Animal charity’s credit crunch worries
Posted on August 14, 2008
Filed Under Pet Adoption |
The modern day economic and financial markets have been blamed for an increase in homeless animal’s claims pet charity Powys Animal Welfare Trust. This increase has been backed by a media push to increase the general public about pet adoption and the positive points of owning a pet.
The Trust announced that the number of abandoned animals that they have taken into care since 2006 has doubled from 200 to 400 and are struggling to cope with such vast amounts of unwanted pets. Due to their non rejection policy the trust accept pets from all over England and Wales
Aldwyth Bates, owner of Newtown sanctuary and a trustee of Powys Animal Welfare Trust believes that the problem isn’t just local but nationwide. “In the past year we’ve taken in animals from as far afield as Dorset, Lancashire, Cheshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire.”
“We also took in 30 cats from a couple in south Wales after their house was repossessed. We have also taken animals from four small holdings in Ceredigion, Denbighshire, Snowdonia and Cheshire after they were repossessed.”
“There’s no question the rise in the number of animals we are dealing with is down to the credit crunch. The situation is in crisis. Roughly speaking, we’re taking in about three animals a day, and we now have 400 cats and 20 dogs.”
Surveys have also shown that 78% (of 1000 people that took the survey) thought that pet owners did not think of the animal’s long term future when getting a pet from a shop or a pet adoption scheme.
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