Pick Me Up! Special

At a price…

We’ve all seen the classic Andrex advert, featuring an adorable little Labrador puppy running riot with a toilet roll.

These are the scenes we imagine when we think about adding a pet to our family.

A picture-perfect, Insta-friendly, fluffy little animal who you can’t help but love.

But what about all the unloved animals? Lockdown saw huge numbers of people rush out to buy puppies from breeders, thinking being at home more often made it the perfect time.

But now we’re slowly easing back into real life, those lockdown puppies are being abandoned and ending up in shelters.

Puppies and other pets are so easily available to buy online, often from unlicensed breeders or

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