MEET REBA – PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP ON HER……
Reba is a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois. Highly intelligent, eager to please and absolutely desperate to have a human of her own.
She was found abandoned by her most recent owner.
DOTS isn't a rescue, but sometimes dogs come through our gates who have nowhere else to go and could have otherwise faced being put to sleep.
At DOTS, we want to give them every chance we can to live.
Reba deserves that chance.
Let's be upfront: Reba has issues. She needs someone who understands and has experience with Belgian Malinois. She can be reactive to some dogs, although not others, and she needs space, stimulation, structure and someone prepared to work with that extraordinary Malinois brain.
And believe us, Reba has a LOT of brain.
She even decided an ordinary water bowl was far too boring and repeatedly emptied it and threw it around her kennel.
So we made her one out of concrete.
Reba 0. DOTS 1.
For now.
But underneath all that Malinois energy is a dog who craves human connection. She is incredibly eager to please, desperate for interaction and happiest when she feels she has a job to do.
We've tried to secure Reba a place with specialist Malinois rescue, without success.
At 7 years old, some may think we should simply give up.
We don't.
There must be someone out there who looks at Reba and sees what we see: an intelligent, loving dog who hasn't had the easiest journey but still desperately wants to connect with a person.
Ideally, we're looking for an experienced Malinois home with plenty of secure space or land, where Reba can exercise, use her brain and finally have the purpose and human companionship she craves.
She doesn't need someone to feel sorry for her.
She needs someone to understand her.
Could that human be you?
If you genuinely have the experience, environment and commitment Reba needs, please email:
[email protected]
Put REBA in the subject line and tell us about yourself, your experience with the breed, your home/environment and what sort of life you could offer her.
Please share. Reba's person might just be reading someone else's timeline today.
7 yrs old isn't the end of Reba's story. We want it to be the beginning of the good bit. 🧡
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Dear Adam,
I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most.
But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you.
I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her.
I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being.
Here’s a list.
She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections.
She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons.
She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary.
She was appointed to the Privy Council.
After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality.
Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament.
She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party.
She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament.
She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions.
Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life.
She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility.
That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention.
Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities.
Do you understand the reduction involved in that?
You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her.
That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known.
It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant.
Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed.
I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes.
But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong.
Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex.
She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does.
Bernie.
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Please help us find our sweet buddy ROMI. He is a 2.5 year old brown sight hound with white markings. He's wearing hunter's orange collar. We think he's somewhere in area of Brockwell Park, Rosendale Road or Kingswood Road
last seen 9 July 2026
Pixie is still missing & no new sightings.
Please could everyone share & keep their eyes open. She really could be anywhere.
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