New Quay dog charity celebrates support of national pet food company

A charity based in New Quay, Ceredigion, that rescues and rehomes
German shepherd dogs, is celebrating securing backing from the
charitable arm of one of the UK’s biggest and most successful
independent pet food companies.

The Burns Pet Nutrition Foundation, part of Burns Pet Nutrition, a
family company in Wales that makes specialist foods designed for the
health and well-being of pets, has unveiled three charities it will
support in 2018.

One of these is the UK German Shepherd Rescue, a rescue charity made
up of volunteers who donate their free time to helping rescue and
rehoming unwanted German shepherd dogs and puppies throughout the UK.

Suzanne Syers, founder of UK German Shepherd Rescue, said she is
looking forward to partnering with Burns on many levels.

Suzanne said: “UK German Shepherd Rescue are thrilled to be chosen as
one of Burns’ Charities of the Year for 2018, and are grateful for the
package of support from Burns which will help us immensely. We are
looking forward to developing a strong partnership with everyone at
Burns and also to benefit from the nutritional advice and support that
they can bring to help improve the quality of diet (and overall
wellbeing) of the dogs in our care.”

The other two charities backed by Burns in 2018 are: Forever Hounds
Trust, which matches greyhounds and lurchers to happy homes; and Dogs
for the Disabled, an Irish charity that trains assistance dogs to
assist physically disabled children and adults to carry out a range of
practical tasks.

The Burns Pet Nutrition Foundation has run the Burns’ Charity of the
Year since 2015 in addition to other community schemes including Burns
in the Community and Burns by Your Side, a scheme that helps school
children improve their literacy and communication skills with the aid
of trained volunteers and their reading dogs.

The chosen charities will receive free, healthy pet food which has
been developed by Veterinary Surgeon, John Burns and has been feeding
happy and healthy pets since 1993. The charities will also receive
expert advice from Burns’ team of in-house nutritionists, joint
promotional opportunities, and in some cases, financial donations.
These new charities will replace the two charities it supported this
year: the National Animal Welfare Trust (NAWT) and Appaws for Autism.

John Burns, Veterinary Surgeon and founder of Burns Pet Nutrition,
said: “Myself and the Burns Pet Nutrition team are extremely
passionate about supporting and giving back to the community in any
way, shape or form possible – and the same goes for charities in need
of the support they aren’t currently receiving.

“We are looking forward to working with the selected charities
throughout 2018 and, hopefully, they will feel the benefit of the
support Burns Pet Nutrition can offer. We’re proud to be entering our
third year of running Burns’ Charities of the Year, and we look
forward to the years to follow.”