the rspca is now caring for around 750 abandoned horses, the highest number since 2009.osie russon from the rspca says owners are getting rid of their animals during the covid crisis because they cannot afford to keep them. people are on furlough at the moment due to covid, they're struggling financially. they're struggling to pay for food costs for their horses and the breeders are still breeding, unfortunately, and no—one can buy these horses. the cost of keeping abandoned horses is huge. animal charities don't get any covid—related support from the government and the rspca says its income has dropped by half since march. the rspca says horses like hallie, brett and bert here often arrive having been starved and ill treated, but they say after a few weeks of care and attention here by the rspca staff, they become friendly and able to be rehomed in a perfectly safe fashion. that's why ahead of winter they're desperately appealing for help, from horse lovers like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she get

the rspca is now caring for around 750 of those horses, the highest number since 2009.d crisis because they cannot afford to keep them. people are on furlough at the moment due to covid and they are struggling financially. they are struggling to pay for food costs for their horses and the breeders are still breeding unfortunately and no one can buy these horses. the cost of keeping abandoned horses is huge. animal charities do not get any covid related support from the government and the rspca says its income has dropped by half since march. the rspca says horses like hallie, brett and bert here often arrive having been starved and ill treated, but they say after a few weeks of care, attention by the rspca staff, they become friendly and able to be rehomed. that is why ahead of winter they are desperately appealing for help from horse lovers like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she gets on well with them and with my other horse as well. she is a very quick learner. she loves to be busy and doing thing

the rspca is now caring for around 750 abandoned horses, the highest number since 2009.ie russon from the rspca says owners are getting rid of their animals during the covid crisis because they cannot afford to keep them. people are on furlough at the moment due to covid, they're struggling financially. they're struggling to pay for food costs for their horses and the breeders are still breeding, unfortunately, and no—one can buy these horses. the cost of keeping abandoned horses is huge. animal charities don't get any covid—related support from the government and the rspca says its income has dropped by half since march. the rspca says horses like hallie, brett and bert here often arrive having been starved and ill treated, but they say after a few weeks of care and attention here by the rspca staff, they become friendly and able to be rehomed in a perfectly safe fashion. that's why ahead of winter they're desperately appealing for help, from horse lovers like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she gets

the rspca is now caring for around 750 of those horses, the highest number since 2009.ie from the rspca says owners are getting rid of their animals during the covid crisis because they cannot afford to keep them. people are on furlough at the moment due to covid and they are struggling financially. they are struggling to pay for food costs for their horses and the breeders are still breeding unfortunately and no one can buy these horses. the cost of keeping abandoned horses is huge. animal charities do not get any covid related support from the government and the rspca says its income has dropped by half since march. the rspca says horses like hallie, brett and bert here often arrive having been starved and ill treated, but they say after a few weeks of care, attention by the rspca staff, they become friendly and able to be rehomed. that is why ahead of winter they are desperately appealing for help from horse lovers like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she gets on well with them and with my other ho

the rspca is now caring for around 750 of those horses, the highest number since 2009. a few weeks of care, attention by the rspca staff, they become friendly and able to be rehomed. that is why ahead of winter they are desperately appealing for help from horse lover5 like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she gets on well with them and with my other horse as well. she is a very quick learner. she loves to be busy and doing things and i think we‘re going to have a load of fun together, aren‘t we? the rspca thinks the problem of abandoned hor5e5 will get even worse as the financial difficulties of covid deepen. an equine dimension to an economic crisis. duncan kennedy, bbc news in kent. there are seven things you just don‘t really think about and then the rebel effect it had on semi things. coming up to ten to nine. that is a lovely 5on, things. coming up to ten to nine. that is a lovely son, i am going to go for 5unri5e? that is a lovely son, i am going to go for sunrise? sunrise from this morning on th

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the doggy day care centre in blackburn has been investigated by the rspca after a series of videos emergedworked at the centre as an apprentice. it was incidence of them getting a smack for minor things. it started to get that he was bullying, being aggressive and he was hurting them and in one of the videos you can hear the dog crying. this is one of the videos chelsea secretly filmed at one staff member between november to december last year. you may find these images distressing. dog yelps. i dreaded going in. i sat waiting to go home, because they cannot do anything right from wrong. chelsea said she challenged what she was seeing in an attempt to stop the diffuse. i said, that enough you don't need to raise your hands. and he said, bleep is coupled to their plugs to the day care centre to be trained, but after recognising a negative turn in their behaviour, they removed them from the centre. they went backwards. we got them to a point where we did actually have them trained. they were doing well and they knew when to go to the back door to be let out. all of a sudden they were waking