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We are hugely grateful to all our fantastic volunteers who come and help us with dog-walking, cat-socialising and a whole range of other jobs that need doing.
This page is a tribute to just a few of the many, but our thanks go to everyone - without your time and help we couldn't do nearly as much to help the animals in our care!

Sienna has been spending a lot of time with our cats to help with her studies in animal behaviour.
Here she is with Thomas, who was far more interested in having a cuddle and really didn't want his photo taken!

Josie and Jane come in every Monday afternoon for a good walk and a cuddle with our smaller dogs, like little Malcolm here.
They also help out on stalls at our fundraising events.

Audrey and Sarah are two more dedicated volunteers who love dog-walking and help us out several times a week.
They especially love spending time with the big dogs like Norton here.

Anne has been helping here since we first opened. She always loves to walk the dogs who are a bit of a challenge, and now helps on Reception on Saturdays as well.

Pete has also been coming here for many years now and was really happy when the cattery opened as he gets to sit and cuddle the cats as well as walking dogs. He and Anne rehomed our first ever cat, before the cattery was even open!

Together they also serve coffee and cakes at one of the local doctors' surgeries, where these pictures were taken and they do a fantastic job of raising money and spreading the word about us. We don't know what we'd do without them!

Kia is another one of our young volunteers who regularly helps walk our dogs (like Charlie here!) and raises money for them.

Becky is a regular volunteer who helps us with everything. Here she is making a fuss of the lovely Peggy who has now been rehomed.

Joe loves to come and help us with the dogs and cats whenever he has any spare time.
He's also brilliant at cleaning which we all really appreciate!

Caitlin (left) does a fantastic job helping to walk our dogs and raising money for them.

Kerry (right) comes in to WARS almost every day and gets involved with everyt

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she can, from cleaning out kennels to helping on Reception! Her favourite thing though is spending time with the dogs and getting to know them properly.

(As you can tell from the second photo, Toby doesn't always sit so beautifully!)

Kirsty and Chloe love coming here at weekends and in their holidays to walk and play with the dogs, especially the puppies like Stacey in this photo.

Sue has been volunteering at the shelter for many years now!

She comes in every Thursday to work on Reception and like so many of our volunteers has also rehomed one of our dogs - the lovely Sunny.

Jodie is a regular volunteer here who as well as helping with the dogs has also rehomed Treacle, one of our cats.

In this photo the dog posing on his lap is puppy Gavin who always loves a cuddle.

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Mark comes to walk our dogs almost every day, and stays all day whatever the weather.

He walks all the dogs, but especially loves collies like Ollie - who he is now adopting from us!

Kim has been coming to walk dogs regularly since early 2008. She is a highly valued member of our team and has already had two dogs from the shelter.

Mandy has been volunteering at the shelter since May 2006.

She helps with mainly the cleaning of the kennels and the reception area every week.

Jude is our Sunday receptionist.

Jude has been coming since February 2008.

The pleasant and cared-for appearance of the Shelter owes a lot to Rosemary's dedication. She visits the Shelter at least once a fortnight to plant bulbs, rake leaves and generally tidy the gardens as well as working in the kennels. Here she is dead-heading some daffodils outside the office.

These are some of the knitted toys which Rosemary makes to raise money for the shelter.

[with Dylan]

Margaret and Tracy enjoy the relaxing atmosphere at the shelter and visit every weekend. Here you can see they are teaching little Dylan how to play.

After rehoming Jasper (see the 'rehomed dogs' page!) Anne and Malcolm were so impressed with everything about the Shelter that Anne decided to set up our website to help with fundraising and publicity. They used to visit the Shelter every weekend to take photos of new dogs and Anne would spend a large part of every Sunday afternoon working on the website! In May 2006 she was able to hand over the day-to-day running of the site to Shelter staff so that they can keep it up to date themselves.

When they organised a birthday party they encouraged their guests to give a donation to the Shelter by including this little poem on the invitations :

To celebrate our birthdays We'd really like to give Something to the Shelter Where the homeless doggies live.
If you'd like to join us In this eccentric plan Don't give us any presents - Put some money in the can!

[M with Wallace]

A rare chance to see Anne on this side of a camera lens, here with the gorgeous Garth, and Malcolm with Wallace.

Daffodil Sunday at Madresfield Court provided the ideal opportunity for these enthusiastic volunteers to set up a stall to raise money for the Shelter.

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