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 The Ark Animal
Rescue welcomes you to it's website. Please look around
the site, where you will find information about the Ark. We have long-term animals who will stay with us for the rest of their lives as they cannot be rehomed for a variety of reasons and animals which are waiting for a loving home. We take in animals for adoption from private homes, other rescues and sometimes via the dog warden. We have mainly dogs and cats but also have rabbits and small furries, including ferrets from time to time as well as occasional other species. We do not keep exotics. Opening Times: We are open to visitors every day from 12-3pm. Please try and visit between these times if you can as we are often busy with feeding and cleaning at all other times. Please check the appropriate pages for terms of adoption etc. All dogs are microchipped free of charge but we can no longer offer free neutering vouchers as the Dogs' Trust has withdrawn their funding for this. People on benefits should still be able to get free or subsidised neutering for their pets. We encourage owners to vaccinate their pets before handing them over to the Ark but cannot guarantee that every animal will be fully vaccinated. All information on this website is correct to the best of our knowledge. We pass on to prospective owners all we know about the animals in our care but have to rely on former owners to be truthful and accurate. We do, however, update information at regular intervals as animals are observed and assessed. Please feel free to contact us for any information or advice about our animals or services that you cannot find on this website and we will do our best to help. A FEW STATISTICS We thought people may be interested to know how many animals we rescue each month and how many are rehomed:
THE ARK'S FINANCIAL CRISIS Due to the countrywide financial situation, donations to the Ark have reduced drastically so our funds have reached an all time low. However, the Ark is NOT closing. We are still open for rehoming animals but have regretfully had to take the decision not to take in any more animals for the first time in our 25 year history. The reason for this is that, with food, vet bills, wages, electricity and water bills, rates, keeping our van on the road, public liability insurance etc. we cannot survive on less than £8,000 a month, so we are having to reduce expenses drastically by cutting staff hours and reducing the number of animals we have in, thus enabling us to continue to give the usual high standard of care to those we do have. We haven’t taken this decision lightly and it’s been done with great sadness but we promise that we will be admitting animals again as soon as our financial situation improves. Meanwhile, we desperately need volunteers to do a variety of jobs from helping care for the animals to painting and grass cutting around the site as well as gifts of money through PayPal via our website or by cheque and donations of items we need to carry out our work (please see the list on our How You Can Help page on the website). We would also like to express our extreme gratitude to our faithful supporters who continue to help in any way they can. READ ABOUT THE ARK'S APPEAL IN GRIMSBY TELEGRAPH (Friday 25th June) AND WATCH THE VIDEO BY COPYING AND PASTING THIS LINK INTO YOUR BROWSER: http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Rescue-centre-forced-turn-animals-away-suffering-big-drop-donations/article-2346426-detail/article.html |
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