Can anyone help?

The pound I am involved with (and where our Maddie came from) is filling up with staffies again. Some of them have been there for 4 months now, as rescues refuse to take them.
Does anyone here know of a rescue organisation that will take on homeless staffies, or at least be able to organise foster homes? We now have 4 on 'death row' as the lady who manages the pound has done everything in her power to keep them safe (at least 2 should have been pts by now if she was following the rules).

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP

You could search the rescues in this forum and maybe phone a few I can't put the link up as I'm on my mobile but someone will I'm sure. Or visit the home page its on there

The situation is dire inst it

This the link to rescues, click on the UK one


staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t10833-rescue-centres-list

Thank you for the list. I will pass it to the pound just in case there is one on there we have missed! The problem is we have approached all of the rescues we know of in about a 200 mile radius with no luck at all. Bath is full, Bristol is full, Margaret Green isn't taking in dogs (so is also full), Loving Homes is advertising them for us and offering to do homechecks but no luck so far...

Maybe there is a rescue on there that CAN help We shall have a look.

Please cross your fingers for us

How many are absolute emergencies?
How is transportation managed?

Hi I volunteer with the same pound as Sarah who did the original post, and we have one male SBT and a female SBT x Boxer (we think) who are desparate. They are in the council pound at the moment and I'm getting quite worried for them.

I'm in the process of trying to add details here (including photos), transportation is not a problem as we have people (including myself) who are willing to assist with that.

Ok, thanks for that.
Will have a word tomorrow at the rescue I foster for - can't guarantee anything as, I'm sure you'll appreciate, the phones went bonkers over Christmas.

Cheers - any help would be appreciated!! It's madness out there!!

For kennel space's sake, can the two live together?

Petula (above) and our other dog Donny have been walked together and they were fine, but we have not tried either of them in a kennel with another dog as they have to be kept separate (kennel rules). But it is a question I will put to the volunteers to see what they think.

Donny and Petula look lovely and so appealing, hopefully you will find them their forever homes soon.

Well done Stephanie and Sarah for your good work ><

Hi,

Regarding Petula and Donny - please call Ros on 07849 637862 ASAP.

She runs Animal Helpline Dog Rescue at http://www.homes4dogs.co.uk/ and has agreed, if you are still desperate, to take these two in as long as you can arrange transport to the PE8 (Peterborough) area.

She's expecting your call - just say you're calling in regards to the two staffies at the pound that Keith told her about.

Cheers.

fingers crossed it can be sorted , nice one Keith Only wish I lived closer and I would have happily done the transport. If times are not an issue though I could do the journey from Luton to Peterborough on Thursday afternoon / evening if it would help at all, as long as both dogs will travel on rear seats with harnesses and restraints , I would expect to be available from around 15.00 in Luton Thursday

Hi Dave,
Cheers for the offer.
Let's see how the pound and rescue can arrange it and go from there.
By chance, the rescue rehomed a couple of staffies today, hence the space.

Keith wrote:Hi Dave,
Cheers for the offer.
Let's see how the pound and rescue can arrange it and go from there.
By chance, the rescue rehomed a couple of staffies today, hence the space.

Start back work tomorrow Keith hence my limitations but glad top help if I can fit it in

Thank you so much Keith

Dave wrote:

Keith wrote:Hi Dave,
Cheers for the offer.
Let's see how the pound and rescue can arrange it and go from there.
By chance, the rescue rehomed a couple of staffies today, hence the space.

Start back work tomorrow Keith hence my limitations but glad top help if I can fit it in

I know you are mate.
This forum kicks butt. ><

Sar H wrote:Thank you so much Keith

Let me know what day you're taking them up and I'll see if I can get up there myself.

Thank you so much Keith. I have spoken to Ros and now the Dog Warden so fingers crossed!!

Really sorry that we can't help at Bristol, we're having real problems moving our staffies on too! Got everything crossed for these guys, really hope you find somewhere!!!

What's the delay?
Just had Ros on the phone asking where the dogs are - if you're not coming can you let me know as there are other dogs due to be PTS at other pounds.

Keith, I've been told that the Dog Warden has spoken to Ros and been told that the rescue cannot help. I'm really not sure why?

I'm not sure if there has been a mix up? Petula and Donny do still need a rescue space urgently. The Dog Warden says she mentioned my name and yours to Ros, but was told had no space for bull breeds.

sure Keith will be on at some point soon and get this cleared up

stephanie wrote:I'm not sure if there has been a mix up? Petula and Donny do still need a rescue space urgently. The Dog Warden says she mentioned my name and yours to Ros, but was told had no space for bull breeds.

Ros kept spaces back for them, agreed to take them, and has been on the phone to me asking where they are.

She's asked me to chase you up directly as the spaces are about to get filled with PTS risks from other pounds.

EDIT: Just made a phone call - the rescue owner says she spoke to a forum poster who phoned her and who was going to get the warden to call but the warden hasn't spoken to her yet.

Maybe the warden spoke to someone else at the rescue who didn't know about it?

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I have phoned Ros and left a message.

Fingers crossed all goes well from here

Indeed.

Rachel, I do understand! More than half of all the dogs at our pound seem to be unwanted staffies...

I know our warden contacted the rescue the same day and left a message.

So many rescues turn down staffies as they are already bursting with them, and so many people prefer other types to rehome

We are still looking for urgent homes/foster places

Sarah I hope you can find the spaces you are looking for, my heart goes out to you.

Keith wrote:Maybe the warden spoke to someone else at the rescue who didn't know about it?

Hmm, this sounds like a possibility as I know the warden did speak to someone.
Oh I hope this gets sorted out

Thanks for all the support and kind words. It does help.

An update:
One of the death row staffies has been offered a place at a rescue, but we have another dog in so there are two on borrowed time and another that has been pushed up the list.
I don't know what happened with the rescue suggested by Keith, but the spaces fill so quickly...
If anyone fosters with a rescue and feel the need for another dog then please consider one of these poor unwanted dogs.

Of course, there will be a load of half grown puppies entering all the rescues before Easter

I think six or eight with a PTS time for later that day (not just a PTS date) came in from another pound.

Keith wrote:I think six or eight with a PTS time for later that day (not just a PTS date) came in from another pound.

Well if I was running the rescue I would have taken them too, the poor little souls.

Tonight our girl is cuddly and has been playing with her soft toy froggie. How can anyone abandon them

I'm asking the same thing here, Sarah.

I go into the staffy kennels, then the collie ones, then the lurcher ones, then the bulldog ones, then the.....

and just keep thinking: "How are you here?"

It's a shame it didn't work out this time, but thanks to everyone who tried to help. We won't give up until it's too late.

Donny and Petula are still the most urgent cases and really need out asap to keep them safe.

On a positive note, both of them were tested with an 8yr old child last week, and were deemed to be 'child friendly'. So that is another plus point in their favour.

witch dog pound is it please if i haven't got it on my facebook page i will add it

stephanie wrote:It's a shame it didn't work out this time, but thanks to everyone who tried to help. We won't give up until it's too late.

Donny and Petula are still the most urgent cases and really need out asap to keep them safe.

On a positive note, both of them were tested with an 8yr old child last week, and were deemed to be 'child friendly'. So that is another plus point in their favour.

aww i'm sorry hun i will try my best to get these dogs noticed ok

mad dog women wrote:witch dog pound is it please if i haven't got it on my facebook page i will add it

The dogs are with 'Friends of South Glos Strays (FOSS)', and Petula and Donny are now officially on imminent countdown to being pts, unfortunately, as they still don't have rescue spaces.

Donny and Petula were picked up by South Gloucestershire Dog Warden and they are still there at the moment. Both are suffering in kennels. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sar H wrote:

mad dog women wrote:witch dog pound is it please if i haven't got it on my facebook page i will add it

The dogs are with 'Friends of South Glos Strays (FOSS)', and Petula and Donny are now officially on imminent countdown to being pts, unfortunately, as they still don't have rescue spaces.

its out of my area but i will still help something has to be done for them

mad dog women wrote:

Sar H wrote:

mad dog women wrote:witch dog pound is it please if i haven't got it on my facebook page i will add it

The dogs are with 'Friends of South Glos Strays (FOSS)', and Petula and Donny are now officially on imminent countdown to being pts, unfortunately, as they still don't have rescue spaces.

its out of my area but i will still help something has to be done for them

Thank you. We can transport them to anywhere in the UK.

Hope you have some luck this time around

stephanie wrote:

mad dog women wrote:

Sar H wrote:

mad dog women wrote:witch dog pound is it please if i haven't got it on my facebook page i will add it

The dogs are with 'Friends of South Glos Strays (FOSS)', and Petula and Donny are now officially on imminent countdown to being pts, unfortunately, as they still don't have rescue spaces.

its out of my area but i will still help something has to be done for them

Thank you. We can transport them to anywhere in the UK.

is that the same with all your dogs you have ?
if so i would be able to add the pound to the rescue dogs
i have on facebook
i have made some posters for you if you want to use them

Mad Dog Woman - those posters are lovely, thank you

I shall pass them on the the others and we will use them, if that is OK with you.

How about you pop over to the FOSS page on FB and talk to us on there? I'm sure sharing the dogs further will only be a good thing, and we can all like and share your dog page too.

Oh, and Donny and Petula have until Friday