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PDSA and RSPCA announce key collaboration

By September 5th, 2022December 22nd, 2022No Comments

Document type news : news of the RSPCA

Author: RSPCA

                                                                                                                              

Preview: PDSA and the RSPCA today announced they are forging an exciting new partnership to help both pet owners and animals most in need.
The collaboration will safeguard affordable vet care for thousands of struggling pet owners. It also aims for PDSA to become a key provider of critical care to some of the 60,000 animals a year rescued by the RSPCA from cruelty and neglect, allowing them to get vital help more quickly.
The RSPCA has made the decision to focus its expert veterinary services on supporting its frontline officers and treating more animals rescued from cruelty and neglect, and therefore will cease providing subsidised public veterinary care.
PDSA, the vet charity for pets in need, has made the decision to offer support to every pet owner registered at the RSPCA's four sites, either giving them access to its Pet Hospitals or providing alternative support through a £1 million treatment fund from both charities. [...]In 2021 PDSA
- Provided 1.8 million treatments
- Treated over 370,000 pets
- Saved the lives of 134,000 pets
- Provided over 1 million consultations (360,000 face-to-face and 660,000 remote)
- Treated 10 pets every minute in our 48 Pet Hospitals ¿ one pet every 6 seconds
In 2021 RSPCA
- Received more than a million calls to our cruelty line - one every 30 seconds
- Rescued some 60,000 animals - more than 160 a day
- Investigated 51,505 complaints of animal cruelty - nearly six every hour
- Found 4,000 pets a month loving new homes from our 16 animal centers and network of 145 branches across England and Wales
- Released 7,000 animals back into the wild
- Secured some 750 convictions for animal offences.

Article in the Dépêche vétérinaire on December 7, 2022 :Across the Channel, animal protection associations join forces

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