McBuddies Pet Care

10/02/2025

*update* after a wonderful run around with a golden spaniel and after giving the dog warden the run around in the palace stables Bailey is home 🙈. To whoever is missing a spaniel from the Monaghan Road area they are safe with the dog warden . 

Hi everyone. We need your help. Our big lad Bailey decided he couldn’t wait for his walk this afternoon and took himself off on his own. Missing since 10.45am from mullanstown park/cregagh. Could be anywhere in the surrounding areas. Super friendly, will answer to his name. No collar on. If you spot him just give us a shout

09/02/2025

Smiles all round

09/02/2025

09/02/2025

Brighter days 🥰

09/02/2025

The only January blues here were the blue skies ❤️

01/02/2025

One of the luckiest days of my life was in sept 2011 when I walked into the rescue centre at Dogs Trust west London and met Nancy who was 18 months old. Now we have the honour of celebrating her 15th birthday. The funniest, cutest, most loving dog you could ever meet. And with an enormous thanks to OReilly & Fee vets Northern Ireland Veterinary Specialists and Cromlyn House Veterinary Hospital for helping us get here. Without them it wouldn’t have been possible ❤️. And thanks to Berner Bakes for the wonderful birthday box

27/01/2025

Devastating for our local wildlife. Breaking my heart over them trying to find new homes 😞

The destruction and devastation of the forest is simply unbelievable! https://tinyurl.com/4pchvjb6

26/01/2025

Absolutely devastated for my clients who are still sitting without any power. If this is the case and you need anything please let me know. We can figure out something as I’m coming in and out of your homes. ❤️

23/01/2025

Absolutely no walks tomorrow folks 😞. Please stay safe. Keep your animals in and get prepared today.

A rare sight with all of the country with a red warning!

Please take the time today to prepare for

22/01/2025

It’s giving heavy rain tomorrow morning also. Can everyone leave out their dogs coats and an extra towel 🤣. As for Friday it’s a wait and see game at this stage. Fingers crossed it’s not too bad and we can go ahead as normal

🚨 4 RED WARNINGS ISSUED 🚨

⚠️ Please Share ⚠️

🚨 Status Red - Wind warning 🚨

Issued for Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick

Storm Éowyn: Gale force southerly winds becoming westerly will bring severe, damaging and destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h��Impacts:
�Danger to life�Extremely dangerous travelling conditions�Cancellation of events�Wave overtopping�Coastal flooding in low lying and exposed areas�Unsafe working conditions�Fallen trees�Significant and widespread power outages�Structural damage�Disruption and cancellations to transport

Valid: 03:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 10:00 Friday 24/01/2025

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🚨 Status Red - Wind warning 🚨

Issued for Clare, Galway

Storm Éowyn: Gale to storm force southerly winds becoming westerly will bring severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h��Impacts:��• Danger to life�• Extremely dangerous travelling conditions�• Unsafe working conditions�• Disruption and cancellations to transport�• Many fallen trees�• Significant and widespread power outages�• Impacts to communications networks�• Cancellation of event�• Structural damage�• Wave overtopping�• Coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas�
Valid: 03:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 12:00 Friday 24/01/2025

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🚨 Status Red - Wind warning 🚨

Issued for Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo

Storm Éowyn: Gale to storm force southerly winds becoming westerly will bring severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h��Impacts:��• Danger to life�• Extremely dangerous travelling conditions�• Unsafe working conditions�• Disruption and cancellations to transport�• Many fallen trees�• Significant and widespread power outages�• Impacts to communications networks�• Cancellation of event�• Structural damage�• Wave overtopping�• Coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas�
Valid: 04:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 12:00 Friday 24/01/2025

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🚨 Status Red - Wind warning 🚨

Issued for Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wicklow, Roscommon, Tipperary
�Storm Éowyn: Gale to storm force southwest to west winds will bring severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h��Impacts:��Danger to life�Extremely dangerous travelling conditions�Unsafe working conditions�Disruption and cancellations to transport�Many fallen trees�Significant and widespread power outages�Impacts to communications networks�Cancellation of event�Structural damage�Wave overtopping�Coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas

Valid: 06:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 12:00 Friday 24/01/2025

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🚨 Status Red - Wind warning 🚨

Issued for Donegal

Storm Éowyn: Gale to storm force southerly winds becoming westerly will bring severe, damaging and extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h��Impacts:��• Danger to life�• Extremely dangerous travelling conditions�• Unsafe working conditions�• Disruption and cancellations to transport�• Many fallen trees�• Significant and widespread power outages�• Impacts to communications networks�• Cancellation of event�• Structural damage�• Wave overtopping�• Coastal flooding in low-lying and exposed areas�
Valid: 06:00 Friday 24/01/2025 to 15:00 Friday 24/01/2025

22/01/2025

WHOSE WALK IS IT ANYWAY?

Imagine going on a long-anticipated walk, through new scenery and exciting smells after being cooped up in the same place all day, but you have been fitted with a blind fold and are being dragged or yanked along at a fast pace.

I imagine that this is how dogs feel when we don’t allow them time to stop, sniff and explore the environment.

Dogs largely perceive their world through scent and it’s how they collect and process information to help the world make sense.

Taking away an opportunity for sniffing on a walk really isn’t being fair.. As much as physical exercise is important, the mental stimulation that sniffing provides is equally, if not more important.

Allowing dogs to choose when to stop and sniff provides so many benefits – increases self-confidence, promotes calmness, lowers stress and anxiety levels, lowers pulse rates, reduces cognitive decline in older dogs and provides important mental and environmental enrichment.

Make time for a slow sniffing walk when you can, where your dog is allowed to choose which direction to go and allowed time to just investigate, interpret, process the environment and follow wherever their nose leads them.

It may take far more time and patience as we wait for them to finish smelling that particular blade of grass, but the benefits are well worth it – after all, whose walk is it anyway?

22/01/2025

‼️URGENT ACTION NEEDED TODAY‼️

Thank you to everyone who has supported Max. Your support has got us to where we are today but we need you in this next step - finding out the outcome of the Third-Party Independent Assessment.

❌ We need every local Councillor to make this request of the CEO and with your support we can make that happen ❌

Please email all of the local Councillors at Castlereagh and Lisburn Council to request their urgent help with the next steps. The email address below will reach all 40 local Councillors:

❌DETAILS❌

Email: [email protected]

Subject: Request for Outcome of Max’s Independent Assessment

Dear local Cllrs,

We are grateful to the Council for agreeing to the further breed assessment by an independent third-party assessor, as coordinated with the USPCA.

Given the high level of public interest in Max, we kindly request that the outcome of the assessment be shared publicly asap.
We respectfully seek your immediate support and kindly ask that you email the CEO with this request.

THANK YOU❤️❤️

18/01/2025

It has been such a busy week I totally forgot to update everyone about our Christmas charity collection. Thanks to everyone who donated! It is all a massive help. We filled an entire trolly of dog and cat food and dropped it off at the Armagh Food Bank. 🥰

09/01/2025

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Good news - relief from the cold. Milder air moves in this weekend. Temperatures could reach 12/13C on Monday afternoon.

08/01/2025

As much as the frost is beautiful it’s too cold for majority of the dogs. My car has been consistently reading between-3 and -6 all day and no higher. It’s giving -5/-6 until Friday. That means for the rest of the week all senior dogs, all dogs with recent illness, all dogs with recurring/chronic issues and brachycephalic dogs should miss their walks. All other dogs can continue with coats for short walks if owners feel ok with it. However as many of you know my limit is -5/-6 for taking dogs out unless they’re a cold climate breed. If we’re hitting -5/-6 during the day the walks will have to stop. We will be doing them later in the day for the rest of the week in the hopes that it will get up to 0 🙈. Any questions just send me a message.

07/01/2025

No snow man is safe with Biggie Smalls around. It’s a dog eat carrot world out there. Better safe than sorry ☃️

07/01/2025

Yay snow day. ❄️The only sad thing about it is all our gorgeous golden oldies had to stay home in bed. 🐶