community
Sponsors
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promoting human health and happiness
and call on them to proactively inform
their patients of the diverse ways in
which dogs can improve our lives.”
Waggy Walks is happening in ten
beautiful parks across the UK. You can
choose routes of three miles or six
miles – whichever suits your legs.
Starting at 11am, walks will take place in
the following cities: Bath, Belfast, Brighton,
Coventry, Darlington, Glasgow, Leeds,
Merseyside, London and Swansea.
Simply fill in the registration form at
www.waggywalks.org.uk/register
– or alternatively, you can ring Dogs Trust
on 020 7837 0006 for more
information.
If you can’t attend then you can still
help by sponsoring Dogs Trust’s three-
legged Waggy Walks mascot, Jake! Please
go to
www.justgiving.com/
waggywalks/
If you’re interested in dog ownership, the Dogs
Trust offers an extensive re-homing programme,
matching owners with dogs who need a home. For
full details about its work, and how you can help,
go to
www.dogstrust.org.uk
The charter’s nine points are:
1. Dog owners make fewer visits to
Do you want unconditional their doctors.
love, a reliable fitness buddy Owning a dog can help reduce stress
and someone warm to and anxiety. LOVE IS
snuggle up to at night? Forget Owning a dog can help reduce
girlfriends, says Dogs Trust blood pressure. THE LAW
– get a dog! Owners who walk their dogs are
healthier than non-dog owners.
Dogs can help the development of
children with autism and children with
learning difficulties.
Dogs Trust, the largest dog welfare charity Owning a dog can boost your immune
in the UK, has organised a series of system.
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‘Waggy Walks’ that will take place on 18 Dog owners are likely to recover
October 2009 at various sites across the quicker from heart attacks.
country.Anyone can join in these Dogs can help safeguard against
sponsored walks to help raise vital funds depression.
for the charity although dog owners are Trained dogs can detect a variety of
being encouraged to bring their canine health conditions – including epileptic
companions. The walks will be a fun day fits, cancerous tumours and
out and will not only act as fundraisers for hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose).
Dogs Trust but will also help bring alive
the health benefits of owning a dog. The report was supported by Dr If someone attacks you, verbally or physically,
Last year, Dogs Trust published Christian Jessen, of C4’s Embarrassing because of your sexuality, this is classed as a
groundbreaking research that proved Bodies, who said at the time, “As well as hate crime. The Thames Valley Police force,
owning a dog is good for you. So reducing loneliness and depression by which works to protect the Thames Valley area,
convincing were the findings, that Dogs providing companionship, dogs have been offers advice on its website for those wishing to
Trust issued its own Canine Charter for shown to assist in the recovery from report such harassment.
Human Health, encouraging GPs and certain medical conditions, such as heart
other health professionals to start attacks... I would ask that all GPs be aware For more information visit
prescribing a daily dose of dog. of the importance of animals in
www.thamesvalley.police.uk
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