That's the Summer Done

The Autumn Equinox has passed and the nights will now start to draw in. Despite the brilliant sunshine that's shining outside today I know it's only a matter of time before Christmas is upon us and the chaos it brings with it, especially here at the kennel. I love Autumn, the colours and the cold wind on your face make it even more snug indoors on the sofa with the bulldogs, soon the heating will be switched on and the sure sign that Winter is here is switched on with it. Here's hoping that not too many bulldogs spend the Winter tied up outside in the snow and that we can find as many of them as possible before the ice sets in again.
This Summer has been quite an enjoyable one, we've had some lovely dogs through the kennel and the rescue service has coped pretty well the demand we find ourselves in when the kids go back to school at the end of the long holiday, although it is sad when suddenly there's an influx of dogs who's only crime is that the kids are not around to walk him any more. The Picnic has been and gone with a record breaking £4,000 raised which taking into account our vet bill appears to have doubled will be very welcome indeed. Thank you to everyone that came along again this year, I know I say it every year but I think this one was the biggest and bestest yet!
You'll notice if you are a regular to our web site that's it's gone "all posh" as one of our face book buddies put it, every area now has it's own waiting list, this is much easier for us and to be honest much fairer on the many many people that are waiting to adopt a bulldog, but it's causing a bit of confusion as it's slightly more difficult to apply for a dog and impossible if the dog isn't in your area. I'm afraid that due to much abuse of the old system we've been left with very little choice but to transfer it to a "sign in" system and if I have to give one simple bit of advice here its "write your password down!!" I don't have access to it so if you forget it you'll have to change it on line, I'm afraid I can't tell you what it is. Apart from a few teething problems trying work out how it all works it's seems to be running quite smoothly, but remember if you applied on our old system we do need to get your contact info into the new one so just drop me an email and I'll let you know how to get transferred, it'll take only a few minutes and once you've done it you'll be able to apply again for any of the dogs in your area that you like the look of.
Regulars to our face book page may have witness the furore that kicked off recently when we were infiltrated by some of the "alternative" bulldog crowd. I think if nothing else they managed to show themselves for what they really are and it was a shame that some of our members felt they had to leave because of the pure vileness that some of them were spouting. All is fixed now, we have increased the number of administrators to 3 as they knew how to block me so I couldn't remove them from the members list. I'm pretty sure they're all gone and a change to the settings means they can't get back on as easily as they did before, which is a shame because I never wanted that group to be tightly policed as it was meant to be a friendly place that anyone could join, but sadly, once again, a few idiots have meant we've had to tighten the security which is a shame for those who genuinely want to join and now have to wait approval from an admin before they can join in the conversation.
So having just seen Geeza off to his new home (yes I know - how did we manage that!? - look out Oxford is all I can add to that) I'm going for a well deserved cuppa and a bit of a sit down.