The Long and Short of It: Dog Rescue

04/12/2025

PLEASE SHARE FOR BILLY! 🙏🏼🐾

03/12/2025

🚨 BILLY NEEDS OUR HELP!! 🚨

One of our longterm care dogs has found himself sadly in urgent need of veterinary treatment, and we are desperate for some help covering the costs...

Billy was rescued in Siberia three years ago, after he had been run over and then left to suffer with his injuries by his ‘family’ at the time. By the time we had rescued Billy, his injuries had started to heal and surgery was no longer an option. We funded his care in a specialist orthopaedic clinic in Moscow before bringing him to the UK. Billy now lives a happy and active life in the North Norfolk countryside and we continue to support his family with his care. Billy is on pain medication and a specialist diet which has been working well but he has recently took a turn for the worse and is in need of X-rays to see what his next treatment plan might be.

We are now in URGENT need of approximately £800 to cover the cost of Billy’s blood tests, new meds and X-rays and as a very small rescue, we are really struggling to find the funds for this.. With Christmas fast approaching we appreciate money is tight and everyone is stretched more than ever nowadays.. 😔 but if at all possible, please consider donating a few pennies towards little Billy’s continued care so we can get him back to his usual happy, snuggly self 🙏🏼❤️ link in bio

03/12/2025

We love our dear little Polly! 💖 And we can’t believe she is STILL waiting for her forever home.. 🥺💔

Polly is getting on amazingly in her foster home. She is super cuddly, loves everyone, brilliant with children and loves her walks. Polly is a bit anxious of large, boisterous dogs coming towards her (fair enough when you’re only wee!) but she is becoming more and more brave with reassurance and training. Polly is a clever little girl and we know she will suit almost any home! (She still has quite an interest in small furries, however, so a cat/small furry free home probably best..!)

Polly is currently fostered in Norwich, Norfolk. If you are interested in finding out more about Polly, please message us! And share share share! 🙏🏼❤️🐾

19/11/2025

19/11/2025

Our lovely pals at LIB Dog Rescue are holding a Christmas fête this Friday! 🎄🐾 Please pop along and support them if you can!! ❤️

13/11/2025

Dear, sweet Polly!! 😍

Polly has settled in really well with her fosters, and is proving herself a proper cuddle bug 🥰 She is loving her walks just as much as her sofa snuggles(!) and would be an absolutely wonderful addition to a family ❤️

Polly is nervous about unfamiliar dogs bounding up to her - especially the bigger more boisterous ones. Fair enough we say, she’s just a smol bean! - but we would consider rehoming her with another doggie friend (after successful meet and greets, of course).

Polly has shown some ‘over enthusiastic’ interest in small furries 👀 which we are working on, but think a home without any would be best for Polly. 🐱🐹🐰🐭

Polly is great with children of all ages, she loves people and would prefer her humans to be around most of the time to keep her company.

Polly is currently fostered in Norwich, Norfolk. If you are interested in hearing more about her, please get in touch ❤️🐾 Let’s find Polly her forever home for Christmas!🤞🏻

02/11/2025

🚨 URGENT! 🚨 Short term foster needed for Polly for a few days this week!! Please share and help if you can! 🐾

01/11/2025

Little Polly is getting on wonderfully in her foster home! She is such a cuddly little girl, and is loving her walks and snuggles with her foster parents! 🥰

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, as her foster pawrents had prior commitments and are away for a few days.

Please get in touch if you can help!! 🙏🏼 (Polly is currently fostered in Norfolk).

27/10/2025

STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF DORIS BANHAM DOG RESCUE

It is the policy of our Charity never to respond to online malicious trolling because, especially during this present national animal welfare crisis, every precious minute should be used trying to save the lives of dogs who cannot afford for their rescuers to indulge themselves in such negative and toxic activities.

We are very sad that we are now being forced to break this code and respond to vicious trolls. However after 10 months of maintaining our silence against unrelenting foundationless lies, we now feel we owe it to our loyal supporters to post for a second time the post which initiated this hate campaign and personal vendetta simply because it shone a spotlight on the merciless killing of a 9 month old puppy.

The perpetrators and their fake profiles have also viciously trolled the pound pullers who sought to save Toby, and later blacklisted the perpetrators from getting dogs out of the pounds, even causing one of the pound pullers to withdraw from rescue because of the terrible lies that were being told about them. Please note that at no point in the post did we name the perpetrator or her transporter because it is not our policy to do so but the name of the perpetrator was exposed in the comments on the post by other people.

This personal vendetta which is threatening dogs lives has absolutely no foundation in truth and is based purely on anger and vengeance about this post. It has absolutely nothing to do with Luna who had already been in our care for 7 months without any concerns being raised until Toby’s post was put up.

We ask you please to read this post and all its comments so that you will fully understand the reason why this personal vendetta has been instigated against Doris Banham Dog Rescue. We will now be blocking the perpetrators from our page. However unjust this hate campaign has been we will never ever be deterred from speaking up when we see injustice to animals or from honouring an animal’s life which has been mercilessly taken in vain. We now hope to be allowed to continue our life saving work in peace.

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UPDATE - TOBY IS BEING TRANSPORTED TO OUR EMERGENCY BOARDING KENNELS BY THE ANIMAL TEAM ON MONDAY - PLEASE KEEP DONATING FOR THIS VERY SPECIAL BOY TO ENABLE US TO FUND HIS CARE. WE CAN ONLY DO RESCUES SUCH AS THESE WITH YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT. THANK YOU SO MUCH###XX

PLEASE KEEP DONATING FOR TOBY ROTTY - WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT SO MUCH WITH THIS BOY. WE SHOULD SAY WE ARE FULL BUT THIS WAY WITH YOUR SUPPORT WE CAN KEEP ON SAVING LIVES. THIS BOY IS A SYMBOL OF HOPE WHEN THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR PUPPY TOBY ARE STILL SICKENED AND DISHEARTENED BY WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM - SOMETHING WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE IN THE PRESENT TERRIFYING NATIONAL ANIMAL WELFARE CRISIS. WE ARE CONSTANTLY BATTLING THE ENEMY FROM WITHOUT BUT THIS TIME IT WAS THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN AND WE LOST. SAVING TOBY ROTTY MEANS PUPPY TOBY DID NOT DIE IN VAIN###XX

URGENT APPEAL - CODE RED - URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE THIS BOY IN DEDICATION TO TOBY

Last week a young bullbreed puppy called Toby was tragically put to sleep by the rescue who were meant to keep him safe. Doris Banham offered him a space but he was already dead. We vowed that although we could no longer help Toby he would not die in vain and that we would save the next urgent pound dog in his memory and name him Toby.

So please meet this beautiful friendly squishy 4 year old rottweiler who is unchipped and sadly with a docked tail who desperately needs your help this evening. As you can see from his eyes he is very very scared. He knows the world can do anything to him - let's show him that the world can be a kind place for a terrified betrayed boy like him.

We only had this evening to put in a confirmed offer which we have done. We took a leap of faith that our army would yet again open their hearts to this needy boy and help us to fund him in emergency boarding.

The only way we have to devised to keep on saving lives without jeopardising the 150 dogs we already have on our ark is to raise enough funds to cover 6 months in emergency boarding at £10 per night which is £1800. We cannot do this without you and we beg you yet again to stand by our side and save this beautiful boy with us.

To donate, please use the button below or by PayPal (friends & family) to:
[email protected]
OR you can donate in all of the ways on this link
https://www.dorisbanhamdogrescue.org/wp/donate/

We hope that Toby puppy is looking down tonight and seeing that this boy will now live because of him and that the whole rescue world is mourning his loss because his life was so very precious and Toby rotty says God bless you ###xx

24/10/2025

🚨 NEW HOME NEEDED! 🚨

Little Polly is sadly after a new home 😢 She is an adorable 5yr old chihuahua cross who is incredibly affectionate and loves a play! Unfortunately her old home could no longer give her what she needed, so we are after a new forever family who will give Polly everything she deserves in life - lots of snuggles, playtimes, walkies and love! ❤️

Polly is great with humans of all ages, she gets on well with most dogs but can apparently be anxious around some (we will further assess her while she is in foster). Polly does like to chase small furries so will definitely need a home without any of those! 🐾

Polly is currently in foster in Norfolk and we will update on her progress during her stay 😊 If you are interested in meeting little Polly, please get in touch!