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RIP Gumby

Posted by Dido Blagden on Wednesday, February 28, 2018,

My beautiful Gumby lost the good fight on Mother's Day 2017. He succumbed to an autoimmune disease which was attacking and destroying his own red blood cells. After 3 blood transfusions and over a week at the vet, I brought my beloved boy home for one more night and Dr Lee of Florida Veterinary Hospital came to put him to sleep and set him free to run across the Rainbow Bridge the next day.... Mother's Day.

I have been unable to look at photos or his website or even be involved in any animal ...

I am Mr April in the Cesar's Way 2013 Rescue Heroes Calendar

Posted by Gumby Pana on Monday, August 20, 2012, In : PAWS for thought

50% of proceeds from the sale of the calendar will be donated to animal rescue
Photograph © Louise Lacante
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Paws for People come to the rescue again :-) ...Article in Cesar's Way Magazine

Posted by Cesar's Way Magazine on Monday, August 20, 2012, In : Therapy Dog

Healing the Trauma of Dog Bites and Attacks

Posted by Dido Panagiotopoulos on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, In : Therapy Dog

An attack by dogs (or a dog bite) can be traumatic because it is often a sudden, savage, unpredictable, random act of violence which overwhelms a person's capacity to take control and cope, and subsequently master the feelings aroused by the attack. It isn't about how savage or life threatening the attack was but more about how the individual responds to the situation. It is not simply being bitten by a dog, that causes emotional turmoil. Whether it does or whether it doesn't depends on how t...

Your old collar can save a life!

Posted by http://pawtfolio.org on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, In : Animal Activism

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ~Albert Schweitzer

Posted by Gumby Pana on Tuesday, September 6, 2011,

Do not let them off the hook

Images of unimaginable horror, torture and pain...
A dog who endures dog fighting will never be the same
This is NOT a sport, it's cruel, not a game,
Perpetrating evil for pure financial gain
Those who participate are human BUT NOT humane
Don't pretend it isn't happening or just shake your head in shame
Bringing an END to dog fighting can be our only aim.

Let us NAME and SHAME those involved. Let's bring them to book

Dog Fighting is illegal, it's a crime, let's not let the...

Skipping...

Posted by Gumby Pana on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, In : Dog Blog

I live in an obese society where it seems that that striving for PAWfection these days seems more about LOSING yourself than finding yourself... in the age of the gym where the body is considered a sculpture, it seems PAWfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but only when there is nothing left to take away!!! I realise that no one got ahead by sitting on their behind, and I do my regular walkies, but I am a township rescue and I really simply do not like the feeling of hu...

Ode to the Forgotten Dog...

Posted by Gumby Pana on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, In : Animal Welfare

I am a township terrier, simply tossed away,

Like garbage in a landfill - I never had a say

Drains became my waterbowl

And rubbish dumps my restaurant,

Crushed my spirit and my soul,

Must survive, rest I can't

Skulk in shadows, can't be seen

Boots and stones can be so mean

Others nipping at my heels,

As we scavenge for measly meals

Disease is rampant, we've not had shots

We cower in your parking lots

And hope for scraps from doggybags

We slumber on newspapers and soggy rags

You don't notice, you ignore

God ...

Part 2: First Supervised visit - on the way to becoming a Therapy Dog (July 2010)

Posted by Gumby Pana on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, In : Dog Blog

We did our usual Delta Park double circuit walk in the morning and then I was thoroughly bathed and groomed in preparation for meeting some other PFP dogs and handlers and discussing future visiting venues and schedules... little did we know this was to be my FIRST (of 6) mandatory supervised visits which I need to do before I can become registered as a Therapy Dog.

Lesley De Klerk, founder and West Rand unit leader of Paws for People®, asked us to be at St Michaels, Cornelius street in Wel...

Part 1: Evaluation to become a Therapy Dog (June 2010)

Posted by Gumby Pana on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, In : Dog Blog

Clearly all the obedience training I had got had made me a GOOD dog, but what was it going to take for me to become an even BETTER dog? How would I not only be fulfilled but fulfil my potential as "man's best friend"... just imagine my joy and excitement when we came across the Paws for People® website

My Facebook status that night was: I feel so free... here's who I can be, am inspired and in awe and want to be more... found a place I think I can be, more ME!!!

In the next couple of days w...

It's a Dog's Life

Posted by Gumby Pana on Wednesday, July 6, 2011, In : Dog Blog

I am one of the luckier Rescues... One of the Happy Tails!

I was born in a township, and although my family didn't just leave me on the dusty streets but handed me over at a Community Led Animal Welfare (CLAW) Outreach Clinic, I still felt very much abandoned.

The day I arrived (the 27th of January 2009) there was a new lady, D, wanting to do some voluntary work for CLAW, and she took a pic of me...

She then bathed me and did the best she could to get some of the matting out of my hair. I lov...

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A bit about me

Gumby

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

RIP GUMBY - your PAWsome legacy and insPAWration will continue ❤your mom, Dido Abandoned in a township, and rescued by CLAW (Community Led Animal Welfare), I went on to be adopted and embraced by the Blagden-pack and taken to dog training where I was certified as a Canine Good Citizen. I am registered as a Paws for People Therapy Dog and visit lots of special people in various institutions. I foster a few CLAWbies who have been neglected, abandoned, abused or need some special TLC outside a shelter. I am also very involved in networking animals needing to find their PAWfect forever home and PAWsome happily ever after! Years ago I had my DNA analysed and I am in fact a Pekignese-Schnauzer-Yorkshire Terrier, with a drop of Pomeranian-Jack Russel and just a smidgen of Boxer... yip, basically I'm just a paveMUNT special super-callused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis ;-D