Battersea Dogs & Cats Home www.battersea.org.uk

People Please don’t trust those KILLERS!!! They killed my dog despite of young age and health! I emailed them how is my dog and they said he is making friends, they working with him and it wasn’t any bad sign.. I went there and they told me they put on sleep him as he didn’t socialise!! How dare they could do this! I have depression now and still can’t believe what have happened!!

Please do not be tempted to work for this charity. The managers are bullies and stick together when a complaint is made. They do not care about the safety of their employees and do not care about the amount of people who leave, because their view is, someone else will always replace them.

If you want to work for an animal charity that cares about it's staff and animals, then Battersea is not for you, as they simply care about the name and money it brings in.

There are so many smaller animal charities who would really appreciate you more.

Can’t praise them enough. Lost my cat to being ill so applied to adopt a cat. Within three weeks they rang me with a suitable cat. They had to operate on him to remove some teeth and then he caught an infection. They updated me on his progress every two days and I collected him a week later. Brilliant.

They pretend to care about your dog but they do not. My dog was not even there a week and they killed him!!

They should give you the option to come back for your dog or fix their intake process and have assessments etc whilst you are there, you know maybe give you the chance to make an informed decision rather than just taking your dog then killing it. Best of all you have to email to find out and they respond with a very insensitive email

Should be called slaughterhouse. Don’t bring your pet here !!!

I don't like sharing anything on social media, but there is no way I could not put a glowing review for the staff that are surely earth angels at the Blue Cross and Battersea, here was my situation-

I had 3 very adored, little, toy dogs, and planned to spay all dogs at the same time. They were all booked in and I was working full time so had zero worries.

Then a young gentleman with learning difficulties came to stay at our home and let the dogs in together with no nappies on {we always protected them from pregnancy by keeping them separate or wearing nappies until this day} and unfortunately one got pregnant.

Now, I have severe PTSD and my dogs help soothe this. I honestly couldn't get through the day without them. So when I knew puppies were coming, I also knew it was going to be incredibly hard for me to part with them, as I've experienced so much negativity in my life that I look at my dogs as family.

That being said, I would never do anything to their detriment. If keeping them meant they would suffer in any way then I would, of course, search for loving homes for them.

I was working though and had good money and was in a position to move to a larger home and my children were older teens, nearly adults who could help with them.

So we all agreed we would share the load and take shifts around work and college so all pups would be happy and content, plus we had a very small breed and read that typically, these dogs have 1-3 pups tops the first time around.

We also knew many bred and bred this kind of dog as so pretty, which scared the life out of us, so planned to keep all if we got a manageable number...we ended up with a litter of 7, 5 of which survived, so in total 8 dogs!!!!!

We instantly loved them though and are very serious about committing to our pets so decided to commit to the next 12-15 years ahead together. I planned to get a farm and we had a ton of support and work. We pre-booked opps for them ALL in advance and were happy to do the work, then Covid 19 happened and like the rest of the world, our lives were completely turned upside down.

I lost EVERYTHING and there was no way we could come up with £2000 odd to spay my babies. Also at this time, the unlawful breeding of dogs was insane. So many were so cruel to the animal world, plus stealing dogs so we trusted no one. People who had no clue about animals were getting puppies as simply bored at home and we wanted the best lives for ours, we felt giving them away was just not an option when confronted with the countless scary animal abuse reports over the news and social media.

My home was too small to keep us all and at 6 months became noisy as we couldn't take dogs out in the car during lockdown and our local park was rammed, we were, like everyone, allowed our one walk of the day but with such a nervous breed it was very hard to train under such circumstances.

I was about to lose my home anyway so we came up with the idea of travelling and living off-grid, so the dogs would get the best life, I could work online and walk/spoil the dogs around all of this. They would learn to socialise as they'd be out so much and we could all rebuild our lives again. {We obviously waited until it was legal and safe to do this}

This worked, the dogs adored being out in nature and were/are living their best life, they had/have several walks a day, plus huge outdoor pen we got a tent and caravan which we made all snug for them and our dogs thought they were in heaven, plus my family and I lifted the terrible depression we all had during the pandemic.

Unfortunately though, they all still needed spaying, meaning we had to experience what seemed like a billion seasons and none of them had a season at the same time, plus smaller dogs can have more frequent seasons. As soon as one kicked in all 8 dogs would be crazy, we couldn't sleep, eat properly, or concentrate on anything, it was like having 8 newborn human babies and all of our lives became hell each season.

Our poor babies would totally change then and even fight so we had to keep them apart and as I was starting a business from scratch and camps were costing so much I knew I'd be a year or two before I could even dream of saving anything.

We hated seeing our dogs in distress but also were scared to approach anyone for help as worried we'd be judged harshly and called irresponsible, yet we were trying all we could to give our little ones the best, even turning down free housing that wouldn't allow pets, simply not to abandon them.

Our lives were so disrupted that we kept getting sick and losing work due to this, it was 2 steps forward a billion back. In the end, I knew I had to ask for help and luckily was advised to talk with the Blue Cross and Battersea.

I was expecting a telling off if I'm honest, I was shaking contacting them. We were not irresponsible owners an accident had happened and we did start out in a position to afford everything, but would we receive kindness? I was sceptical and scared but at the end of my tether.

From the moment the first email was answered I was treated with nothing but love, kindness understanding and respect. I cried through most of the phone calls as stunned at the support received. We had hung on and all suffered for nearly 2 years as wanted to pay for this ourselves, now I wish I'd messaged years ago.

Battersea operated on all FOUR of my girls and this has saved us all!!!!! Everything has now changed for the better and my little ones are now comfortable, safe and completely peaceful and I am now in a position to save and get us a home over time, as our biggest issue has been solved.{ although loving off-grid life so much may seek an off-grid option, either way though, I now have my calmness and clarity back to fix everything}

Every member of staff, from the team that called at The Blue Cross, to the security guards at the entrance of Battersea, were like angels. After all we had been through it was terrifying handing my babies over, I was shaking and sobbing when I arrived as had the absolute worst running through my mind. Imagine getting this far and them dying under the knife! But staff were so gentle and supportive, they told me my girls would be treated as Queens and they surely were.

I was even allowed to bring car in to drop them off, which is not typical practice I understand. But with 4 and nowhere to park, plus extremely nervous dogs this was a godsend too. Staff did everything possible to make our lives easy. The security guards even checked on me as saw my distress and were super sweet and tried to make me laugh. The nurses came instantly to greet us and were so kind to the dogs and reassuring to me and all was done in just a few hours.

When I came to collect my babies' their tails were wagging and their bellies were full as they had been given tasty chicken to bring them around. They were gently put in my van wrapped in clean fluffy white towels with a tiny plaster over the stitching.

I was told the surgeons had used a less invasive surgery, you couldn't even see the stitches, they had free pain killers also for the next few days and honestly, I have had zero problems. Shaving was neat too and best of all 2 of the girls that used to fight when in season are now happy friends!!!!

I cannot praise these guys highly enough, every single member of staff was wonderful, even while inside Battersea I was overwhelmed by how loving the dog carers that passed us were. Talking to the dogs so they weren't nervous on their little walks, giving them so much love and everything is immaculate for them, their little gardens/ play areas were cute and safe and the atmosphere was amazing! It was such a heartwarming experience, it's restored my faith in humans after all of the bad and cruel news I've listened to during these last few insane years.

I will 1000% be trying to raise money for these guys for the rest of my days and encourage anyone out there, scared and in a similar position to me to pick up the phone, you can trust these guys and if you're in any position to help, donate or both towards The Blue Cross and Battersea, please do, they totally deserve all the support they can get.

Thank you all at The Blue Cross and Battersea you saved our lives and we will never forget you!!!!! Many blessings sweet earth angels!!!!!

They don't really care about animals. They only worry about making money with them.

They decided to kill my dix month old puppy

I'm completely and utterly devastated, heartbroken and angry for hearing that my beautiful loving sweet full of life and energy dog was killed by you Battersea dog and cats so called home, scared and all alone unbearable to imagine what he went through.

I trusted that my baby will be rehomed (due to my change of circumstances were I could no longer give him the quality of life that he deserves)and loved and cared for like I and my children loved him dearly so much. This was a very tough decision for us to rehome him.

But I was horribly wrong. I unknowingly sent my baby to be sentenced to death just days after he got there, he wasn't even given a chance.

You say he is a banned breed that's what you say apparently it's just an excuse because you couldn't be bothered with him.

My baby wasn't a threat you guys are. He must of been so frightened and scared. I wish I could off been there to comfort him even take him away if I could.

My beautiful dog was such a gentle, happy,non aggressive dog, who we brought up well mannered trained in a loving home 5 weeks after he was born.

Now being 5months pregnant I have to grieve the loss of my beloved dog and it's making me ill.

I regret so much sending him to Battersea dogs so called home, you have really deceived me and the public with your lies of being caring and understanding.

Battersea dogs and cats home is really a slaughterhouse .

We wanted to adopt a cat,We were asked some questions,have you got a cat flap,how many bedrooms in your house,as well as many other grilling questions.we felt that we were being talked down to to be honest,we were told that our house was to small as we had two cats and that two bedrooms wasn't enough for an additional cat! What a joke,don't have a wasted journey,go to an RSPCA Carter instead.

i brought my lovely cat nsmed BLACKIE to battersea dogs and cats home on the 11th october 2016 at 4.00pm in the evening , when i got there this nice woman from behind the counter asked me to come with her to this side room , while we were in there she asked me some questions like HOW OLD IS HE ? , HAS HE BEEN WORMED ? , HAS HE BEEN TO A VET ? i answerd her questions and told her the name of the vet, then i was asked to sit outside untill the nurse came , the nurse came and walked straight past me with and went into the side room this smile on her face , when she came out she too started asking me questions , she asked me the same question again about the name of the vet , after this she said he will be taken upstairs to see the doctor , as i was leaving i could not stop thinking about why she asked me agian about the name of the vet DIDNT THE WOMAN BEFORE HER TYPE ANYTHING ONTO THE COMPUTER AS SHE WAS ASKING ME QUESTIOINS ? so i phoned the vet the next day just to check if thids nurse had phoned them and said anything bad about me I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT THIS WOMAN AT THE VET SAID TO ( SHE TRIED TO TELL ME THAT ALL INFORMATION ON MY CAT BLACKIE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND i have two cats and i brought both of them to the vet to be neutered SO HOW COME ONLY THE OTHER CATS INFORMATION WAS ON THE VETS COMPUTER AND NOT BLACKIES ? this nurse had phoned up the vet the very same day after i left and told the vet to erase all records of my cat BLACKIE this is outragous , why did she do this ? little does she know i have all the reciepts of blackie being there to be treated , what did they do to my cat blackie ? UP TILL THIS DAY WHEN I GO ONTO THE BATTERSEA DOGS AND CATS HOME WEB SITE TO CHECK IF HE IS IN THE NEW ARRIVALS OF RE HOMING SECTION I CANT SEE HIS PICTURE THERE , DID THEY PUT MY CAT BLACKIE TO SLEEEP ?