A to Z of services: Dogs - Stray/Lost

During normal office hours, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm:

Telephone Hartlepool Connect on 01429 523333.

Your call will be logged and the Dog Warden will endeavour to respond within 1 hour, however, this response time is usually less than 1 hour.

During out of hours, Monday to Friday, Weekends and Bank Holidays:

Telephone 01429 869424

Persons holding a stray dog will have the following options:

• hold the dog until the following morning when the Council's dog pound will collect it
• take the dog directly to the Council's dog pound at Low Fallowfield Farm Kennels, South Hetton Co Durham

N.B. When using the 'out of hours' arrangements, details of the person(s) holding the stray dog will be taken and these will be passed to the Council's dog pound.  The dog pound will then make arrangements to collect or receive the dog.

The following online forms can also be completed:

Report a Stray/Found Dog
Report a Lost Dog

Hartlepool Borough Council seizes around 400 stray dogs each year.  These dogs are taken to kennels where they are kept until they can be re-united with their owners.

Those dogs who aren't claimed by their owners are available for rehoming.

For details of dogs currently in the kennels, see our Stray/Lost Dogs page.

If you are interested in providing a home to a stray dog, contact Low Fallowfield Kennels on 0191 526 1829.