A rescue centre has been pressured to cease taking in strays as they’ve been overrun with dogs being returned to them.
High Hopes Dog Rescue Centre in Worcestershire hopes to offer pups the ‘life and love they deserve’.
The charity takes in deserted dogs, principally from abroad, and pairs them with households within the UK trying to give them a home.
However, the charity has not too long ago been pressured to shut its doorways to new strays and droop any extra rescues as a result of quantity of dogs which might be being returned.
This contains Jacks, a basset hound cross who has tragically been returned to the shelter 5 occasions.
The shelter’s founder, Sam Watson mentioned the cost of residing disaster has affected the centre.
She instructed the BBC: ‘Dogs are at risk, they are on the streets and we just cannot help them anymore.
‘It has got to a point where we just have to say no more.’
A volunteer on the centre mentioned the dogs which might be being returned are attributable to ‘no fault of their own’.
‘They may have small issues like chewing and other puppy behaviours and people see that as a reason to return dogs,’ they mentioned.
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