How much work does Battersea do with mistreated animals?
We don’t campaign a lot, from a historical perspective, but we’ve tried to get involved with Local Authorities and the police in cases such as the one I mentioned earlier. It’s just shocking. We’re trying to get that responsible ownership across to people, along with the need to microchip dogs. Anything that we can do to try and make people understand and to try and limit what comes into us. There’s a lot of work that I’m doing because the law is changing with regards to the stray intake. At the moment the police have control and look after stray dogs out of hours and at weekends, but that’s going to go to Local Authorities. So, we have a lot of work to do to try and communicate to Local Authorities and let them understand what we do here and try to reunite dogs. We’ve got a fantastic database with the strays in, from the Lost and Found line. How many animals do you reunite each year? Last year, in total we took around 12,000 animals and we managed to reunite around 45%. We’re just con
