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Introducing Cluais...

A very small little dog put a big smile on our faces here at Limerick

Animal Welfare today. Cluais (pronounced Clue-ish - it means "ear" in

Irish) is a little terrier tomboy and he's just ten to twelve weeks

old. A lady called Eila who is one of our most hard-working volunteers

got a phone call about Cluais last week. To her horror, she discovered

when she went to rescue him that someone had cut the tops off both his

ears. The vet reckoned it had to have been done with a scissors.

If your dog has ever had a nick on his ear, you'll know how much even

the smallest ear injury can bleed. The pain and suffering Cluais would

have gone through doesn't bear thinking about. Well, the resilience

and forgiveness of dogs never ceases to amaze us, and typically,

Cluais wasn't a bit down in the dumps about his poor ears, and had a

friendly wag of the tail and lots of kisses for all of his admirers

this week. He was a bit nervous at first, but once he got lots of rubs

and cuddles and realised that no one was going to hit him, he became

everyone's new best friend! Eila took him under her wing and fostered

him at home, where he quickly came to enjoy playing with her own two

doggies. Once the vet gave Cluais the all clear we put him up on our

adoption page for rehoming, and the phone started ringing! Cluais has

been adopted by a lovely couple from Cork who tell us they already

love him to bits! As you can see from the photo they sent Eila today,

our little man is settling in nicely and is rather fond of his

creature comforts! This is all to Eila's enormous relief, as if she

had fostered Cluais much longer, the temptation to keep him might have

been too much! So today, it's smiles all round.

Posted by Limerick Animal Welfare at 5:28 PM 4 comments

Welcome!

Hello to all, and welcome to the new Limerick Animal Welfare blog. We

are updating our website at the moment, and as part of its

redevelopment, we thought it would be fun to launch a blog to provide

an insight into the work we do.

Limerick Animal Welfare was founded in 1983 to care for unwanted and

abandoned animals in the Limerick area. We have rescued, rehabilitated

and rehomed many thousands of neglected cats and dogs. We are so proud

that after almost a quarter century in operation, our charity

continues to flourish. We feel there are two keys to our success. We

have an amazing group of hard-working volunteers, who give so freely

of their time and energies for the sake of the animals. We also owe an

enormous debt of gratitude to the people of Limerick, who have

supported us unstintingly over the years.

Our ultimate goal has always been to have our own sanctuary where all

our animals could be cared for at the one location. After many years

of fundraising, we bought a twenty five acre site in Kilfinane, County

Limerick and were granted planning permission to build our premises

there in five phases. Construction of phase one - the dogs' isolation

unit - began in May 2006 and is now very close to completion. We're

tantalisingly close to realising our dream, but we now need to raise

EUR70,000 for kitting out and fencing before the Sanctuary can open.

It has never been a more exciting, or challenging time to be a part of