Mutts in Distress

Welcome

logo3 Mutts in Distress is an animal shelter located at Normandale Kennels, in Little Hallingbury near Bishops Stortford on the Hertfordshire / Essex border.

We rescue dogs from local pounds that would otherwise be destroyed, and offer them for rehoming.

Please note that due to the COVID situation, we are operating home checks only in a limited number of areas. See Latest News Updates below.

We also provide:
A qualified and approved microchipping centre
Identity Discs sold and engraved while you wait
Dog leads and collars for sale
Dog training classes

Find us at:
New Barn Lane, Little Hallingbury, Bishops Stortford
Hertfordshire, CM22 7PR.
Tel : 01279 656633

Please note that this is a private number and so we ask you to only call between 9.00am and 7.30pm unless a genuine emergency. Otherwise, use our contact form.

Help For Disabled Dogs

We have recently brought over 3 disabled dogs and will very soon be bringing over another 5 disabled dogs from abroad. If we can raise the money so desperately needed for their surgeries they will no longer be disabled. The dogs have either been born with deformed limbs or been damaged by accident or abuse. The first one, Luna, has just had her surgery to straighten her legs.

We will be paying for the costs and need to raise the funds for the surgeries to repair these dogs. The plan is that they will go on to lead normal lives, something which would not happen otherwise. The dogs are a mixture of Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Cross Breeds and a Husky.

If you are able to make a donation, however small, towards helping these dogs to lead a normal life we would very much appreciate it. Thank you.

Please visit our GoFundMe page to contribute.

Latest news updates.

The kennels are still in lock down but can make arrangements for people to visit if they have passed a home check and know the dog they want. We cannot have people moving from kennel to kennel. Some of our home checkers are willing to start home checking again, so if you live in any of the following areas and know the dog you want, please complete the application form (or re apply if you have done so earlier).

Harlow, Hertford, Dovercourt, Harwich, Cuffley, Clacton, St Albans, Herts/Bucks border, Bishop’s Stortford, Braintree, Hoddesdon, Dunmow, Colchester (CO4), Forest Gate.

At the moment, it is only these areas that we can home check, so please do not apply if you are outside of these. Hopefully we will add more as lock down is eased further. Home checks will need to be conducted outside, so will need a separate entrance to the back garden and for the time being, we are not able to accept flats, unless they are ground floor with separate access to the garden. Thank you.

Secure exercise paddocks available.

We are offering the use of our secure exercise paddocks for £15 per hour or £10 per half hour.

Please contact us for further details.

Our swimming pool is now open.

We’ll have an official opening ceremony at the end of lockdown, but meantime you can book a 30-minute fun session (20 minutes in the pool and 10 minutes drying) for £20.

Find out more on our Normandale Kennels page.

Can you offer a tin of dog food please ?

Due to living as strays and eating whatever they could find, we have several dogs arriving with poorly tummies. We are getting through so much tinned Chappie, that we are stripping the shop shelves of the stuff!
This is an appeal for donations of tins of dog food eg. Butchers Tripe please (not gravy), either loaf or jelly. It smells yummy and if we can’t get them to eat the Chappie, they will often eat the tripe. We are desperate for more tins due to a huge demand.

Can you add a tin or two to your shopping please ? (We do have drop off points for people in Harlow if it’s not convenient to come to the kennels).

THANK YOU!

Help needed

We really need a homechecker for the Bedford area.

Does anyone have some spare fencing panels ? If you have any that are surplus to requirements, please call the kennels who will gratefully take them off your hands.