The past twelve months have been extremely busy for RDR, and we have received a large number of calls and emails enquiring about rehoming dogs, or about dogs that need a new home. All the staff at RDR are volunteers, and many have full-time jobs too, but we try to answer your queries as quickly as possible. To help us manage the volume of enquiries, we are making some changes to our adoption process and how we handle enquiries.

• For initial adoption enquiries, and all general enquiries please email us at enquiries@ryedaledogrescue.org.uk
• In case of emergencies only you can call us on 07843 841778

Adoption Information

If you are enquiring about rehoming a dog please give us as much information about yourself as possible. This will speed up the adotion process, and help our volunteers to give you the most appropriate advice and guidance. Please include the following:

• Your name
• Address
• Contact Details, including phone number
• The name of the dog you are inteersting in adopting
• If you’re not asking about a specific dog, the type of dog you are interested in
• What experience you have of owning or living with a dog
• Some information about your home circumstances, for example:
  • whether you have children or young people living in the home
  • whether you have a secure garden
  • whether the dog would be left alone during the day, and if so, for how long.

Details of our full adoption policy can be found here

Thanks for your continuing support.

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In August Skipton’s customers nominated their favourite charities at the Malton Branch. The lovely people at Skipton then chose three charities from those nominated to receive a cash donation. Ryedale Dog Rescue is one of the three groups chosen. 

Anyone can visit Malton branch over the next four weeks, and vote for their favourite charity from the three options. The charity with the most votes will receive a cash donation of £1,000, followed by £600 for the runner up and a final £400 for the remaining good cause. Voting will close on Friday 1 November 2024 at 4.30pm.

We’re already guaranteed to get £400 from the scheme, but if you want to help us get more, just pop into Skipton Building Society in Malton and cast your vote: you don’t have to be a Skipton customer.

It has to be the Malton Branch you vote in. Each branch has chosen it’s own favourite charities, so if you go anywhere else you won’t be able to vote for RDR. 

Thanks and we let you know how we got on in early November.

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There are many reasons for wanting to adopt a rescue dog.  You may feel you are an experienced dog guardian and could offer a knowledgeable, safe home where your chosen pal can settle and be supported to have a full and enjoyable life.  You may have “fallen” for an appealing photo on our website or display board and know this is the one! (It should be pointed out that a photo is just that – a snapshot of a second in time that will give you no clue to a dog’s personality or behaviour). It may be that a pedigree pooch of your favourite breed is available. Perhaps your present dog would value a companion.  Whatever the reason Ryedale Dog Rescue will continue to offer support after adoption takes place

Placing a dog in a new home is a huge responsibility for us.  It may seem that the questions on the adoption form are intrusive. Sometimes, before or after a home check, the explanation that your home is not the right one for a particular dog may be upsetting or even feel downright wrong.  Years of experience in placing dogs guides the decisions we make, always with the dog’s best interest at heart

We have invested in these dogs, not just financially but emotionally. Whilst they’re in the care of RDR they are treated with love and kindness and when they go it is a massive leap of faith in the person taking them. Placing a dog in an unsuitable home can upset not only the dog, (the most important point) but the potential adopters and those at the Rescue. You are taking on the responsibility of a life, a living creature that’s been through stuff and seen stuff or is simply a product of its inherited genes or misfortune.

Another fact of life is that having a dog is not cheap. Feeding, bedding, vets bills, even for vaccinations and other basic needs, soon mount up and some dogs require professional grooming from time to time. How your dog will be looked after if you have to go away also comes into the equation

If you want to give a home to a dog  and you’re prepared to nurture that dog with love and kindness to show it the way you live, and teach it what it needs to know to achieve a mutually beneficial and lifelong relationship then, and only then, is the time to search for a rescue dog ( or any other dog for that matter).