On Saturday 16 November a local animal welfare and re-homing charity, ARC Animal Rescue Centre, will be holding a micro-chipping day at Chineway Road, Ottery St Mary.
Microchips will soon become a legal requirement for ALL dogs and we are planning to offer micro-chipping to all the dogs in the area, especially, but not exclusively, targeted at dogs that have been previously re-homed through ARC. On the day we hope to chip between 50 and 100 animals. This will give owners peace of mind and reassurance that if their pet is lost, stolen or strayed they can be contacted and the animal...
This Christmas period has been tinged with sadness as new statistics released by the RSPCA reveal that three pets were abandoned every hour during the holiday period.
In the past, instead of being left on the streets, pets were given to animal shelters. For many different reasons, however, such as a lack of animal shelters, between 2007 and 2012 the number of abandoned pets went up by 7 million.
Cemeteries have now become a ‘hot-spot’ for leaving dogs and cats, where recently three dogs were left at the Veterans Cemetery in Exeter. Rather than being abandoned at a young age...
