With your help and funding, we want to turn the Bridledown site into a centre of excellence for the promotion of responsible pet ownership, offering support and advice to the dog owners (and dog lovers) in the community.

The Way Forward

These dogs only have us – please help us to help them.

With your help and support, we want to build on our experience and take the services we offer onto the next level and beyond.

Once we have secured the appropriate funding we will rehome our dogs with the following:

· Vaccinations
· Micro-chipped
· Neutered
· Home Checked
· ID Tagged
· Health Checked

We will aim to offer everyone:

· Training
· Seminars
· Hydrotherapy

The Redevelopment of Bridledown

· New kennel blocks – we need to update, expand and build new state-of-the-art kennels blocks, we hope to eventually be able to look after up to 100 dogs. When funding is in place we will be publishing architects drawings and plans of the re-developed site on this website.
· Reception & consultation facility – we are looking to update the front building to raise the quality of our service. The reception area will be networked into the main operation with computers, so that we can work more efficiently and can be in the front building throughout our opening hours. We are also looking to incorporate into this building consultation rooms, where our experienced staff can help prospective new owners choose a pet that will best fit in with their situation.
· Indoor Arena – we will be looking to expand existing buildings to incorporate a large indoor arena where we can hold training sessions, shows, events and seminars.
· Isolation areas – due to the nature of taking on the care of strays, we will occasionally be required to hold a dog in complete isolation to avoid any cross contamination, again we are looking to install new state-of-the-art isolation units where we can offer the dog a comfortable stay, whilst maintaining the health and well being of the other dogs in our care.
· Veterinary treatment facility – we want to get to the point where every dog that comes into us is given a health check, micro-chipped, vaccinated and neutered, therefore it would be advantageous to have our own veterinary treatment facility.
· Grooming rooms – with so many dogs going through our doors it would be nice to be able to offer a grooming service, both to the dogs in our care and to those in the wider community that could do with a bit of smartening up, all the way up to those dogs who are competing at the top level of conformation classes. It would also be nice to have the facilities to be able to bath and groom every dog that was about to leave our care, and embark on their new life.
· Exercise paddocks – where prospective new owners and the dogs can get to know each other a little better off the lead in complete safety away from any dangers.
· Shop – we are looking to incorporate a pet shop in the front building, where we can sell good quality pet related products, initially starting with basics such as collars, leads, beds, bowls and food and expanding the product range as the site grows.
· Hydrotherapy – to become a centre of excellence we must embrace new treatments. Hydrotherapy has been proven to help aid recovery in the treatment of dogs and we would love to be a part of this.
· Café – as the site grows we hope to become an integral part of the dog owning community, as such we will be welcoming people onto the site to enjoy the facilities, and refreshments will be a part of this. We are initially looking to offer hot and cold drinks and light snacks for those waiting for appointments etc. but as our vision progresses, so the café will grow too.