The GABIT Kennels

Gabbie

Date of birth: 2004.

Breed Terrier type mongrel (Female)

Gabbie was rescued from Battersea Dogs Home
Placed with recipient: October 2005

with Julie in the West Midlands

Sponsored at AT1

Iris

Date of birth: September 2005
Breed: Toy poodle cross cocker spaniel 

(Female) She should be placed with her recipient in March 2007.
(Iris was the adorable puppy seen in most of the photos with Amanda at AT1 and then at the auction at AT2)

Sponsored at AT2

Ives

Date of birth:    September 2005
Breed:  Toy poodle cross cocker spaniel (Male) Placed with recipient: October

2006 with a 75 year old lady in Dorset Ives is Iris's brother

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Mia

Date of birth: May 2003
Breed: Jack Russell Terrier  (Female)
Mia was two years old when Hearing Dogs for Deaf People adopted her from the RSPCA.
Placed with recipient: December 2005 with a 51 year old lady in Fife in Scotland.

Sponsored at AT2

Comet

Date of birth: April 2004
Breed: Mongrel  (Male)
Comet was a year old when Hearing

Dogs for Deaf People adopted him from Battersea Dogs Home in London. Placed with recipient: October 2005

with a 36 year old man in Yorkshire

Sponsored at AT2

Devon

Hearing dog Devon was born at

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People’s training centre in Buckinghamshire on 16 August 2006, after his mum Zola (named after Zola Budd) was brought to the Charity’s headquarters from a rescue centre in the Republic of Ireland.  There were six pups including the other Gabit dog, Lewis. Devon’s name

was inspired by sprinter Marlon Devonish. Devon was a sociable pup, though a little nervous of large towns.

He now lives happily with his deaf recipient in – appropriately - the small Devon town of Barnstaple!  The staff member who assessed Devon in his

‘final’ (when a hearing dog graduates to fully qualified status) was most impressed because as Devon was leading his deaf owner to the sound of

the cooker timer, the phone rang. Devon completed the cooker timer alert, and then continued unflustered with an alert to the ringing telephone! 

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Lewis

Hearing dog Lewis was born at Hearing

Dogs for Deaf People’s training centre in Buckinghamshire on 16 August 2006, after his mum Zola (named after Zola Budd) was brought to the

Charity’s headquarters from a rescue centre in the Republic of Ireland.  There were six pups including theother Gabit dog, Devon.  Lewis was named after sprinter Mark Lewis

Frances.
 In Lewis’ diary with his socialisers

there’s an entry describing him as ‘very friendly and very wriggly’!  andnow Lewis is working for a deaf lady in Derbyshire, and really making a difference to her life.  She had previously suffered from agoraphobia, but Lewis gives her the confidence and

motivation to go out, enabling her to live more independently.  He’s as friendly as ever, but a little less wriggly now he has grown up.

! Sponsored at AT3

Three new Kennels will be added shortly