Thieves smashed a window to realize access to the Cats Protection animal welfare store in Queen Street, Morley in a single day final Wednesday, earlier than leaving a path of devastation as they ransacked the shop.
Extensive injury each externally and internally pressured the store to shut for repairs, which means it misplaced invaluable buying and selling days. The store is now again open however it’s having to rebuild its inventory as a lot of it was left in an unsellable state.
Area retail supervisor Nicola Painter stated: “This has been very distressing for our staff and team of volunteers. Our customers spend money in the store knowing it is going towards helping the thousands of cats the charity supports every year, for someone to come and cause such havoc is heart-breaking.
“We are hoping that people will consider donating their good quality second-hand items so we can replenish our stock. The quicker we can get stock levels back up the sooner we will be able to reopen and start raising vital funds for cats in need.”
Selling a spread of second-hand and new objects, the store helps the work of Cats Protection, the UK’s largest feline charity, in its mission to assist homeless cats and kittens and promote good welfare for all cats.
Staff and the volunteers, who hand over their time for a trigger near their hearts, have been understandably shaken by the incident however are decided to step-up their efforts to boost money for cats in want.
They are calling on kind-hearted supporters to donate good high quality inventory, from clothes and accessories to books and homewares.
The store can be searching for new volunteers to affix the crew with loads of roles available for anybody trying to achieve retail expertise, meet new folks and assist cats within the course of. For extra info on volunteering electronic mail [email protected]
Police are investigating the break-in and anybody with info can contact them citing crime reference quantity 13230621936. Information may also be given anonymously on-line through the police’s 101LiveChat.
