Bristol Animal Rescue Centre: Bristol’s largest animal home that started with one lost puppy…

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Bristol city’s longest standing and largest local animal charity. The team has been caring for Bristol’s animals on Albert road and in the community for a long time. And it all started with one lost puppy…

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00:00Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, which is just behind me now, is the main local

00:04rescue centre in the city of Bristol and they take on a plethora of animals from

00:09rabbits to cats, from guinea pigs to dogs. We help heal and home hundreds up to

00:16thousands of animals per year through our outreach programmes where we support

00:20people in the community as well as taking in animals from people that maybe

00:24won't be able to look after them anymore, straying animals, ill and injured animals

00:28and those through the RSPCA inspectorate. And we cater for dogs, cats, rabbits,

00:33ferrets and all small furries, also including birds. We have our on-site

00:38veterinary clinic which doesn't run a public service but we do a lot of sort

00:42of neutering campaigns. We go out into the community in Lawrence Weston and

00:46Noel West every single week, supporting people with their veterinary care and

00:51ongoing veterinary care, also supporting with like pet food to assist people.

00:57But the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre has a team of specialists on call to

01:02help make them better. Let's chat to one of these specialists to find out more.

01:07Well when I come in, first thing I feed all the cats, I clean up their litter

01:12trays. I say cats, it is mostly just cats in clinic, come on then! But we have all

01:17other animals as well, any animal we have in I immediately feed clean and then

01:25general cleaning day-to-day, making sure all the washing is done and then

01:29socialization really, just making sure they are happy. There has been like

01:35increase in a lot of the animals that we're cutting in are ill or injured and

01:40you can often you know feel very sorry for somebody who, you know, what can I do?

01:44And you know it's they don't necessarily need to be reported to the RSPCA. In a

01:49lot of cases they're really trying, they just don't know what the answer is. So we

01:53see a lot of animals come in that need kind of either prompt veterinary care or

01:57care maybe for just an eye infection or something. So Molly for example, she's

02:03clearly very confident but she came in with cat flu so she was treated for that

02:09whereas lots of them they come in quite scared, they've never really trusted

02:13people. So you build it up with them and you start by just walking in the room

02:18and talking and then you put your hand in and you let them smell, just until

02:23they trust you enough that you can be their friend. I never needed to worry

02:27about that with her. What could be quite a simple thing but they've left it a

02:31little too late. So in some cases their only option is to give up the animal

02:36because they just simply can't afford it, which is where we're coming in with, you

02:39know, we're expanding our community work over the next couple of years. We've

02:43recently taken on a pet community support coordinator who's going out

02:47looking at what extra can we do in the community. It's a really, you know, it's

02:51one of our real strategic points for the next couple of years is looking at our

02:54community work and what more can we do to help people, pets and Bristol.

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