Tag: animal rescue

  • Top animal charities spend £500 million a year saving unwanted animals.

    Top animal charities spend £500 million a year saving unwanted animals.

    Are animal re-homing charities failing animals? We all know that the thousands of animal “re-homing” charities in the UK and around the world are doing wonderful work in finding new homes for hundreds of thousands of animals each year, because they are quick to tell us so and we see their great work depicted on…

  • The need to inspect and licence small animal charities.

    Alarmingly and amazingly, anyone, regardless of experience or ability, can set up an animal rescue enterprise in the UK. Over the last couple of decades there has been a proliferation of smaller charities and private organisations operating rescue re-homing centres and sanctuaries all working to their own agendas, often founded by well-meaning people, disappointed by…