Our Dogs
These are our dogs looking for their forever homes. Some of these dogs will be under assessment but we will take notes of interest in them.
- We will only contact applications that suit our dogs needs best. Sadly we do not have the time to contact every application.
- We are a VERY SMALL rescue, run entirely by volunteers who have our own families and work commitments.
- We run this rescue in our spare time. Please be mindful of this when contacting us.
- We do whats best for each dog in our care. This takes time and we are not always online
Here are just a few of the things we do each day/week to keep this rescue running.
- Read and reply to hundreds of emails every week a lot are enquiries, but we also have urgent appeals asking for help to save a dogs life.
- Walk kennel dogs
- Transport dogs from Kennels to their foster home, Vet appointments ect
- Call potential adoption / foster applications.
- Arrange and oversee home checks for each dog.
- Update dogs profiles on Facebook and the website
- Deal with each dog vet requirements and appointments
- Manage 3 private facebook groups - Foster/adopt/volunteer
- Fundraise, apply for funds and grants
- Network, making new contacts to help the dogs
- Liase with trainers and behaviourists
- Attend events to raise awareness, education and fundraising
- Help our adopters and fosterers with support and advice online and face to face.
- Maintain our book work/paper work, pay bills and balance books so we can continue to help more dogs as a charity.
Sadly we see lots of dogs that don't get any help and this really upsets us. We wish we could help them all but sadly we cant, as its not possible. We will reply to you as soon as we can, we might be busy saving a dogs life , dog walking or just sitting with a dog trying to let it know that its safe and its life is going to get better from now on, or working in our own jobs.
We hope this shows you a small understanding of what we to keep this rescue running.
Thank you for your support, we really do appreciate it.
SSR Team
Please note:
Please read all the information about the dog before applying.
Please note due to the high volume of applications we are receiving at the moment we cannot reply to all the applicants.
We will contact the successful applicants via email. Priority will be given to the applications that suit the dogs needs best.
Your application will be kept on record with us for a year. We will contact you by email within this time if we are taking your application further. Please reply even if you have rehomed a dog from elsewhere so we can remove you from our list.
We only re-home our dogs in SCOTLAND.
We have co-ordinators covering the Edinburgh/Perthshire/Dundee/Angus and Borders areas and some other areas within SCOTLAND.
Please can you provide as much details as possible about your life, kids, other pets work commitments and level of ownership on the application.
Once we receive your application one of our volunteers will then contact you for a chat, if we are taking your application forward.
Please note that we CANNOT reserve a dog or mark your interest in a dog until a homecheck has been done and passed.
We will keep your details on our records for up to a year.
Adoption Fees:
Young dogs up to 12 months £220.00
1 - 8 years £180.00
8 years and above £120.00.
Please note due to the high volume of applications we are receiving at the moment we cannot reply to all the applicants.
We will contact the successful applicants via email. Priority will be given to the applications that suit the dogs needs best.
Your application will be kept on record with us for a year. We will contact you by email within this time if we are taking your application further. Please reply even if you have rehomed a dog from elsewhere so we can remove you from our list.
We only re-home our dogs in SCOTLAND.
We have co-ordinators covering the Edinburgh/Perthshire/Dundee/Angus and Borders areas and some other areas within SCOTLAND.
- We are sorry but we are NOT able to re-home any of our dogs to homes that have children under the age
- We DO NOT re-home our dogs to homes that have un-neutered pets unless there is a genuine medical reason for this.
- We are sorry but we are NOT accepting any more applications with cats as there is a current waiting list of
Please can you provide as much details as possible about your life, kids, other pets work commitments and level of ownership on the application.
Once we receive your application one of our volunteers will then contact you for a chat, if we are taking your application forward.
Please note that we CANNOT reserve a dog or mark your interest in a dog until a homecheck has been done and passed.
We will keep your details on our records for up to a year.
Adoption Fees:
Young dogs up to 12 months £220.00
1 - 8 years £180.00
8 years and above £120.00.
A bit more about our dogs
Our dogs come to us from all over Britain where they are on “Death row", in council pounds, these are dogs that have been found as strays, abandoned or been handed in by their owners. Most council pounds will only keep the dogs for 7 days then if no rescue space is found the dog is then "Put to Sleep". Few people realise that many healthy dogs, through no fault of their own, are being destroyed if not claimed within the 7 days
Our dogs are all fully assessed and placed in foster homes to be assessed further.
All our dogs are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and micro-chipped.
- Most of the dogs are strays so we don't have much or any history on them when they come to us.
- A few are owner surrenders, these come in via dog wardens, pound pullers, social care. We may have some history on these dogs but sometimes it is limited.
Our dogs are all fully assessed and placed in foster homes to be assessed further.
All our dogs are spayed/neutered, vaccinated and micro-chipped.
Why pound dogs?
The grossed number now stands at an estimated 56,043 stray dogs across the UK according to the Dogs Trust UK.
Dogs trust stray survey report for 2017
https://www.dogstrust.org.uk/about-us/publications/stray%20dogs%20report%202017-18%20final.pdf
Some of these dogs died afraid and alone, unclaimed strays, thrown out like unwanted toys. Britain's throwaway society has gone mad. One dog dying like this is one dog to many. These dogs don't have a voice so we decided to help them.
This has to stop, please help us to end this.
.
Dogs trust stray survey report for 2017
https://www.dogstrust.org.uk/about-us/publications/stray%20dogs%20report%202017-18%20final.pdf
Some of these dogs died afraid and alone, unclaimed strays, thrown out like unwanted toys. Britain's throwaway society has gone mad. One dog dying like this is one dog to many. These dogs don't have a voice so we decided to help them.
This has to stop, please help us to end this.
.
How we find out about these dogs
We find out about "pound dogs" from the council kennel or from pound pullers these are volunteers that work alongside council kennels, they network on private social media groups and via emails to try and find rescue spaces to save the dog’s life.
When a rescue space is found that rescue must offer full rescue back up (RBU) for that dog for the rest of its life.
Dedicated volunteers from all over the UK then network to help transport the dogs to the rescue, this could be anywhere in the UK. This can take days, sometimes weeks to arrange, emergency boarding if available may be used at this point to keep the dog safe.
When a rescue space is found that rescue must offer full rescue back up (RBU) for that dog for the rest of its life.
Dedicated volunteers from all over the UK then network to help transport the dogs to the rescue, this could be anywhere in the UK. This can take days, sometimes weeks to arrange, emergency boarding if available may be used at this point to keep the dog safe.
The dogs below are RESERVED
pending home trials
or they are being ADOPTED
Trixie reserved 
ROCCO Adopted |
MILO reserved 
FARAH Reserved 
LEELA Adopted |
BUSTER Adopted 
CHASE reserved |
PEBBLES ADOPTED 
HAROLD ADOPTED 
ADE ADOPTED 
JINX ADOPTED 
WHISKEY + BRANDY RESERVED 
OTIS ADOPTED 
NELSON Adopted 
PYPER Adopted 
LILY Adopted 
SNOOP Adopted 
BONNIE Adopted 
DOLLY 10+ Adopted 
OLLIE Adopted 
TANK Adopted 
ARCHIE Adopted 
BUSTER Adopted 
BELLA Adopted 
BAXTER Adopted |
SKYLER ADOPTED 
NOOK ADOPTED 
TUCKER ADOPTED 
HARLEY ADOPTED 
OTIS ADOPTED 
TREV ADOPTED 
Meg Adopted 
Champy Adopted 
DEVO Adopted 
BUDDY Adopted 
EDDIE Adopted 
DIESEL Adopted 
ZERO Adopted 
BAILEY (female) Adopted 
GHOST Adopted 
MYAH Adopted 
ROXY Adopted 
ZENA Adopted |
GUINNESS ADOPTED 
BONNIE ADOPTED 
BERT ADOPTED 
SAFFIE ADOPTED 
MILO ADOPTED |