RSCPA urges pet owners to arrange holiday care
The summer holidays are with us, and that means millions of Brits are heading off on holiday. However, one family member is often left behind, the family pet.
The RSPCA has released a statement saying that an increasing number of pets are being left nothing but piles of food whilst their owners go away. This type of ‘care’ is extremely dangerous, as the hot weather could cause the left out food to become inedible.
The RSPCA says that they are not trying to sway people from going on holiday. However, they believe all pets should be left with adequate care arrangements whilst their owners are away.
RSPCA superintendent Richard Seddon said: "Owners don’t want to get a call while they are lying on the beach to tell them to come back home to take care of their pet so we are saying – make proper arrangements for someone to care for your pet or put them in pet boarding.”
As the summer holidays have loomed closer, the RSPCA has seen more and more pets being left home alone. In just nine weeks from the beginning of May, the RSPCA has taken in more than one and a half thousand abandoned animals and they receive a call asking for help on average every 30 seconds.
Supt Seddon said: “To leave a much loved family pet for days at a time with just a pile of food that may go off, especially in this hot weather, may endanger the animal’s life and is simply not common sense.”
The RSPCA are urging pet owners to make proper arrangements for their pets when they go away. You can contribute to the work the RSPCA does by texting RUBBISH to 70800 to give £5 today.
