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Your Local R.S.P.C.A Branch Website ___________________________________________________________ Is your dog micro-chipped? If not and the unthinkable happened would your dog be able to be reunited with you? Manchester & Cheshire Dogs' Home is offering low cost micro-chipping to the general public at just £5 per dog. A microchip means that we or another authorised body can contact the registered owners of a lost dog within minutes of it arriving in our care. If you would like to have your dog micro-chipped at the reduced rate of £5.00 then please visit the Home during their opening times of 1pm - 5pm Monday - Saturday or 1pm - 4pm on Sundays. No appointment necessary. Facebook page here. Once your pet has been micro-chipped, please make sure that you keep your contact details up to date on the UK PETtrac Database. It is vital that your information is correct so that you can be contacted 24hrs a day should your pet be found. ___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________ PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PETITION REGARDING LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTSYou will probably be surprised and appalled to learn that live animals are currently being exported from the UK, via Ramsgate. They are transported for long journeys, under unacceptable conditions, exposed to heat and cold, hunger, thirst and stress. The animals enduring this horrific fate are sheep and calves, the latter only two weeks old, not even weaned. The calves are destined for the “white” veal trade (kept in cramped conditions and fed no roughage). Some of the animals are intended for ritual slaughter. Although Ramsgate may not be in your locality, this disgusting trade could potentially be carried out from any UK port. I am sure you would agree that we need to do everything we can to stop this dreadful practice. There is an online petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16024. This petition needs 100,000 signatures in order to get a parliamentary hearing. It is absolutely vital that this is heard in parliament, and there are currently less than 10,000 signatures, so please encourage as many people as you can to visit this site and sign the petition. There
is a printable petition here
which is being coordinated at Brighton RSPCA. Please send completed
(or part-completed) forms back to RSPCA Animal Shelter, London Road,
Patcham, Brighton, BN1 8ZH, by 30th April 2012. Please click on the image below and sign the petition - thank you! ___________________________________________________________ ATTENTION CAT OWNERS!
There
has been a spate of cats going missing from the Weston area
of Macclesfield. ___________________________________________________________ An important message using footage of
dogs we've rehomed
made by Dan who fostered Buster-the star of the show! ___________________________________________________________
Some people around Guildford and other areas, are taking on free or very cheap family dogs and using them in the brutal illegal sport, dog fighting. These dogs are caged and forced to fight other dogs that are trained to kill for money. As you can imagine it is a devastating end to a once loved part of the family. Dogs that will not fight are tied up and used as 'bait dogs' to be the punch bag for fighting dogs in training. A lady who gave her Golden retriever away to a supposedly loving home, got a call only 2 weeks later from the RSPCA that had found her dead dog in a dog fighting establishment, tied up and its muzzle duck taped after it had been mauled to death by other dogs. The microchip was still holding her previous owners address. This is happening all the time. Dogs are also being stolen from homes and gardens and used to support this horrible sport. Please be aware and make sure you sell your beloved dog for a price only an animal lover would spend on it, or take it to a rescue shelter where they will do home checks before handing over an animal. After all...dog’s best friend should be priceless. Anybody
enquiring about your dog in any situation should be quizzed and anybody
suspicious should be reported to the police. Sadly, small breeds of
dogs and cats are also used in dog fighting as "bait" for the fighting
dogs that are being trained. These are usually small breed dogs that
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