Joey Edwards

SALLY & JOE

REUNITED AT RAINBOW BRIDGE

A big thank you to Christine and Michael for giving them both wonderful, happy lives and gentle, peaceful, painfree passings. No dogs could be more loved.

A SAD FAREWELL TO OUR SPECIAL BOY JOE (17.2.2020)

A devastated Christine and Michael told us “Today, we had to say goodbye to our Special Boy, Joe.

He has been a big part of our family since we picked him and Sally up from Alison & David, two of your brilliant Irish Retriever Rescue fosterers, back in 2014.

Our hearts are broken but we know that Sally is waiting for him at the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.

We just wanted to say thank you to you all for letting us adopt Sally and Joe. They have given us so much joy and many happy memories. Please do keep up your good work”.

TO OUR JOE, R.I.P. SWEET BOY xx

Michael later added “Thank you so much for putting our boy on the Honour Roll and updating this page for us but, above all, thank you for giving us all of our lovely dogs.

Joe was one of the best. Our poor Tobie misses him so much, as do we. There is a very big Joe shaped hole in all our hearts”.

We have loved looking after Sally since the day we picked her and Joe up from their fosterers, Alison and David, in 2014

EARLY HISTORY

In 2014, Joey (aged 6) and Sally (aged 8) were surrendered to IRR due to a change in family circumstances.

They are very close and we felt they had a calming effect on each other so, for these reasons, we would like them to be rehomed together.

Both are happy around children but we would not recommend that they are rehomed in a house with cats present.

Sally and Joey came to the UK at the end of August.

SEPTEMBER 2014

Sally and Joey have gone together to their Forever Home

UPDATE FROM THEIR FOREVER HOME (October 2014)

Christine and Michael told us “Just a quick update to tell you they are settling in well. We had them on the beach this afternoon. Sally went for a paddle but Joe kept to the shallows”.

SECOND UPDATE (NOVEMBER 2014)

Michael says Sally and Joe are a joy to live with. Sally, whose coat is starting to grow back nicely, will walk off lead now and is good on the recall but Joe is more of a challenge. He is, apparently, OK as long as there are no other distractions, like dogs and people around, which means being very vigilant because, in Michael’s own words, ” he’s so darn fast when he starts to run but he’s getting there”.

Sally and Joe both love to meet other dogs and people and they also love to play with each other. Even though they have their own beds, Sally prefers the settee in the conservatory. Michael tells us “she likes her comfort does our Sally (she also prefers to have breakfast lying down)”.

He also recounted to their fosterers “Christine forgot your warning about Sally and shopping bags. ….. she helped herself to a tub of cheese savoury the other afternoon ….. but who can blame her?”

It is clear Sally and Joe are both loved to bits and have their paws very firmly under the table so everyone at IRR , especially Alison and David, is delighted.

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