ANIMAL SITE IS A HIT
 

(Article from Borehamwood Times. Dated 7/12/2006)
Three colleagues who run a website which rehomes animals are celebrating reaching more than 10,000 hits a day.

The website, www.giveus ahome.co.uk, is run by three estate agents from Barons Estates, in Shenley Road, in their spare time.

Brothers Peter and Paul Savage, 33 and 31, and Kate Davis, 27, volunteered to help the website after reading about it in the Sunday Times and ended up running it themselves in 2000. Peter Savage, said: "I didn't realise how popular the site would be, people are visiting it from all over the world. I update the website every morning on top of running my estate agent business. I do it because I love animals."

The website shows photographs of animals sent in by rescue centres and people who can no longer care for their pets and matches them with people who are seeking a pet. Mr Savage added: "We have just rehomed a dalmation called Woody and a couple of ducks. We are looking for loving homes for these animals." The website, which won a Pride of Britain Award in 2000, also gives visitors the opportunity to engage in debating forums and to learn more about animals from the information pages.

The running costs of the site are funded by Barons Estates. Miss Davis said: "Children ask us for information on animals from different parts of the world for school projects."

A wide variety of animals are posted on the website, including fish, reptiles, horses and cats. It acts as a useful platform for rescue centres and individuals to post photographs of some of their animals and with the ever-growing number of requests for advice, there is now a facility to contact a vet.
 
(Article from Borehamwood Times. Dated 7/12/2000)
A Radlett-based internet site is offering hope to hundreds of homeless pets. The award-winning site, at www.giveusahome.co.uk, has 2,500 pages of pets in need of homes, including dogs, cats, rabbits, rats and even pot-bellied pigs.
Around 30 sanctuaries across Britain have contributed photographs of homeless animals, and the website's staff are currently trying to get local animal shelters on board. They are also planning to distribute leaflets in the Borehamwood area to inform people about the site.
When the site started in 1997, it was based in Newcastle upon Tyne and has featured on television programmes and in national newspapers, and was given the Linda McCartney Animal Welfare award.
Radlett-based Peter and Paul Savage took it over in August this year, funding the non profit-making site themselves through their internet company, Any Problem.Com. According to Peter Savage, although the nearest sanctuary featured on the site is in Milton Keynes, people are not put off. He said: "We have had people travel from down here up to Manchester. One lady went up to Scotland to pick up a dog she fell in love with from the picture."
Mr Savage uses photographs from the shelters' own websites and he also sends disposable cameras to the shelters once a month, which return them with with pictures. For information on the site call 020 8953 0234.
 
(Article from Borehamwood Times. Dated 10/1/2002)
 
A Borehamwood-based website which finds homes for abandoned pets has been revamped, having gone from strength to strength over the past year.
The website shows photographs of pets which animal shelters across the country have not been able to find homes for, in the hope that visitors to the site may want them.

Pets featured on the site have included: pot bellied pigs, goats and chickens, as well as dogs and cats.

Kate Davis and Peter Savage run the site, which won the Linda McCartney Animal Welfare Award at The Mirror newspaper's Pride of Britain Awards in 2000, from Barons Estates in Shenley Road, where Peter is a partner.

Kate said: "The website is getting nearly double the number of visitors compared to when we first bought it, and every month the hits go up and up and up.

"We do not make money from this - we do it because we love animals."

Kate and Peter, who took over the site in 2000, are relaunching it early next month, following a re-design to improve its appearance and make it quicker to use.

The site, which has information on hundreds of animals needing homes, can be visited now at www.giveusahome.co.uk.