Plantation Dog Rescue

Registered Charity No. 1124633

 28th June 2008 - Today we made one hundred and nineteen ponds and 47p in York. We made this in general donations and donations for rides on the Tuk Tuk.

Luggs came along and was adored by everyone :)

Thank you to everyone that supported us!

29th June 2008 - We raised two hundred and sixty four pounds and 7p at Rufforth Carboot Sale! Thank you to Ian & Denise (Wesley & Tilly) for coming along to help us!

Plantation Dog Rescue opened in January 2005. It began with a small number number of dogs but rapidly increased to up to 20 dogs at any one time. There are so many stray dogs all over the country, but particularly in the North, and not enough funding or rescue centres to help them all. .....but we can save a lot of them with your help!

We are entirely donation run so please if you are able to contribute in any way get in touch!

We pick up dogs from the council run kennels that are due to be put to sleep. All strays must serve their legal seven days in the stray kennels to give their owner a chance to claim them. If their owner doesn't come forward and the kennels are full, (which they usually are in Yorkshire) the dogs that have served their seven days will be put to sleep to make room for the new ones coming in each day. We go to the stray and kennels and pick up the dogs that are on death row and heres what happens next:

YOU COULD SAVE US!

We are struggling to keep your local Dog Rescue Centre ‘Plantation Dog Rescue’ running. We need to raise between £3000 and £4,000 a month to keep the rescue open. Since January 2005 we have rescued and rehomed over 200 dogs from Yorkshire and other areas and completed many people’s families. With your help we can continue to give these dogs the chance that they deserve. We receive most of our food from very generous food collections in local supermarkets but at the moment we have very few direct debits/standing orders which are what Plantation Dog Rescue really needs to secure a future for the many unwanted and abandoned dogs in the UK. Not only do we have the veterinary bills to pay, but all the everyday running costs too.

Until now the boarding kennels has not charged us much upkeep for using almost half of their kennels, however the rescue is now preventing the boarding kennels from making their usual income. The owner of the boarding kennels does not want Plantation Dog Rescue to close and has given us 6 months to raise the money and keep the rescue open. The money we are trying to raise will cover kennelling costs, telephone bills, administration costs, some staff costs, all of our veterinary and petrol costs!

We are nearly a 1/4 of the way there so with a bit of hope and a lot of hardwork and of course help from the public we are fighting to keep the rescue open!

We have now applied for a charity number to get Plantation Dog Rescue properly registered.

Rather than giving us a one off donation please consider giving a smaller monthly donation, this enables us to budget each month for how many dogs we are able to rescue.

This is a genuine rescue centre, 99% of the dogs that we take in would literally die if we were not here.

* The dogs are seen by the vet and given a check over and their first vaccination.They are treated for fleas and worms.

*They are microchipped and neutered.

* They are given their second vaccination and another check over at the vets.

* Whilst all this is going on we assess them and decide what sort of home would suit them best, and give them the love and support that most of them need.

*If a dog stays with us for longer than a couple of weeks, which unfortunately many of them do we begin to do some basic training with them to make it easier for them to find a new home, and possibly widen the possibilites of new homes. 

*The dog will find a new home, we will vet the home and make sure that dog and owner will be well suited before letting the dog go to his or her new home, and new future.

*After a year in it's new home we will contact the owners to make sure that they have had the dog 's booster vaccination done, and that they are all still happy together.

 As you can see a lot of time and care goes into each dog that we rescue.

If you are unable to donate financially, other things that we always need are:

Dog Food -Mixer, Meal, Skinners Dog Food and Chappie meat are what we prefer to use but we will use anything!

Bedding - Blankets, towels, curtains, sheets, carpet can all be used.

Leads and Collars- we always need long lines for training.

Your time - We are always in need of dogwalkers and transporters.

Thank you all for keeping us going, please have a look at the scary statistics below which show how much we really need your help!

*A recent survey carried out on behalf of Dogs Trust reported that 101,586 stray dogs were found and collected by local authorities    in the UK last year, and 7,743 dogs were destroyed for want of a home, in some cases a dog may have suffered injury or ill health. These dogs have either been dumped or have strayed and although every effort is made to locate the owners of lost dogs, no tag or chip means this can sometimes be impossible.      

 Over 6,000 of these dogs were collected by Yorkshire local authorities in the last year. This is a 17 per cent increase on last years results, an additional 900 dogs. Shockingly it was discovered that the number of dogs put to sleep unnecessarily has grown from 200 to 400 dogs over the course of the year, which is a worrying increase of 106 per cent. **

 **All figures are estimates based on an assumption that responding authorities are representative of authorities as a whole. Results relate to the period 31st March 2005 to 1st April 2006. The 2006 survey was produced by GfK NOP who mailed questionnaires to all 432 local authorities in the UK, with a response rate of 64%. Results are weighted to represent the 432 authorities.