13/05/2025
*** Update 30/7/25 - Bentley has moved to a home and is doing well 🤗🤗🤗 ***
*** Thank you to everyone who has shared Bentley’s post 🙏 and for those who have positive kind words. We absolutely want to find Bentley a home and we are working our way through the applications that have come in. Thank you to those of who have enquired about him and filled in application forms. I am so hopeful this time we will find that perfect home for him 🙏🙏 we will update on his progress ****
🆘 I’m devastated to say that this will be the last post I will be writing about Bentley to find him a home 💔 if this does not end up in a suitable match offering of a forever home then Bentley will end going back to Cyprus 💔I have tried repeatedly for Bentley over the months and now this is it 💔💔💔💔
Bentley is 4 years old and in kennels in Preesall, Lancashire.
This is absolutely not the outcome any of us want, but what is the point in him staying in kennels here? We cannot find him a home and we cannot afford to keep paying for him in UK kennels. It’s already cost us thousands of pounds to keep him here as long as we have.
A bit about Bentley…..
👋 I’m Bentley and let me tell you about my life.
I had an owner in Cyprus but they kept me in a tiny cage and I rarely was allowed out 😩 then one day someone came and I could hear them talking to my owner. They were kind and took me out the tiny cage and to a rescue shelter. I was so grateful 🙏 I was still in a cage but at least it was much bigger, I got to come out each day, the cage was cleaned and the people there were lovely.
I was a good boy at the shelter and got along with my kennel mate Luna fine. It was ok there but I always dreamed of having my own home with my own family. I loved the attention that the ladies at the shelter gave me and I was sad to be put back in the cage and for them to leave.
One day the ladies looking after me started talking excitedly about a big trip and a new home. I didn’t know what it meant but it must be good news ☺️
The day of the big trip finally came. I was loaded into a crate and the ladies were crying and saying goodbye. It was scary being loaded onto a great big noisy thing with wings, along with lots of other terrified doggies. After a while we were moved from the flying thing to a van and after what seemed like forever we finally stopped.
A lovely couple had adopted me. Things seemed to be going really well and I was happy…. but they had another dog and he didn’t like me being there, maybe I was just too much for him because I know I can be a bit bouncy at times.
Sadly, I had to leave that home and then I was taken on another journey and this time I was to end up in a kennel 😩💔
And there I have stayed for many months now. I have been into a couple of homes that have fallen through 😩 I really don’t want to go back to Cyprus as it feels like I’m going to be further away from ever finding my own home 💔💔 I really thought the big trip over would be worth it, but it appears not 😔😔😔
Things I need for my next and final home to be a success:
🐶 A home without any other dogs
🐈⬛ A home without any cats
🧍♂️ A home with one or 2 adults only who have a quiet home without many visitors. I don’t need to meet the visitors, I’m happy to be in another room to them if they do visit
🤝 To meet my people a few times before going home with them
👂 People who will listen to the advice of the kennel staff 🙏
👦 A home without anyone under 18
🤗 I am a cuddly boy so I need to have someone willing to give me the cuddles I want and need 🙏
I am vaccinated, chipped and neutered and I have rescue back up from Saving Souls Animal Rescue
PLEASE DO NOT MESSAGE OR COMMENT ASKING IF YOU DO NOT MEET THIS CRITERIA, WE CANNOT WAVER ON IT AND THESE GUIDELINES ARE HERE FOR A REASON.
To apply to adopt me:
https://savingsoulsrescue.org/animals/?animal_id=13
