National Dog Day: The incredible work at Dogs Trust Glasgow

We visit Dogs Trust in Glasgow’s East End to find out more about the work they do, the process of adopting a dog and how dogs come into their care.

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00:00Do you want to sit? Oh you're clever, good job. He does get quite impatient for his toys.

00:08Hello I'm Claire, I work at Dogs Trust Glasgow where I've worked for seven years.

00:12We take care of a range of dogs, we normally have about 60 to 70 dogs in our care at any time

00:19and we work to rehabilitate them and re-home them. People now apply online and they can

00:24favour up to three dogs that they are looking at that they might want to adopt but what we

00:30kind of do is kind of like a matching system so if you've got the perfect match for one dog we

00:35might say this is a great dog, this looks like what you're kind of looking for. So we match

00:39dogs up to people in their their work environment and stuff so if people work from home they might

00:44be more suited to a dog that you know wants to have more interaction around the house and isn't

00:48happy being left alone too long. It depends from dog to dog as to how long the process is, some

00:53dogs are quite worried by new people especially if they've been here a bit longer and they aren't

00:57as sure or confident with new people, just build that trust up before they go home because it

01:02wouldn't be fair to send them home with someone they're not really fully confident with. Since

01:062005 we opened so we've got Glasgow and West Calder in Scotland so sometimes we do actually

01:11find ourselves re-homing to Aberdeen and stuff like that because it is a bit further away but

01:16that's not a problem at all, as long as people are willing to come in several times to meet the dog

01:22we're happy to re-home, we've also re-homed to England as well. I've got two Labradoodles

01:26both from here, the first is Poppy who I just fell in love with training, I never actually

01:33saw myself getting a Labradoodle but I just fell in love with her and for whichever reason she had

01:38a few families that didn't work out and then it got to a point where we got our house and it all

01:42worked out perfectly and I can't imagine life without her. Then a couple years later we got

01:46Oakley who came in and as soon as he came in I thought I kind of want to try him with Poppy,

01:52see how they got on and they got on like a house on fire so we've not looked back, that's for sure.

01:57So yeah this is Cooper, he is nine years old and he's been in our care for a wee while now,

02:03he is often our office dog, he comes and chills in the office with us, he's perfect in the office,

02:09you can get work done, you actually forget that he's even there until you hear his wee snores.

02:15He's very clever, oh there you go, yes boy, yes you are, yes you're the best, oh yes you are.

02:21So yeah Jasper's been with us for a wee while now as well, we think he's like a Jack Russell

02:27cross beagle but he's kind of like a crossbreed for sure. What are you doing? He likes walking

02:35with dog friends, he likes meeting new people, he'd be a great like hiking companion. He recently

02:40had a wee day in Foster with one of the Canine Carers, Mary, who kind of moved her partner and

02:45dog out for a day just to take him home. She said he took a wee bit of a while to settle in but he

02:49was house trained, he loved snuggling on the sofa which was really cute and yeah she took him for a

02:54good few walks and she said he was absolutely grand, he was so easy out and about and in the

02:59house.