Working to save stray dogs in the North East

Welcome To Save Our Strays

Dogs are man's best friend, their love is unconditional so before buying a dog or puppy please consider adopting a rescue dog that needs a new home. On our website you will find a wide variety of dogs and puppies that need a good loving home.

We are small registered charity in the North East of England who depend completely on public donations to rescue unwanted dogs, mainly from the dog pounds. We are all volunteers who are passionate about rescue dogs and every penny raised goes towards their care.

Dogs like me need a new home

Dogs like me need a homeContact Us

Phone between 9am and 7pm only:

Margaret 01642 488667

Lynn 07952 334379

Lynne 01287 652086

Pauline 07804 405309

Julie 01642 487328

 

Email: saveourstrays@hotmail.co.uk

 

Membership

£7 per year. Please go to the About us page for more details. Here is the application form.

 

A Big Thank You

I would like to say a big thank you to all our supporters who sent in the 2013/2014 Wish Tokens to our Charity and which enabled us to come first in this year'scampaign. We are very grateful to you all and could not have achieved this result without your help. Hopefully the Gazette will have another campaign starting in October and I sincerely hope you can all send me the tokens once again.

Many, many thanks.Sincerely, Gloria Spencer (Secretary)

Good Friday 18th April Sponsored Fun Dog Walk

We are having a fun sponsored dog walk on Good Friday beginning and ending at the SOS charity shop 129a High Street Marske (the shop is between the roundabout in Marske and the Coast Road on the left hand side just after Darbys Glass shop).

There are two routes available of 2 1/2 miles or 1/2 mile via the Stray Café, Redcar. Registration from 11am at the shop. Refreshments for two legs and four legs provided along with raffle, tombola and doggy equipment stall. Come along and join us!

Sponsor forms can be downloaded here or call in the shop and pick one up

Our First Litter of the Year

Meet the delightful Flora and her lovely little family. Flora came to us from the local dog pound where she had been picked up as a stray. She is an older crossbreed girl who appeared to have had many litters before and was heavily pregnant and in very poor condition. Thanks to the ministrations of Carol she has given birth to 7 beautiful pups 4 male and 3 female, 2 white 2 brindle and 3 tan, all are thriving very well and Flora herself is unrecognisable now and is a brilliant mother to the little ones.

 

Latest update: Flora and her pups who are now 4 weeks old are flourishing well and developing their own little personalities as you can see from the photos. They will not be available for rehoming for some time yet until they are older and fully vaccinated and will be advertised on the Needing a Home page at that point. 

 

Urgent Permanent Foster Home Needed

Kim is a 10 year old collie cross whose owner has sadly died. We are looking for a special person who could offer her her retirement home. She is quite a dominant dog although isn't aggressive with dogs but would be best in a home without other dogs. She has arthritis and also a skin condition however all Kims vets bills will be paid for her lifetime.

Could you offer Kim a ray of sunshine? If so please telephone Margaret on 01642 488667 to arrange to come and meet her.

 
 
 
 

SOS Charity Shop

Our latest venture in opening a charity shop at 129a High Street, Marske by the Sea TS11 6JX (just a few doors down from Darby's Glass shop) is going very well so far.

We are delighted with all the support you have given us to get this project up and running, we cant do it without you all. We are still looking for regular volunteers to help sort and price up donated items, if you feel you could help us a few hours a week (10 til 1pm or 1pm til 4pm) please either call in the shop and and see our Manageress Pauline Thoms or telephone her on 07804 405309 or Margaret on 01642 488667.


We are also looking for good quality items to sell including clothing, shoes, accessories, jewellery, DVDs, CDs, books, household items, crockery, bedding, bric a brac, small pieces of furniture and pet items.

The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 10am til 4pm and you are welcome to drop items off directly to the shop. Larger items which are too big for the shop are being sold on our Facebook Save Our Strays selling page.

If transport is an issue please telephone Pauline on 07804 405309, Lynn 07952 334379, Gloria 01642 286679 or Maureen on 01642 279170 to arrange collection/drop off or email us at saveourstrays@hotmail.co.uk

Monthly Meet and Greet

Now held at the kennels at Old Park Farm, Whitby Road, Guisborough, TS14 6PU where you can come and meet all our dogs available for rehoming and we would also like to see our rehomed SOS dogs too (and their families). We will have refreshments, cakes and tombola too! Please come along - we will be delighted to see you.

The next Meet and Greet will now be Saturday 29th March 2014 from 10.30 til 12.30.   Click here for a map to the kennels.

Urgent - Donated Items Wanted for Tombolas

Tombolas raise a great deal of money for Save Our Strays and we are always in need of good quality/new items, unwanted gifts etc to use on our stalls. Are you able to help us out? If so, please telephone Pauline on 07804 405309, Lynn 07952 334379, Gloria 01642 286679 or Maureen on 01642 279170 to arrange collection/drop off or email us at saveourstrays@hotmail.co.uk

Now I am loved.

A year ago now
I was all skin and bone,
I was lost and forgotten
on the streets all alone.

A poem by Anne Taylor. July 2010

Link to read the whole poem

Others helping Rescue Dogs

Why not look at Dog Rescue they do similar work to SOS and this is a new site aimed at helping home dogs that have been in rescue for sometime.