About Luna -

Important Announcement – Closure

Sadly, the state of rescue in the UK at the moment has reached an untenable position. The sheer volume of animals in horrific states, and with so many unnecessarily unneutered animals breeding has taken it’s toll on all of us in rescue.

Our animal welfare in this country is at a disgracefully low standard, which is incredibly difficult to watch on repeat.

There are so many animals let down by their owners, the people who are supposed to look after them to their very best ability, by members of the public, and indeed sometimes even some vets who don’t have welfare at heart

Even the most stoic people have a point at which they need a break, and a break has come

We are closing our doors from now until September 7th 2026.

This is not a flippant decision, and has not been taken lightly. It is a decision that rips at the heart of what has been achieved in 13 years of Luna.

We will take animals that we are committed to already, but we will not be adding more to our waiting list, and will not be taking any more hand ins or new animals until then.

We will concentrate on rehoming the animals we currently have in our care, and continue to rely on the public for help with those, and for sharing for their rehoming. As always, we will provide rescue back up for every animal we have rehomed previously.

Please do not contact us to ask us to take any more animals. We will not be in a position to, and it only feels worse to reiterate no.

You can continue to help us by:

* sharing our animals for rehoming

* ensuring that everyone you know prioritises neutering their cats, and ensuring that dogs do not breed.

* watching out for things we are continuing to do in the background, and supporting them.

We hope to have better news in September, once we have had a rest

Luna Animal Rescue was founded in October 2013. The main aim was to help rehome dogs who found themselves abandoned and without families, in local and national pounds. Since then we have successfully rehomed well over 300 dogs, who are happily living with their new families. Luna has evolved into a bigger family, and we have a number of foster families, mainly in the south east of England (Herts, Beds and Cambs) , but also all over the UK. Our fosterers are essential for our work and they look after our dogs, cats and small animals in a home environment whilst they wait for their families.

We are now a registered charity ( charity number 1163839) , with a non-destruct policy ( we will not put down a healthy well balanced animal), and all animals that are rehomed through us have a lifetime of rescue backup. If an animal has or develops behavioural issues or the adoptive family has a change of circumstances we offer help and guidance and support wherever possible. We are proud to work alongside local training establishments to provide support and ongoing involvement with our dogs once they have moved on to their families.

We are a foster based rescue, and our foster families provide us with vital information during assessment of our animals, and provide lots of ongoing training, love and input whilst animals are with them. We very rarely use kennels, only ever as a short term back up, whilst making onward training programmes and formulating foster plans for our dogs.

All our dogs and cats are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed, flea treated and vet checked. All our small animals are neutered and vaccinated and vet checked where appropriate.