This is your typical bulldog and is the breed of dog we are set up to rehome. Please read the rest of this page before continuing with the rehoming process
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THE BULLDOG RESCUE RE-HOMING SERVICE
The bulldog rescue re-homing service allows those who need to find their bulldog a new family the opportunity of finding a safe and vetted pet home for their dog without the need of advertising him or screening out potential new homes themselves. Bulldog Rescue is a voluntary organisation in place to help pure bred bulldogs and their owners across the UK, we are not a dogs home and therefore are unable to offer kennel accommodation but in emergency situations are able to offer a limited number of short stay foster care places via our network of volunteers across the country.
We are only able to offer assistance in rehoming pure bred bulldogs and therefore ask that you ensure your bulldog is a pure bred before completing the paperwork. We sadly cannot help any of the cross breeds, these include Victorian, American, Sussex, Old Tyme, Dorset, Old English, 19th Century, Aylestone, Pickwick etc etc or any other bull breed (ie: Staffordshire or English Bull Terriers etc).
Please complete the form enclosed and return it to us as soon as possible. We will be unable to commence our search for a new family until this has been received. Please only sign the disclaimer if you are honestly able to do so. We cannot rehome a known biter and draw your attention to the fact that we will not accept liability if you are not honest with us about anything concerning your bulldogs health, behaviour or temperament. If you cannot honestly sign please contact us immediately as if a dog is returned to us for biting a person we will have no choice but to put him to sleep.
Stage One:
Please sign and return the Permission to Rehome form enclosed
Stage Two:
We will select a family from our existing waiting list. There are several hundred people on our waiting list and we do not operate the list on a system of first come first served. The family will be chosen via a system of area and suitability and we will attempt to find your bulldog a home within 2 hours of his current location and with a family that matches his needs and requirements.
Stage Three:
We will vet the potential new family as much as is practically possible. We will firstly ensure that the name and address is valid, after that vetting will be either by way of a home visit by one of our Area Volunteers, a verbal reference from a veterinary practice that knows the family well or a written character reference from an employer, landlord or similar.
Stage Four:
In the event that we are satisfied that the family chosen is suitable we will then contact you with their details. It is much easier that the final arrangements are made directly between you as it saves a lot of to-ing and fro-ing from us, it also gives you the opportunity to make sure you are happy with our choice of family.
Stage Five:
You now need to contact the family selected and arrange for them to visit you and your dog at your home. It is very important that they come to you as allowing them to view the dog on home territory with people he is familiar with will give them a much better opportunity of assessing his personality. We do however ask that we are kept fully up to date with the progress, we like to know the day the family plan to visit and of course we need to know if this visit is successful or not.
Stage Six:
Providing you are happy with the family selected you may allow them to take the dog home with them from this visit. This is the last opportunity you have to change your mind but we point out that you are under no obligation to go through with the rehoming right up until the dog has left your property. If for any reason you are not happy with them simply tell them you cannot go through with the rehoming as once he has left your possession he automatically becomes bulldog rescue property and remains so until the adoption processes has been executed. In the event you are contacted by the new family because the placement is not working you must contact bulldog rescue immediately, it is usual for us to arrange collection via a network volunteer as soon as possible as he is our responsibility by this stage.
Please ensure that the following items are returned to Bulldog Rescue with the Permission Form
What Now?
Once we have your permission form we will begin the search, if you change your mind after you have returned this form to us please let us know immediately as we may already have a new home arranged and keeping us informed will not only save us time and money but will also avoid disappointment to the new family if the process goes too far. If there are a large number of bulldogs in the system we will rehome them on a priority basis.
Once we have been informed that the dog has moved we will then send the new family their adoption paper work. This paperwork signs the dog over to them but allows Bulldog Rescue the right of first refusal should they be unable to keep him at any point throughout his life time. It also prevents them from breeding or showing their new dog and requires them to stay in touch with Bulldog Rescue throughout his life time. They will also be eligible for 6 weeks free insurance courtesy of Pet Plan. Any microchip will be transferred to Bulldog Rescue thus ensuring that we will be informed should the dog ever escape, be stolen or find himself in a rescue centre at any point in the future.
How long does this all take?
This depends on each individual situation, please be aware that the service is run by volunteers who give up their free time, many of us have day jobs, families and dogs of our own. Of course older dogs or dogs with known health or behaviour problems are obviously that little more difficult to find a suitable family for and we would much rather take our time in finding the right family than allow the dog to move to an unsuitable family only to find that the placement fails. It is rare for a placement to fail, but if it does it is often because there was something about the dog that we didn’t know about. The new family is selected from the information supplied regarding what your dog needs but no one can be 100% sure how things will be following the move. Common reasons for failure are aggression or problems between the new arrival and an existing dog, Bulldog Rescue are responsible for the dog at this stage and it is usual for us to arrange collection by a volunteer. We advice that you ask your vet to check him over prior to completing the documentation so any obvious problems can be disclosed, Bulldog Rescue may be able to help with the costs of any required treatment if there is no pet insurance in place.
Thank you for coming to Bulldog Rescue, by using our service you are helping to make it possible for us to help other bulldogs in need across the country. We are the only official bulldog breed rescue for the UK and are Kennel Club registered, endorsed by the London Bulldog Society we are also members of the Bulldog Breed Council and operate to a strict policy. Our aim is to always do the very best for every bulldog that passes through our system and to ensure that his new home is exactly the right home for him. This service is free to everyone that needs to rehome their bulldog and remember that should you need to talk to anyone after your dog has left your care we are able to offer a counselling service as well as we appreciate just how difficult this decision has been for you.
We look forward to hearing from you again very soon and should you need to discuss any part of this process before returning the permission form please feel free to do so.
