With today being the 80th anniversary of VE Day in Europe, many of us will be commemorating the date in some way, with VE Day events planned locally, nationally and internationally.
It’s a particularly significant day to champion the important role that dogs and cats played in World War II in serving and protecting their nation. Whilst cats were often used for pest control, dogs were employed as guards of posts and supplies, to act as messengers, to transport medications to injured soldiers and to undertake search and rescue activity. Some dogs were even trained to jump out of planes alongside their platoon! All animals played an important role in boosting general morale.
As part of their schools education programme, the Dogs Trust tells the remarkable story of Sarge the dog and his role in WWII. Determined to find care for him after their house was badly damaged in a bomb blast in 1941, Sarge’s family offered their dog to the Civil Defence Service as a way of ensuring he would be looked after. The Civil Defence Service pledged to return dogs to their owners after the war.
Sarge went from domestic pet to search and rescue hero in the Blitz. When he alerted his handler to an unexploded bomb, Sarge then went on to international acclaim, being sent to France to clear the area for the D-day landings in 1944 and remaining abroad, saved countless human and doggy colleagues overseas with his keen instinct and heroics. When he eventually returned to Britain, Sarge was reunited with his family who couldn’t believe the activity their family pet had undertaken. A true doggy hero. Click here to read about Sarge’s story in more detail.
Pets continue to play a hugely significant role in our lives today as companions who have the ability to make life feel better all round. Many have more formal roles in supporting the wider community.
Do give a special hug to your pet today to thank them for their companionship, and also in remembrance of the valiant efforts of their ancestors in helping to shape the lives we lead today.
Photo of dog sniffing out Blitz survivors: Imperial War Museum
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Happy new year! We hope 2025 has been kind to your and your pets so far! This January is a particularly exciting time for our Registered Veterinary Nurse Charlotte as she is expecting a baby who is due later this month. Those of us in work on Friday all gathered for a celebratory lunch to wish Charlotte well as she heads off on maternity leave.
We can’t wait to meet your little one! It won’t be so very long now until you and your husband become a family of three! Exciting times ahead!
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Today is World Mental Health Day. To highlight the importance of workplace wellbeing, the theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health for 2024 is Workplace Mental Health.
Work can be incredibly beneficial for our health, giving us purpose, challenge, a sense of achievement and, for many of us, the opportunity to connect with others. Sometimes, however, work can cause us negative stress or make us anxious, and can be a trigger for deteriorating mental health.
Mental health in the workplace is a hot topic within the veterinary industry given the emotional challenges working in practice can bring. Sadly, in the UK, vets are 3-4 times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.
At 387 Vets, we place a strong emphasis on workplace wellbeing and looking after our workplace family. All team are invested in our culture and live by our collectively agreed values. We champion people’s professional passions, celebrate strengths and nurture growth and new learning. We appreciate how much a sense of community amongst team counts. We have regular catch ups, lots of forums for discussion and our monthly long coffee breaks give team a chance stop, get together and chew the cud. We have wellbeing action plans in place and if we notice someone is struggling we have strategies to support. Next year we’re planning to work through the ‘We Invest in Wellbeing’ framework, a new accreditation introduced by Investors in People, to continue to invest in positive workplace review and change.
The charity Mind have a great bank of online resources to support everyday living and workplace wellbeing.
And in the words of the old adage, a problem shared is a problem halved.
Wishing you all a happy World Mental Health Day. Please take the opportunity to be kind to yourselves.
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We’re most used to seeing dogs and cats for microchipping, now that all cats in England should be microchipped before 20 weeks old with their owner’s details registered, as well as dogs over 8 weeks of age. So Harri was more of an unusual microchip request for us! The 28 year old tortoise is emigrating abroad with his owners and his two cat pals. We loved seeing you in practice and wish you all the best on your travels Harri. We hope you and your family love your new home!
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Exploring the Diverse Types of Mothers to Celebrate and Love
In honor of Mother’s Day and all the amazing animal moms, foster moms, adoptive moms, and our own human moms, we thought we’d share a couple of love notes from some of their “babies”. Enjoy!
Hi! I’m Colby. My brothers and sisters and I are called the Cheese Tray kittens and we have two moms to celebrate for our first Mother’s Day!
Raising five kittens is a lot of work! Luckily, our mom, Mimolette, has the best helper! It’s our foster Mom, Allee.
Allee has been there from the moment we were born, making sure we had snuggles, Mom got time to sleep, and we had social time to learn how to be purrfect kittens.
Allee has taught us all sorts of things from, the arts (Don’t break her pottery!) to how to be friends with Annabelle and her 9 chicks.
We can’t wait to see what Allee will teach us next while we’re waiting to to be big enough to find a family of our own!
Thank you Mommy Mimolette and Mommy Allee! We love you!
Gouda, Cheddar, Havarti, Muenster, and me, Colby!
Hi! I’m Cookie! At 4 1/2 months I’ve had 3 moms, so far!
My Mama Coco was alone, outside in freezing weather, and very pregnant with me and my brothers and sisters. Our foster mom, Chelsea, found her just in time for 13 of us to be born on Christmas night.
14 dogs in one house is a handful for anyone. Especially if 13 of us are puppies! Chelsea asked DPA for help and they said, “Yes!”
Now that we’re bigger, some of us have already found new families. (Mama’s going to live with Chelsea forever. YAY!)
I have the best new foster mom, Zeal, who gives the wonderful-est cuddles and totally knows how a girl likes to dress!
Thanks to our moms Coco, Chelsea, and (my) Zeal, we are all excited to take on the world with our new families.
Thanks Moms from all of us! We love you soooo much!
Chloe, Chewy, Cherry, Dottie, Lillet, Hailey, Pokey, Zeus, Selena, Bruno, MC Puppy, CJ, and me, Cookie
Moms, We are grateful for all the love & care you give and we send wishes for an absolutely perfect Mother’s Day!
Leslie Sans
Founder & Executive Director
Dallas Pets Alive!
P.S. Every day, sick, injured and homeless pets are rescued by Dallas Pets Alive! They come in all breeds, sizes and colors. But one thing they all have in common is not only do they need good moms, but they need a Champion, like YOU, in their corner.
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