Category Archives: RSPCA

Injured greyhounds on the run

Yesterday saw the last ever greyhound race meeting at the Swansea Greyhound Stadium. Fears had been expressed about the welfare of some of the greyhounds whose owners might not wish to continue to care for them. All the animal welfare charities agreed to combine forces to ensure that temporary shelter could be found for any [...]

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Diane Levy has lost her Boxer Dog….from Malaga!

The following article appeared in this week’s “Costa Blanca News”. If anyone knows a Diane Levy, possibly in Malaga, but also possibly now in the UK, please draw her attention to this……… “‘Angel’ falls off a lorry Málaga dog found in Somerset is being nursed back to health By Dave Jamieson It’s not everyday that [...]

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Save The Welsh Badgers!

  Despite the fact that the Government in Westminster has seen fit to allow English badgers to continue to live in their natural settings (or should I say sets?) , the Welsh Assembly has decided that the culling of badgers in Wales is to go ahead.

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Stuff the turkey, not your dog this Christmas

Everyone tends to over-indulge at Christmas It can be tempting to give your dogs and cats extra treats too in the festive season……….but it is a bad idea. Watch this amusing yet very pertinent video: http://www.giveanimalsavoice.org.uk/ Oops…. that video no longer appears….sorry! Merry Christmas!

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‘Shock’ increase in animal cruelty

      The South Wales Evening Post today reported a ‘shock’ increase in animal cruelty in the last year.   The BBC ran a similar story this morning.       However, whilst the figures are distressing and the number of badly treated animals is disgracefully high, the fact is that the 2007 Animal [...]

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Rescue dog

                    On a day when all the rest of news is sad or bad, it is great to hear some good news for once.   This Newfoundland is being trained to rescue people from the sea in Swansea. The picture came from the Daily Mail and [...]

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Working dogs celebrated

Last week, we had to transport a beautiful and very energetic Labrador dog to the vet. His visit was for castration, which is always performed before rescued animals can be re-homed into families as pets.

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Free Range Shopper

Last week I felt inundated to saturation point both by chicken welfare and by healthy eating.

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Santa comes to Gorseinon RSPCA Charity Shop

Stop Press News! Santa will be in the RSPCA CHARITY SHOP in Gorseinon this week.

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Beautiful grey & white cat found in Mountain Ash

Regular visitors to my little blog will know that on a couple of days a week, we drive the ambulance for the RSPCA in Swansea. Today we had to take a beautiful grey and white cat, aged possibly about two years, to the vet for a check-up, after she arrived at the Centre. She had [...]

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