Supporting dog charities is central to Merry Dogs’ business. We regularly support charities throughout the year, and towards Christmas we choose one product in particular, to raise money for one charity in particular.
This year, from today until 25 December, we are raising money for Nowzad by donating a proportion of all profits from our Union Jack dog beds.
ABOUT NOWZAD
Pen Farthing set up Nowzad Dogs after his 2006 tour of Afghanistan with the Royal Marines, where he rescued a dog from a fight that Afghan men were arranging for sport. What started as a human desire to assist the small band of dogs that befriended the Marines in his compound, grew rapidly into an international charity to support and assist animals and their soldiers. Nowzad now works in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The support soldiers gain from local dogs that befriend them is immense. In such a hard, high-risk environment, a few hours or even minutes spent caring for the dogs brings soldiers some normality and reassurance. And when soldiers are sent home from tour, it can be impossible for them to abandon these dogs.
This is where Nowzad can help. They arrange for these dogs (and cats!) to be transported from remote and dangerous regions to their holding shelter in Afghanistan. Nowzad’s generous supporters then raise funds to cover the animals’ transport and quarantine costs, and finally the dogs make their journey to their new life in the West, to be reunited with their old companions. Experience shows that the dogs can be hugely therapeutic and help soldiers re-adjust to life back home.
Nowzad realizes, of course, that it cannot transport all of the stray dogs of Afghanistan and Iraq to loving homes, so it also works hard to promote animal welfare and to assist in vital animal aid work that is so desperately needed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Communities and individuals worldwide raise money to help both the dogs, and their soldiers. All money donated goes directly to helping the animals of Afghanistan and Iraq.
FIND OUT MORE
You can find out more about Nowzad by visiting their website (www.nowzad.com), and join their Facebook page for daily updates on their work and links to all the dogs’ and cats’ ‘chipin’ pages.
MERRY DOGS’ SUPPORT
We are proud to be assisting Nowzad’s animals and their soldiers this year by donating 50% of all profits from sales of our Union Jack beds, from September to December 2011. This bed is hand-made in the UK from separate layers of faux-suede fabric, cut and sewn in place. All colours of Union Jack bed will raise money for Nowzad.
