Pet Help & Services

Find out how to soothe your symptoms and keep your cat! Top tips for allergy sufferers.

If you or a member of your family develops an allergy to your pet, do not despair! PetAlCleanse works by neutralising the particles of allergen, and is approved by Allergy UK (British Allergy Foundation). It is available online, and from many chemists, pet supply shops and some larger supermarkets; a full list of stockists appear on the website. For more information, call the Pet Allergy Helpline: 01608 686626 or visit the website, linked above.

Pet Bereavement Support Resources for those who are mourning the loss of a dearly loved animal companion.

'Rainbow Bridge' poem, for anyone who has ever lost a beloved animal friend.

Remembering with love, those special cats who have left pawprints on your heart.

Support service for cat owners facing the heartbreak of a cat passing away, wanting help with difficult issues like euthanasia, who have a missing cat or who need someone to talk to about their loss.

Guidance and points to consider when choosing a cattery.

FindPetBoarding details over 4,000 boarding catteries, kennels, doggy day care and small animal boarding services in the UK.

Register of cat rescue organisations in the UK & Ireland offering help & advice on feral cats, rescue & relocation, trap-neuter-return.

The Original Cat Action Trust - improving the welfare of feral cats since 1975. Welfare, Trap-Neuter-Return, Homing.

Cat Action Trust 1977 offers feral cat advice, information & help.

Pet Food Bank based in Milton Keynes. Covers Milton Keynes and surrounding areas including Flitwick, Ampthill & Bedford.

Bramble’s Pet Food Bank has been set up to help people and families who are struggling and need support to have access to food for their loving pets.

Pet Food Bank for dogs and cats based in Basingstoke, supporting those struggling with pet food costs.

Pet Food Bank based in Hertfordshire. Covers Hertford, Ware and surrounding areas, but will consider most parts of Hertfordshire.

Offering support to Dogs in need of food.

The Wimbledon Foodbank has joined forces with RSPCA Wimbledon, Wandsworth and Sutton Branch as well as RSPCA Balham and Tooting Branch, forming an RSPCA Pet Foodbank team. They'll deliver pet food to those who need it.

Can supply pet food to owners in need, to prevent them giving up their pet.

Pawz in Need is a pet food bank for people who are struggling. Their aim is to try and keep pets with their owners instead of them having to rehome them due to financial problems. We will provide them with food that has been donated to ourselves.

7th Heaven Animal Rescue Trust in Newtownabbey run a Pet Food Bank to provide free pet food, to people in financial hardship in Northern Ireland. If you have been referred to a food bank such as Storehouse Belfast, or wish to donate food, visit the website and click on “Pet Food Bank”.

Offering wet and dry food, jackets, collars, leads, bowls and bedding. The staff can offer pet care advice as part of this service. To use the pet foodbank, please drop into the offices on Seafield Road East, EH15 1EH.

The Blue Cross run 29 pet food banks in different locations around England - see website for locations.

The RSPCA Pet Food Bank project supplies 60 x pet food banks - see website for locations.

The service is open to North Wales residents, Pet Welfare Rescue Association will try to give you enough food for a minimum of 2 weeks or for a month. Your option to call in again is open ended.

Weekly pet food bank sessions in Cardiff. If you are over 50, in receipt of a pension, homeless, eligible for a (human) food bank voucher or are financially struggling, the Pet Food Bank Service can help you, with free pet food to see you through a crisis.

A pet food bank for cats and dogs for families who have fallen on hard times and cant afford to feed their pet then this group of like minded people are here to help, so that you can keep your pet and not feel you have rehome due to lack of funds. Based in Calne, Wiltshire.

Advice from other cat lovers in this helpful cat community.

Advice and help from the Purrs Community. Supporting UK cat rescue.

Cinnamon Trust - The National Charity for the elderly and their pets. Offering practical help, and assistance to elderly or terminally ill pet owners. Dog walking for housebound owners, short term fostering, long term care for pets whose owners go into residential care, or who have died.

Pet Fostering Service Scotland offers short term fostering for pets whose owners are unable to care for them due to illness or hospitalisation. Mainly designed to help the elderly and their pets.

Refuge4Pets provide a pet fostering service in Cornwall and Devon so that individuals and families can escape violent and abusive relationships to access the safety and support that they need before being reunited with their pets.

Cats Protection: A free fostering service taking care of cats belonging to people fleeing domestic abuse, until their owners are in a position to reclaim them. Service currently available in London, Herts, Beds, Berks, Bucks, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Yorkshire, East Anglia and the Midlands.

National Animal Sanctuaries Support League - the Alternative Project provides a safe haven for pets of those fleeing domestic violence, on an either short or long term basis, when the family are in a position to have their pets back they are reunited. The project extends to people going into hospital who have no one to look after their pet or are facing homelessness and simply need time to sort their situation.

Endeavour (formerly Paws For Kids) - support for women and children experiencing domestic violence and abuse in the North West of England, fostering pets of women and children escaping domestic violence. Endeavour provides a lifeline to families with pets caught in the crossfire.

National 24-hour Domestic Abuse Freephone Helpline: 0808 2000 247 or visit the above website for advice, support and to find out where emergency pet fostering is available in your area.

The Mayhew Animal Home’s ‘Pet Refuge’ programme can offer help to pet owners for situations such as fleeing domestic violence, hospitalisation, rehab, detox, owner in prison, fire or flood in the home etc.

The Gun Control Network campaigns for tighter controls on guns ownership and use in Britain. If your cat has been involved in an airgun incident, their ‘Cat Champion’ can contact you to offer support. To report an incident, or to get practical or legal advice, visit their website. The Network are also appealing for photographs of pets injured by gun attacks, which can be used in gun awareness presentations in schools.

To report an injured animal, call the RSPCA Emergency Line: 0300 1234 999. If possible, contain the animal in a box or basket, to prevent it coming to further harm, until such time as an RSPCA inspector can collect the animal. Further advice on the website linked above.
(TIP! Keep the above number handy: in your purse / wallet, or on your phone - you never know when an animal may need help.)

If you find an injured animal, you may get help from animal-specific sanctuaries and welfare groups - listed by Animal (A-Z) on the above link.

What to do if your cat goes missing, or if you find a stray cat.

A searchable, UK wide database of lost and found pets

Support service for cat owners facing the heartbreak of a missing cat, a cat passing away, wanting help with difficult issues like euthanasia,  or who need someone to talk to about their loss

Based in Mansfield, taking in cats who are urgently in need of a home, especially those who are elderly, ill, disabled or traumatised.

Based in Mansfield. Palliative care and special needs sanctuary.

Pets As Therapy (PAT), a national charity, arranges therapeutic visits to hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes by volunteers with their own friendly, temperament tested and vaccinated dogs, and more recently some cats, bringing immeasurable joy.

The Peata Pet Visiting Scheme - provides a pet therapy service to caring institutions, such as hospitals and care homes, as patient therapy.

Connecting home and pet owners who need a sitter when going away, with trustworthy people who are happy to sit for FREE.

A petsitter can be a good alternative if your pet dislikes staying in a cattery or pet boarding establishment.
Please note: You should always make your own thorough checks before engaging a petsitting service.

Connecting home and pet owners who need a sitter, when going away, with trustworthy people who are happy to sit, many for FREE.

Advice for Tenants and Landlords about Renting with Cats

Elderly Accommodation Council (EAC) and their website shows pet-friendly retirement homes and care homes in the UK

OneKind's SnareWatch is an information-sharing and reporting facility about snaring in the UK.

IPATA - International Pet and Animal Transportation Association. Website includes a directory of professional, registered pet shippers.

Volunteers UK wide helping Animal Rescue Organisations with Transport & Fostering.

Volunteers UK wide helping Animal Rescue Organisations with Transport & Home Checking