Socks’ Sanctuary

30/12/2025

🐾 BONNIE – URGENT EXPERIENCED HOME NEEDED 🐾

Bonnie is a 15-month-old young dog with lots of energy and potential. She’s an active girl who needs an experienced, confident home that can offer her structure, consistency, and guidance.

🔹 No children
🔹 Could potentially live with a similar-sized dog, following slow, controlled introductions
🔹 Not dog-reactive outside the home

Bonnie is currently in emergency boarding (EB). She began to develop behavioural challenges, particularly fixating on doors, and her previous owners felt they were unable to manage or train her through this developmental stage.
She is still very young and needs time, patience, and clear leadership to help her settle and thrive.

📍 Location: Liverpool area
⚠️ Urgent: If you have large-breed experience and can offer Bonnie the stability, training, and commitment she needs, please message urgently.

Bonnie deserves the right chance with someone who understands her needs and can help her grow into the dog she’s capable of being. 💛

Please share. 💔

05/10/2025

REHOMED.
One of Emily’s pups💔

🐾 Rehoming — Lovely 7-Month-Old Dog Named Dio 🐾

📍 Location: Leigh

Meet Dio, a 7-month-old male dog looking for a new forever home. This has been a difficult decision made purely for financial reasons, and I want to ensure he goes to the right home.

🐶 About Dio
Breed: mastiff cross (large breed tones of love to give)
S*x: Male
Age: 7 months
Vaccinated: Yes
Microchipped: Yes
Flea/worm treated: Yes
Good with adults: Great
Good with children: Great
Good with other dogs: No – he can be reactive and pulls when he sees other dogs
Good with cats: No – he likes to chase cats
House trained: Yes
Knows basic commands: Yes
Food: Raw diet
Left alone: Can manage 5–6 hours
Chewing habits: Loves to chew rocks (so supervision outdoors is important!)

Dio is a friendly, loving young dog who enjoys attention and playtime. He’s full of personality and potential — with continued training and consistency, he’ll make a wonderful companion.

16/07/2025

Guys, we hate to ask... but we’re desperate.
One of our beloved Socks rescues Crumpet, who was saved & now she is fighting for her life & needs urgent help — and we have less than 12 hours to raise nearly £2,000 to save her life. 💔💔

If you’re able to donate anything at all, it could make the difference.
Please, help us give her the future she deserves.

Because we need the morning tomorrow morning bank transfer or PayPal. Go fund me won’t pay out in time 💔

15/05/2025

Statement from Socks’ Sanctuary– Erin, Sarah, and myself

We are absolutely devastated by the horrors that have come to light regarding Save A Paw.

Like many others—including other rescues and even police kennels—we entrusted dogs to Obi. We did not send them blindly. Sarah visited the site personally. We had glowing references from respected figures in the rescue community who vouched for him. During the visit, no red flags were visible—he appeared to care for the dogs genuinely. We received regular updates and photos at first, but in January, those suddenly stopped.

We begged for updates, pleaded for proof of the dogs' wellbeing—but got nothing. Then, the rumours began. Initially, I thought it might be another witch hunt, as I’ve been subject to awful, false accusations myself. But when Obi refused to cooperate, I followed the advice of Tracey Whatmore, gathered all our evidence, and contacted the police. We immediately ceased working with him.

Tracey has been nothing short of phenomenal throughout this ordeal. Thank you for trusting your instincts—we are incredibly grateful.

Looking back, Obi completely pulled the wool over our eyes. I have messages from him—asking random questions like how to groom a Chow, or what brushes to use. It was all an act. I begged him to show us the dogs. He agreed to a visit, but then kept delaying and making excuses. Eventually, communication broke down, and I took the step to go to the police.

We are heartbroken. Personally, I don’t think I’ll ever trust anyone again.

Our focus now is on the dogs we sent. Many of them needed additional support—some were dog-reactive or had behavioural needs. We are praying they made it out. We know that at least one of our dogs did, and she has since been adopted.

We’ll be launching an online campaign to try to locate them. If anyone would like help creating posters, please get in touch—we’re here to help.

For those who know us—myself, Erin, and Sarah—you know how deeply we care. We do everything for the dogs. Obi fooled us. He fooled others. He even fooled the police.

We’ll never get over this. And we carry this guilt with us every single day. That, in itself, is a lifelong punishment

28/03/2025

Hooper spayed 💫🐾

28/03/2025

28/03/2025

PROOF OF SPAYING

10/03/2025

05/03/2025

Meet the rescue pups that still need homes 🏡 ✨Criteria: must be over 26, must have large breed experience, must have a secure garden, must have time to train & be in the home, must have done research on the Pressa breed & understand their requirements, must be in England, Wales or Scotland & willing to collect the pup from Liverpool. PET only homes, contract will be in place (law abiding) which prohibits breeding. Background checks & adoption fee applies. If you’re interested please message to start the process..

05/03/2025

Home needed