Our 2025 Grand Total is in! This year we made a fantastic £10,400

This is amazing and will go a long way to helping our dogs. We rely on donations and fundraising to support our dogs, covering the kennels fees, vet bills,food, training, neutering and equipment that our dogs need.

Our show is our biggest fundraiser of the the year.
We certainly could not do it without you our supporters, with out you and your dogs there would be no show.

Let's not forget how difficult a show is to put together and nexts years show preparations will probably start again tomorrow!

Today our thanks go to many many people who made it possible:
*Our show team who work their socks off
*Our volunteers, friends and family who give up their day to set up and close down the event, run the stalls, show ring and have a go rings.
*To George Bell our compere who is the voice of our show ring and keeps us all entertained
*Our First aider John McCue
*To Simon and his team at K9 Manhunt & Scent Work Scotland and Specialist Search Dogs for their Demo (and arial photos)
*Hertitage vet for coming along as our vets on call and giving out advice
*All our class and ring Sponsors
*All the home bakers - we made a record amount on the baking this year!
*Our stall holders who have returned again and to all the new ones who joined us for the first time.
*To Salt n Peppa Catering - thanks for feeding everyone - You guys are the best!
*Liam from Wild Memories photography who will i'm sure share his creations when he has edited them.
*A special mention to Jane, Jenny & Emerson from Pets at Home Craigleith who worked their socks off all day to help us. (Craigleith is our NEW partnership store)
*And finally Ali Lochhead, Alison Campbell and Iain Butt our judges who definetly had the hardest job of the day.

Im sure you will all agree it was a great day and an even greater result......until next year THANK YOU ALL.

Our thanks goes to the family and friends of the late Stuart William Goode who recently held at collection at Stuarts funeral recently for our rescue dogs.

Dont forget to put our Summer Dog show into your diaries!  

Saturday 26th July 2025

Vogrie Country Park

Gorebridge

Midlothian

Can you walk the Kilt Walk for us?

https://thekiltwalk.co.uk/events

It's not too late to sign up and help raise vital funds so we can keep saving German Shepherds all over Scotland.

Glasgow - April 26 & 27th
Aberdeen - June 1st
Dundee - August 17th
Edinburgh - September 14th

KILTWALK 2025

2026 CALENDAR PHOTO ENTRY TIME

It's that crazy early time of the year when we ask you to send us image of your dogs to put into next years rescue calendar.

The GSD does not need to be a rescue however we do ask for a few things:

*Portrait orientation is a must (not square or landscape)
*GSDs only (no other breeds or humans)
*Must be emailed to us - don't forget to tell us their name
*Can be Action, Pose, Winter, Christmas themed, Water baby etc
*Enter as many images as you want
*No watermarked images will be accepted.
*If the image was taken by someone else please confirm permission to use the image has been given to you. If its your own photo we do not need this
*Please make sure image is in focus or it will not be considered

Entries must be in by Sunday 11th May 2025

And MUST be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Thanks to our wonderful supporters Allan Claudia & GSD Ava Lynn over in Tallahassee, Florida for their continued support of our rescue. Even although they are across the water they send a donation every year to help our dogs. We are grateful to them and all of our supporters.

A Massive Thank You goes out this morning to our Volunteers Davy & Susan for giving up their day for us yesterday at Tesco Dalkeith. Will the help of Santos and Rocky they raised £1476 for us and spread the word about our rescue.

Thanks to Tesco Dalkeith for having us in store and for all their fantastic and generous customers for supporting us

A Christmas story about an Angel, told by Angel 

"Hi my name is Angel, humans tell me im a pretty girl. Some time a while a go my family took me to a place surrounded by lots of other dogs. They used to bark and shout at me so I would put my paws over my ears and waited for my family to come back and collect me. I waited a long time and one day the lovely lady told me they wouldnt be coming back, but it wouldnt be long before I was snapped up as I was so beautiful.

I waited and waited, I just wanted to be back by the cozy fire and playing in my garden. The days turned to months and eventually I joined in with the other dogs shouting. I thought if I shouted loud enough my forever home might hear me.

The lovely lady spoiled me in the kennels and gave me lots of treats and toys. She said they were from something called a wishlist……..I wondered if she could put a Home for Angel on that list.

One days the kennel lady noticed my ribs starting to show. I heard her tell the rescue she was worried as I was loosing weight but still eating lots. I was always hungry I love my food.

She took a trip to visit someone called the vet who was also concerned. I was poked and prodded and had blood taken from my leg.

I was a very good girl but kept getting thinner. The nice lady put a cozy coat on me to help me keep warm.

I heard her say the vet man had ruled out EPI (whatever that means?), Cushings (I remember them from my sofa days) and a tumour (that sounded scary). The vet man scratched his head and didnt know what was wrong with me.

The ladies spent lots and lots of money on me, I heard them say they wouldn't give up looking for answers. So they took me on a road trip, I quite enjoyed that.

This time I got to meet a lady vet to see if she had any ideas - to save me I heard them say. The lady vet suggested a new expensive diet and some pills to help reduce my stress. The food was tasty and i started to chill out a bit in the kennels.

I think my heart was broken waiting on my humans coming back.

Today my weight is great so they tell me, my bones are not poking out anymore and they ladies no longer have a worried look on their faces when they see me.

Now I just need to find myself my forever family and everything will be perfect.

I would just like to thank the lovely people who have been looking after me, they spent lots of money making sure I got well again and it would be really good if you could sponsor me on the rescue's website to let them know how wonderful you think they are.

Thanks form the bottom of my doggie heart Angel "

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If you would like to support Angel she is now featuring on our sponsorship page with her sad story attached to her photos!

Angel won't be looking for a new home until the New year when we are sure her weight is stable again.

You can send your love to our Christmas Angel here: 

http://www.german-shepherd-rescue-scotland.org.uk/sponsor-a-german-shepherd/A-Christmas-story-about-an-Angel-Sponsorship-certificate-Angels-story-and-photos-sent-via-email-p714208429

Send a treat to our kennel dogs this Christmas.  You can donate food, treats, toys or vetbed to our kennel dogs via our Amazon wishlist.  (it will go direct to the kennels so dont worry when you put in your address - that just for the transaction)

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/9UB4SQLQ4JSV?ref_=wl_share

Thanks to everyone who took part in our 2024 Auction. We raised £1230 for our dogs. Just a couple of payments still to come in. All the prizes won will be sent out over the next few days.

Thanks to everyone who donated some great prizes to us. We are truly grateful as this wouldn't work without you.

Our Annual auction is taking place on our auction facebook page between 18th - 24th November 2024.

If you own a business and have a prize we could auction please get in touch with us.  All offers are appreciated and 100% of the monies rasied will help keep our dogs safe and sound over the winter.

Find our auction page here: https://www.facebook.com/GSRScotlandAuction

Thanks to William Paterson and East Neuk Wobblers trials club for organising and holding a trial recently to raise funds for us. Despite it being a wet and dark night everyone had a great time and they raised £250 for us.

GSRS boy Diesel on tyre checking duties as always.

The news everyones been waiting on is here!

Our 2024 show total raised was £8500! This is an absolutely fantastic amount and there are many people to thank for helping us along the way.

We were asked at the weekend by some of the stall holders if we would be holding another show this year - the answer to that one is no lol. It takes us 6 months to recover and 6 months to prepare for the next one

*Thanks firstly goes to the Judges who lets face it have the hardest job of the day! Cathy Gordon, Grace & Brian Thomson & Iain Butt.
*Our Vets on call Heritage vets
*All our volunteers and Friend and family helpers who helped us set up and run the day smoothly on our stalls and rings.
*George Bell our fantastic Compere
*The Hoopers Demo team B.K.9
*John McCue for providing our first aid cover
*All our stall holders
*Nick, Esk Valley Dog Training
*Nadia Yellow Dog photography and Riz from PentlandsDog Training for the super Portrait photography
*David from Canis Scotia for our ringside photography
*All our class, ring and show sponsors

And finally thanks to each and everyone of you who came along and supported our event without you all there would be no show. We hope you all had fun.

Our fabulous GSD class winners trophies for Saturdays show at Vogrie Country Park.
Winner of the short coat class will receive the Ben Trophy
Winner of the Long coat class will receive the Abbey Trophy.
See you all there Vorgrie Country Park, Gorebridge Midlothian Saturday 27th July  from 1030am

Did you know there is a Give a car scheme, where the money for your scrap car goes to the rescue of your choice?

Big Thanks to Liz & Derek our volunteers who recently sent their car to the scheme after GSD Bear had decorated the interior with his own uniques design. They were delighted to hear they raised £1600 for us

https://www.giveacar.co.uk/listing/german-shepherd-rescue-scotland/