It is now a legal requirement to have your dog/s micro-chipped under new legislation effective from March 31st 2016.  PAWS Animal Rescue are urging all current and new dog-owners to chip-check your dog at www.chipcheck.ie and ensure your dog’s microchip is up-to-date...
Last week, on the 23rd of July, PAWS Animal Rescue received a phone call from the local Carlow / Kilkenny dog warden. Â A young, very pretty, but very scared lurcher girl had been found on the road in Kilkenny. Â Dumped or let stray as no longer useful, it was the very...
I’ve been asked more times to explain what exactly a lurcher is in my two years as part of the PAWS team then anything else.  The best and most simple explanation I’ve ever heard is, a lurcher is any kind of breed that’s been crossed with a greyhound.  A sight-hound...
For those of you who don’t already know, PAWS assists a lot of unwanted racing greyhounds. Despite Ireland being a major ‘player’ in the greyhound racing industry, there is so little public knowledge on the breed and often, greyhounds are only seen as racing machines...
I came across this compelling story of little dogs in pounds across the country and with the introduction of our new microchipping laws coming into play in the next year I thought it was worth a share, please read as it is the blatant truth for countless dogs and...
