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Can supply pet food to owners in need, to prevent them giving up their pet.
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Pawz in Need is a pet food bank for people who are struggling. Their aim is to try and keep pets with their owners instead of them having to rehome them due to financial problems. We will provide them with food that has been donated to ourselves.
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7th Heaven Animal Rescue Trust in Newtownabbey run a Pet Food Bank to provide free pet food, to people in financial hardship in Northern Ireland. If you have been referred to a food bank such as Storehouse Belfast, or wish to donate food, visit the website and click on “Pet Food Bank”.
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Offering wet and dry food, jackets, collars, leads, bowls and bedding. The staff can offer pet care advice as part of this service. To use the pet foodbank, please drop into the offices on Seafield Road East, EH15 1EH.
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The service is open to North Wales residents, Pet Welfare Rescue Association will try to give you enough food for a minimum of 2 weeks or for a month. Your option to call in again is open ended.
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Weekly pet food bank sessions in Cardiff. If you are over 50, in receipt of a pension, homeless, eligible for a (human) food bank voucher or are financially struggling, the Pet Food Bank Service can help you, with free pet food to see you through a crisis.
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A pet food bank for cats and dogs for families who have fallen on hard times and cant afford to feed their pet then this group of like minded people are here to help, so that you can keep your pet and not feel you have rehome due to lack of funds. Based in Calne, Wiltshire.
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Advice from other cat lovers in this helpful cat community.
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Advice and help from the Purrs Community. Supporting UK cat rescue.
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Cinnamon Trust - The National Charity for the elderly and their pets. Offering practical help, and assistance to elderly or terminally ill pet owners. Dog walking for housebound owners, short term fostering, long term care for pets whose owners go into residential care, or who have died.
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Pet Fostering Service Scotland offers short term fostering for pets whose owners are unable to care for them due to illness or hospitalisation. Mainly designed to help the elderly and their pets.
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Refuge4Pets provide a pet fostering service in Cornwall and Devon so that individuals and families can escape violent and abusive relationships to access the safety and support that they need before being reunited with their pets.
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Cats Protection: A free fostering service taking care of cats belonging to people fleeing domestic abuse, until their owners are in a position to reclaim them. Service currently available in London, Herts, Beds, Berks, Bucks, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Midlands.
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National Animal Sanctuaries Support League - the Alternative Project provides a safe haven for pets of those fleeing domestic violence, on an either short or long term basis, when the family are in a position to have their pets back they are reunited. The project extends to people going into hospital who have no one to look after their pet or are facing homelessness and simply need time to sort their situation.
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Endeavour (formerly Paws For Kids) - support for women and children experiencing domestic violence and abuse in the North West of England, fostering pets of women and children escaping domestic violence. Endeavour provides a lifeline to families with pets caught in the crossfire.
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National 24-hour Domestic Abuse Freephone Helpline: 0808 2000 247 or visit the above website for advice, support and to find out where emergency pet fostering is available in your area.
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The Mayhew Animal Home’s ‘Pet Refuge’ programme can offer help to pet owners for situations such as fleeing domestic violence, hospitalisation, rehab, detox, owner in prison, fire or flood in the home etc.
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The Gun Control Network campaigns for tighter controls on guns ownership and use in Britain. If your cat has been involved in an airgun incident, their ‘Cat Champion’ can contact you to offer support. To report an incident, or to get practical or legal advice, visit their website. The Network are also appealing for photographs of pets injured by gun attacks, which can be used in gun awareness presentations in schools.
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To report an injured animal, call the RSPCA Emergency Line: 0300 1234 999. If possible, contain the animal in a box or basket, to prevent it coming to further harm, until such time as an RSPCA inspector can collect the animal. Further advice on the website linked above.
(TIP! Keep the above number handy: in your purse / wallet, or on your phone - you never know when an animal may need help.)
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If you find an injured animal, you may get help from animal-specific sanctuaries and welfare groups - listed by Animal (A-Z) on the above link.
