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Welcome to the Home Page and website of The Animal Rescue
& Rehabilitation Society, also known as T.A.R.R.S.
Please take a look around the site, browse photo's of the dogs and other animals.
This site is constantly updated, so please check back often.
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My name is Sophie Peacock, I've lived with animals all my life but have been
working with them since 1997. My first job was in a dog and cat rescue kennels close to where I lived. During
my career I worked my way up the ladder becoming a kennel manager, looking after 120 boarding, quarantine and rescue
dogs and 40 boarding, quarantine and rescue cats and a range of rare breed farm animals including pigs, ducks, sheep,
goats and chickens. I am now a full-time Animal Welfare Officer in Warwickshire and also run my rescue
and rehoming centre The Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Society (T.A.R.R.S). Its extremely hard work, with some days
working over 10 hours but I get great satisfaction with my work and love doing it. I recently gave up my dog training and behaviour company called D4 Dog Training & Behaviour due to the demand of the rescue taking priority, so the upkeep of the charity is now down to public donations, events and sponsors. I would not be able to carry on my work without the generous help of H.A.R.K. a charity in itself looking after long term residents who cannot be rehomed due to behavioural problems providing the kennelling and the work it carries out with the neutering of all animals. One day I would like to see T.A.R.R.S with their own kennels along with a fantastic team of partners, rescuers, supporters, fundraisers and volunteers. I currently have around 10 volunteers who walk the dogs plus a couple of foster homes for the dogs when in need. They all do a marvellous job and it couldn't be done without their help. We desperately need funds to buy a new premises and build some new kennels, if you can help or know of someone who can, please get in touch, time is running out, we only have 4 weeks to make this happen. UPDATE: 25 November 2009: Currently we are still looking for alternative kennelling, nothing has come through so far. An appeal to the papers has been sent today so waiting back to see if anyone will run a story on the charity and their appeal. Thank you to all who have been in touch to offer ideas, they are greatly appreciated. 23 December 2009: Most of the cats and dogs have managed to find forever homes, however I was still looking for homes for Khan, Buster and Dexter. A lovely lady came forward to offer Khan and Buster a foster home over christmas until their new owner could take them on, which should be happening early in the new year. Khan and Buster needed to go into a foster home with no other animals and for the fosterer to be experienced with older dogs. Then a second fosterer came up offering to take on Dexter, but on Thursday, with all the ice at the kennels he decided he didn't want to get into the car and wanted to go back to his routine and have brekfast, which in the end he got his way as I was skidding all over the ice and had no choice but to let him stay at the kennels. The kennel owner has let him stay over christmas and hopefully he will be moved out in the new year with more hands on deck to help me get him into the car. 23 January 2010: The stray dogs of Stratford District have now made their way to another kennels in Worcester for the forseeable future while T.A.R.R.S builds back up again with kennels and fosterers. Currently the fosterers that we have all have other dogs or children in the house, so we are lacking in fosterers without other animals. If you would like to become a fosterer and have the time at home to spend with dogs mainly or cats, please get in touch. Dexter is still at the kennels in Stratford but he will hopefully be moving out into a new facility in approximately 4 weeks. People are still asking for help in rehoming their dogs, so new photo's and profile's of dogs will be on the site and are all currently in their homes. The Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Society (T.A.R.R.S) is currently finding new ways to look after animals in its care and a new structure will hopefully come to light making it better for the animals welfare that come into the rescue. Please be patient while this new structure is being formed, it will not happen over night and may take several months.  |
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 Woofin News 21 November 2009
Hi all, I'm launching an URGENT APPEAL. On Saturday 21st November The Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Society was given an eviction notice to leave the premises where we keep the animals. We have approximately 4 weeks to move the current animals out of the kennels and put them into temporary accommodation. We currently have cats and dogs with uncertain futures, plus the stray dogs have nowhere to go. I set up the charity to give animals a second chance after the 7 days in the pound and are not claimed. Without organisations such as T.A.R.R.S the dogs would automatically be put to sleep if no homes can be found for them; sometimes just after the 7 days if they are the wrong type of dog. T.A.R.R.S strives to rehome almost all of the dogs; very occasionally there will be one which cannot be rehomed due to it being illegal in the U.K, very ill, or pose a real threat to the general public - fortunately these are rare circumstances! The dog's quality of life is paramount to any decision which has to be made. WE NOW URGENTLY NEED EITHER KENNELS/ACCOMMODATION FOR THE DOGS, EVEN IF IT'S ON A TEMPORARY BASIS. ALTERNATIVELY IF ANYONE, OR IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE WHO CAN OFFER A SUITABLE PIECE OF LAND/STABLES WITHIN A REASONABLE RADIUS OF STRATFORD-ON-AVON DISTRICT THEN PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. DONATIONS WOULD ALSO BE MOST WELCOME TO HELP ACHIEVE A HAPPY FUTURE FOR THESE ANIMALS. I now have 6 dogs and 2 cats currently left at the kennels, Two extra dogs are on trials in their new homes and one is hopefully going to its new home in a few weeks. Two six month old kittens are in short-term foster and another kitten is at my house recovering from flu. Is there anyone out there who can offer me temporary accommodation until I can get something more permanent? I am looking to buy some land/stables within the Stratford-on-Avon District, which covers a huge area and have been for some time, but it's just become a major priority to save the animals I now have. Plus I now have nowhere to take the stray dogs. If you think you can help in any way, either by spreading the word of the appeal, if you know of someone who could fund the building work for a new kennels to be built, land that might be for sale (I don't have a great amount but reasonable offers), foster homes for the dogs or cats or anything you may think might help in our fight to save T.A.R.R.S, please e-mail with your responses to t.a.r.r.s@hotmail.co.uk Please wish for a happy end for the animals at T.A.R.R.S at this difficult time. Soph and the animals.x |
Sophie Peacock - Founder of The Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Society
0773 444 2785 / t.a.r.r.s@hotmail.co.uk