Battersea Dogs Home figures.

these are intake figures for 2006.

the most regular breeds are listed as follows.

Border Collie 265(purebred) - 221(crosses)
German Shepherd 509/172
Greyhound 128/0
Jack Russell Terrier 526/336
Retriever (Labrador) 285/168
Rottweiler 299/88
Staffordshire Bull Terrier 1389/625
Yorkshire Terrier 148/43

Totals 4926/3388

No surprises there - fits in with the trend nationally for last few years,

Staffies/X's practically nearly equal all the rest put together.

And JRT's and GSD's have been espesh high too, and the rest are about the same as well.

Wow - that is a huge number of dogs. I don't think I'd ever appreciated just how many are taken in in one year.

Just wish they had a centre nearer to me so sad

I'm surprised that spaniels aren't on the list as it seems like quite a few appear in rescue .

the figures for labs are a lot lower than i would have expected.

I did know they took that many in
That is mad all those poor dogs.

Wonder what the figures are for Wood Green etc., if you put them all together must be frightening figures.

im suprised there no boxers on the list the amount of pet owners that jump on the breeder wagon id have expected it,it amazing isnt it xxx

no, the list is the top breeds - there is loads other breeds i havent listed
rescues get boxers all the time.

What I found surprising is both Battersea and the Mayhew's figures show, so far this year the calls they're recieved about unwanted dogs were 2/3rds pedigrees, 1/3rd cross breeds

Pedigrees are now the problem, not mongrels