Award winning animal shelter which is run by aptly named Stacey McSpirit. Built up over the years…read moreof loving care for animals of compromised welfare. Qypers can Google Paws Findon for further info. Stacey couldalways do with some volunteers and support via The Net. Go onn, become a member for a fiver annually!! Supported again by Alexandro Bastedo.

A truely worthy cause, Last Chance Animal Rescue centre should be the first place you check out if…read moreyou are planning on owning a pet. They rescue not only cats and dogs but also horses, livestock and even wildlife. There is so much to see and it has a really nice atmosphere from the minute you arrive. The setting is stunning, the staff friendly and their love for the animals really shows. The have a non descruction policy and weekly take dogs from wales saving them from a death sentence. They have strict rehoming policies to ensure the animals go to good homes, hold loads of fun charity events, and you can check there website which is updated weekly to see some of the animals that desperately need a new home.

This went very easy and I'm impressed with how quick this went! I will defintely be using this in…read morethe future.

We went here for a look round with our daughter and she thought it was really good that they have…read moredifferent colours of cats in seperate huts and that also have music on and kids chairs and lots of blankets to keep them warm, the dogs have little beds or big ones for the big dogs, with lots of different toys to play with, and in the back they have like a playground where they have even more toys and tunnels to play and do. The animals there are very well looked after and it is a long away from us but it is such a lovely place to go and look round and they have a park for the kids and shops and cafe.They even have lots of other animals, horses, rabbits, goats etc. We will go again if we are passing again .

Came to visit family and found a baby bird in the garden, tried letting his mum find him and tried…read morefeeding him after no luck in a few days, I decided to call laybourne as I was really worried. They were brilliant on the phone, we took him in and staff were fantastic couldn't fault them they looked him over and fed him straight away rest assured my little buddy would be well looked after. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

As a rule I expect animal shelters to be very sad places full of unloved animals. The RSPCA centre…read moreat Leybourne totally changed my impression of animal shelters as it is so bright, with incredibly welcoming staff who lavish great love and care on all of the creatures that pass through their door. We have rescued two cats from this centre and found them to have been a fantastic match for our family. The staff here have fantastic intuition for finding your new family member. Whilst it is sad that there are so many loveable creatures in need of a forever home it's great to see firsthand the work that the RSPCA are doing in the knowledge that these animals will eventually go to the best homes for their needs. I could (and have) spent hours here making friends with the residents!

I will only give Bluebell Ridge one star for their lovely cat accomodation. There are no stars for…read morethe way it treats would-be adoptive pet owners. We already have a rescue cat, he's lovely but getting on a bit. He likes other cats so we thought we would get a kitten from an animal charity as they are Always crying out for homes for unwanted cats and kittens. Off we go. Firstly choose your kitten. Bond with it, play with it and visit it whenever you want to. Fantastic. Fill in a questionaire and answer plenty of questions. Justify why you want a kitten. OK, I understand. Promise to bring husband with me next time so he can be viewed too. Then subject yourself to a home visit. Home visitor brings copies of your paperwork and goes through all your answers again, just to see if you give the same responses I suppose. Home visitor looked like she was sucking on a lemon when we explained we wanted a kitten. We were left with no doubt that this is not what she wanted to hear. She leaves after half an hour or so having met our present beautiful cat. At this point I will explain that my husband and I are in our 40's, middle class, working from home so the house is never left unattended. We have two children, one away at university and the other just starting secondary school. We live in a large four bedroomed two receptioned room house on an unadopted road. We have a large kitchen where we eat and a separate utility room. We have a well maintained walled garden measured in acreage. Our house is peacefull and tranquill with quiet neighbours and no traffic noise. We have no other pets apart from the one cat and some tropical fish. The next day we were turned down as our home is not suitable for a kitten. Why not? Well apparently the kitten needs to have his own chill out room where he can be shut away to be quiet on his own. Neither of our lounges make the grade. Also my husband has recently installed a new boiler for the central heating and on the wall in the kitchen are two exposed copper pipes which run from about 100cm in the wall up to the airing cupboard upstairs. They need to be boxed in and it will be too traumatic for the kitten to be in a house whilst my husband screws a bit of plywood to the wall. So because my child has fallen in love with a black kitten I have scoured Kent and Sussex for a substitute. Tomorrow I am going to a farm where I will be able to choose one from a litter. The farmers wife tells me that no one wants plain black kittens - they are always the last to go. I cannot, cannot imagine what sort of palace you have to live in to get a kitten from the RSPCA. I feel that they have no interest in homing cats and kittens because then they would be out of a job. My neighbour on hearing that we had gone to Bluebell Ridge said to me before we had been turned down Dreadful people! You'll never get a kitten from there I thought he was over reacting. So let this be a warning to anyone else because it is very traumatic to fall in love with a kitten and then to be told that your lovely welcoming home is not suitable. Since yesterday I have been inundated with similiar stories. I also tried Celia Hammond and Rolvenden Cat rescue but you cannot have single kittens from them - you have to take two.

I'm sorry to hear that other people have had difficulty adopting cats from Bluebell Ridge. You…read moresound like perfect potential adoptees. I have to say I adopted my lovely cat from there in 2015 and all was smooth. My cat had been at Bluebell Ridge for nearly a year before I chose him, and settled in immediately and very happily when I got him home - so I think the staff and volunteers must have been looking after him very well for all that time for him to be so well-adjusted in the stressful cattery environment.

Raystede is an amazing place that is primarily a rehoming centre for stray pets. They rescue,…read morerehome and look after more than 2000 pets each year! As well as this, the centre is open to the public. It's free of charge, but they do ask for donations to help look after the animals. As well as visiting the cats and dogs, they have huge averies with many tropical birds, beautiful lakes with friendly ducks, geese, coots and moorhens. Stables with horses and donkeys. Rabbits, goats, turkeys, chickens, alpacas...and many more. There are some lovely walks around the lakes, a shop and a cafe to visit, as well as the visitor centre. Raystede is a great place to come with all the family. And if you are looking for a new pet, come and see if there is a fluffy friend here for you!

Congratulations to the organisers of the Christmas Fair..A great idea having the marquees, as they…read moregive so nuch more walking space. Incidentally I am registered to have a dog once again and am still waiting to hear from the dog staff. following the visit today, I am interested in homing Richie

Have had two old cats from here no one wanted, they were such lovely souls, just wanted to be loved…read moreand be your friend, please don't just go with a plan as to what you get, pick one that touches your heart be it young , middle aged or older, there are different times they leave us, some die young others live for more than 20 years, just take that chance on which cat or dog, picks you out, you will never regret it, we haven't. They are family and give us love as we do them, just take one one, treat them well and make the time with them count, you'll not regret a rescue. Xx

The impression I get from multiple visits to the shelter is that the volunteers and employees are…read morelovely, caring, and quite capable. But the "senior managers" enjoy exercising their bureaucratic power to leverage your emotions and to the detriment of the welfare of the animals in their care. We were approved to rehome a pet. This is a dog with a number of health and behavioral problems. We were willing to pay the fee upfront. But we needed a few extra days as we were arranging shipping, also paid upfront and for which the shipping company requires some extra notice. Despite us all working toward an understanding over the course of a week, an entirely different Battersea "senior manager", suddenly insisted that the pet be taken immediately or would be released from reserve. In other words, despite us making financial and time commitments, and with the understanding it was all agreed, a faceless "senior manager" decided they needed to move some inventory and told us to come down and get him or lose his reserve status. As it stands, the extra wait time we were requesting was six calendar days. Their usual process to complete an adoption is multiple visits spanning one to two weeks. And the pet only came out of medical clearance three days ago so is well within their 35 day average stay before rehoming. We cannot go ahead and pay, in advance, all of the other companies involved if the dog may be taken by someone else, even if he would still be in their kennel. We therefore had to walk away. So, now, this poor animal who has special medical and behavioral needs, will have to sit around for several more weeks in the kennel, on show as it were, hoping someone will be interested. The oxymoronic aspect of this story is that this so-called "senior manager" refused to keep him on reserve for a few extra days because remaining in the kennel is stressful. But by forcing us to walk away, he or she has increased the pet's expected kennel time and potentially eliminated his adoption options entirely. Clearly, the whole affair smacks of a bureaucrat trying to leverage a pet lover's emotions using facetious animal welfare arguments to move inventory. They may be a charity, but let's not forget managers have ambitions and are promoted based on such metrics as "stock turnover." But, even on this basis, this was a poor decision. Because, instead of a guaranteed "sale", just a few days later, they now have a poor dog who will likely be in the kennel longer than otherwise would have been the case. And what happens if the poor animal doesn't find a new home? Well, as they say, the average adoption time is 35 days...

Me and my girlfriend Helen were driving threw Newhaven and we saw a injured seagull in the road so…read morewe stopped and I got out and picked it up and I asked Siri on my iPhone where I could find a wildlife rescue centre and it suggested Rogers wildlife rescue so we got directions and we too him there roger is really nice and said hello and Helen said we found this seagull and his name is captain beaky and roger said they always are lol we phoned the next day and they said he was making a good recovery he's got a broken leg and they would set him free when it's mended very nice people they obviously love animals 10/10