The best dog rescues in Hull, compared

Founded in 2009, Oakwood Dog Rescue is the only rescue we list with kennels inside the city, at Sutton Fields in north Hull, and its dogs are on our Oakwood page. It rehomes UK dogs and ex-street dogs from overseas, many from Romania, and its goal is one home only: matching each dog carefully so it stays in the first home it finds. Every dog goes home neutered, fully vaccinated and microchipped, with 5 weeks' free Agria insurance, and it requires you to insure the dog for life.

You apply online, then wait: its adoption team emails only when a suitable dog is at the centre. Next you send photo ID and proof of address for everyone over 16, plus photos of your garden boundary, and have a screening call. Then the whole household, and any dog you already have, comes to a viewing. Oakwood expects you to decide that day and pay a £100 reservation donation, which is not refundable. You then have 48 hours to get ready, pass a home check by video call and collect the dog.

Its requirements rule some homes out: adopters must be 21 or older (60 and over need a younger back up), with a secure garden attached to the home and a padlocked gate. Fence height decides your matches, with 6 foot fencing giving the most. It won't rehome to a home with children under 10, or with a dog under a year old, and a dog should not be left alone for more than 5 hours a day. Don't apply if you are moving house or have a holiday booked in the next 3 months.

Hull Animal Welfare Trust began as a volunteer club in 1982 and runs the Sunnydene shelter at Pinfold, South Cave, about 11 miles west of the city. It says it has rehomed over 30,000 animals and that no healthy animal is ever destroyed. Its dogs are on our Hull Animal Welfare Trust page.

It rehomes across Hull and the East Riding. Many of its dogs come in through the stray system, as it kennels Hull's strays for the council, and others when an owner dies, falls ill or can no longer cope. Every dog is neutered, fully vaccinated and microchipped. You fill in a form, and it checks with your vet, visits your home or both; only after a good check can you reserve the dog. Viewing is by appointment, booked by phone between 11am and 2pm, any day of the year.

A volunteer-run charity rehoming retired racing greyhounds from kennels at Leconfield, near Beverley, about 10 miles north. Hull Greyhound Rescue is self-funded and won't put a greyhound to sleep except on health grounds. You contact its volunteers by email or phone, and they arrange a home visit when needed. It asks adopters to consider its gentle older dogs, and its dogs are on our Hull Greyhound Rescue page. Our Hull greyhound guide covers it in detail.

South of the Humber, Jerry Green Dog Rescue has a centre at Broughton, near Brigg, about 15 miles from Hull and the closest rescue we list to Scunthorpe. It is open 7 days a week from 10am to 3pm, but you can't walk round the kennels: its Meet&Match visits are by appointment, and you usually can't take a dog home the same day, because the contract, the microchip transfer and the fee come first. Its fee is £385 for a dog over 20 weeks, and its profiles say when a dog can live with children.

At the western edge of the 25 miles, about 22 miles from Hull, Linbee Dog Rehoming is a volunteer-run rescue at Lowgate, Goole. Viewings are between 10am and 12 noon every day, strictly by appointment, and the dog is brought out to you. Everyone in the household and any resident dog comes to a meet and greet, then a volunteer checks for a secure rear garden with at least a 5 foot fence, depending on the dog. Most of its dogs are strays, and as a rule it won't rehome to homes with children under 5.

Immingham Dogs Home has kennels on Habrough Road at South Killingholme, about 9 miles from Hull across the Humber, and says its primary focus is dogs from North Lincolnshire. Its dogs don't show on our pages, so read the profiles on its own site, which describe the home each dog needs; some give the fee, and for the others ask the rescue. Its steps are an application, a volunteer review, a home check or meeting, then adoption day.