October 8th

Tony and I are at the International Companion Animal Welfare Conference.  We flew in to Hungary last night and spent today watching the first group of presentations. This is Tony’s first ICAWC and I am soooo happy that he is here.  I always come back on a high from these conferences and they are highly educational and always extremely inspiring.  They are also great fun and I am thrilled that Tony can finally meet all my ICAWC friends.  Day One was fantastic as usual and I think the final speaker gets my vote for Best Presentation.  His name is Pen Farthing and he has set up a charity to help the dogs of Afghanistan after serving in Helmand Province as a marine.  He was adopted by a dog he named Nowzad after saving him from a dog fight. Nowzad (so named as he was battered and scarred like the town of Nowzad where the marines were based) obviously told the other stray dogs that Pen had been unknowingly appointed as a Dog Guardian as more dogs arrived in the military compound. Pen’s story of how he helped the Helmand Dogs is incredible and very moving.  You can see a similar presentation to the one he gave at ICAWC at http://www.icawc.org . Click on 2009 and scroll down the presentations on Day One to find Pen’s.  We are going to meet up with everyone in the bar before walking along the bank of the Danube to board a cruiser as the speakers, organisers, and delegates are spending the evening cruising down the river and enjoying a buffet. This will be very welcome as it is boiling here and it will also be the only chance we have to see the city.

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