Dogs 4 Rescue has bought a 46-acre farm to become a rehabilitation site for foreign street dogs.
Dogs 4 Rescue, based in Salford, has now bought Clough Bottom Farm near Accrington to rehabilitate stray dogs and help them find their forever home.
The not-for-profit company said the current Salford site will be used as a re-homing site while the new Accrington farm will be used to house the 80 dogs whilst they are cared for and rehabilitated.
Director, Emma Billington told the Lancashire Telegraph: “We are inundated now from everywhere, across the UK, across the world, with dogs desperately needing help.
“Dogs, in rescue, dogs in kennels that have shut down. It has kind of ended up that we have become a place for dogs that need rehabilitation.
“With the near 40 of them here, hardly of them are up for homing as it can take years to rehabilitate them so we needed another site where we could help the dogs most in need.
“Then we can have this place which we can use for dogs to find their forever home once they have been rehabilitated.”
The main home and barn will remain as they are as part of the construction, but some of the damaged buildings will be demolished and rebuilt.
A tiny team, a small independent rescue, only 7 years old & yet look at where we are & what we are about to embark on. We continue to pioneer the change in dog rescue – breaking the mould and rewriting the future for all the dogs who will be coming through our gates #kennelfreepic.twitter.com/bEbJFEMMOi
Some local residents have expressed concerns about the level of barking, however, Emma explains that due to the sheer size of the home, dogs have much more freedom, are less stressed and don’t bark as much as you would associate with a normal kennel.
She added: “I can totally understand where people are coming from and all I can say is if they want any more information or they have any concerns I am very open.
“We don’t want to upset anybody and we are really open to the local community or make anybody’s life difficult and as I say, it’s easy for me to say but we have a great relationship with our neighbours here.
“We have had noise surveys done here which monitored the noise over a 24 hour period and they came back and said there was nothing more than what you would expect from a neighbour who had a dog.”
Dogs 4 Rescue raised £192,907 from over 7,500 supporters, as well as private donations, to fund the mortgage.
