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EASY FUNDRAISING
Please keep collecting easyfundraising donations – it means A LOT to us!
2020 has been challenging in so many ways, money has been tight, and fundraising has been difficult. Stepping into 2021, hasn’t changed the situation much and it looks like times will stay tough a little while longer.
So, please keep supporting us through easyfundraising, a great FREE and SAFE way to help us receive donations – at NO cost to you!
Whenever you’re buying pet food, picking up a fantastic January sale or taking out a new insurance, use easyfundraising so we will receive an easyfundraising donation to help us keep looking after the animals. These donations make a HUGE difference to us as a small charity.
How it works? Over 4,000 retailers will give us a little “thank you” donation whenever you shop with them through easyfundraising, incl. Amazon, M&S, eBay, John Lewis, Pets at Home, Currys, ao.com, Photobox, Just Eat, Screwfix, Petplan, Booking.com, Boots, JD Sports, Etsy, Wayfair, EE and many more…
You can collect the easyfundraising donations for us through the free easyfundraising App or use the easyfundraising website – So easy, So why not?
Find out more and start collecting: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ridgebackrescue/?invite=43TQOL&referral-campaign=c2s
JOANNA RIDES FOR RIDGEBACK RESCUE
CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU
To the lovely Joanna Charters. Joanna rescued Ziggy from us in January and has just completed the My Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 which is a bike ride over 100 miles (and considering Joanna is a runner and really NOT a biker, this is a massive achievement.) We are very grateful that Joanna decided to take on the challenge to raise money for Ridgeback Rescue and, so far, she has managed to raise 75% of her target total. We ecstatic to announce Jo did reach to her target of £200 raised having put in so much effort. If you would still like to donate to her page, even just a couple of pounds, that would be amazing. Even if you can’t donate, I’m sure you’d love to join me in thanking Jo and giving her a huge Ridgie Round of Applause. xxx
HAND SANITISER CHALLENGE
Our supporters are just THE BEST! Seemingly never afraid to get involved in anything we throw at them – no matter how crazy it might be – and the Hand Sanitiser Challenge is just the latest of our mad projects.
Enjoy the lighter side of Corona Virus … and wash those paws!!!
RR Club of Scotland Virtual Walk in aid of Rescue
Walkies with the RR Club of Scotland
This wonderful idea comes from the fab folk at the Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of Scotland. Due to all the social distancing guidelines in place just now, the RR Club of Scotland have a plan to bring us all together on a “virtual” dog walk.
So, this Sunday (10th May) wherever you walk your dog, please take a picture, with or without their human, and post it on to their FB wall for them to feature in their virtual dog walk gallery. When you post it, if you can make a little donation by PayPal at rrcs@live.co.uk, that would be amazing.
All the monies collected will be split evenly between Ridgeback Rescue and the RRWT (Rhodesian Ridgeback Welfare Trust), so not only will we be able to enjoy all of your fabulous hounds … but you’ll be doing something incredible to help both our breed Rescue’s at a time when we really are up against it.
As always, we are praying you will get behind us and shower the Club with photos of your dogs from all around the UK and far beyond too (no Ridgeback is excluded, no matter where in the globe they may be).
Thank you to all of you, and of course to the RRCS as well. xxx
LOO ROLL CHALLENGE
The Lockdown of 2020 caused by the Corona Virus really did take the wind out of our sails but as ever, the supporters of Ridgeback Rescue refused to see anything but a silver lining and soon got behind us to produce yet another mad-cap video.
So, without further ado, I give you the Lockdown Loo Roll Challenge – featuring our wonderful supporters and their dogs, from many corners of the globe ……….. thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.
Click here for the Lockdown Loo Roll Challenge Video
Stay safe
The Trustees
RESCUE FUNDAY 2021 – best day of the year
We are currently taking requests from stall holders, catering vans and ride providers. Should you wish to book a slot for your business to be at the show in September, please email:- Julie@RidgebackRescue.co.uk
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Click here for your message from The Yorkshire Vet
Our Rescue Funday which had been scheduled for September 2020 has sadly had to be cancelled due to Covid 19. We hoped we would get away with it but with all the shifting sands of regulations, I felt we had no choice but to postpone.
So, NEW DATE FOR YOUR DIARY is Sunday 23rd May at 11.00 am
All details otherwise are the same and lovely Julian Norton has still kindly agreed to come along and meet you all.
ANYBODY WISHING TO HAVE A STALL or to SPONSOR A CLASS OR ACTIVITY is still more than welcome so please do get in touch to book your space.
A Special Guest Judge for our 2021 Rescue Funday:
JULIAN NORTON (aka The Yorkshire Vet), has kindly agreed to attend and be our judge for the day!!!! So, if you would like to meet Julian in person and, potentially, be able to say that “YOUR DOG was the one the Judge would most like to take home”, then you better be in it to win it!
Our show will take place in Malton, North Yorkshire, on Sunday 23rd May, 2021 – entry to the show itself is free, but classes and games are chargeable on the day with each dog entered into the show getting his or her own number on a special Funday Rescue keyring to keep 😉
We will have stalls, merchandise, refreshments and a licensed bar. To keep both you, the kids and your dogs entertained, we will also be hosting lots of fun classes and activities such as our ever popular flat and hay-bale scurries, egg and spoon race for dog & handler teams, fastest sausage eater competition (for the dog, not you!), temptation alley, agility demonstration and Have-A-Go agility. Inter-spaced with all the fun and games throughout the day, we will also be running a companion show with classes including: best puppy, best rescue, most beautiful eyes, prettiest bitch, most handsome dog, best ridge and of course the coveted class of “the dog the judge would most like to take home”, for which The Yorkshire Vet will be our Judge for the day.
At the end of the day, all games and show class winners will come into the main ring and compete for BEST IN SHOW 2021.
So please come along one and all – bring your gazebos, chairs and picnic baskets. We’d love to see as many of you there as possible – all breeds are welcome and all proceeds will go directly to Ridgeback Rescue to help us continue the support and rescue work we undertake each year.
If you are unable to come but would like to sponsor one of our classes or donate a prize for the raffle, we’d love to hear from you either on messenger or email at Kerry@RidgebackRescue.co.uk.
Thank you for your support. We’re gunna have a ball!
REGGIE’S MESSAGES DURING THE CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN
During this very scary time, Reggie Ridgeback has decided to step up and send us a message each day – they can be helpful, funny, cheeky or constructive but they are all intended to be uplifting. If you have any questions for Reggie, let us know and we’ll see if we can get him to answer them. He started from day 9 of the Corona Lockdown so click the list below to hear what our golden boy has to say
Reggie & The Yorkshire Vet Message Day 18
Hmmmm now where on earth did Day 24 go?? Reggie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reggies Singing Message Day 26
No Reggies Messages from 28, 29 & 30th days of Lockdown as Reggie had a few days off!
Reggie’s Message on Captain Tom Day (D39)
Reggie’s Message Day 42 – Agony Uncle!
Reggie’s Message Day 44 – The deer hunters!
Reggie’s Message Day 46 – Agony Uncle Post Bag
Reggie’s Message Day 47 VE Day
Reggie’s Day 48 Message & Postbag
Reggie’s Message Day 60 and farewell to Tau
Reggie’s Message Day 69 (no Day 68 Im afraid)
Reggie’s Message Day 71 – Tyler the Trustee’s 21st
Reggie’s Message Day 72 – The mammy’s birthday
Reggie’s Message Day 74 … again!
No Message Day 87
Reggie’s Message Day 100 … last one so tek care
Exchange Students! Here’s Geordie George
Geordie George & the egg
Geordie George & the Metaldetectorist
Geordie George & Dice under the bed
IT’S PUB QUIZ TIME!!!!!!!!!!
Join us this Friday for Ridgeback Rescue’s Pub Quiz:
The Ridgeback Arms welcomes you to our Lockdown COMPLETELY FREE Pub Quiz, OPEN TO ALL – wherever you may be in the globe. We have space for the first 50 Teams who would like to take part. The “Pub” will be open from 7:45 pm on Fridays, and questions start at 8pm UK time, so make sure you are nice and early to pour your drink at the bar, as once all 50 places are taken, the doors will be closed lol.
If you would like to take part on your PC or Laptop, you will need to have Google Chrome installed, then simply type the following link into the address bar to access the session:
If you would like to take part on your tablet or mobile device, you will need to have the 8×8 Video Meetings app installed. Once done, just use the link above to gain access to “The Ridgeback Arms”.
To play the Pub Quiz you will need:
Team Name
Pen & Paper
Alcohol or beverage of your choice
Sense of humour
Best of luck …….. and see you at the Pub!
PREDATION WORKSHOP
PREDATION WORKSHOP
Is hunting your dog’s favourite hobby? Is their prey-drive a constant battle for you? If it is, then this course is for you.
This is the ONLY workshop of it’s type in the UK. It is long-awaited and as such tickets will go ridiculously quickly so please don’t hang about to book your slot (on either the Saturday or the Sunday) thinking that September is such a long time away. I guarantee, only those who book ASAP will be lucky enough to get a place as numbers are limited.
So, what is Predation Substitute Training?
Predation Substitute Training is basically a new way of managing your dog’s predatory behaviour. Is HUNTING your dog’s favourite hobby? Instead of spoiling the fun, why not go hunting together! Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could find a way to use the huge amount of motivation and pleasure that our dogs find in predation for our training and to intensify our relationship with our dogs? Most conventional training programs aim to interrupt and stop the dog’s predatory behaviour, either by a recall or by conditioned pain or fear. Inflicting fear or pain is unethical and the interruption of predatory behaviour by a positively established recall is often not really very successful. The problem common to both methods is that they work against the dog’s nature and what they actually want at that moment: to go for a hunt! Predation is an inner need that makes our dogs happy. Completely suppressing it is like putting a lid on a pot with boiling water: It only increases the pressure.
In our workshop we are going to focus on the theory and to then go forward and practice on:
• What is predation, why do dogs love to prey and why is predatory behaviour so hard to interrupt?
• How can we achieve that our dogs stop and control themselves instead of chasing after the game?
• How can we functionally reinforce our dogs by naming and announcing rewards?
• How can we find ways to practice predatory sequences together with our dogs in a controlled and safe environment?
Please note: Wildlife safety is a top priority in this training! It is forbidden to chase wild animals and disturb them. During our workshop we stay on forest and country trails and secure the dogs with a longline all the time.
Brought to you by one of the UK’s top trainers.
Devised & written by one of German’s top trainers.
ALL profits going directly to Ridgeback Rescue.
SATURDAY WORKSHOP
https://rhodes2safety.com/event/predation-workshop/
SUNDAY WORKSHOP
https://rhodes2safety.com/event/predation-workshop-sunday/
