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.
of interest in them.
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.
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.
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 as we get new dogs in all the time.
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 of 12 years old.
- 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 over a year.
- Please can you provide as much details as possible about your life, kids, other pets work commitments and level of ownership on the application.
- If you are interested in adopting a dog from us you MUST fill in an application on our website. The same applies to fostering.
- We will only contact applications that suit our dogs needs best. Sadly we do not have the time to contact every application that we get in.
- Once we receive your application one of our volunteers will then contact you for a chat, only if we are taking your application forward.
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.
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 as we get new dogs in all the time.
Adoption Fees:
Young dogs up to 12 months £220.00
1 - 8 years £180.00
8 years and above £120.00.
Roxy In a foster home |
Harley (female) with Owner 
Chase on a home trial 
Buster on a home trial |
Missy on a home trial |
- 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 what's best for each dog in our care. This takes time and we are not always online
We are made aware of lots of appeals for dog needing help, this really upsets us. We wish we could help them all but sadly we can't as it's not possible for a small rescue like ours.
We will reply to you as soon as we can, we might be busy saving a dog from a pound, dog walking or just sitting with a dog in kennels trying to gain its trust.
We hope this gives you a small understanding of what we do to try and keep this small rescue running.
Thank you for your support, we really do appreciate it.
SSR Team
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.
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
Rocco Adopted May 2023 
Stanley Reserved 
Rosie Adopted April 2023 
Bailey Adopted April 2023 
Ginger Reserved 
Willow Reserved 
Dusty Adopted March 2023 
Lulu Adopted Feb 2023 
Zahra Adopted Feb 2023 
Reggie Adopted Jan 2023 
Bella Adopted Dec 2022 
Isla Adopted Feb 2023 
Nini Adopted Nov 2022 
Leo Adopted Oct 2022 
Maya Adopted Oct 2022 
Layla Adopted Oct 2022 
COCO Reserved 
Frankie (female) Adopted Oct 2022 
Raven Adopted July 2022 
Poppy ADOPTED June 2022 
Ginger ADOPTED - July 2022 
Ghost ADOPTED Aug 2022 
Moses ADOPTED - April 2022 
BOO Adopted Feb 2022 |
Mylo Adopted April 2023 
Wren Adopted April 2023 
Winnie Adopted March 2023 
Roxy Adopted 2023 
Spencer Adopted Jan 2023 
Astro Adopted Dec 2022 
Buddy Adopted Nov 2022 
Dante Adopted Sep 2022 
Rogue Adopted Aug 2022 
Stella Adopted Oct 2022 |