Families unable to feed their children and their pets are being forced to abandon their beloved dogs, according to the RSPCA.
The animal rescue charity says the amount of dogs between abandoned has been rocketed, due to people giving up pets following the festive period, plus the cost-of-living crisis which has hit families across the country hard.
The charity also believes that a decline in puppy sales — which exploded over the Covid-19 lockdowns — has caused ‘unscrupulous breeders to dump dogs which no one wants to buy’. There were 711 puppies and breeding bitches abandoned in 2022, up from 411 in 2021, which is a startling rise of more than 73 percent.
