PDSA is warning motorists to be careful with anti-freeze as they prepare their cars for winter. The vet charity for pets in need warns that the solution is highly toxic to pets. PDSA Vet Nurse Nina Downing explains: “Ethylene glycol is the active component in antifreeze, and is extremely poisonous...

Since its launch in 2018, Dog Trust’s free Post Adoption Support service has been used over 300,000 times by dog owners across the UK. The free scheme, which can be used by anyone who has adopted a pup from Dogs Trust links dog owners with post adoption support officers and...

A Gloucestershire couple who failed to take action when their elderly dog’s weight plummeted have been banned from keeping animals for 10 years following a prosecution by the RSPCA. Kirsty Gerlach and Matthew Gerlach both of Kingsdown, Dursley, pleaded guilty to one offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The court...

The RSPCA is appealing for information to trace a man whose attack on a dog at a shopping precinct was captured on CCTV. The footage appears to show the man launching a sustained attack on a French bulldog cross, punching and kicking the poor canine, as well as stamping on...

Action will be taken against people who illegally target animals with airguns following the death of a cat in Crewe, the RSPCA has warned. The shooting left the male tabby and white cat with multiple injuries which were so severe he sadly had to be put to sleep by a...

A cat escaped serious injury after becoming entangled in a tree with a spring trap attached to his front leg. The young male feline had climbed onto a fence at an allotment in Houghton-le- Spring with the metal device hanging off his right paw. It then became lodged in the...

Assistance Dog charity, Dog A.I.D. has recruited a new Chief Executive Officer to lead its UK-wide work enabling physically Disabled people to train their own pet dog to become an Assistance Dog. Belinda (Bee) Johnson took up her new role at Dog A.I.D. on 16th October 2023. Bee has a...

A man from Wigan has been disqualified from owning any animal for five years after failing to seek veterinary treatment to address his springer spaniel’s extreme weight loss, eye infection and mammary tumour. David Farrimond was sentenced to a 12 month community order, with 80 hours unpaid work and ordered...

More than 40 local authorities will have RSPCA-backed rules and policies in place aimed at keeping animals and people safer this Guy Fawkes Night. In recent years, the animal welfare charity has been working with local authorities across England and Wales - urging them to introduce specific measures aimed at...

A woman from Preston has been given an 18-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, and disqualified from keeping animals for a decade after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to her seven pets and failing to meet their needs. Charlotte Kenny was prosecuted by the RSPCA after the charity’s officers found...