Surrender

Sometimes the reason to consider rehoming is due to behavioural issues that are making living with your dog difficult. In these situations we recommend that you speak with a suitable modern, positive reward based qualified behaviourist before making the decision to rehome as they may be able to help you work through the issues without the need to rehome.

Associations that you can contact to help with this are:

• Association of Pet Dog Trainers
• Association of INTO Dogs
  
• Association of Pet Behaviourists and Trainers
• Association of Pet Behaviour Councillors

You can also go to our Behaviourists page where there is a list of the qualified behaviourists that we have worked with around the country.

We don’t have kennels, we work home to home and where possible foster to home. This means that we can work with you right through the process until the dog goes into is adopted home. We will rehome Bedlingtons and their crosses.

We arrange a Behavioural Intake Assessment for all the dogs that come into our care.  The assessment is an essential part of the rehoming process as it enables us to match your dog to the right home. It also enables us to put in place the appropriate training / behavioural back up and support to help the dog settle into the new home. Where the dog needs behavioural rehabilitation an appointed behaviourist will work with the new family to help the dog through its issues. Our prime objective is that the dog stays in the new home and doesn't bounce out.

We do ask that the gifting owner helps to cover the cost of this assessment if at all possible (generally in the region of £100). Every case is taken as an individual of course, but even a donation towards the assessment will help our funding. But no dog will be turned away through lack of an assessment donation being forthcoming.

We would want to make contact with the gifting owner's veterinary surgeon if we need to discuss any medication the dog is on or if it has any ongoing conditions that will require medication in the new home. 

When we have found a potential new owner we will arrange for a home check / interview.  These are always carried out by an appointed qualified trainer or behaviourist.  We will keep you updated right through the process.

We do not put surrendering homes and new homes in direct contact to protect the privacy of both parties but rest assured we would match the right home and we do send updates to let you know how your pet is settling in.  

BTRF have very strict ethics where rehoming dogs is concerned. At all times we have the dogs welfare in mind.

• You can be assured that we do not breed any of the dogs that come into our care. Entire dogs will be spayed/neutered when appropriate once they are settled in their new home, unless there is a genuine medical reason not to.
• We do not buy dogs that are for sale from a private individual or on any public media sites or from rescue centres.
• We would advise you not to advertise your dog on sites like Gumtree / Preloved etc or social media such as Facebook. Selling your dog through these methods means you have no control where your dog will end up. Increasing numbers of people are trawling these sites for dogs to use as bait dogs for dog-fighting rings, often posing (very convincingly) as loving family homes. Or in the case of unneutered dogs & bitches to breed from them and then casting them out.

If you do need to rehome your dog for whatever reason we will ask you to complete a Surrender History Form for us by clicking the link below. Please be as honest and comprehensive as you can as this will help us when looking for a new home.

If you need any further help or advise please call our Training and Behaviour Advisor, Kaye Scott on 01959 575129