A grant of over £5000 from Petplan Charitable Trust has ensured an educational magazine by Bath Cats and Dogs Home has reached households across Bath, Wiltshire and Somerset.

The money enabled Bath Cats and Dogs Home to design and produce Paws and Claws, part of a programme to educate local children about responsible pet care. The grant covered three issues of the magazine during 2015, covering topics such as ferret care, the history of cats, playtime for dogs, keeping pets safe in the hot summer months, and fun ways to entertain your cat.

3,300 magazines were successfully distributed and each child who received a school visit from the charity was given a free magazine. The magazines are also available to visitors to the Home. This means that many more local children are now more aware of the importance of animal welfare and responsible pet ownership, continuing the charity’s aim of informing and inspiring future generations of pet owners and working towards a future free from cruelty and neglect.

Bath Cats and Dogs Home is a charity rescue and rehoming centre that has been rehoming dogs, cats and other small animals since 1937. Its mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome pets who are unwanted, neglected or mistreated, as well as promoting animal welfare through education programmes that teach the importance of responsible pet ownership.

Education is key to preventing cruelty to animals

As one of the UK’s leading rescue and rehoming centres, Bath Cats and Dogs Home rehomes around 800 cats, 600 dogs and hundreds of small animals and ex-battery hens each year. Animals taken in by the centre include those whose owners are no longer able to look after them, as well as pets who’ve strayed and not been claimed, and those who have sadly been abandoned or mistreated. The charity has a non-destruction policy that means that no healthy pet is ever put to sleep because it can’t find a home, and there’s a behaviour team to work with every pet to increase their chances of finding a loving new home.

The charity believes that education is key to preventing cruelty to animals, and in addition to its rescue and rehoming work, it runs education programmes including school visits to educate future generations about animal welfare.

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