Furever Friends Wicklow

11/07/2024

Peggy on the oatie flats 🙌🏼💖

09/07/2024

Welcome Georgie 😍🥰

04/07/2024

Bolt brought his new, big little sister to school. Welcome April 😀

04/07/2024

Big Dave 😍🐕

20/06/2024

Little Rosco 🥰

20/06/2024

Odie 🥺😍🥰

19/06/2024

Cujo in the foxgloves 💜

14/06/2024

My girl Sadie 😍

23/05/2024

Update: Gone to rescue

Female pom handed into Tallaght Garda Station and the woman who handed her in, said she didn't want the dog anymore on the 23- 5-24. Can the woman please contact the shelter on 087 3914008 so we can get more information.

20/05/2024

Hotdogs 🌭🌭🌭

15/05/2024

These gals ✨💐🌷🌻

09/05/2024

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🐕

22/04/2024

Rehomed

‼️No need to telephone, you need to attend the kennels to rehome. All information contained in this post

🐶Benji is a male springer/cocker mix who is 5 years old. House/lead/car trained but has been living outside recently due to house move and landlord not allowing dogs inside the property, this is the reason his owner has chosen to surrender him as he always lived indoors prior to this. Vaccinated, no certificate provided, therefore booster recommended. Good with kids and other dogs.

🐶How do I rehome?
-We open 10am-1pm weekdays, 10am-12pm Saturday and closed Sundays.
***Bank holidays 10am-12pm
-You need to attend the kennels to rehome, we DO NOT reserve.
-There may be visitors waiting from before opening.
-Visitors will chose their dog in order of arrival (provided they have valid photo ID and we feel they are suitable).
-Visitors do not need to stand at the gate of the kennels, they are welcome to wait in their car and staff will be available from early morning to speak to them.

Rehoming fee for adults is £80.
Rehoming fee for puppies is £120.

A dog licence must also be applied for (we do this at the time of rehoming) licence free for over 65s with no other dogs, £5 for those on benefits or £12.50.

Kennels are situated at 40 Tobercorran Road, Downpatrick BT30 8HU

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**We are a council dog pound and we work very hard to do the best for dogs in our care despite limited funding**

**Home Checks**
We do not complete home checks as there is no funding or resources provided for this. If we are concerned about a particular person or dog we can ask the dog warden to complete a home check prior to rehoming but there is no capacity for the dog warden to complete a large volume of these as they have their normal workload and duties.
ID is taken from each person wishing to rehome a dog, the dog is then microchipped and licenced to the person supplying ID.
We have been doing this for 23 years, we DO NOT just hand a dog out to someone who isn’t suitable even if they are the first person there, many visitors are guided and even refused where necessary when they are unsuitable for a particular dog.

**Spaying/neutering**
We complete spays/neuters when we are provided with funding to do so. This has kindly been provided by Dogs Trust in recent years. When dogs are spayed/neutered under our care they can be rehomed immediately unless our vet advises to hold them due to medical issues. The scheme is not perfect but it has allowed many dogs to be spayed/neutered that otherwise wouldn’t of been and from that perspective it has been a massive success. We feel many dogs recover better in a home than in kennels and for this reason do not hold dogs longer than necessary.

❗️**Facebook comments**❗️
Derogatory comments made against the kennels and/or their processes/policies will not be tolerated. We do the best we can in a very challenging environment and DO NOT have the time to debate with commenters on Facebook about the reasons we do things the way we do especially when they can’t even take time to read the page to establish we are a dog pound. Therefore any derogatory comments around home checks, spaying, etc. will result in the user facing a permanent ban from the page.

17/04/2024

Springg chickens 💖

10/04/2024

Welcome Peggyyyyyy 🙌🏼🐕🥰🥰🥰💖

10/04/2024

Of gorse we love school! 🎒🐾🙌🏼🐕🤭

10/04/2024

09/04/2024

Welcome to school Dot 💖💖🥰🥰🥰

09/04/2024

Ollie had some time off school. We missed him, we love him, we love that he's back 💞

05/04/2024

Another big welcome to Butler 🤩🤩🥰

05/04/2024

Welcome to school Poppy 🤩🥰🎒🙏🏼💖

04/04/2024

These guys 🥰🤩

04/04/2024

Welcome to schooool Sandy 😍🐶

04/04/2024

Welcome to school Gaia 💖💖💖

25/03/2024

Bolty ⚡💞

14/03/2024

Welcome to schooool Benny 🥰🥰🥰

12/03/2024

Rodders. Pepé. Freya. Molly. Archie. 💖

12/03/2024

Beach days are, our favourite 🥰

21/02/2024

Oscars angels 😇