Why we only rehome within 2 hours of the dog’s current location
There are 2 reasons for the 2 hour rule, firstly we have 1000 people waiting for 200 dogs, every person on the waiting list thinks they are a good home but to make it fair to everyone and to make it a little easier for our rehomer we have split the waiting list down into regional lists, each of these lists has up to 200 people on them. You can of course apply for dogs outside of your area but any dog listed under 3 years old can have as many as 75 people apply for it so we will look at the people in the dog's own area first. The second reason is that we have in the past (and although it happens very very occasionally it has happened more times then we'd like) the journey has been too long for the dog and it has died on the way home. Subsequently we are extremely careful as to how long we will allow a dog to travel and it seems daft to send a dog on a 5 hour trip if there is the perfect home an hour up the road. Everyone says they would stop on the way back but experience has taught us that stopping can make a scared dog more scared when you repeatedly take him out the car and then stress him further by putting him back in again. I hope you understand, we have 13 years’ experience behind all of our ways and policies and some of these have been learnt the hard way - the travelling time being one of them