This man – we don’t know his name as far as I can see – said on social media: “Yesterday I adopted the oldest, sickest, and sorest shelter dog. I’ll never forget his eyes. When I went into the cage he didn’t even bother to …
The RSPCA report that there has been a rise in dog cruelty and abuse for the second year in a row in the UK. The charity confirmed that they had 9,776 reports of intentional harm to dogs in 2022 compared to 8,176 in 2021. In …
Lauren Bailey’s genuine character is a powerful advert for the RPCA in their ‘Cancel Out Cruelty 2022’ campaign. What comes across to me and it must be seen by others is the incredibly genuine character of this young woman. Yes, the key is genuineness. I …
This is about the attitude of shelter staff and therefore, going one step back, it is about how shelter managers select and hire shelter staff which in turn depends on the quality of the manager. The “voice of America’s displaced pets and the conscience of …
I have just been listening to the Clive Bull’s radio show on LBC and he was speaking with Stan Rawlinson, one of the UK’s best-known dog behaviourists who painted a black picture of the current situation regarding dog ownership in the UK. He said that …
Pen Farthing is now in Ukraine feeding the animals. There is no keeping him down. You may remember him as the man who founded and ran an animal rescue centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. He managed to evacuate around 200 of his rescued animals from Kabul …
PETA Germany are working overtime to rescue cats and dogs from Ukraine. The official motto of PETA Germany is: “There’s no time to lose when animals need us”. Very apt for Ukraine today. They’ve completed four missions and brought back hundreds of dogs and cats. …
A ‘growler’ is suitably named in this instance and it means a small iceberg or fragment. Although this exhausted and frozen labradoodle (Lucy) had no energy left to growl. Although she resisted for a while the efforts of the rescuer to place a quick release …
NEWS AND VIEWS – Przemyśl, Poland: We don’t have the name of the man who decided, in tears, to hand over his beloved dog to a Polish animal rescue charity just over the Ukraine-Polish border, so that he could return and fight the Russians. Perhaps …
