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By Jill Dando News A line-up of top cats who have transformed the lives of people across the nation have been announced as finalists in the National Cat Awards organised by Cats Protection. The annual awards honours the UK’s most extraordinary cats and people who love them, celebrating moggies
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By Jill Dando News Three Syrian brown bears named Aram, Nairi, and their daughter, Lola, were rescued after years of suffering in a backyard in Yerevan, Armenia. Confined to filthy cages and denied even the most basic care, the bears were discovered during an investigation by the Foundation for the
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By Jill Dando News A stray cat who was found alone with multiple injuries is now thriving in a new home, thanks to the care of leading animal welfare charity, Battersea. One-year-old cat, Mel, whose story was featured in ITV’s For The Love of Dogs with Alison Hammond, came
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By Jill Dando News Cocoa, a tiny echidna puggle, was recently found alone and lying on a busy road, far too young to be without her mum. The Australia Zoo Rescue Unit quickly responded to the call and helped rescue this precious animal. With uncertainty around whether Cocoa had been
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By Jill Dando News Three donkeys have enriched the lives of their Guardian owners after finding their forever home through The Donkey Sanctuary’s Rehoming Scheme. Monte, Muldoon and Junior spent many years supporting members of the community as part of the animal welfare charity’s Donkey Assisted Activities programme,
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By Jill Dando News Wiltshire Police adopted three-year-old English Springer Spaniel Reggie in February 2024 from our Evesham centre. A former rescue dog adopted from Dogs Trust by Wiltshire Police has celebrated his first year of service as a police dog. Reggie excelled during training due to his enthusiastic nature
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By Jill Dando News Mr. Biscuits was skinny, scratched and scarred when he was picked up as a stray and arrived in our care earlier this year. He was terrified and found it hard to trust people after all he’d been through. Mr. Biscuits had clearly been a stray
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By Jill Dando News A tiny homeless kitten took fate into her own paws when she approached a member of her new family on a cliff-top walk and encouraged him to take care of her. Little Bramble was no more than 10-12 weeks old and battling potentially fatal cat flu
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By Jill Dando News A tiny foal born to a mother who was rescued in one of our most complex and historic operations is thriving in sanctuary care three years on. Three-year-old Honey resides at our New Arrivals Unit in Devon alongside her mother Piglet, nine. However, the happy life
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By Jill Dando News The Donkey Sanctuary has partnered with the University of Exeter to develop a new module of their film degree which focuses on the representation of donkeys in film. Film studies undergraduates at the University of Exeter electing to take the ‘Scrublands, Sanctuary, Screens’ option as part
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By Jill Dando News A pair of donkeys who had lost their bonded companions, have found friendship together at The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth, Devon. Now staff hope that the pair, Ivor and Abigail, will be suitable to go on and find a new forever home together on the charity’
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By Jill Dando News Three tiny kittens are safe in charity care after being found filthy, hungry and abandoned in a carrier on Christmas Eve. A kind member of the public found the one tabby female and two black male kittens while out walking his dog in Totton. Unsure what
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By Jill Dando News In a remarkable end to a rescue that began in August 2023, five mares and their five foals have been successfully rehomed. The group were discovered in County Kildare by a landowner, who alerted Donkey Welfare Adviser Deirdre Scally after finding the animals abandoned on his
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By Jill Dando News The holiday spirit came roaring in at Animals Asia’s Vietnam sanctuaries, where over 200 rescued bears celebrated the end of the year, and their newfound freedom, with a party that was as heartwarming as it was “un-bear-lievably” joyous. With their playful paws and curious noses,
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By Jill Dando News A pair of miniature donkey foals, who were born to mares following The Donkey Sanctuary’s biggest ever rescue operation, are part of the herd enjoying life in a new nature inspired enrichment paddock in the heart of the Sidmouth sanctuary in Devon, South England. Close
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By Oliver, 13, Jill Dando News A Cornish canine, Daisy led her owner, Michele Rose, to her distressed cat stuck down a mineshaft. Whilst talking to the BBC, Michele said that she had almost ‘given up hope’ on Mowgli, the cat, returning. Last year, she adopted Mowgli and Baloo, and