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Sleepeezee have recently released personalised dog beds, and to celebrate International Dog Day on the 26th August and dogs all year round, they’d like to hear about the ways your dogs have helped you.
Here’s what Sleepeezee has to say: “British bed manufacturer Sleepeezee is proud to launch a collection of dog beds, in partnership with Battersea Dogs Home, which offer your companion a great sleep. Two distinct styles are available in a selection of sizes and colours, all of which can be personalised with your dogs name on.”
Perhaps the need to get out and walk your dog each day has helped you feel fitter and stronger? Have you learned any important lessons from your dog? Maybe being greeted by your dog’s smiling face and wagging tail at the end of a tough day helps you deal with stress?
However your dog has helped you, share on the thread below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one GNer will win a £300 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list) and a Sleepeezee dog bed.
Thanks and good luck!
GNHQ
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My Assistance Dog is called Marshall, and he helps me in so many ways - he’s been trained as a Hearing Dog, so he alerts me to all the sounds I don’t hear and has transformed my life!
Our day starts when he responds to my alarm clock and gets me up - his enthusiasm for a new day is a wonderful wake-up call!
From then on, he uses his nose to nudge me whenever he hears something that I need to know about. I then give him a hand signal and ask ’What is it?’ and he leads me to what it is…
This may be the doorbell (no more missed callers), the kitchen timer (no longer do I forget things), or someone calling me.
At home he doesn’t wear ‘uniform’, but when we go out, he wears a ‘jacket’ with the Assistance Dog logo printed on it, and has a distinctive ‘Hearing Dog’ lead. He has access rights wherever I go, so he’s allowed to travel on the bus, and can come into church, shops, libraries, coffee shops. In fact, wherever I go, he goes!
In our home town we’re well known, and I have to factor in ‘meet & greet’ time as everyone wants to stop and say hello to us!
Being deaf can sometimes be isolating, but Marshall has opened up my world, and he brings a huge amount of happiness to others. You can’t help but love him, he’s such an affectionate dog! And for me, that’s the other huge benefit of having an Assistance Dog. He’s such good company, and at the end of a day’s work we like nothing better than curling up together - though he always keeps an ear open!
Our dogs are a lifeline.
Since my poor husband had to give up work to look after his elderly mother with vascular dementia, his early morning walk every day with our two mad, lovely cocker spaniels, Laddie and Poppy has saved his sanity.
Every day he’s up before 6:00am and takes them to our local park, where they all run around amongst the green trees and rolling lawns, then they return for their breakfast, which they all enjoy together before my husband braves the sheltered accommodation around the corner from us to care for his Mum. When he comes back home, weary and saddened our dogs greet him as if he’s been away for months with licks and barks.
By helping my keep active by getting me out the house a couple of times a day 
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