and practical advice. But be prepared to be amused as well as educated: the scenes where Cooper steals a ham sandwich from the worktop and Harvey climbs over the gate are laugh-out-loud moments that all beagle owners will recognise!
Education is an important part of Welfare’s work – the more we can inform people about what it means to own and understand a beagle, the fewer beagles will be given up for adoption in the future.
• To view Taking Your Beagle Home click on the link below. And please do let us know what you think of it!

https://vimeo.com/155983845

PASSWORD IS............beaglewelfare