Irish Animals

Over 300,000 kittens are
born in Ireland every year.
Of those 180,000 kittens die
before they are 4 months old.

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Trap Neuter Return

Trap Neuter Return is becoming recognised as an efficient and cost-effective tool for controlling and reducing feral cat populations.

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Neutering

Neutering your cats and dogs
is one of the most important
things you can do for your
companion animals.

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Drogheda Animal Rescue (DAR) hosts Ireland's TNR Manual on these webpages.

See our facebook page for our daily news, rehoming and TNR posts.

Dog Fighting & Reporting

The ASPCA designated April 8 as National Dog Fighting Awareness Day (NDFAD) to advance the conversation about dog fighting and to encourage animal lovers across the US to take action against this brutal form of animal cruelty – find out more here (link updated April 2019). While the information will be specific to America, it will undoubtedly translate fairly easily […]

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Family in Desperate Need!

Help Urgently Required! Please help! After two long years of being on a waiting list for an exotic rare breed dog, we were finally notified by the breeder that at long last, our number has come up, and … WE’RE HAVING A PUPPY! We must IMMEDIATELY get rid of our children now, because we just […]

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Prohibition on animal cruelty. Oh! Except in blood sports.

Just having a dip into the new Animal Welfare Act 2013. The Irish government are admitting that hunting, coursing and fishing are cruel. But they’re not going to do anything about it. Am sure I must be misunderstanding but …

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A Rescuer’s Answer Machine

Thanks to Toni of KLAWS Kerry for passing this on to me – I hadn’t seen it before and found a fair few varieties of it when I searched online – I’ve chosen the longest, of course. Sadly no author credit that I could find. From the last option it’s apparent that this is from […]

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Don’t Take Veterinary Treatment For Granted

The most EPIC reply to the “if you don’t treat my pet for free then you don’t love animals” argument courtesy of Dr. Virginia DeChant Thanks to Wendy Supercilious Tart Rose on Stupid things pet owners say to vets and vet nurses, a private FB group

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Reporting Internet Animal Cruelty, Abuse and Crimes

Mostly from Eagle’s Den Rescue. I’ve added the bit about Ireland. If you come across a facebook page, website, video, or other things on the internet you might find, that promotes/supports violent acts, animal cruelty, abuse, crimes, etc … it’s hard to know what to do, but you can do something, and here are instructions […]

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