Animal rescue centres in Merseyside warned the country is "in the middle of an animal welfare crisis" as people struggle to care for "lockdown pets".
Nancy Lindsay, founder of Garston Animal Rescue, cried as she said "someone dumped a dying kitten on the doorstep in a carrier bag". Whoever left it "didn't even knock", leaving Nancy to find the "horrible" sight she initially thought was a donation of food. And that's not an isolated incident, with Nancy recently receiving a call from a veterinary practice caring for a cat that had been "flung over someone's garden fence" in a pet carrier.
The animal rescue worker described her emotions as "a pendulum swinging between absolute despair and anger at the irresponsibility of the sort of people who do dumping". She said: "You never know what people are going to do when they've got an animal that they don't want that they've fallen out of love with."
