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Give a Little Back....

Each Month VioVet donates hundreds of £s to a variety of animal related charities, shelters, rescues and causes.

Please check out some of the organisations who have benefited.

In October VioVet donated over £570 in food, treatment, and medicines to various animal causes.

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October:Estimated Total Donations £578

PortuGal RescueDogs:

VioVet donated this Portuguese dog rescue various flea and worming treatments to the value of £88.

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home:

VioVet donated £260 of items (including blankets, Lily's Kitchen treats, bones, toys, etc) to this London based dog and cat charity.

Adoption Time in Avsallar:

This Turkish charity feeds starving street cats and rehomes.

VioVet sent them over £60 of cat food.

Oct 2012

A Better Life Dog Rescue Bulgaria:

VioVet donated £80 of dog food to help this charity who help stray dogs in Romania.

Wing and a Prayer:

VioVet sent this charity £90 worth of bird food.

Oct 2012

Turkish Animal Group:

VioVet sent dog food valued at £90 to this Turkish rescue.

Sept 2012

September : Estimated Total Donations £1003

September Horse Charity Giveaway - The items were sent out on Oct1st but we included this in Sept.

The Prizes: £600 worth of high quality equestrian products.
1st Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £260
2nd Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £200
3rd Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £50
4th Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £30
5th Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £25
6th Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £20
7th Prize: Lincoln and Townend products : Total Value £15

Sept 2012

Aid for Animals in Need Bulgaria:

VioVet donated £95 of dog food and flea treatment to help stray dogs in Bulgaria.

RSPCA Southridge:

During September VioVet made several visits and donated several trays of feline wet food and boxes of dry cat food worth over £50

Sept 2012

Leighton Buzzard Army Cadet Force:

VioVet sponsored their recent dog show with £150 worth of items including food, joint supplements and raffle items.

Obviously the money raised here goes on humans rather than animals.

Sebia's Forgotten Paws:

VioVet has donated food worth over £50 to this very worthy cause.
Please click on the video link to see what they do.

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Sept 2012

UK German Shepherd Rescue:

VioVet gave them a bag of Barking Heads 20kg 'Good Hair Day' dog food worth £58.

August : Estimated Total Donations £930

Visit the 'August Cat Food Giveaway' page to read more in detail.

please click on the images above and visit their pages as they'd love your support!

August 2012

Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary:

VioVet sponsored their dog and cat show with items for goody bags worth over £200.

They also received cat food worth about £80 as part of the above August Giveaway.

In August VioVet donated blankets and toys to 'Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre' worth £40

August 2012

Posh Puss Rescue:

VioVet sent cat food to the value of £40 to this Devon based cat rescue.

August 2012

Bully Befrienders:

Bully Befrienders Dog Rescue offers placement, co ordinates transportation and offers safe havens with rehabilitation to dogs with no representation.
They particularly help death row dogs who face euthanasia after a statutory seven day period in the pound.

VioVet sent dog food to the value of £50 to this Devon based dog rescue.

July

July 2012

Supporting military dogs in Afghanistan:

Did you know that there are about 150 army dogs working in Afghanistan?

These highly skilled and loyal canines, usually Labradors, Spaniels and German Shepherds are helping the British Forces in a range of important duties which include base protection and specialist search dogs used for locating IED’s (Improvised Explosives Devices). These fantastic animals have saved numerous lives and are enormously valued by the British troops.

They also offer great companionship to the soldiers in such a tough location.

The government pays for their essential food and medicine but treats and toys are not part of their provisions.

Viovet donated 30 boxes including items that are not easily available for these superb dogs.

Wendy (pictured) has helped put together these gifts and has also received donations from Virbac Animal Health, Royal Canin, DermOpt as well as VioVet. She has been overwhelmed with the support received to date.

The first batch of boxes will be transported this week!

Boxing-up with Wendy Nevins .

Items that have been requested for the boxes are rawhide chews, pigs ears, dental care products, toys, paw care products & poo bags to help keep Camp Bastion parade ground clean! .

Well done Wendy and keep up the great work. We're glad we could help you and our serving dogs.

Items donated by VioVet:
Rawhide Chews
Pigs Ears
Paw Wax
Poo bags

The July Dog Food Giveaway:

What's it all about?
We wanted to help six UK based dog charities (or rescues, rehoming centers etc) to send a selection of stock that is approaching its 'best before' date or had minor damage to the packaging.

How did VioVet choose the charities/rescues ?
We asked our facebook 'likers' to suggest who they wanted us to send free food to.
Over 75 worthy causes were nominated (within 24hrs) and it was difficult for VioVet to pick just six.
The six chosen were almost picked at random - We required that they have a facebook page and that the food had to be sent to a UK address.
Several nominations supported TAG so we couldn't ignore them. The UK German Shepherd Dog Rescue was a personal choice (VioVet loves German Shepherds).

The Prizes:
The food is a mixture of Hill's Science Plan Advanced Fitness , Purina Pro Plan , Barking Heads and nutritional James Wellbeloved treats

1st Prize - Purina Pro Plan and a mixture of food and treats - worth over £200
2nd Prize - Purina Pro Plan and a mixture of food and treats - worth over £180
3rd Prize - A 12kg Barking Heads dog food bag and a mixture of food and treats - worth over £50
4th Prize - 7kg Hills Science Plan - worth £30
5th Prize - 6Kg Hills Science Plan - worth £25
6th Prize - 5Kg Hills Science Plan - worth £20

Who benefited?

please click on the images.

June 2012

In June VioVet donated over £1000 of dog food including Purina Pro-Plan and Barking Heads.

After a recent Pro Plan promotion VioVet had some surplus samples of Purina Pro Plan dog food left and with the expiry date approaching we donated the remaining bags to animal welfare organisations.

Our mission was to help out several charities and welfare groups so we put out a call to our 7000 plus Facebook followers.......within an hour the first of many vans & cars started to arrive at our warehouse to collect their goodies!

Together with some other brand feeds we donated over 400kg of top quality dog food worth over £1,000

REDS.

The first person to collect was Frances, a fosterer from REDS who rescue 'death row' dogs from pounds.

We were also delighted to meet Boysie, a very friendly Staffy.
We filled up Frances' boot and backseat with the food.

Romanian Animal Aid,
& Action for Animals.

Two rescues benefited with this collection.
A lovely lady called Chrissy filled her boot up with Purina - and we gave her two big bags of 'Barking Heads' to take to Romania.

She shares the food with a lady called Kendra who takes supplies to feed starving street dogs in Romania.

Wiccaweys
Border Collies

Julie collected these for Kerry who runs the rescue.Wiccaweys, a border collie rescue.
The link below will take you to their facebook page.

The Little Dog Rescue

This charity are based in Reading.
Chris arrived early on Saturday morning to collect their free food, however you can see the food having been delivered and inspected!

If you can give a home to a small dog then please click on the link below.

Loving Homes Rescue

This rescue are based in Devon but they have regular trips between Devon and Bedford.

The lovely Gill took away lots of food.

Save Deathrow Dogs

Kevin Pang arrived at 2.30pm to collect the last of the food.
As there was not much left we donated him some Barking Heads dog food.
Pictured here with VioVet's Richard holding the magazine

All Gone!

Three pallets of Purina dog food plus several bags of Barking Head's dog food later.

Good luck to all the worthy causes who will make good use of their well deserved food.

Other June Donations

June 2012

HULA

VioVet donated two boxes of assorted animal and pet food plus approx. £50 worth of Barking Heads dog food.

"Home for Unwanted Lost Animals" were unable to collect from our warehouse so Richard agreed to drive to their Woburn rehoming centre in return for tea and cake!

June 2012

Minihorses

VioVet donated items valued £15 for a tombola at an event run www.minihorsesales.co.uk

The tombola raised a marvelous £581.75 for the Kidney Care Appeal.

June 2012

COCOA

Charity Objecting to the Cruelty Of Animals!

The charity had £150 to spend on items.
VioVet gave them a discount on what they bought plus we donated them food to the value of at least £100.

Pre June 2012:

Before the 'Giving a Little Back' scheme we didn't keep records of donations.

Each month hundreds of pounds of dog food was sent to many charities including HULA, Second Chance Poundies, NANNA, RSPCA plus many many more.

We also regularly donated prizes for raffles and auctions.
The value of these donations was not kept but we know it would have totaled many £1000's during the year.

We also ran a competition with cash donations worth £380 in 2011.
Focus on Animals

below - VioVet's Richard donated £100 of items to The Mayhew Animal Home.

VioVet's Commercial Director Philip Roberts attended a sponsored walk raising money for the 'North West Labrador Rescue' and also raising awareness for missing choc Labrador Brook.

RSPCA Southridge :VioVet filled their car to the brim!

Last January Jo and Rebecca from RSPCA Southridge came to our warehouse and VioVet stacked their car with as much food as we could fit in!

Rebecca told VioVet "The cat food alone fed our 80 cats for a whole week!".

The value of the donations is calculated at the cost we would be selling the same product on our website. Often the goods are damaged or out-of-date or nearing their best-before-date so we wouldn't sell them but animal charities are still very grateful for food and items.
As VioVet has great prices £100 of food from us is better that £100 of food from other retailers - so the charities are getting even more of what they need!


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