A HALESOWEN pet rescue which is struggling to manage and spends as much as £7k a month on vets payments is interesting for individuals to sponsor a pen in a fundraising drive.
Pepper’s Pet Rescue – which has 68 cats and rabbits and spends between £3k and £7k a month on vets payments – has arrange a fundraiser the place for £5 a month individuals can sponsor a pen.
Not too long ago the rescue – which is full to the brim – has been getting calls from individuals asking if it will possibly take cats by house owners who say if it will possibly’t they may allow them to go stray or have them put to sleep.
Sophie Pepper, who runs the rescue from her house on the Lodgefield property stated: “Myself and different rescues have had messages from individuals saying they can not afford their cats anymore and if you cannot take them they may allow them to go stray or can have them put to sleep.
“Individuals do not realise how this impacts us.
“We nonetheless cannot take them as we’re full – however it actually performs in your thoughts.
“It makes us really feel terrible.”
Mum-of-two Sophie stated the rescue – which is now a registered charity – is determined for funds and depends solely on donations and fundraisers.
She stated: “If individuals might signal as much as the sponsor a pen scheme it could be nice.
“Sponsors get two weekly updates on how the animal is doing, their again story, once they have been adopted and the brand new animal within the pen.”
She additionally stated if each one in every of its 6k followers on the rescue’s Fb web page gave simply £1 a month it could make a large distinction.
The 35-year-old stated: “It might be a small amount of cash to them however might make the world of distinction.”
To sponsor a pen go to Peppers Pet Rescue on Fb.
