How to Adopt a dog from Border Collie Rescue

Phone us and we'll talk about it

Our office hours are 2pm to 5pm Tuesdays, Wenesdays and Thursdays.
The number to use is 01644 440654

A couple of things you need to know.

We cannot place a dog in a home where there are resident children under the age of 8 or where all adults are working full time away from home or in cities, built up areas in towns or other busy and noisy environments.
Most of the dogs we take in are rescued from towns and cities and come to us because they have not coped with the situations they find themselves in and have developed problems they and their owners have found difficult to live with.  Our job is to rehabilitate these dogs before we re-home them and then make sure they do not go to back into the type of situation that caused the behavioural issues we have worked to overcome.

We do not sell dogs. Dogs are adopted after a months trial period.
If the person adopting the dog is unable to continue to keep it, for any reason, the dog must be returned to us and not passed on to anyone else without our prior agreement.

After assessment most of our dogs are placed as companions where they can live in a domestic environment and give and receive affection and respect in the company of people.

 As well as for companionship we also assess and rehome dogs for -

HERDING AND STOCK CONTROL
WORKING ROLES WHERE SCENT DISCRIMINATION IS REQUIRED
SKILLS WHERE THEY ASSIST PEOPLE IN OTHER WORKING ROLES
SEARCH AND RESCUE
WORKING TRIALS
INTERACTIVE SKILLS LIKE AGILITY, FLYBALL, ETC.
ASSISTANCE DOGS VIA REGISTERED TRAINING CHARITIES
THERAPY DOGS

These all need affection and respect too!

We work on the principle that the only way to be sure that the right Border Collie is offered to a home is to know and understand the character, temperament and needs of each individual dog that comes into our care.

So whyever you need a Border Collie, call us. We may have just the right dog.

Please don't email us about adopting a dog or phone us outside of our office hours.

Please phone us during office hours and if we are so busy with the dogs that no-one has time to man the phone to take your call please forgive us and then leave a message and we will call you back.