Adopting from Us

Animal Lifeline’s re-homing policy is deliberately different from that of most other rescue centres and sanctuaries, and uses a variety of criteria. Most people find our system straightforward and that helps explain why we have successfully re-homed many thousands of dogs. We only re-home dogs in North Staffordshire and South Cheshire.

Lifeline is one of the few rescues which when it takes in a dog, commits to it for life. Its no-destruction policy means it inevitably gets a higher number of dogs, some of which many other rescues would have had put down. Some dogs which may have behavioral or social difficulties and are unsuitable for re-homing are normally given sanctuary status and are kept by us for their life, cared for and loved by our staff and our team of volunteers with whom the dogs are familiar and at ease. These animals are normally not available for re-homing.