'People will buy them and realise they can't take them on or they will be abandoned and left to die'
"We rescued an owl who had been left in a dog crate for 30 years and she was unable to fly," recalls Bailey Lister, who runs Hugo's Small Animal Rescue and Sanctuary in Staining, Blackpool.
Hugo's receives no governments funding and is run entirely by generous donations from loyal supporters. But with "everyone struggling" due to current economic struggles Bailey has seen a 70% drop in donations. "It's so sad," Bailey, who founded the sanctuary when he was 15, told LancsLive. "People will buy them and realise they can't take them on or they will be abandoned and left to die.
Top fact Hugo's is one of the only sanctuaries in Lancashire to offer a home for life for animals who can't be rehomed or released due to behavioural or medical problems. He urges pet owner to seriously condition whether their home is suitable long-term and also expressed his frustration at smaller animals, such as rabbits being an "after-thought"
"Nobody thinks about the small animals and it is common for domestic rabbits to be neglected. "It is almost ' socially acceptable’ to put them in small cages suffering in a pet store for everyone to stare at, but there would be uproar if you saw dogs in cages like that."
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