National Take Your Dog to work day is quick approaching, showing up in the UK on Friday 23 June.
Established in 2014 by family pet item business HOWND®, this year money raised by the effort will be contributed to 3 charities, All Dogs Matter, Animals Asia and Surge Sanctuary. If you’d like to get included by contributing and sharing pictures of your dog at work, all the details on how to – for businesses and people – is here.
The concept is likewise to motivate and help us to get in touch with our colleagues much better, as everybody likes it when a dog is around in the workplace bringing some light relief and it motivates laughter and delight.
Millions of dogs each year are sent into adoption, and the problem has actually worsened considering that the pandemic, when many individuals got puppies however then didn’t appropriately train them and are now handing them into care services.
It’s a subject near the BBC Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox’s heart, who spoke with City A.M. about how we can all support dogs much better.
Right now dog owners can take part in the National Dog Survey (by clicking that link) in order to help the UK’s specialists much better comprehend the obstacles dealing with dogs. Care centres and charities can then prepare much better assistance for dogs and their owners, so click on this link to feed back about your dog.
“Any pups that were bought and rehomed during the pandemic may have spent twenty-four hours a day with their humans, they wouldn’t know that at some point their human would have to go back to the office and life would get busy again,” Sara Cox says. “So I think it’s great that Dogs Trust are trying to help ease that.”
“We never got a puppy, we’d always get a rescue dog. I always wanted a puppy but when our dog would pass away, we’d get them at an average age of seven or eight so we didn’t have that long with them and they’d die of old age or illness.”
What about the topic of letting dogs kiss you? “They can have my chin,” she says, chuckling. “I think that’s quite enough. “You just have to be quick. You offer them the chin because you’re trying to get your mouth away from them, they’re trying to give you little kisses which are obviously cute. But we all know how animals clean themselves…”
National Bring Your Dog to Work day is this 23 June, connect with your company to learn if they will support the effort
Read our interview with Sara Cox about her life with her dogs
