DAERA Announce Compensation & Exemption Scheme for XLBully Owners
XL Bully Ban: ‘The Dangerous Dogs (Compensation and Exemption Schemes) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024’ was made on the 19 July 2024 and will come into operation on 9 August 2024. ‘The Dangerous Dogs (Designated Types) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024’ came into operation on 5 July 2024 and it requires all owners of XL Bully type […]
Aligning Stormont with Westminster to Improve and Reform Animal Welfare in Northern Ireland
Caption: Dr Marc Abraham OBE, Vet and Founder of Lucy’s Law, Tara Cunningham Animal Welfare Lobbyist CCDR and Brian Gryzmek CCDR at Stormont today meeting with MLAs to take forward Lucy’s Law in N.Ireland. info@causewaycoastdogrescue.org Causeway Coast Dog Rescue charity has teamed up with published vet Dr Marc Abraham OBE who successfully brought forward […]
CCDR CHARITY APPEALS TO COUNCILS TO FORMALLY REVIEW BREEDING IN NORTHERN IRELAND
CCDR Announce Date of NI Animal Welfare Conference
Causeway Coast Dog Rescue confirms the date and focus of this year’s Animal Welfare Conference, Wednesday 2nd October 2024 This year’s theme will be “Collaboration”, ‘WHAT DOES COLLABORATION LOOK LIKE TO IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE? We have listened to delegates and charities attending Northern Ireland’s first conference held in 2023 and at their request and as […]
CCDR Respond To Ministers Announcement
New safeguarding measures for XL Bully breed type dogs to be introduced | Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (daera-ni.gov.uk) Following Today’s announcement by minister Andrew Muir we are deeply disappointed that Northern Ireland is taking this direction however handing the responsibility over to local government to enforce this XL bully type ban is […]
North coast charity ‘CCDR’ welcomes Battersea and delegates from UK and Ireland to first Animal welfare Conference in Northern Ireland
Causeway Coast Dog Rescue charity, welcomed over sixty delegates, 21 charities, members of ROI central and local government and local political representatives of Northern Ireland to their first ever Animal Welfare Conference focusing on improving the health and well-being of dogs. The event was held at Stormont Hotel on Wednesday 25th October 2023, with speakers […]
Causeway Coast Dog Rescue work to inform Ministers and MLAs of the issues in Animal Welfare
Causeway Coast Dog Rescue was at Stormont this week (Monday) as they continue to work their way round the political arena by meeting each of the Political Parties. The charity has been providing briefings to MLAs and Ministers on what it is like to be a dog rescue and animal welfare charity in Northern Ireland. […]
Causeway Coast Dog Rescue holds Animal Welfare Conference at Stormont in response to recent crisis
Causeway Cost Dog Rescue will be holding an animal welfare conference at Stormont on 25th October 2023, in response to the recent crisis animal welfare charities have been experiencing in Northern Ireland. The conference is to support all dog rescue charities and will be reviewing current information on animal welfare. This is an opportunity to […]
The story so far – XLBullys and where we are with potential ban.
The link to a workshop which recently discussed the potential ban of XLBully’s also discussed where we are to date with the law. While Northern Ireland’s law will be different than in England, our government considers what has already taken place at Westminster prior to adopting here. We do not have an Assembly as present, […]
Charities and shelters struggle as NI faces five-year high in levels of unwanted dogs
An animal charity has warned that increasing numbers of unwanted but healthy dogs will be needlessly put down because they can’t be rehomed. Causeway Coast Dog Rescue (CCDR) says that charities are “in crisis with nowhere to go” as the number of unwanted dogs in Northern Ireland has risen by 75%. https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2023-07-20/three-legged-penny-finds-a-forever-home-but-ni-has-100s-of-unwanted-pups
