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Friday, April 4, 2014

Medical Detection Dogs

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One of the volunteers at our second-hand bookshop is helping organise this event.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Where will it all end?

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Several cases this week have made me wonder what we're drifting into. We're seeing more and more animals owned by people with multi...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

How to pick an animal charity to support

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The Cause4Opinion site has an interesting post reporting Animal Charity Evaluators latest research on selecting effective animal welfar...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Baby Birds coming up!

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Horse Crisis — everywhere!

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[ View the story "Horse crisis" on Storify ]
Monday, March 17, 2014

RSPCA branch organisation

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Not exactly a thrilling subject, but some recent discussions have made me think it might be useful to re-post something about the way the...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Mythbusters infographic

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Branch Animal Welfare Statistics for 2013

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Breakdown of reasons for animal intake In 2013 Cambridge branch rehomed 9 dogs, 95 cats and 54 miscellaneous "small furries...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Interesting take on the flood situation via twitter

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The ponies shown in this picture may be wishing the rain would let up, but there's really no indication that their welfare is seriously...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Is this the future for England?

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4,000 acts of horrific animal cruelty in Northern Ireland but just one court case  Northern Ireland's equivalent of the RSPCA—the Ulst...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Mill Road Winter Fair this Saturday

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Mill Road's popular Winter Fair is this Saturday, 7th December, and local author Saumya Balsari has kindly donated some free copies of ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Lost and Found

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The way calls to the RSPCA about lost or found animals are handled has changed. Instead of recording these on the central computer (along w...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Westminster Hall debate on fly-grazing and equine welfare

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Storify of today's conference on welfare of dogs and cats in the EU

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[ View the story "The welfare of dogs and cats in the EU" on Storify ]

Welfare figures for first three quarters of 2013

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Finished writing up the branch welfare statistics for January-September last night: Dog Cat Rabbit ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

So, if we can get pet births down to replacement levels, problem solved?

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Alfie looking for a home Not entirely. It's quite possible to have a situation where most of the young animals are wanted but th...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Cats and dogs

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Virtually every week our branch gets requests for help with dogs or puppies who've been recently purchased and now have some kind o...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

How not to keep dogs

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Fortuitously (I sincerely hope it is not a portent of more of the same!) this week's calls could have been used as case studies to illu...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Newmarket shop re-launch!

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We've now recruited a new manager to replace Lorna and our shop in Newmarket will be re-opening next week. Lynne will be at the shop ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

RSPCA rehoming?

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Our inspector's request for us to crank up the numbers of rabbits we foster and rehome has provoked some soul-searching among the reh...