Another Four Paws Animal Rescue Photo Competition 
Help us put the Spring back into Bertie SpringerAbout Bertie
The first picture is of Guinness and Phoenix (Now Wooster and Bertie) before the accident and the second is a picture of Bertie last Thursday night when he returned to Four Paws. He is in the vets with his neck in a brace with fentinol and morphine being administered to relieve his pain. An x-ray suggested that he has a crack in the 2nd bone in his neck but the source of his lameness and severe pain appears to be a slipped disc lower down his neck. We were hoping that this would be confirmed by a milogram and rectified by surgery, however Bertie's Milogram didnt give us what we were hoping for so he'll be staying in the Vets overnight again. On Wednesday 17 June he'll be going to the Fitzpatrick Veterinary Hospital in Godalming in Surrey for an MRI before his spinal surgery can begin.
Bertie and Wooster are 5 year old brothers who have a very close bond; Wooster is missing his brother terribly. We sincerely hope that we can get Bertie fit and well and reunite them again.
History Bertie and Wooster originally came into Four Paws Animal Rescue with two young collies; all four dogs came from a farm where they had spent a good deal of their time crated in a shed. The collies found happy homes and Bertie and Wooster were rehomed together to a young couple with plenty of land; the couple had the Springer boys for only 3 months when they collided with each other, head to head, during a walk one day which damaged Bertie's neck leading to his constant pain and lameness in his front left leg.
Unfortunately, with all the chaos which comes with settling two new dogs into the household the new owners had neglected to take out pet insurance and they were forced to take the difficult decision to return the dogs into our care to allow Bertie to receive the treatment he desperately needs.
We are running an online photo competition to raise funds for Bertie's treatment from 25 June to 25 July
Click
here for further information about Bertie.
Classes1. Mans' Best Friend
2. My Favourite Thing
3. Just for Laughs
4. Opportunity Barks
5. Water Babies
6. Other Animals - Caught in the Act
The competition takes place on
our forum.
JudgeOur judge for this show will be:
Toni Shelbourne, Tellington TTouch Companion Animal PractitionerIn 1997 Toni studied under Linda Tellington - Jones and other top Tellington TTouch Instructors to become a registered level 1 Tellington TTouch Companion Animal Practitioner. She was one of the first to qualify in the UK and has really seen it grow over the years in the UK .
In September 2000 she left GDBA to pursue her passion for the Tellington TTouch Training Method and has been practising ever since. Toni is now one of the highest qualified practitioners in the UK (level 3) and assists instructors in training new practitioners. In 2004 she also qualified as an equine practitioner, although chooses to concentrate on companion animals and captive wild animals.
She has appeared along side Sarah Fisher in the hit TV series
Talking to Animals and has also been featured in articles for
Dogs Today and
Your Dog magazine.
As well as working privately with clients, Toni runs 1 & 2 day workshops and performance clinics for companion animals, gives talks about the work and works closely with a number of rescue shelters and assistance dogs organisations.
Toni works with all animals including dogs, cats, small animals, birds, horses, reptiles, wild life and non-domesticated animals. Her main passion being the eight socialised wolves she works with at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust,
www.ukwolf.org near Reading in Berkshire where she lives.
To find out more about Toni and TTouch visit
Website:
www.tellingtontouch.co.uk Prizes:
These are currently being formalised but the prizes include a 12 month subscription to Dogs Today Magazine, a pet portrait and a custom handmade bed by our talented bedmaking fairy Maggie.
The Online Photo Competition - InformationAll information and entries are on
our forum .
We are asking for a donation of £1 per entry (one photograph per entry). You may have as many entries as you wish.
Donations can be made at
http://www.justgiving.com/bertiespringer. (If you do not wish to make a donation this way cheques can be sent to address listed in the payment thread) and information on this can be found in the donation information thread, which you must read before entering any photographs. There is important information regarding the size limits for photographs etc and you can read about this in the posting pictures thread.
You must own the copyright of the pictures you are posting or have the express permission of whoever owns the copyright.
Important:
Photos should sized to give a file size of around 30k - 50k please.
Please try make sure they aren't taller or wider than about 640 pixels.
This will enable those members without broadband on a slow dial-up internet to see all the photos at a reasonable speed.
Rules* It's ok to sbumit pictures of animals that have passed to the bridge.
* It's fine to submit pictures that contain more than one animal.
* Please do not submit photographs that have been taken by professional photographers.
* Please do not put any other text in your entry, other than what is asked for in that particular class. Any extra text may be removed without notice.
* Please do not post comments on any show class thread. Any comments will be deleted. There will be a competition discussion thread where you can chat about the show as much as you like!
Judging will take place after the competition has closed and the results will be posted as soon as we have them.
Rosettes will be awarded to the 1st - 4th place winners in each class, with an additional two specials.
All 6 first place winners (as selected by our judges) will then be entered in a poll and every member of the Four Paws forum will be able to vote (once only) for their overall favourite. This will then give us our Best in Show. The Best in Show Winner and Reserve Best in Show will get an extra special rosette.
The competition closes on 25 July. PLEASE don't leave it till the last minute and risk server problems stopping you from entering! Just think how upset your doglet will be on missing out on a rosette...
If you have any questions regarding any aspect of this event, please ask them in the questions thread.
Please remember that the reason for this dog show is to make as much money as possible for Bertie to help put the spring back into him.
Thank you for your support
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