Exeter residents are barking mad about their pets!

Pet lovers in Exeter Marsh have shown just how barking mad they are about their pets as they helped raise almost £1,000, for local pet rescue, RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter.

Running from 6th June - 3rd July, a nationwide fundraising event was launched by Support Adoption For Pets, in conjunction with Pets At Home, with the aim to raise £550,000 to award to pet rescues across the UK. The community of Exeter Marsh helped smash that target and push it to a whopping £575,464 to help pets in need this summer.

To raise funds, customers purchased £1 scratch cards in Pets At Home stores to be in with the chance of winning over 175,000 prizes including 50K 4inch HD TVs, Amazon Echo Dots, National Trust memberships and Love2Shop vouchers as well as making donations directly in store.

Amy Wilson, Fundraising Manager at Support Adoption For Pets commented: “We are so delighted to see that the nation has come together to raise such an impressive amount for pets in need. The Pets At Home store teams are a real inspiration and their hard work will go towards helping fund some fantastic re-homing centres that will change the lives of pets in need.”

Pets At Home Store Manager Nicholas Duckett said, “We’re thrilled to have raised £917 for RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter. The team thoroughly enjoyed working together to raise as much money as possible and we can’t wait to see the impact that our support has to help find loving homes for pets in Exeter Marsh.”

Support Adoption For Pets is a charity established by Pets at Home in 2006. Since then it has helped over 1,000 rehoming centres and animal welfare organisations across the UK. In addition to its fundraising work, it also runs dedicated adoption centres in more than 440 Pets at Home stores.

For more information visit www.supportadoptionforpets.co.uk

For more information about Support Adoption For Pets please contact the team at Smoking Gun PR on 0161 839 1986 or email safp@smokinggunpr.co.uk

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Notes to Editors
Support Adoption For Pets is the number one financial supporter of pet rescue centres in the UK. A charity established by Pets at Home in 2006, it exists to give abandoned pets a second chance at happiness.

Through the charity’s close relationship with Pets at Home it offers unique support to hundreds of pet rehoming centres in the UK, including local fundraising and stock donations.

Donating over £1 million every year through an extensive Grant Programme, the charity helps to rehome thousands of dogs, cats and domestic pets in the UK by supporting rescues with the costs of vet bills, food and shelter and the building of rescue facilities, using money kindly donated by the public in Pets at Home stores.

In addition, Support Adoption For Pets also operates over 440 rescue centres in stores for small pets in need of a loving forever home.

Find out more at www.supportadoptionforpets.co.uk