I was going to keep you lot waiting for another while but I couldn’t be that cruel!

We had a HUGE response to this years Christmas Competition and I’m absolutely delighted to announce that our €200 CASH prize is going to…

Sally Morahan from Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Roscommon

Sally, I’m giving your prize to the courier TODAY so they’ll have it with you in the next day or 2.

And for our second prize of a Christmas Hamper worth €200, courtesy of Giftsdirect.com.  Congratulations to:

Shane Curran from Waterville Co Kerry.

Giftsdirect.com are packing up your hamper and will have it out to you ASAP

Finally, as an added surprise, we’ve decided to give out DoneDeal goodie bags to 10 lucky runners up! Congratulations to:

1. Rebecca Boland from Ennis, Co. Clare
2. Nicola Keegan from Moate, Co. Westmeath
3. Maura Meadows from Leitrim Cross, Co. Longford
4. Kieran O’Connel from Midleton, Co. Cork
5. David Keyes from Arlougher, Co. Cavan
6. Brian Farragher from Annaghdown, Co. Galway
7. Ryan O’Conner from Kilteevan, Co. Roscommon
8. Sonia Carroll from Ratoath, Co. Meath
9. Robin Maher from Tullow, Co. Carlow
10. William Dolan from Birr, Co. Offaly

A massive THANK YOU to everyone that entered and CONGRATULATIONS to all our lucky winners!

Hope all our DoneDealers have a very Merry Christmas and a DoneDealing New Year!!

Everyone knows how cute and adorable little puppies are, but those little cuties do grow up and get bigger and are living beings that are depending on YOU to care for them.  Caring for them can be a very costly exercise, both for your time and your wallet!

Our Dog Policy has always requested that no Dog ad on our site can use any words or photos that suggest in any way that a pup can be a Christmas present.  Any ad found to contain these, will have the details removed. It’s an old saying at this stage, but still so true: “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas“.

To help us also ensure that pups are only rehomed when they are old enough, we have also updated our Dog Section to include a compulsory Dog Age field.

It is not recommended that a pup be rehomed before the age of 8 weeks, so we’ve set that as the minimum age you can place a pup on our site.  On each new dog ad placed, you will now see the age of the pup/dog under the photo.

While the vast majority of breeders using our site are absolutely concerned with the welfare of their pups and always breed responsibly, some less reputable breeders were rehoming their pups before eight weeks. We therefore have had to enforce this blanket rule for all dog ads on our site.

If you spot any ad that seems to have tried to get around our system checks in regards to either of these areas, please report them to us by clicking “Report Ad” in the blue box beside the particular ad.

If you are considering getting a dog, PLEASE think about it very seriously before you commit to your forever friend.  A recent article in the Independent.ie says that it can cost up to €30,000 to care for your dog over it’s lifetime.

With the HUGE number of dogs in Ireland that are crying out for a home, we would LOVE to see our DoneDealers REHOMING a rescue dog from one of the many rescue’s around Ireland, including the ones that take part in our Rescue Section.

With all this in mind, we are hoping to encourage people to plan the breeding of their dogs a little better, help find their pups forever homes and help make Ireland a better place for Dogs. Thank you so much to all the Dog lovers and DoneDealers for your continued support for Irish Dogs.

Thanks to Independent.ie and DSPCA and Ireland AM for the BRILLIANT articles we linked to in this blog.

You’ve probably noticed a few new names signing off on our support emails lately.

A big WELCOME to our Cork DoneDealers!

We’d like to say a huge WELCOME to the Call Management team that have come on board to help us support DoneDealers to make their buying and selling experience as brilliant as possible!

Left to right back row we have Morgan, Pat, Orla and Megan.  Front row we have Charlene and Lorraine.  They will be helping you by answering your questions and emails to support and have been getting to know some of our GREAT DoneDealers already!

So in typical DoneDeal style, why not leave a comment below to say HI! to the new DoneDealers!