Description: Westie Rescue is based in County Louth, Ireland and was set up in 2005. We rescue and rehome an average of sixty Westies every year.
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Update Jan 2023: As many of you will have noticed, Westies are no longer as popular as they used to be. This has meant that in recent years, very few dogs have become available for adoption. After more than 20 years of rescuing and rehoming over 500 Westies in Ireland, this seems an opportune time to me to hang up the boots, and wind the rescue up. Thank you to everybody who has helped in any way over the years: our wonderful volunteers, fosterers, transporters, kennels; everybody who has dona
********************************************************* Westie Rescue Ireland was originally based in County Louth, but has since moved to the Midlands to County Offaly. Westie Rescue Ireland was set up in 2005 by Maureen Byrne, in response to the increasing numbers of Westies being abandoned and surrendered into dog pounds around the country at the time.
We rescue and rehome an average of sixty Westies every year. That’s a lot of dogs, but it is only a proportion of the Westies who are rehomed via other channels, or put to sleep, every year.