Oakfield Old Dogs Home need you!

The Oldies need your help! Oakfield Old Dogs Home is a unique building situated at our Roden Rehoming Centre.

Just like people older dogs are not as resilient as the younger generation and it can be a lot harder for them to bounce back. Older dogs can find it hard to adjust to kennel life after living in a family home.


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Oakfield is a house like any other except for its residents. Up to 12 older dogs will live here and see out their old age and get the extra care and attention they need in a home environment. The dogs are free to wander round where they want, when they want and lovely carers always nearby; there really is no other place like it.

The old Oakfield has recently been refurbished and rebuilt as part of the overall rebuild of our Roden centre. And is due to reopen on November 15th 2010.

Oakfield is run like a normal house with all the fixtures and fittings of your own home. We have furnished the house with the basics but need a little extra help to buy the extra comforts an older dog enjoys.


We are looking to raise £2000 to help ensure these older dogs see out there days in comfort. Can you help?


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Roden gets a revamp

We’ve officially let the cat… er, dog… out of the bag! On Sunday, the Times wrote an article about future building plans for our lovely Roden centre. These plans include a new greener approach, with solar panelling, rooflights that open to allow ventilation in the warmer months, low-power LED lighting with daytime sensors, and more. The aim is to cut the energy consumed by more than 60%! This isn’t the first time we’ve used environmentally conscious techniques, either. When the Dublin centre was built last year, it incorporated ground coil heating and rain water recycling. It’s something we think is very important for both the environment and efficient for driving down energy costs.

The new building will most certainly provide better welfare facilities for the dogs as well as saving costs in the long term. The new improvements planned are an onsite veterinary operating suite and a training barn where we can work with dogs under cover and run training classes. We will also have better exercise compounds. Also, the high standard of internal finishes will save on maintenance costs in the long run in what is an environment that has hard usage!

It’s an exciting time for Roden and as Matthew Taylor, property director here at Dogs Trust, says: “The less we spend on energy, the more we have for our core function, which is
caring for dogs.”

We agree, Matt!