Welcome to Guildford & District Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rescue!
Guildford and District Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rescue are a charity aiming to rehome Staffordshire Bull
Terriers in and around the Guildford (Surrey) area. Please take a look around our website and meet some of our
dogs who are desperately in need of a new home.
For the most up-to-date news please visit our blog.
News
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15 May: Appeal For Saffy
Sapphire (Saffy) is eight years old and has been in rescue for two years. She now has a lump high up on her left hind leg which our vet
believes to be worrying and which needs to be removed and tested. If the tests show it is nasty and has spread we may have to make the
decision to 'let her go,' however we want to give her a chance and so we are launching an appeal to raise money for the operation to have
the lump removed. Our target is £300.
Saffy is in robustly good health for an eight year old and enjoys a good quality of life in rescue but she would much prefer a home of her own.
If you would like to make a donation to help Saffy please click on our donate paw.
If you are interested in offering her a home please read her description in 'Our Dogs.'
To follow her progress please read our daily Blog.
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15 May: We had a perfect morning and another excellent turnout for our second Stafford Walk on 25th March.
There were some old friends and some new faces. Everyone behaved responsibly so we could show what good dogs Staffords can be with responsible
owners and almost £100 was raised towards funds. Thank you to everyone who took part.
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20 Mar: We will be at Godalming Pets at Home store on Friday 30th March/Tuesday3rd April/Easter Monday 9th April/Friday 13th April/Sunday 15th April
This is part of their charity drive ALL money raised will come to G&DSBT Rescue we do need volunteers for this.
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20 Mar: Please see our updated write up for Boycie.
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28 Feb: As from Tuesday 21st February 2012 Guildford & District Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rescue is no longer affiliated
to Staffordshire Bull Terrier Welfare.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Welfare for their support for us during the time we have been with them.
Alison and David Oakden.
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26 Jan: We have a new dog called Ruby.
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10 Jan: Click here for a success story for Pepper (formerly Fleur).
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2 Dec: We were not prepared for the overwhelming response to our Stafford Walk on Sunday 20th November to celebrate National Staffordshire Bull Terrier Day. 36 dogs turned up and many more people. We had four puppies one of them deaf, several Staffie crosses, two Collies and a Yorkshire Terrier!
Most people were local but some travelled quite a distance especially Gareth and Monty coming all the way from Wiltshire.
Sam with Roxy and her friend with Saffy and Jon with Sky lead the field.
All owners behaved responsibly and we enjoyed an hours stroll along the river creating an impressive sight.
Everyone was asking when the next one was and a fantastic £158.50 was raised for funds.
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16 Nov: Sunday 27th November 'Living With Wolves' Dog behaviour and Training clinic 10am/3pm Pets At Home Godalming.
Donations to Pets At Home 'Support Adoption Scheme' and Guildford & District Staffordshire Bull Terrier Rescue.
Contact David on 07971627146 to book your place.
We will also have a stall at Bullie Rescue's Christmas Fundraiser. Sunday 4th December from 10am at Milford Village Hall, near Godalming.
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16 Nov: We have taken in three new dogs in the past month despite still having our 'stickers'. We also have several dogs on
our website that remain in their own homes but are urgent and whom we are paying for vaccinations, chipping and neutering. This has put us under considerable
strain both with time and space but especially financially. Please can you support us with your donations both large and small so we can continue to help these dogs.
We also need foster / permanent homes for all of these dogs.
Tara is 10 year old she is in kennels and has an ear infection desperately needs a foster home.
Chance is 1 year old (approx)
Smudge is now in long term foster but still costing us money to feed etc
Sapphire (been with us over a year and needs a home of their own ASAP)
Please, please help in any way you can...our only funding is from public donations our resources are getting very low.
Alison ( November 2011)
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27 Oct: We had a fantastic 4 days at Pets at Home for their support adoption week.
We gave out information and publicised National SBT Day and our Stafford Walk on 20th November.
David and Helen (dog behaviourists from 'Living With Wolves,' were on hand to give out advice and work with our rescues.
On Sunday we were joined by SOS Dog Rescue and many of our owners brought their dogs back to see us.
We also met 3 Stafford puppies. We raised £434 for Support Adoption and they will in turn give us £100 for each day we were there.
It was a great success.
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27 Oct: Peppa has been rehomed!
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5 Oct: We have a new dog called Marley.
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4 Aug: We have a success story for Syd
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28 July: Thanks to Val, Stuart, Heather, Mel and Luci for all their effort to show our presence at Battersea Old Windsor Open Day.
They raised a fantastic £165!
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28 July: Thanks to Alan and Kathy for their support at Epsom Canine Rescue's show on 18th July at Priory Park Reigate. We endured horrendous
weather with Gazebos taking off and damaging helpers cars (not ours which was expertly constructed by Alan) and everything getting soaked and disintegrating. In the end it was a
good day with Jade, Angel and Sandy taking part in the parade of rescue dogs and the agility course. We raised £47 with the tombola and kathy even made some delicious cup cakes.
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15 July: We have rehomed Bailey.
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We had a good four days at Pets At Home, Godalming Store managing to sell 100 raffle tickets for
Support Adoption their charity which in turn supports us.
In all we raised £400!
We made lots of friends and made good contacts, handing out leaflets and promoting Staffords and their needs, plus getting a sun tan,
who needs a holiday?!?
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Syd and Leah have been rehomed!
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Appeal For Cleo
We have reached our target for Cleo's appeal! £681 raised.
A HUGE thank you to all who gave money. Cleo's leg is healing well and she will return to her owner on 16th May.
Thank you to Kerry Crick and her friend Colin Teager who raised £230 towards Cleo's appeal with a sponsored agility run.
Thank you to Staffiezone for a donation of £300.
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Thank you to Pets At Home charity Support Adoption for a cheque for £250 from their Christmas appeal
and a big thank you to Deb Fox and her daughters who also collected at Christmas and donated a fantastic £275!
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We have received a cheque for £300 from Pets At Home charitable Trust for the three days
we spent at the Godalming store in October. Thank you to all who helped and to Pets at Home.
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Our New Blog! Because of the recent success of our blog we have decided to make it a
permenant fixture of the website! The blog can be accessed by clicking on the new button next to our banner. And because
this is a proper blog, you can contribute by posting you own comments! We hope you will continue to follow us and our news!
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Please see our blog
for a write up of our day at Discover Dogs.
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Staffordshire Bull Terrier Welfare have produced a leaflet about the Dangerous Dogs Act and how it affects every Stafford owner.
Please click here to download a copy.
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Make a donation to us on-line using Paypal!
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We've successfully rehomed over 100 staffies! Visit our Successes
for more details.
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CAN YOU HELP? Our rescue always needs more foster homes.
Can you offer a temporary home to a dog in need? click here to contact
us if you would like more information.
Sapphire (Saffy) is eight years old and has been in rescue for two years. She now has a lump high up on her left hind leg which our vet
believes to be worrying and which needs to be removed and tested. If the tests show it is nasty and has spread we may have to make the
decision to 'let her go,' however we want to give her a chance and so we are launching an appeal to raise money for the operation to have
the lump removed. Our target is £300.
Saffy is in robustly good health for an eight year old and enjoys a good quality of life in rescue but she would much prefer a home of her own.
If you would like to make a donation to help Saffy please click on our donate paw.
If you are interested in offering her a home please read her description in 'Our Dogs.'
To follow her progress please read our daily Blog.
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank Welfare for their support for us during the time we have been with them.
Alison and David Oakden.
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Contact David on 07971627146 to book your place.
We will also have a stall at Bullie Rescue's Christmas Fundraiser. Sunday 4th December from 10am at Milford Village Hall, near Godalming.
We also need foster / permanent homes for all of these dogs.
Tara is 10 year old she is in kennels and has an ear infection desperately needs a foster home.
Chance is 1 year old (approx)
Smudge is now in long term foster but still costing us money to feed etc
Sapphire (been with us over a year and needs a home of their own ASAP)
Please, please help in any way you can...our only funding is from public donations our resources are getting very low.
Alison ( November 2011)
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On Sunday we were joined by SOS Dog Rescue and many of our owners brought their dogs back to see us. We also met 3 Stafford puppies. We raised £434 for Support Adoption and they will in turn give us £100 for each day we were there. It was a great success.
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In all we raised £400!
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We made lots of friends and made good contacts, handing out leaflets and promoting Staffords and their needs, plus getting a sun tan, who needs a holiday?!?
A HUGE thank you to all who gave money. Cleo's leg is healing well and she will return to her owner on 16th May.
Thank you to Kerry Crick and her friend Colin Teager who raised £230 towards Cleo's appeal with a sponsored agility run.
Thank you to Staffiezone for a donation of £300.
