The RSPCA is inviting people to help mend broken hearts as it launches its Christmas video. The film named Heart - made in-house and starring the charity’s staff who gave up their own time for filming - features a beautiful, exclusive cover of Blondie’s Heart of Glass by Gabrielle Aplin. The...

The Pets at Home Foundation has launched its annual festive fundraising initiative with more ways for people to donate than ever before as it aims to raise £2 million to support organisations working with animals. All money raised by the appeal will go to support more than 300 organisations across...

Cats Protection welcomed 76 MPs and members of the House of Lords to discuss feline welfare issues during a reception at the House of Commons on Wednesday 7 December. The UK’s biggest cat charity met with politicians to highlight its campaigning work, including calls for better regulations to tackle kitten...

A kitten had an incredible 250 mile motorway journey when he hitched a ride under a lorry bonnet from Southampton and ended up in Merseyside. The cheeky hitchhiker was found by the lorry driver as he made a delivery from Southampton to the Asda supermarket in Liscard and could hear...

Three cocker spaniel puppies found abandoned in an alleyway in Edgware, London have been rescued by the RSPCA. The eight week-old trio were discovered dumped in a rusty cage on Friday 25 November, as the charity revealed a shocking 25% rise in incidents of pet abandonments dealt with by its...

A Wigan man has been disqualified from keeping animals for ten years and sentenced to 16 weeks suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a bull breed type dog named Congo. Matthew Hurst from Wigan was also made to undertake 20 RAR (Rehabilitation Activity Requirement) days,...

Dogs and cats in the care of Battersea, are looking forward to a Christmas to remember thanks to the support of players of People’s Postcode Lottery, whose Ambassadors Danyl Johnson and Judie McCourt visited Battersea to celebrate the season and meet some of the animals looking for a home...

Festive carols and songs will be sung by candlelight at the stunning St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge in aid of Canine Partners this December in the presence of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO. Purina , a long-standing corporate partner of the charity, is very proud to be the headline...

An animal charity is urging cat owners to get their cats vaccinated after some young kittens in its care nearly lost their eyes after catching cat flu. Four-month-old kittens Cherrim and Hattrem came into Cats Protection’s Cornwall Adoption Centre with three other siblings from the same litter, one of which...

A Kent man has been sentenced to a lifetime ban from keeping animals and a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to Animal Welfare Act offences. In an RSPCA prosecution, Daniel King (senior) - DOB 26/01/1979 - from Ditton, Aylesford in Kent - was sentenced after causing unnecessary suffering to...