Wag & Co North East Friendship with Dogs

Wag & Company is the only visiting dog charity befriending older people in their own homes as well as in care or medical establishments across the North East.

Wag volunteer with a small black dog wearing a neck scarf

About Wag

Wag's professionally assessed volunteers and their special dogs safely befriend and regularly visit for 1-2 hrs a week elderly dog lovers right across the North East, from private homes to 150 care residences.

 

An elderly man stroking a dog

Ending Loneliness for Older Dog Lovers

  • 51,000 North East pensioners are lonely all or most of the time

 

  • Many are dog lovers; 36% of NE households have a dog

 

  • Loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

 

  • No other visiting dog charity visits people in their own home in our communities