About Us

We are a small, family run rescue centre situated in the picturesque village of Grinshill - 8 miles north of Shrewsbury (off the A49 Whitchurch road).

Our house and kennels nestle into the base of Grinshill hill and we are surrounded by woods and fields - haven for cats and dogs alike. We started rescuing dogs approximately 16 years ago, taking in stray, battered and abused animals and generally helping people when they could no longer look after their animals for one reason or another.

As the years progressed, the work has increased. We refurbished our kennels in 2006 but still have work to do this year, we also intend to renew our cattery. No matter how much space is made with new kennels and a cattery, there is never enough room - we always have waiting lists for dogs & cats to be re-homed.

Our aim is to rehabilitate and re-home all animals to suitable, caring homes. All homes are checked before and after re-homing. The dogs are vet checked, vaccinated, microchipped and a voucher towards neutering is given and all cats are neutered and vaccinated. As we are only a small sanctuary our animals all have individual love and attention.

We are the only kennel that take in all the stray dogs from the North Shropshire and Oswestry district, this amounts to approximately 450 a year, with only a third of those being claimed by their owners, the remainder are cared for until they can be rehomed. As we are only funded by the council for the first 7 days, your support is desperately needed and gratefully received. We are limited to what we can do by the strength of our resources, both financial and human. We are short in both areas and are appealing for help. We need more people to help raise funds and carry out other voluntary tasks, such as 'dog walking', if you can spare a little of your time then your help would be most welcome.

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