A host of celebrities including, Amanda Holden and Dermot O’Leary have joined Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to urge the public to adopt rescue animals. Britain’s Got Talent star Holden, who has been a Battersea Ambassador for five years, and X Factor host Dermot, who rehomed a Battersea kitten earlier...

The UK’s first major study to track and help stray cats living on the nation’s streets has been launched by leading feline welfare charity, Cats Protection. The Cat Watch scheme will combine a ‘cat census’ to track numbers of homeless cats in selected cities with one of the UK’s biggest...

The RSPCA are urging people to look beyond the stereotype to see if they can offer mice or rats a loving home. The national animal charity reveals they are taking in more rodents that ever with 228 rats looking for new homes in 2017, compared with 204 in 2016 and...

A Border Collie Cross is looking for his forever home after he found himself homeless when his owner passed away. The staff at Dogs Trust Manchester are looking after eight-year old Duke after his owner registered for a Dogs Trust Canine Care Card. The card gives owners peace of mind...

This Easter, the RSPCA is urging owners to do their research before deciding to buy a bunny. Figures reveal that the charity sees around 800 abandonment complaints for rabbits each year. So far this year there have been 198 rabbits abandoned since January. As Easter approaches, the RSPCA are raising awareness...

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has renewed its call for tougher sentences for horrific cases of animal abuse and cruelty, after a Welsh farm was jailed for 18 weeks for killing his sheepdog. Graham Thomas from Tredegar was convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to Welsh Border Collie, Price after the...

The Border Collie Trust is looking for a new site for their rescue centre due to the planned High Speed Railway development. Plans for HS2 will have a significant impact on the rescue centre, resulting in the charity losing around a third of its land. It became apparent that the construction...

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and Mars Petcare team up to shine the light on pet dental problems on World Oral Health Day (March 20). In 2017 alone, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home performed dental extraction on over 800 dogs and cats, many of which could have been prevented. The animal...

A 19- year -old terrier cross called Stormy is the oldest dog to be rescued by the animal welfare charity. The RSPCA were called to an address in Coventry, where the elderly dog had been left outside in the snow in temperatures of -3C. Stormy is a little dog with a...

Cat-lover, Cathy Lafrenais is taking on two marathons in five weeks to support and raise money for the RSPCA. Cathy from Farnborough in Hampshire will be running both London and Edinburgh marathons in April and May this year, in honor of her ginger rescue cat called Momo. Momo was rescued in...