About us

Welcome to One Paw At a Time Dog Rescue

When we started One Paw over 13 years ago, it was just the two of us and a few dogs in need of a loving home. Since then, we have been incredibly lucky to have grown our community to over 14,000 members on Facebook, with even more across other platforms, in both the UK and across the world.

Since our beginnings in 2011, we are proud to have saved over 3,000 dogs internationally, with our focus on the cause only increasing. Alongside this, the time needed to effectively manage the rescue in line with our exponential growth has increased.

Over the years, we have increased our One Paw team to ensure we are able to continue to give help to the dogs that need it the most. This includes the part-time employment of one team member on a 3-day per week basis equalling to 24 hours a week, at a rate considerably under the current UK minimum wage of £11.44 (as of November 2024), with no pension contribution, to ensure the rescue is as viable to our core aims as possible.

Our work is not limited to the 3-days, with our whole team living and breathing the rescue day in, day out. Our team is at the heart of all that we do and without them, our continued work to save as many dogs as we can would not be possible.

We help dogs from UK dog pounds where they can either be strays or abandoned and only get seven days to be claimed by an owner or a rescue.

We also help Romanian dogs, we think they deserve a chance and this does not affect us helping UK dogs. Dogs in Romania are often beaten, starved, and killed in the most horrendous ways.

We have also recently been helping dogs from the dog meat trade in China. These dogs are rescued from horrific conditions. There are no laws in china for animals, so it is legal to beat and torture and eat them. We are making a small difference by helping some come to the UK, we don’t help many as the costs are so high, but any donations towards the costs are welcomed.

All our dogs are placed in foster homes for an assessment period. This means we can gather information on how they behave within the home environment and with other dogs, cats and children. We then advertise them here on our website and Facebook page and groups to find them loving forever homes.

We do offer rescue back up for each dog we adopt out, this means if the dog ever needs to return to us once adopted for any reason then we will take our One Paw back and find a new home.

Our adoption area is a few hours hours from Nottingham only but we are slowly venturing to other areas of the UK.

We can’t keep our rescue going without the support of our members, and adopters and fosters. Please take a look at the ways you can support us.

We are a small team based in Nottingham. We started our rescue in 2014 and have helped over 1000 dogs.

We help dogs from UK dog pounds where they can either be strays or abandoned and only get seven days to be claimed by an owner or a rescue.

We also help Romanian dogs, we think they deserve a chance and this does not affect us helping UK dogs. Dogs in Romania are often beaten, starved, and killed in the most horrendous ways.

We have also recently been helping dogs from the dog meat trade in China. These dogs are rescued from horrific conditions. There are no laws in china for animals, so it is legal to beat and torture and eat them. We are making a small difference by helping some come to the UK, we don’t help many as the costs are so high, but any donations towards the costs are welcomed.

All our dogs are placed in foster homes for an assessment period. This means we can gather information on how they behave within the home environment and with other dogs, cats and children. We then advertise them here on our website and Facebook page and groups to find them loving forever homes.

We do offer rescue back up for each dog we adopt out, this means if the dog ever needs to return to us once adopted for any reason then we will take our One Paw back and find a new home.

Our adoption area is a few hours hours from Nottingham only but we are slowly venturing to other areas of the UK.

We can’t keep our rescue going without the support of our members, and adopters and fosters. Please take a look at the ways you can support us.

Shane and Shaun, founders of One Paw at a Time Dog Rescue