Meet some of the dogs available for adoption at Thornberry Animal Sanctuary

The Star, Sheffield

Reporter Kirsty Hamilton met with kennel hand Colm at Thornberry Animal Sanctuary, near Dinnington, to see some of the dogs looking for new homes.

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00:00Hi, I'm Kirstie the Sheffield star and I'm here at Thornberry Animal Sanctuary

00:04But I will be showing you just some of the dogs that need a new home. Let's go and take a look

00:19This is Obe, Obe

00:22Call me a chick. Wee!

00:25This is Obe, he is lovely, but he's crazy. He's

00:30Thank you. Thank you. He's very loving, very loving. He's

00:36He's not got a bad bone in him at all. He's just he's looking for his forever home now and

00:42He's he's ready for adoption and we're just waiting on

00:46Hopefully soon, he'll be in his nice lovely home

00:50So what is the perfect home for Obe? So Obe just on his own, no other dogs, no other animals

00:56He can be a little bit reactive towards dogs

01:00But it's not it's nothing like aggressive or anything like that. He's just not really had that much socialisation in the past

01:07And then just someone that's going to be there with him spending

01:11all day cuddling him, sat on the settee and just

01:16Living out the rest of his life and his forever home

01:20What does he like to do? Has he got any

01:22favorite pastimes?

01:24Tennis balls

01:25Tennis balls, tennis balls, tennis balls. He is obsessed with tennis balls and he will

01:30Chase a tennis ball all day until his little legs fall off

01:38Who is this? This is Woody. This is Woody, one of our ex-racers

01:43Woody!

01:45Woody!

01:47You've been camera shy now

01:51So how old is Woody? Woody is two years and two months. So he's just a baby really? He is, he is. A big baby

02:00So, can you tell us a little bit about him, what does he like to do?

02:05He loves food, don't you mate? You're a massive foodie, part hoover at times

02:10He loves, he just loves general affection, that's like his number one thing

02:14But he does like playing with toys, tennis balls, rope toys

02:19But food and cuddles are very high on Woody's list

02:25So what sort of home is Woody looking for?

02:29So ideally someone that is maybe familiar with the breed

02:33And then obviously someone that kind of knows a little bit about like ex-racers

02:38Even though he hasn't raced much, he has come from that sort of background, so all that training

02:44He's had that

02:45But we've not really seen much of that pre-drive in him

02:48But we always like someone to know what they're kind of getting themselves in for when taking on like a sight hound, especially an ex-racer

02:57He does, he does like walking, but Woody is a bit of a couch potato

03:01So he likes one good walk and then he'll clunk out, he'll sleep for the rest of the day

03:07And just relax on like a settee or something like that, that's another one of his things that he loves to do

03:20This is JJ, he's three years and ten months and he's our Terrier cross, he's a Paterdale cross

03:26We don't know what the cross is

03:29But you can definitely see the Paterdale in him

03:33He just loves a cuddle, that's like his main

03:36Are you coming?

03:38Oh, he's here, he's here

03:40He's very, very lovable, aren't you? You don't really bother about toys at all though, do you mate?

03:45You just want to sit on people's knees

03:49Eat everything that they've got, eat all their food

03:55Oh, he's so cute. He's a lovely lad. So what's his ideal home?

04:01Maybe someone that is active, on the more active side, just because he is a Terrier, he's a Terrier cross

04:09And they like to be out and about, adventuring, going all over the place, ain't they?

04:17And someone that is going to obviously spoil him rotten

04:22He's not really shown anything to say that he couldn't live with children

04:28He's been absolutely lovely, he's been good as gold, we've all thank you mate, and he's off

04:40Oh, who is this little lovely?

04:42This is Donut

04:44A perfect name, eh? A perfect name

04:48She is absolutely lovely and full of beans

04:51She's

04:52She is eight and one month, you wouldn't have guessed it, she doesn't act her age, do you? You're silly, you're silly

05:00And she's been with us for

05:0322 days as of today, so she's not been with us for too long either

05:08so with her being obviously a

05:11Bouncy, a bouncy dog

05:13So she could live with children of the age of 12

05:18as long as she's obviously

05:20Not being too silly with the children

05:23and as long as everybody is okay with like her boisterousness, but

05:27Children a little bit older and a little bit more sturdy on their feet because she can be quite boisterous at times, can't you?

05:34Can be quite silly

05:36She's absolutely lovely. I know, I know, we've heard, we've heard

05:40What do you like to do, Donut? She likes to cuddle, she likes to sit on people

05:46You're very nosy at times, aren't you, Sausage? You like to know what everybody's doing all the time

05:51She loves food, so like puzzle feeders. She goes mad for puzzle feeders, Kongs, Licky Mats

05:59She absolutely loves them

06:01Don't you? Yeah

06:04She is looking for her forever home now

06:06So she is up for adoption and feel free if you have seen any of the dogs that have been showed off today

06:13Fill a form out if you do want to come and meet them and then we'll take you from there

06:17Thank you

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