People are asking vets to put down their healthy animals because they are no longer able to afford them, an animal rescue centre founder has claimed. Paul Conway, founder of the Candy and Tibby Trust in Wrexham, said they had received calls from people saying that if the rescue centre could not take on their cat, they would have to put it down.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales on Friday morning, Paul said: “We’re getting feedback from vets, and we’re hearing this nationally off rescue friends, and they’re saying ‘Look, we can no longer afford our animals, please can you put them down?’”
Paul also claimed that vets were contacting rescue centres to ask them to take on pets as they do not have the space for them - or they would have to put the animal down: “If there are no spaces, then the vet has to go on unfortunately with what the customer asks. This is happening nationally.”
