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come into our direct care or need to find a new Animal Health Advisor (C-SQP) we are able to
home, and as the treatment would be required supply many of the items you can buy over the
anyway it’s often cheaper for the charity to help counter and it ensures we can provide inhouse
the owner rather than take a dog off them that flea, worm and skin treatments at cost price. We
they really don’t want to part with. Our rehoming are also unique in so far as not all the bulldogs
is strict and as such our failure rate is very low. we are asked to help come into our direct care.
We are proud of the system we have built up We have since the start, operated a Rehome
over the years, we offer Behaviour support, from Home system which allows the dogs to
Bereavement Support, Crisis Support and a 24 stay at home. We see this as a safe alternative
hour emergency service. We encourage all our to a Free Ad as we will do all the screening,
families to stay in touch with us and we regularly background checking and home check. We will
contact our dogs to make sure they are happy go out to see the dog and fully assess it before
and safe. agreeing to rehome it and then it is rehomed in
exactly the same way as the dogs in our kennels
Funding is obviously always an issue, especially or foster homes. The owner has the option of
since the huge hike in Veterinary Costs but we either meeting the new family or not meeting
have several ways we help to support ourselves. them and in that situation a BDR volunteer will
An online Auction, which has been run for many transport the dog between homes. This has
years by our Vice Chairman Jo, is a huge part of always been a popular service and apart from
that funding, alongside Adoption fees but also, helping to keep costs down, it’s much kinder on
unlike most rescues, we charge a small fee to the dog who only has to undergo one move. It
be put on our waiting list. With a breed popular also means the owner doesn’t have to fend off
with those looking for fight bait this small charge a million phone calls – especially in the case of
ensures we have a name and address and a young dog who can have over 100 successful
unless this fee is paid there is no access to the applications.
dog’s profiles – just the basic likes and dislikes
for each dog listed for rehoming. We also run Bulldogs are a breed popular with thieves, more
a small clinic service, with Tania a qualified so since the fad colour craze took off. Another
service that has always been available is our
Lost and Stolen scheme, run by our volunteer
Anna – who is also a local Dog Lost volunteer
– we have had huge success in getting many
stolen bulldogs back where they belong.
Sadly all our fund raising events have been
cancelled but our annual Bulldog Picnic which
is now in it’s 23rd year is going on line this year
so for more information about our Virtual Picnic
or to find out more about Bulldog Rescue in
general please feel free to check out the web
site at
www.bulldogrescue.org.uk
I would like to think that this rescue will be
around in another 40 years and that we will have
made our mark on the breed – not just rescuing
individual bulldogs but going some way in
rescuing the British Bulldog as well.
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