RSPCA

Big fan! We adopted Chester the Maine Coon cat a year ago from the shelter and our lives changed forever!
A total animal lover and supporter of animal shelters, I would encouraged anyone to adopt a pet here.
These gorgeous animals deserve a second chance and I promise you, you can expect oodles of hugs and love from them. I know we do as family.
When we got Chester, apart from the vaccination, the RSPCA threw in 2 free days of boarding voucher for us. Am sure it will come in handy when we go on vacation but knowing me I shall be taking my darling boy with me!
Check out Chester’s photo. What a handsome boy eh?

I got my pup from here. Well I say pup but that was in fact 6 years ago now! She’ll always be my pup though. We went up there for a browse. We saw her and her brother in an enclosure. They didn’t have heaps of little/​young puppies and these were the only 2 we really liked. So a lady that worked there opened the cage and let us go in with them. She came up to us stright away and was so inquisitive. So we decided to get her. Well apparently since we had a dog already we were required to go home and get our existing dog and bring it up to the RSPCA to be put inside a larger enclosure with us AND the new puppy we wanted. If all was ok THEN we could buy the dog.
Well all went well and we walked out with a new puppy :-)
Considering you get a desexed and vaccinated animal, and in fact mine was even microchipped (which also saves money on dog registration each year with my council) it is really cheap as there is a set price for a dog, cat and rabbit. So it doesn’t matter which one you choose or what breed it is, which is great.
They have an excellent website where you can view pets they have available at the shelter. They also have boarding kennels and a cattery if you have to go away. I even noticed a horse in one of the area’s this time I went.

This place sells unconditional love.
It’s staffed by people who care. Everything Liz says, I agree with. If you’re after a pet, there’s no better place. I can understand people going to registered breeders if their pets are also their hobbies, but if you’re looking for companionship, this is where you need to go before you go anywhere else.

Why would you get a pet from a breeder or a pet shop? Why? The top three reasons why you should adopt a pet from the Lonsdale RSPCA Animal Shelter:
1. The staff won’t let you take an animal unless you’ve bonded. You need to stroll those depressing aisles, pick your pet, and spend some proper time with it in one of their booths. Only once you’ve proved that you actually get on with the animal can you get one.
2. You can’t take the cat/​dog/​boa constrictor without it being fully vaccinated and de-​sexed. And compared to vet charges the RSPCA do it pretty cheap. The staff are excellent and give you lots of useful information and advice.
3. And of course the most obvious reason: you’re doing a good thing for the animal kingdom. You’re taking a sad, lonely, rejected little creature and giving it a home and care and love. Now if only we could set up the same sort of system for single people.