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[h=1]Pet-owners 'pretending dogs are strays so they can go on holiday', says Battersea Dogs Home | London | News | London Evening Standard[/h]
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London [h=1]Pet-owners 'pretending dogs are strays so they can go on holiday', says Battersea Dogs Home[/h] Rescue centre experiences huge surge in demand as school summer break begins
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home has accused holiday-makers of pretending their pets are strays so the rescue centre will look after them while they're away.
Bosses claim they have seen a huge surge abandoned dogs as the holiday season enters full-swing, with more than three times as many calls (388) in the second week of the school summer break than an average week in May.
Intake co-ordinator Woody Woodford-Price said some pet-owners were up-front about their wishes to ditch their pets so they could go away - with a few even confusing the centre for boarding kennels - but others were more apparently more audacious.
“Every year around this time I anticipate a rise in the number of calls from people wanting Battersea to take in their pet," he said.
“It’s holiday season and people don’t always take pets into account when they’re booking to go away.
"So it’s rescue centres, like Battersea, who end up taking their pets in and finding new homes for them.
“We’ve had people confuse us with boarding kennels, asking if we can take their pet for a fortnight while they go away and others that blatantly bring in a ‘stray’ dog and send someone else to claim it back a week later.
“Dogs brought in under such false pretences are potentially taking the space that another genuinely needy dog might otherwise have occupied.”
Since its founding in 1860, the Battersea Park Road centre has looked after some three million dogs and cats. Last year the home cared for more than 8,000.
standard.co.uk/news/london/pet-owners-pretending-dogs-are-strays-so-they-can-go-on-holiday-says-battersea-dogs-home-a2414681.htmlLondon [h=1]Pet-owners 'pretending dogs are strays so they can go on holiday', says Battersea Dogs Home[/h] Rescue centre experiences huge surge in demand as school summer break begins
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home has accused holiday-makers of pretending their pets are strays so the rescue centre will look after them while they're away.
Bosses claim they have seen a huge surge abandoned dogs as the holiday season enters full-swing, with more than three times as many calls (388) in the second week of the school summer break than an average week in May.
Intake co-ordinator Woody Woodford-Price said some pet-owners were up-front about their wishes to ditch their pets so they could go away - with a few even confusing the centre for boarding kennels - but others were more apparently more audacious.
“Every year around this time I anticipate a rise in the number of calls from people wanting Battersea to take in their pet," he said.
“It’s holiday season and people don’t always take pets into account when they’re booking to go away.
"So it’s rescue centres, like Battersea, who end up taking their pets in and finding new homes for them.
“We’ve had people confuse us with boarding kennels, asking if we can take their pet for a fortnight while they go away and others that blatantly bring in a ‘stray’ dog and send someone else to claim it back a week later.
“Dogs brought in under such false pretences are potentially taking the space that another genuinely needy dog might otherwise have occupied.”
Since its founding in 1860, the Battersea Park Road centre has looked after some three million dogs and cats. Last year the home cared for more than 8,000.
