animal rescue

Fox cub strangled by garden football net triggers renewed RSPCA warning 

Charity reveals top five English counties with most netted animal reports

The RSPCA is renewing its warning about the dangers to wildlife of netting , after a little fox cub was strangled to death in a back garden football net.

The animal charity attended the tragic scene in a South London garden after receiving a call from the worried homeowners about three netting-...

Torquay cat rescue charity voted as a Surprise Supplies winner

Hector’s House, a Torquay-based cat rescue and rehoming charity, has been voted as a winner of RGB Building Supplies’ Surprise Supplies initiative and now has £1,000 to spend on materials at RGB’s Torquay branch.

RGB invited charities from across the region to get in touch and explain how a donation of materials would help to complete a project. Alongside Hector’s House, West Cornwall...

Look back on 2019: Animals do the funniest things...

RSPCA officers never quite know what they’re walking into from one job to the next.

The charity - which rescues more than 110,000 animals every year - is often called out to shocking, and upsetting incidents of animal cruelty and neglect. But the RSPCA ’s rescuers are also on the frontline when it comes to helping animals who find themselves in a spot of bother - and these can often...