Doris – 10 year old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Doris is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier looking for a loving retirement home. She was found with a younger male (he is now reserved) tethered to a post so were obviously dumped. Judging by their injuries it seems that they had some sort of drag injury. It has been suggested that they have been dragged by a car for a short distance recently and then tethered and left to their fate. Their injuries luckily were superficial, although they have been left with a few scars.

Doris is an older lady of about 10 years old. Although she has suffered abuse in the past, it has not changed her lovely nature with people and she is a very people orientated dog. It is thought, by her reaction to children that she has lived with them before, but we would like to find a home for her with kids at least over 10 years old.

Doris is very sociable and likes to play with other dogs out and about, more so since Chuck came here and she stayed with her foster carer and she was allowed more freedom (he overshadowed her a lot.) She could live with another sociable neutered male dog.

Doris cannot be homed with cats. Doris had some fatty lumps which were removed on arrival to rescue. We also checked that she was spayed whilst she was having the lumps removed and she had been.

Doris has been fully vaccinated, neutered and microchipped, plus wormed and defleaed.

Doris is being fostered in New Cross, South London.

A homecheck will be carried out and an adoption fee of £150 per dog does apply.

Ruby – 1 year old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross Jack Russell Terrier

The lovely Ruby, who is approximately a year old, arrived into rescue earlier this week. She had been picked up as a stray a few days before and the owner had phoned in the same day. The release fee they had to pay was £11. They refused and so she went straight onto death row.

Ruby is what is known as a ‘typical rescue dog’. She is average looking and the sort of dog that is cloned 10 times over in any large rescue centre. Dogs like Ruby are often overlooked for prettier dogs and although I think she is beautiful, she is not the sort of dog that people really notice when faced with a rescue full of dogs all pleading for a good home.

Ruby is a very good house dog, but intially she is excited and a bit bouncy. This can put people off, but this excitement only lasts for the first day. When she calms down then she makes a good and obedient companion. She is good with most dogs but does not like dominant females. On arrival here she snarked at some of the dogs (but nothing more) and all her body language showed that she was worried. This was correctly read as introduced to one at a time, then she settled with them all and once she knew they were not a threat then she was happy and relaxed enough to walk and play with any one of them.

Eventually she did settle down with an older Staffie boy we have here at the moment (Chuck) and they love to lay curled up in bed together. She does need to go and live with another neutered male dog as she loves company of the canine kind.

Ruby is currently being walked onlead as her recall is not that great. We hope to work on this as she progresses in rescue and would expect the new owner to do the same.

Ruby can be homed with children over 10 – any younger and she may knock them over in play. Ruby cannot be homed with cats.

Ruby has been vaccinated, spayed, microchipped, wormed and defleaed.

A homecheck will be carried out and minimum adoption fee of £150 applies.

Louie – 3 year old mlae Shih Tzu

This is Louie. He is a 3 year old male Shihtzu. Louie was an owner handover on a piece of rope, no collar and lead, let alone a bed or toys. He was a very bad case of matting. He had full on dreadlocks which were soaked in urine underneath him which were clogging up his back end so that he couldn’t go to the toilet properly. He seemed rather pleased he can get to wash himself againonce clipped out and actually had eyes to see! He smelt like a walking rubbish dump after living outside in a muddy dirty area. They had him from a baby (puppy farm) but he was very easily handed over. The man of the house didn’t like him and would push him around, encouraging him to snap. This has left him with issues when he feels threatened so an experienced owner is necessary.

Louie can live with some dogs very well, but any bouncy dogs he tends to try and dominate. He would be fine living as an only dog. Although he has lived with children he cannot be homed with them due to his previous owners treatment of him. Because of this he must be homed to an adult only household who will be understanding towards his needs.

Louie cannot live with cats. The new owner must get Louie clipped out every 2 to 3 months. He is not a great fan of being groomed so an understanding groomer is also necessary!

Louie is fully vaccinated, neutered, microchipped, wormed and defleaed.

A homecheck will be carried out and minimum adoption fee of £150 applies.

Ed – 3-5 year old male Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross Labrador

Ed is yet another dog that has only ever known abuse and fear. He has kept his wonderful Staffie nature and is completely non-aggressive with people or other dogs. But this has not stopped someone from beating him so ferociously that he developed a complete terror of people. And after traumatising him to that point he was then dumped on a motorway. Possibly the sound of the cars being so loud is what saved his life because he spent a long five months living on a motorway embankment evading capture.

Finally after an extremely determined person, he was captured and offered safety where he was worked on and has started to realise that not all people are monsters. He is now being moved here where he will stay as long as necessary and will never know another harsh day. How does Ed show his fear? By curling into the tightest ball possible to make himself look as tiny as possible. He freezes in fear and whoever owned him before used a lead on him, but not for walkies. His fear of the lead and his reaction shows that someone has beaten him with a lead. Some vicious and spiteful human is responsible for this shell of a dog.

He will need an extremely secure garden. We will not be homing him with children, but will be looking for a home for him with a friendly and confident canine pal to play with. He has been castrated, fully vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and flea treated and the new owner will need to have determination and experience with previously abused animals.

A homecheck will be carried out and minimum adoption fee of £150 will apply.

Poppet – 12-13 year old female Corgi Cross

Poppet is a 12-13 year old Corgi cross. She has come to us from Ireland where she wa…s found as a stray. Poppet is an elderly girl who is excellent with other dogs, cats and has no reaction to small animals. She needs a quiet home so any resident dogs would have to be calm as she needs a relaxing retirement home.

Poppet has very poor eyesight and has the beginnings of cataracts in both eyes She also gets confused easily. She cannot live with children as if she is woken up or wakes up suddenly she snaps at the air as she forgets where she is. If you calmly talk to her she is fine when she realises who you are.

Although elderly, she loves her walks and exercises well with other dogs. She sleeps a lot due to her age and just needs somewhere where she can relax in her golden years.

Poppet has been spayed, fully vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and defleaed.

A homecheck will be carried out and donation to the rescue applies.