News from Cheshire        The Cheshire Branch of GIN has continued to thrive thanks to the brilliant support of our ever expanding group of fantastic volunteers and our events are always well attended and thoroughly enjoyable, due in no small way, to the great enthusiasm shown by everyone.  As a result of this support we are delighted to say that we no longer need to use boarding kennels for our GIN dogs as we are now able to place our dogs with our core team of fosterers. We have been overwhelmed by the kindness of our volunteers when we have approached them to ask for their help with fostering. Our foster families help to prepare the dogs for living in a home after most of them have spent their lives living in kennels. By the time they move on they are usually house- trained, lead trained, used to traffic and all the usual household noises such as televisions, vacuum cleaners, washing machines etc. The dogs will have been taken to the vets to be castrated or speyed, microchipped, vaccinated, any dental work that they need. A doggy MOT!  Above all the dogs will have been given lots of TLC. This facility is invaluable in allowing us to properly assess each of our dogs and the homing process is proving to be far more successful as the fosterers    provide ongoing support and advice to new adopters.  We pride ourselves on homing for quality rather than quantity and as a result, no dogs have been   returned to us since working in this new way. Some dogs have been lucky enough to be adopted by their foster families. These include Bobby, a blue boy who has been adopted by Paulette and her family ; Arthur who was adopted by Jennifer and Roy and Amy who has        recently found her forever home with Hazel, John and her greyhound friend, Jess. Jennifer and Roy deserve an extra special mention as they have fostered Terry the galgo, JJ a very handsome young black dog and Jake another      wonderful black boy. They are presently fostering Eddie, a very cuddly white and black dog for us. Talking about Jake, who is so laid back as to be almost horizontal, he has found his perfect home with Anna and Mike. They had to wait for the right dog to come along and when Jake arrived such was their commitment that they have had their apartment carpeted because Jake     didn't like the laminate floor!   22