Rescue Dogs, where from?

[FiveHoursSleep]

We are looking for a rescue dog- probably a pup or young dog.
It needs to be okay to live with children 7+, cats, small furries and another friendly dog.
We don't want a bull breed or a hound.
We live NW London but are prepared to travel.
Any recommendations for rescues?

Quite a huge proportion of dogs then!
Your pretty much restricted to toys, terriers (which generally are not recommended for small furries or cats), gundogs or herding breeds (again, generally not a great match for small furries or cats).

Many bull breeds are really good with kids, dogs and smaller animals.
Sight hounds probably aren't a good idea but quite a few hounds would likely fit in just fine.

Our existing dog has a thing about staffies and this doesn't seem to be improving.
The dog we just lost was a lurcher and I don't think I want to be reminded of her every day.
I think I am hoping for a nice collie cross to pop up as we enjoy agility with our GSD x.

Why not try one of the specialist collie rescues? Wiccaweys are not too far from you (northamptonshire) and will rehome to families with DC. There are several other specialist collie rescues, Valgrays etc..

themayhew.org

Based in Kensal Green.

How about the very gorgeous Jake who is a collie cross?

The Mayhew seems not to want to rehome any of their dogs with younger kids- they usually say 'sensible teenagers!'
Will look at the collie rescues. We don't mind travelling.
I don't think we could cope with a full collie; they are too intelligent for us!

Our lovely rescue puppy came from here

www.manytearsrescue.org/dogslookingforhomes.php

They need a new van! www.manytearsrescue.org/page_.php?i=71

Make sure a collie has been assessed around small furries.
They tend to be high prey drive dogs.

Oh wow, now I want Jake

We got a Mutt OP. She is probably mainly Collie x Springer but there is something else too, poss lurcher, poss whippy, maybe even SBT (she has the 'grin' when she's panting heavily)

We used Many Tears, but I understand that Dogs Trust are ok rehoming to families with older (not pre-school) kids. One thing I liked about MTAR was that they would help potential families by moving dogs to Foster closer to your area (we travelled 3 hours for the Mutt, but she was originally at the centre 5-6 hours away).

(I really, really like the look of Jake though..)

Try smaller rescues, they are often more flexible regarding younger children.

Pro Dogs Direct

All Dogs Matter Yes, they usually have mostly staffies, but sign on with them and be prepared to wait.

Ravenswood Pet Rescue

Oh I can see Jake now. Couldn't see a photo before. Oooooh

Re dogs trust.
There is a thread somewhere on here from someone who adopted a collie from them.
Read it carefully, certainly changed my opinion of the charity greatly.

Jake is lovely isn't he - should be a petite dog, and as he's 1 he's a great age. EGLR can home check anywhere, so don't worry about that

Dogs trust in harefield is really lovely. My friend just got a 2yr old choc Labrador from there, she has young children.

they have Ant, a young border collie

and here is his brother phil

and sister sue

They had a whole litter of 6 pups handed in it seems.

We are near Harefield and I had seen those collie pups but it looks like they want a quiet household for then and ours isn't!

Wiccaweys is full of young dogs at the moment, under a year. Collies come in all shapes and sizes and are often more of a type than a specific breed, although you can get a posh collie if you want to. We have 4 collie mutts. They all have different collie traits, they are all different sizes and they all have different personalities.

Easytoeat, I see this at agility but I need a more laidback type rather than the on edge, highly active type.
The dogs always get a good hours walk every day- off lead is the aim, agility 1-2x a week, plus have a big garden to play in, and there is plenty going on in the house.

When we were adopting from dogs trust they allowed us to take our previously abused JRT with our calm, sensible 7YO DD but wouldn't let another family with a much less calm child the same age take him.

There were no child age restrictions on the 5mth old puppy we adopted from them a couple of years later.

I was impressed at how closely they looked at our family dynamics before agreeing to the match.

When we were adopting from dogs trust they allowed us to take our previously abused JRT with our calm, sensible 7YO DD but wouldn't let another family with a much less calm child the same age take him.

There were no child age restrictions on the 5mth old puppy we adopted from them a couple of years later.

I was impressed at how closely they looked at our family dynamics before agreeing to the match.

Black Retriever x always have collie crosses and are often on the lookout for agility homes

We got our now 6 month old pup from Dogs Trust when she was 9 weeks. She was one of a litter of seven, and the same week they got a litter of 10 GSD/collie crosses and not long after a large litter of black labs, I heard. So puppies come into the Dogs Trust with depressing regularity. I didn't know that before we were looking for our rescue pup and assumed I'd never stand a chance of getting a pup. I have a 12 year old and 14 year old at home - wouldn't say we're a quiet household at all. The dog is used to the kids going nuts when Liverpool scores a goal!

Might be a few options to look at here as well

The on edge highly active type are only like that because they are over stimulated and haven't been taught to relax.
A collie will keep going however long you want it to, if you never reach it how to settle down and relax then any collie - working line or show line will likely be wired and on edge.