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Melanie Lewis
Mel is a qualified optometrist and helps out with her husband's dog training and hydrotherapy business.
She has been involved with Search & Rescue since April 2009 after becoming interested when her husband took her along to a training eveningAbout Berkshire SAR Dogs
Berkshire SAR Dogs is a volunteer dog organisation on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist Search & Rescue Teams, the Police and other Emergency Services.
"Our primary role is to assist in locating lost or missing vulnerable people within Berkshire and its surrounding areas".
Berkshire SAR Dogs became a registered charity in the UK in March 2004 and is entirely reliant on sponsorship and donations to exist and carry out its work.
Since Mel became involved with Berks SAR
Mel qualified as a level 2 handler in 2010 with her dog Mist and is currently working towards qualifying Mist's brother Bodger in level 2.
Success at shows too!
Mel says, "My highlight apart from qualifying Mist was gaining my first ever challenge certificate in showing for my dog Hesky at the LKA show in 2005, Breeze his sister also gained a reserve CC at the same show two years later.”
More dogs ……. more activities
Both Mela and her husband compete in Agility - running their dogs Mist, Breeze and Bodger. They also have three ‘new kids on the block' who will also go on to work in showing, obedience/heelwork to music, agility and search & rescue!
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Customers' Views
I won't do that again!!
Hi Ceri,
I thought I would email to let you know I've just put another order through. A friend bought our last bag so we haven't ordered for ourselves for a while.
The reason I am emailing is that we chose to try a bag of biscuits which were not CSJ and were from a local store. I am amazed at the difference in my dog's coat, health and smell (both fur and breath)!
When she was on the CSJ biscuits (probably for the last couple of years), people used to comment on how shiny her fur was. Her stools were always easy to pick up and her teeth were white. She's had ONE BAG (15kg) of different biscuits and her fur is dull and shedding. Her teeth are starting to go brown and she smells like an old dog. I am amazed as she's only 4 years old. I'm just hoping that some of the effects of the last lot of biscuits will be reversible with the CSJ!!
Have other people told you of such a big difference with biscuits? It really does appear that the poor biscuits have aged her! She's even sleeping more and for a border collie you'll know that's unusual in a young dog! It's very strange in such a short period of time. What on earth do these companies use to make them??!
Regards,
Debbie B.
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