National Pet Month “Promoting Responsible Pet Ownership”

The R.S.P.C.A and Cats Protection are running a neutering campaign across Wales. Under the campaign you can get your pet cat neutered and microchipped for just £5.


You should qualify for help if:
• you receive a state benefit
• you’re on a low household income
• you’re a full time student or pensioner

For more information:
Tel. 03000 121212 
(Monday – Friday 9.30 am -1.00 pm)
www.RSPCA.cymru/neutering
www.cats.org.uk/walescampaign

Dog owners don’t get caught out! 
It's now a legal requirement to have any dog over the age of eight weeks microchipped in England and Wales.


Books in celebration of our wonderful four legged friends 

Vicki Myron – Dewey: the small-town library-cat who touched the world 

The story of how one adorable and lovably roguish library cat touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with. 

Judith Summers – The Badness of King George

Her five-year relationship has finally ended and her son is off to university - for the first time since her husband died, Judith Summers is living alone. Well, not entirely alone. She still has George, her King Charles spaniel. But when Judith becomes a canine foster carer, George has to adjust to sharing his owner with some new dogs.

James Bowen – A Street Cat Named Bob 

The moving, uplifting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life.

Sheila Hocken – Emma and I

As a girl, Sheila never let her gradual descent into blindness prevent her from trying to do everything a sighted person could do. Then, at 17, she found herself dreading her future in an 'ever darkening vacuum'. But then Emma - a chocolate Labrador - enters her life, and Sheila begins a journey of independence, love and happiness.

Rachel Wells - A Cat Called Alfie

Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along - a big grey ball of fur who changed the lives of every family he met, and brought a community together. But now a new family have moved into Edgar Road and they, more than anyone else, need Alfie's help. Can he bring light to their darkest times? Or is it already too late to stop them from falling apart?

Will Barrow – Buster: the dog who saved a thousand lives

This book tells the story of Buster and Will describing how each came to save the other's life. It is a relationship that produced some heroic feats in the dust and desert heat of Afghanistan - and the most decorated dog in military history.

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