Rocket and Luna are hoping someone will fall in love them. They are friendly, affectionate and playful and ready here waiting for their forever home.
Please go to our website for more details on these fabulous cats.
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This morning (Monday 19th December) Hannah went to our old cattery, which we've been using as storage, to sort through donations and send them out to our charity shops to sell in the run up to Christmas.
Upon opening the door Hannah was greeted by a cascade of water. Thanks to the sub zero temperatures over the last few days the pipes had frozen and burst. Water was now pouring freely from every inch of the ceiling, down onto the donations below. Sadly by the time the leak was found the water had soaked into everything, destroying thousands of pounds worth of donated shop items and along with PPE, Hay and Small Animal bedding.
We now have thousands of pounds worth of damage stock we'll need to pay to dispose of along with the cost of making the building usable again (which isn't guarunteed).
Of course this couldnt have come at a worse time, with the cost of everything at the animal home set to increase significantly next year. Were still waiting to see what the cost of putting this right will be, but were asking for any donations to help us cover these unexpected costs.
Were hopeful that some of the damaged stock will be covered by our insurance, but this leaves us with the cost of disposing of the damaged stock and three shops now very low on donations during the run up to Christmas, one of our biggest shopping periods.
We now urgently need donations to restock our shops. If you have any good quality items (particularly clothing) could you please take these to our shops in Goodramgate, Acomb or Selby. As we now have nowhere to store them at the home please take all donations directly to the shops.
Also if anyone has a storage unit we could use for the foreseeable future, that would be an amazing help.
Times are hard for everyone at the moment but if you can spare anything to help us out it would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/RSPCAburstpipes
Max's Story
This is Max one of our former residents, now happily in his forever home. Max came to the York Animal Home after being beaten by his former owner and rescued by National RSPCA inspectors. He was terrified and covered in blood when he arrived, but thanks to the hard work of our animal care team we were able to help Max recover so that he could be adopted by his lovely new owner.
Sadly Max’s story is all too common. Please consider donating so we can keep helping dogs like Max when they need us most.
rspca-yorkhome.org.uk/donate
A short message of thanks to all of our wonderful volunteers on behalf of our Trustees from Sarah Wass, Chair of Trustees
It's almost time for our virtual balloon race. We'll be launching our balloons next week and watching them float across the digital skies. Who's balloon will get the furthest?
Head on over to www.balloonrace.com/yorkanimalhome to enter your balloon today
York Animal Home - Virtual Balloon Race - May 26th
