About us. Please note,This is the official web site for Rotherham Dog Rescue.
Rotherham has an excellent and efficient Dog Warden service and stray dogs are dealt with humanely if they are found wandering the streets. In the late 1990’s things were becoming difficult as the council’s contract for neglected dogs was situated in Doncaster. Not many people realised that once their dog was picked up it would then be taken out of Rotherham. Once in “Hampole” (as it was then called), the dog was given 7 days for their owner to reclaim them. If they were not re-claimed then they either had to be passed on to a “rescue” or sadly destroyed.

Unfortunately, at that time, there were few rescues that would “entertain” the dogs from “Hampole”. Generally, organisations were concerned about disease. Two people from Rotherham, Sue Pearson and Jill Dobson found out about the dogs’ plight and decided to form a new rescue – ROTHERHAM DOG RESCUE. Sue received a donation of £350 from her cousin in London and she put it to help save the dogs whose lives were at risk. One kennel was found at Wath and the first dog “MAX” was taken out of Hampole.

Since that time, Rotherham Dog Rescue has grown into an efficient and well-respected rescue.Hampole is now under new ownership, and is now known as Mount Pleasant Kennels The new owners, dog lovers themselves,work with rescues to save as many dogs as possible. Unfortunately the need in this area is great and continues to be so. In many cases dogs are not given the respect they deserve and treated like possessions to buy, sell or give away at their owners discretion. They have lives like us, they do deserve to live them, like us.