Community
23 February, 2024
Give these dogs a new home
WITH shelters and rescues filled to the brim, Cairns Animal Rescue and Petbarn Cairns are urging the community to join the Rescue Month campaign and give a pup its happy forever home this weekend.
Dozens of fully vaccinated, desexed and completely adorable dogs will be up for adoption this weekend, February 24-25, and the following weekend, March 2-3, from 10.30am as Cairns Animal Rescue and Petbarn Cairns bring back their annual drive to help the increasing numbers of surrenders.
Animal rescuer Kylie Warns said the increasing cost of living and the housing crisis were causing more surrenders than ever in the region.
“We founded Cairns Animal Recue five years ago and in those five years this is the worst it’s ever been. We currently have over 60 dogs in care,” she said.
“We are full to the brim, we have a line up of dogs sitting in the pound waiting for a foster home. We’re overflowing, the pounds are fuller than they’ve ever been, the surrenders are bigger than we’ve ever had.
“It’s all triggered by the housing crisis, the interest rates, people losing their homes in the cyclone, people having to surrender their dogs because their landlord has move back in. It’s tough.”
During the first adoption weekend, six dogs were put into adoption and the shelter hopes to keep up these figures in the coming weekends.
“We partnered with PetBarn and SavourLife last year and it was highly successful, so we’re doing it again this year, and every three months we do more adoption days with PetBarn,” Ms Warns said.
