For the first time, Battersea Dogs Home reported recently that they had almost reached full capacity with many more dogs and other animals being brought into the home.Another charity - The Dogs Trust - in an article for The Times newspaper reported a similar story.
Previously, the trend was for a post Christmas increase in strays, when the cuddly puppy or the sweet kitten grew and maybe started to lose the novelty value. This year, the increase has come at least a month early. In 2007, Battersea took in 5,335 dogs over the year. This year they have had 6,430 - and over 80 per cent of these were strays.
Battersea think this is simply as a result of the economic downturn or credit crunch. New legislation also means that it is also more difficult to to return strays to their owners. The Chief Executive of Battersea said people who had lost their dogs were not necessarily looking for them because of the financial pressures they are under.
She added that Battersea and other local rescue centres would rather people contacted them if finances mean you are unable to keep your pet, rather than allowing them to roam or simply dumping them on the streets which can result in accidents and injury or even the death of the animal.
The Dogs Trust, based in west London said that it can now take up to six months to rehome a dog, rather than the three months it used to take, again due to the financial climate. The trust offers some tips to owners to save money - for example - if possible, buy dog food in bulk from pet specialist stores, try feeding your dog on dry food instead of tinned. Pet insurance can save you huge amounts of money on vets bills, and your dog will get by very well without a diamante collar or a waterproof coat!
Local authorities are now responsible for strays,not the police as previously. This is as a result of the Clean Neighbourhood and Environment Act. If your dog goes missing , a quick call to your local Council office could see you being reunited with them in time for tea
How the figures add up - To keep a medium sized dog will cost between 710 and 810 pounds per year. This covers : food (150 pounds), deworming and defleaing (50 pounds), grooming (100 pounds), kennel fees for 2 weeks (140 pounds), pet insurance (120 pounds).Pet insurance could save you many hundreds of pounds in the event of your pet needing surgery , treatment after an accident, or if it develops a chronic illness and Neutering cost (between 150 and 250 pounds). This all adds up to a staggering 13,000 pounds over the lifetime of your dog.
When considering buying pet insurance, it is always best to surf the internet. The internet can provide a vast choice of pet insurance companies to select from.
A Best Friend Is
Fortunately, in some cases, you can be lucky enough to meet real friends in theplace where you live, and this seemed to be the case with some people living inmy building: in one flat there was a young couple in their late 20s, and theone next to that was taken by a 30-something guy, who was working from home asa developer.
The relationship was so friendly that the single guy even had a copy of thecouple's home keys in case of emergency, and when some plumber or electricianwas coming, he would just open the neighbors? door for them.
What they did not know, though, was that their neighbor was a voyeur, obsessedwith sex, and he had secretly planted eavesdropping device, microphones andmicrocameras all over their apartment, with which he was spying on them duringtheir most intimate moments.
The whole apartment was completely bugged, there were high-sensitivity camerasand microphones concealed beneath smoke detectors, mirrors, electrical switchesand so on.
Being a techie, he had set up a whole monitoring system that wastransmitting directly to his computer next door.
Finding the material was easy for an expert: nowadays there are lots ofso-called Online Spy listening devices Shops,where one can find not only audio transmitters, but a wide range ofsecurity-related items, both for surveillance and for protection against unlawfulintrusions. Installing it was also a piece of cake, having access to his neighbors? house.
The guy was always very friendly and ready to help their friends, he wasfrequently inviting them to his place and in return he was warmly welcomed totheir place.
Until one day, when he inadvertently left a video open on hiscomputer while his friends were visiting him, and the guy from the couple wentchecking his email and discovered the horrible secret.
The police searched the couple's apartment, where they found at least 20 bugs, along with microphones andmicrocameras, which were spying them in every single corner of the house.
Themicrocameras were equipped with infrared motion detectors, so that he waseffectively able to follow their every movement around their apartment.
The voyeur's house was searched by the police who found a wide collection of intimatevideos with the couple, and he was obviously arrested and is now facing trial.The couple are obviously shocked, and they learned (the hard way) the lessonthat in this world you can really trust no one, and that an enemy can hidebehind a friend.
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