diff --git a/sanoid b/sanoid
index c12dff8..866eef0 100755
--- a/sanoid
+++ b/sanoid
@@ -299,6 +299,17 @@ sub prune_snapshots {
 								if (! $args{'readonly'}) {
 									if (system($zfs, "destroy", $snap) == 0) {
 										$pruned{$snap} = 1;
+										my $dataset = (split '@', $snap)[0];
+										my $snapname = (split '@', $snap)[1];
+										if ($config{$dataset}{'pruning_script'}) {
+											$ENV{'SANOID_TARGET'} = $dataset;
+											$ENV{'SANOID_SNAPNAME'} = $snapname;
+											if ($args{'verbose'}) { print "executing pruning_script '".$config{$dataset}{'pruning_script'}."' on dataset '$dataset'\n"; }
+											system($config{$dataset}{'pruning_script'}) == 0
+												or warn "WARN: pruning_script failed, $?";
+											delete $ENV{'SANOID_TARGET'};
+											delete $ENV{'SANOID_SNAPNAME'};
+										}
 									} else {
 										warn "could not remove $snap : $?";
 									}
diff --git a/sanoid.conf b/sanoid.conf
index 218a492..e684614 100644
--- a/sanoid.conf
+++ b/sanoid.conf
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@
 	#no_inconsistent_snapshot = yes
 	### run post_snapshot_script when pre_snapshot_script is failing
 	#force_post_snapshot_script = yes
+	### dataset name will be supplied as an environment variable $SANOID_TARGET
+	pruning_script = /path/to/script.sh
 
 [template_ignore]
 	autoprune = no
diff --git a/sanoid.defaults.conf b/sanoid.defaults.conf
index 12a8049..d4dd19e 100644
--- a/sanoid.defaults.conf
+++ b/sanoid.defaults.conf
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ pre_snapshot_script =
 post_snapshot_script =
 no_inconsistent_snapshot =
 force_post_snapshot_script =
+pruning_script =
 
 # If any snapshot type is set to 0, we will not take snapshots for it - and will immediately
 # prune any of those type snapshots already present.