Rescues
Although Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is one of the oldest and largest rescue centres in the country, there are many other organisations that are involved in animal welfare. We work with many of them in caring for abandoned dogs and cats. Here is a selection of our friends in animal rescue and welfare,
Rescues
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The Dog Rescue Pages
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Dogpages is an entirely non-profit site with many thousands of visitors each day.
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Romney House Cat Rescue
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Romney House works with organisations like Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, The RSPCA & The Cats Protection League. Animals considered unsuitable for re-homing due to a troubled past or health problems can live free & roam the grounds at Romney House.
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Margaret Green Animal Rescue
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Margaret Green Animal Rescue is an animal sanctuary for dogs and cats and other rescue animals in Devon and Dorset . Margaret Green Animal Rescue is a pet rescue charity with animal rescue centres throughout Dorset and Devon which shelter animals until they can be rehomed.
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Animals Worldwide
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Animals Worldwide was established to assist in the worldwide endeavour to bring cruelty to animals to an end.
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ASPCA
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The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) exists to promote humane principles, prevent cruelty and alleviate pain, fear and suffering in animals.
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The Blue Cross
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The Blue Cross aims to ensure the welfare of companion animals by providing practical care, highlighting the benefits of companionship between animals and people, and promoting responsibility towards animals in the community.
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Cats Protection
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Founded in 1927, Cats Protection is the UK's oldest and largest feline charity.
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Celia Hammond Animal Trust
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Over the last twenty five years former super-model Celia Hammond has rescued, neutered and re-homed many thousands of stray and abandoned animals.
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Chilterns Dog Rescue Society
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Chilterns Dog Rescue Society was formed in 1963 to rescue unwanted and homeless dogs and to provide accommodation until a permanent home can be found.
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Ani-mates
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Anim-Mates is a group of animal lovers, whose sole aim is to rehome animals, who through no fault of their own have found themselves without a home or family to care for them. Prior to being rehomed, they are fostered by Anim-Mates.
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Dogs Trust
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Founded in 1871, the Dogs Trust is a rehoming charity and campaigns on dog-welfare related issues to ensure a safe and happy future for dogs.
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East Galway Animal Rescue
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EGAR - Ireland's only Bull Breed Rescue.
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The Mayhew Animal Home
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The Mayhew Animal Home is an animal home and humane education and training centre.
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National Animal Welfare Trust
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The Trust, founded in 1971, operates rescue centres for unwanted, ill-treated and abandoned animals and birds. Its headquarters and London and Home Counties Rescue Centre is just outside Watford in Hertfordshire.
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RSPCA
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Since its beginning in 1824 - as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - the RSPCA has worked tirelessly to promote kindness and prevent cruelty to animals.
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Second Chance Animal Trust
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Second Chance Animal Trust was founded in September 1995 after the closure of the local animals’ home in Norwich. With this in mind SCAT started to raise money for a new home. While doing this SCAT achieved a successful rehoming program, including vet and pre-home checks.
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Swindon and District Animal Haven
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Owned and set up by the animal loving Warwick family a much needed animal sanctuary for Swindon and Wiltshire.
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Wood Green Animal Centre
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Wood Green Animal Shelters have three rescue centres in and around the South East of England. The original shelter where the charity first began in 1924 is in a house in Wood Green, London.
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Assisi Animal Sanctuary
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Assisi Animal Sanctuary provides rescue and long term care for abused, neglected and abandoned small domestic animals. At any given time the sanctuary is home to 100 animals including dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs.
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Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Centre and Cheltenham Animal Shelter
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Provides safe, secure haven to all animals in need and return to health the sick, find homes for the lost and give dignity to the aged.
Visit the Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Centre and Cheltenham Animal Shelter website >>
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Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home
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The Home is one of the few independent Homes in Scotland, taking in many hundreds of stray and unwanted dogs and cats every year.
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Friends of Animals League
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The Friends of Animals League (F.O.A.L) aims is to take in as many sick, distressed and unwanted animals as possible; to restore them to health and happiness, and to place them in good (vetted) homes.
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Gables Farm Dogs & Cats Home
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Gables Farm is an animal charity that has been sheltering and rehoming dogs and cats for nearly 100 years.
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Jersey SPCA Animals’ Shelter
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Jersey SPCA aims to prevent cruelty, promote knowledge, and provide for aged, sick, lost and unwanted animals.
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Margaret Green Animal Rescue (MGAR).
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MGAR was founded in 1965 to rescue, care for, and rehome unwanted, abandoned and cruelly treated animals. Operating in Dorset and Devon, we have at least 400 animals across our three sanctuaries at any given time including equines, farm animals, dogs, cats, furries, rodents, hedgehogs and various aviary birds and wildlife.
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Scottish SPCA
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The Scottish SPCA has been caring for and striving to prevent cruelty to Scotland's animals for 166 years.
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Animal Care (Lancaster, Morecombe & District)
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Animal Care, Lancaster, England, was formed in 1978 by a small number of dedicated people who looked after stray dogs and cats in their own homes. Over a period of time, kennels were rented and the number of animals increased. In 1987, Blea Tarn Kennels were acquired and then refurbished to accommodate 25 dogs, 24 cats and a large variety of other animals.
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Ashbourne & District Animal Welfare Society
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Ashbourne Animal Welfare is dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of stray and unwanted cats and dogs Operating from a purpose-built rescue centre - The Ark - near Ashbourne, in Derbyshire.
Visit the Ashbourne & District Animal Welfare Society website >>
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Bath Cats & Dogs Home
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Bath Cats & Dogs Home is a registered charity based at Claverton Down, near the University of Bath with over 2,500 unwanted cats, dogs and small animals relying upon them every year.
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Bolton Destitute Animal Centre
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The Destitute Animal Shelter is a rescue charity dedicated to caring for the lost, stray and abandoned dogs and cats of the Bolton area.
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Fen Bank Greyhound Sanctuary
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Fen Bank Greyhound Sanctuary, near Skegness in South Lincolnshire, was established in December 1997 by Sandra Miller. The Sanctuary, which obtained independent registered charity status in 1998, provides comfortable and spacious accommodation for 28 dogs.
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Greyhound Rescue West of England
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Greyhounds make wonderful family pets in the right homes. They have affectionate and patient temperaments and contrary to popular opinion, don't require vast amounts of exercise or food. If you would like to know more about the dogs in our care and what is involved in the rehoming process, please look through the pages on our website.
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Animal Concern (Bristol & District)
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Holly Hedge Sanctuary was first registered as a charity in 1982,. Set up by Pauline Leeson the aim has always been to provide a safe haven for animals until caring permanent owners can be found.
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Hula Animal Rescue
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HULA animal rescue is a registered charity which was formed in 1972, and has been established for 32 years providing sanctuary for dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domestic animals until new homes can be found. They also have a number of resident animals including goats, pigs, sheep, cows, ponies, and a donkey who are permanently retired there.
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ISPCA
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ISPCA
Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Labrador Lifeline Trust
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The Labrador Lifeline Trust is a registered charity operating in Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex and Lincolnshire. Helpers are all unpaid volunteers and all money raised is used in the rehoming and welfare of dogs.
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Leicester Animal Aid
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Leicester Animal Aid (LAA) is an animal charity that provides unwanted and homeless dogs and cats with immediate shelter, sanctuary, food and health care and the opportunity for permanent and safe rehoming with responsible and loving pet owners.
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Leitrim Animal Welfare
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Leitrim Animal Welfare was established in 1997 by David and Christine Coulson and has developed into one of the largest rescue centres in Ireland, housing up to 100 dogs at any one time at our Drumkeerin base in North Co. Leitrim.
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Manchester and District Home for Lost Dogs
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The Home takes in over 7000 dogs every year, and have been doing so for 113 years. The Home is always looking for caring permanent and foster homes for dogs and often have over 150 dogs waiting to find that perfect family.
Visit the Manchester and District Home for Lost Dogs website >>
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USPCA
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The Society, a registered charity, is the principal animal welfare organisation in Northern Ireland and its views are widely regarded by the media, local government and members of the Legislative Assembly as the definitive voice on all matters relating to the welfare of animals.
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Retired Greyhound Trust
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For more than 30 years an army of volunteers has been finding loving homes for over 35,000 greyhounds. They rescue needy greyhounds and take care of them until appropriate homes can be found. They are the only national charity which concentrates all its efforts on improving life for ex-racing greyhounds.
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Sighthound Welfare Trust
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Sighthound Welfare Trust (also known as SWT) is a registered charity that is committed to improving the welfare of sighthounds in the UK, Ireland and Spain. They promote responsible ownership, raise awareness of sighthound welfare issues and support the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of sighthounds.
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The Swan Sanctuary
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The Swan Sanctuary is a charity dedicated to the care and treatment of swans and waterfowl with an established reputation, not only within the British Isles but worldwide.
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Greenwich Rabbit Rescue
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Greenwich Rabbit Rescue is based in south east London, taking in unwanted rabbits and guinea pigs.
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Hyndburn Stray Dogs in Need
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Rehoming charity for stray dogs.
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NASA Trust
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Started in 1979, NASA Trust rescue and rehomes dogs, cats, and small pets at our centre in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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Paws a Wyle
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For cat rescue in Wales, call Linda on 01558 823650.
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K9 Animal Refuge Tenerife
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K9 Animal Refuge Tenerife rescues injured, sick, ill-treated and abandoned cats and dogs in Tenerife running extensive rehoming and neutering programs, and rely soley on public donations.
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