Category: team members
Category: team members
Di James
In Memory Former IRR volunteer Di James passed away, peacefully, on Monday 5 February 2024. Her husband, Alan, said it was her request for no fuss, funeral or flowers, and that donations to IRR in memory Di and her dogs, Penny and Dazzle would be appreciated. Website Editor Di joined the team as website editor
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Tony
Transporter and Home Checker I’m Tony from Guildford in Surrey, a surveyor / engineer . I‘ve always been around dogs from a very early age. I have a strangely calming effect on all dogs I meet including the most difficult. People have commented on how dogs behave around me. Kaz once assured me that one
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Nicola
Fosterer and micro-chipper Despite having 5 children, 6 dogs, a cat and birds, Nicola never says no when we are desperate for a fosterer. There is always room at the inn at Chez Nicola. She has fostered many of our dogs but fell totally in love with Duke who became her 6th dog. We were
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Chrissie
Fundraising and Sponsorship I’m Christine but everybody calls me Chrissie. I live in Shropshire with my husband Chris. My very precious Golden Retriever Emma went to the Bridge in 2009 and I truly believe it was her that made me find IRR. About 3 weeks after she passed over I was still feeling very distraught so thought
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Fosterers “We have been looking after rescue dogs for 29 years. We’ve had 14 dogs in that time who’ve all been amazing characters. We decided last summer to apply to become fosterers for IRR, and we’ve loved it, including adopting one of the dogs ourselves. We now have 3 dogs who all have a different
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Transporter and Homecheck Co-ordinator INTRODUCTION FROM JACKIE I would like to introduce a brand new member to our Team. Sal has come on board to help us out with arranging transport runs, without which we would be totally stuck. Sal has also kindly agreed to arrange our homechecks for both future fosterers and adopters. Sal said, “Hi,
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Web Developer and Grandad to Surprise Puppies My wife Kerry and I were lucky enough to home Kaleigh in 2007. Kaleigh is the beautiful golden retriever that also gave us seven more wonderful puppies. You might have heard about them in Tails of the Unexpected. She was the second rescue to bring a litter into the IRR community.
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Fundraisers (and Pudsey’s mum and dad) I am a fosterer and Pudsey’s mum. We help out with arranging media coverage for Pudsey. We have 5 dogs plus foster boy Pudsey. Two offthese are rehomed from Irish Retriever Rescue. We have fostered many of the 2006 successes and it had been a pleasure to meet so
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Rosa
Fosterer and Home Checker ROSA, like Regina, started out as an adopter. Kelly is the sister of Bouncer and was named in honour of their mum, Kelly. Note they both have the same Mohican haircuts. Rosa has fostered for us several times and regularly does homechecks too. When needed, they have also very kindly helped
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Regina
Fosterer and Transporter Regina adopted Bouncer the Golden Retriever from IRR in 2005 (see pics below). She already had 2 non IRR dogs, Teddy (black Samoyed) and Jerry-Lee (GSD). Regina became a very good fosterer for us. Unfortunately, she has not been well so although unable to foster for a while, she has continued to
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Fosterers Hi, we’re Di and Rob and we live in West Essex with our two old girls, Bella and Josie. We also have a transient population of elderly foster dogs. We’ve been involved with local dog rescue for many years and have always had a house full of rescue dogs. However, the Golden Retriever bug
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Simon
Fosterer and Transporter We were introduced to IRR and the wonderful world of fostering by my sister, Jane. After some thought we decided we’d give it a try ourselves, since then we’ve never looked back, as they say. It’s been and continues to be a wonderful and rewarding experience with each dog we foster and
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TRANSPORTER CO-ORDINATOR AND FOSTERER I originally enquired about fostering for the IRR as my daughter Becky decided our own lovely Labrador Tess needed company, never mind about poor Poppy our cat!! Within a few weeks we had our first foster dog Millie and with the help and support from my partner Malcolm, we haven’t stopped
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Fran
Fosterer FRAN is another fosterer who has helped us out in real emergencies and has managed to cope even with one or two quite difficult dogs. All of her foster babes have gone on to have the most fabulous homes. Here are pics of her foster dogs Gilly, Fabulous Finnegan, Mason, Belle and Kizzie.
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Aileen
Aileen adopted Angel & Allie in 2008, followed quickly by Sam. On return from spending some time living abroad in 2013, Aileen became a Trustee and the UK co-ordinator and head of the team in the UK, working closely with Belinda who she adored. In that role Aileen was responsible for finding the best homes possible
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Donna
Website Designer Donna said, “I design some of the website, always being bossed about by the wonderful Picky Knickers (Pauline Bossy Boots ). I actually don’t mind one bit anyone who puts in the hard work she does deserves to be lil bit Picky. I was a volunteer for the rspca as a home checker
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Wendy
Fundraiser Extraordinaire The help that Wendy has given us has been brilliant. She has many contacts in the pet industries and has been gathering much-needed prize donations for our 2007 Reunion. She has also been busily making fridge magnets, car stickers and notelets etc herself for us to sell. Wendy’s dog Kerry will be 14
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Fosterer Co-ordinator and Irish Website Searcher Jackie joined the team, initially as a fosterer, but she has taken over the important job of searching the Irish sites for golden retrievers who are in trouble. Whenever possible we also like to help retriever crosses and labradors too but, if we are unable to, then we pass
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Belinda & Terry
FOSTERERS, TRANSPORTERS, HOMECHECKERS, FUNDRAISERS, DESIGNERS AND PRINTERS Belinda and Terry innocently enquired in 2007 about the possibility of adopting one of our dogs and very soon Millie joined their family. Bitten by the IRR bug, it was not long before Connie was adopted as a friend for Millie. Connie has now become a popular member
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