Emergency calls about dogs suffering in hot environments have almost quadrupled in a week
As temperatures have reached above 30C, the RSPCA has received 1,123 calls in one week concerning poor pets left in unbearable conditions from 25 June to 1 July. This comes just one week after the charity urged owners to take care of their dogs after receiving 600 calls in two weeks. Holly Barber from the […]
Ministers told to toughen pet theft laws to end ‘light touch sentences’
Ministers have been urged to toughen laws around pet theft to end “light touch sentences”. Tory Ross Thomson told MPs that under current legislation dogs were treated the same as a “mobile phone or TV” and if stolen courts could merely give “a slap on the wrist”. Mr Thomson, proposing his Pets (Theft) Bill, argued […]
Update from HQ
Wow what a roller coaster day yesterday going from despair to elation …From learning the debate did not go in favour of a change in the re classification of dog theft…to learning a member put forward the proposed bill in the chamber and was voted through …everyone said yea no one said nay! so roll […]