Capricorn Animal Rescue
Welcome to the website for Capricorn Animal Rescue, a registered charity based near Mold in North Wales. From this site you can find out information about Capricorn and the animals that they care for. You can make a donation online, or find out how to contact Capricorn if you want to help out in some manner.
Capricorn's website currently receives around 3000 unique visits each month. That's almost 55000 page views! Thanks to its visitors, Capricorn have been able to rehome many animals, a lot of which were spotted on the website first. So be sure to bookmark the site and come back soon (but don't be in a hurry to leave just yet, there's plenty to read).
NEWS
Christmas Raffle Winners
Here is the list of the winning raffle tickets, all 67 of them!
Christmas Fair
Capricorn Animal Rescue is holding a Christmas Fair at the Daniel Owen Centre, Mold on Saturday, 3rd December. Doors open at 9 am. Lots of Christmas Gifts, raffle, tombola, cakes. - something for everyone. Come along and find that Christmas Bargain and help raise funds to feed the animals in our Sanctuary.
We are now taking registrations for sponsorsip for the Treadmill Marathon starting Monday, 9th January, 2012 in the Charity Shop in Mold, Flintshire. Why not organise a team from work, family or neighbours and collect sponsorship, come along and help us walk from John O'Groats to Lands End on the Treadmill. We are hoping to raise £1 a mile, about £1050 in total.
Please help us raise this money, it is so desperately needed at the Sanctuary that is bursting at the seams with unwanted animals of all types.
Shed those Christmas lbs and raise £££s for the animals.
Sheila Stewart, Secretary.
Upcoming Fundraisers
On Monday 31st October, Halloween, Rob Stewart, Area Manager of Capricorn Rescue Charity Shop, will sit in a bath of baked beans dressed as Beetlejuice. We are hoping lots of you will sponsor him in this madcap fund raiser.
January 9th 2012 for one week we are having a sponsored marathon, walking from John O'Groats to Lands End - without leaving the charity shop in Mold! We are attempting to walk 1050 miles on a treadmill, in the Charity Shop, hoping to raise £1050 (£1 per mile). If anyone wishes to take a turn on the treadmill please will you come into the Charity Shop in Mold, or call 01244 547938 to register. This is a good way to get rid of the excess pounds you will have put on over the Christmas feasting time and at the same time raise money for a very needy cause.
It's only three months to Christmas!
Abandoned Animals
A beautiful husky-cross was abandoned at the rescue recently. Read about her here.
We also had to rescue an abandoned rabbit and some guinea pigs. You can read about them here.
Rabbits for Rehoming
We have over twenty rabbits for rehoming. They range from 8/9 weeks old and are a variety of types, colours and ages. All are neutered.
A Catalogue of Cruelty and Neglect
People need to know about the daily fight we and other Sanctuaries and Rescues around the country have each and every day. When these animals come in to us they are obviously in need of veterinary treatment and lots of loving care. This not only puts a strain on our animal accommodation, as these poor animals often take weeks or months to nurse back to health so that they can then go to new homes, but the costs involved are astronomical. To be truthful, it is extremely worrying as to how much more we can do, how we can continue to cope. We are already doing more jumble sales, more tombola stalls at local events, more coffee evenings, more street collections, but it is never enough, the money is spoken for before we can raise it. Times are very hard and because we are not a big national charity, we do not have the resources to advertise nationally on television or in the newspapers. We do not pay out wages as the national charities do, we are supported and run by volunteers. Many grateful thanks to them, because without their dedication to helping the animals in our care we would certainly be in one big mess.
We desperately need volunteers, helpers, whatever people like to call themselves, in our Charity Shop in Mold. We need responsible people to help at the counter, tidying rails and shelves etc. as we need the funding this shop raises for the Sanctuary. If you have a day or half a day to spare please come along and help us. The shop is open 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. every day except Sunday, or telephone us on 01352 751100 (Charity Shop) or 01244 547938 (Sanctuary).
Cases:
Holly is a Chocolate Labrador who was bred until she could no longer produce enough puppies. She was covered in mange and dumped.
This little kitten/cat, only 7 months old and heavily pregnant, had to have emergency surgery to remove the kittens and spay her to save her life. She was too small, thin and weak to enable her to go through with having and rearing the litter, as well as being too young. She was handed in to us because the owner didn't want the bother of her now she was pregnant! She is now recovering and putting on weight.
This young lurcher, only a 9 month old puppy, starved until he is skeletal. Judging from all of the scars and wounds all over him he has been used as bait for fighting dogs.
This young dog was starved and beaten, probably because he was too good natured to "work". He was then dumped.
Buzzard
This is a photograph of a young buzzard that was brought in to Capricorn after being hit by a lorry and then left in a field for about 12 hours. Luckily, she has nothing broken, but was dehydrated and badly bruised. I am hand feeding her at the moment and she is starting to respond. She is now standing up and taking an interest in what is going on around her.
Special Urgent Appeal
Homes urgently wanted for goats, some with kids. Mixed types; Saanen, Alpine and crosses.
Dogs on Death Row
Capricorn would like to make it clear that we do not have a death row policy. We will occasionally show pictures and details of dogs from other places that do have this policy to help find a home for them. We can't take them in ourselves as we have no room, but we can feature them on our website.
The Rescue
The stories of the puppies, Bonnie & Clyde and Sheba & Caesar, featured on the homeless pages, as well as others, the 23 rabbits, 4 guinea pigs, all of the cats, this is why we must stay open, we must be there for them. We hear of many animal rescues having to close down or are under threat of closing. We must not close and we will not close, not whilst these animals need us so much.
Our wonderful vounteers, both at the charity shop and the sanctuary, turn out in all weathers and see and work with these poor animals at first hand. They never give up and as long as we have the support we will not give up either. The struggle to keep going is getting harder and harder financially. Veterinary bills are getting larger because more animals are coming in, many having been dumped needing medical treatment, but all have to be neutered, inoculated, wormed, flea treated and identi chipped. Feed for so many animals is also increasing in cost; more animals = more feed needed.
I am organising as many fund raisers as I can, but I can only do so much. I run the sanctuary and I work in the Charity Shop in Mold two days a week as we are short of volunteers to help at the counter and with the customers. We need all the help we can get. It is odd that a lot of people say that they couldn't organise a fund raiser but along comes Red Nose Day and people are organising all kinds of weird and wonderful fund raisers. I do not begrudge Red Nose Day, but if those people could help out a small local charity, like ours, with one fund raiser it would make all the difference to us and to the animals we care for.
At the moment in the Sanctuary and our foster homes we have:
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22 cats |
23 rabbits |
7 puppies |
13 dogs |
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7 horses and ponies |
2 sheep |
1 goat |
20 pigeons and doves |
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3 ducks |
5 geese |
1 peacock |
9 hedgehogs |
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1 chinchilla |
1 pheasant |
1 seagull |
4 parrots |
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1 buzzard |
4 owls |
2 rooks |
31 ferrets |
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9 cockatiels |
2 budgies |
18 poultry |
2 gerbils |
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21 mice |
4 guinea pigs |
1 terrapin |
2 lovebirds |
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1 rosella |
2 parakeets |
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We are not primarily a dog or cat rescue, but an animal rescue.
We need help, we need help now, we need help from you.
Ferret Feature - Update
We now have 5 ferrets booked to go to new homes, thanks to the Ferret Feature, which is great. If anyone else would like to give one of our ferrets a home please contact us.
Ferret Feature
We have over thirty ferrets in the Sanctuary at the moment and we are looking for people to home them and to appeal to ferret folk, or persons interested in becoming ferret folk, to come along and help care for them at the Sanctuary.
We have a new Ferret section on our Homeless page. Please check it out if you are interested in providing a home for any of our animals.
Cases of Neglect
Case 1:
A yorkshire terrier was brought in by the Dog Warden and although she was well fed she was terribly matted and dirty, with claws so overgrown that the dog was in constant pain. After being clipped and bathed she was found to have open weeping sores on her hind legs. Her dew claws were clipped off at the vets, these hind claws had grown round and round like coiled springs. The front claws were growing into her leg. The rest of her claws were badly overgrown. This little dog was clearly in pain and distressed. This is the result of long term neglect.
Before treatment.
After treatment
The open sore on the hind leg.
The overgrown spiralled dew claws.
Case 2:
Maddie, a boxer type bitch, was brought in through the Dog Warden and unclaimed. She was extremely underweight when she came in to us at Capricorn, she was very nervous and stressed. Spine, hips and ribs were prominent through her skin. She has put on weight, gained confidence, and is looking really good now.
Maddie now.
Case 3:
A Young Lurcher bitch was brought in by the Dog Warden. The dog was favouring her left front leg and was found to have an abcess between her toes. She was taken to the vets for treatment and it was found that the infection was so severe the bone was badly infected and the abcess was draining from that. The toe was removed and she is receiving ongoing treatment, but it will be a few weeks before she is ready for homing. Once again this is needless neglect with the poor dog suffering.
Events
The events page has been updated with upcoming events for 2011.
URGENT - Dogs Needing Rehoming
We are so inundated with dogs at the moment, we desperately need to home as many as possible as we already have no room and aren't likely to have any room over the Christmas period. We have over 60 dogs on our waiting list, waiting for places, waiting to come in.
Capricorn Rescue Update
We have been a long time getting there, nearly two years, but now that planning consent has been given we have been getting the Sanctuary ready for the rebuild. The car park is almost finished, the site has been dug out, gravel laid, the 'green' blocks laid over the gravel and now soil is being put over and into the blocks. This will allow the car park to have hard standing but grass will still be able to grow through. We have had a meeting with Highways and discussed the way that they want us to re-grass the verge, and when this is done we can start on the building of the Sanctuary. The kennels, cattery units and ferret units are on order and once the bases are laid it will be all systems go. Hopefully, within the next couple of months, most of the animals will be in their new units.
This upgrade is not only for the animals, but for the volunteers and work experience people who come to Capricorn, with better, more modern animal housing, their work will be easier. Facilities will be better for them, the kennels are going to have a kitchen/food store and a grooming/dog bathing room. Each kennel can be heated individually to cater for dogs different needs.
The animals in our care come in to us in all kinds of condition, many near death or needing constant attention, nursing and medication and without the dedication of our wonderful team of selfless volunteers this would not be possible. They care enough to come along, even on Bank Holiday weekends, to give their time to these animals. They take baby animals home to hand rear; birds, kittens, rabbits, whatever needs their help. The animals always come first and the quality of care that our animals get is absolutely wonderful. These people really care about them. There are so many who give their time, but the main helpers are Maureen, Jan, Jackie, Gaynor, Clive, Sandra, Dave, Holly and Anwen.
There are also the volunteers who help with the fund raising, help run the jumble sales, the coffee evenings, the street collections and the book sales at Mold market on Saturdays. Unfortunately, quite a few of these fantastic people are in their 70s and 80s and wish to take things a little easier, so we are looking for more volunteers to help us at these fund raisers, young blood, so to speak. The jumble sales in Mold are once a month, the coffee evenings in Buckley are twice a month, the book sales in Mold are if and when we have a dry Saturday and the street collections are twice a year. If you could give just a little of your time to help at any of these fund raisers we would be extremely pleased to have your help. We need to fund raise to pay the veterinary bills, the food bills, and the rebuilding of the Sanctuary.
Canine Blood Donor Register
We received a call from our local veterinary hospital, the Grange in Mold, asking if we had any large, heavy dogs in the Sanctuary as they desperately needed a dog to act as a blood donor. Luckily, we had a beautiful German Shepherd bitch, named Sascha, and even though she is ten years old she is so fit and healthy she made an excellent blood donor. This was the second call in one week we received and after discussing this with the vets have decided to try and set up a canine blood donor register in the area.
We need young, large, heavy dogs such as labradors, rottweilers, dalmatians etc. We might only get one call a year for a canine blood donor, but it would be extremely reassuring if we had some contacts to call upon in case we did not have a suitable donor in the Sanctuary. The donors suffer no after effects and are in and out of the vets within a day.
If anyone would like to have their dog on this list, please telephone me on 01244 547938.
Sascha
Recent Rescue Stories
Two weeks ago I went to the Grange veterinary hospital to pick up a dog who had been in for spaying and was asked if I could take four swallow fledglings and a tiny, newborn squirrel, only a couple of hours old. This I did, the squirrel has had hourly feeds with a dropper and has doubled her size although she is still tiny. She is starting to grow her fur and is quite strong and healthy. The swallows were fed with mealworms, then after ten days began feeding themselves and once they could fly well they were released.
Max is a beautiful black and white Staffie who came in to us from a vet in Holywell. She said that the owners of Bruno had taken him into her surgery and asked for him to be put down because they didn't want him. As he is a young, healthy, friendly dog the vet offered to re-home him and called us. He is friendly, well behaved, gets on with other dogs, but needs to know that he is not the boss. There has been a bit of a reaction to the Panorama programme regarding Staffies and we have been getting calls from people who now think that their family pet Staffie is going to be dangerous and want to re-home. We try explaining that if their dog is a good family dog, well mannered, well behaved and brought up with a family then there is little likelihood that it will turn into a monster dog.
Max
Max, another Staffie, a lovely brindle dog was picked up by the police in Mold running amongst traffic. The dog warden brought him in to us and once again he is unclaimed. He is a great, playful dog, very strong, loves playing football but does not get on with other dogs, although he has a good temperament otherwise and loves people.
Polly is a yellow Labrador bitch, again brought in by the Dog Warden, was found in a bad way. She had urine scald with infected sores over her legs, belly, tail and back and also had fur loss. After three weeks of treatment, medication and special shampoos she is looking like a Labrador should look. The infected sores have cleared and healed and the fur is growing back. She has now been spayed, inoculated and is looking for a loving family home.
Polly
We have also had a German Shepherd bitch found tied to a post and brought in by the dog warden. She had a massive mammary tumour that had ruptured and was badly infected, she was quite poorly. Once again after surgery, treatment and medication she pulled through. A couple of days later we had a British Bulldog brought in again by the dog warden in a shocking condition. He was suffering very badly from urine scale, was badly blistered and had infected sores all over his legs, belly and chest. His rear end and face had pressure sores, some were open and infected, possibly caused by being kept in a small cage and rubbing constantly. His teeth were bad, his ears were filthy and infected and it took a lot of nursing to bring him round. Both of these dogs were about six years old. Both have now been homed together. I love a happy ending.
German Shepherd with the tumour.
British Bulldog
Site update
News about the building work at Capricorn and some of the recent issues Sheila and the team have had to deal with can be found here.
Capricorn Animal Rescue
First, may I invite you to our two Coffee Evenings being held in July, the first in on Wednesday 7th July at Bistre Schoolrooms, Spon Green at 6.45pm until 8.15pm with a Bring and Buy table, raffle and refreshments, the second is on Wednesday 21st July at 54 Greenbank Road, Hoole, same times. We are also having a Jumble Sale at the Daniel Owen Centre, Mold on Saturday 26th July at 9 am until 12 noon.
I would like to thank two wonderful people for their valiant efforts to raise much needed funds for Capricorn, Lin Dodimead who did a parachute jump to celebrate her 60th birthday and has raised £500 so far and Eric Davies who ran the London Marathon on his 53rd birthday and raised £700 for the Sanctuary. Well Done and many thanks to these fantastic people.
Our shop in Mold is going from strength to strength with hundreds of happy satisfied customers each week getting quality items at bargain prices. We sell everything from books, bric-a-brac, clothing (some new) to all kinds of furniture, but we are now beginning to notice our share of theft from the shop. One chap changed his smelly, old, holey boots for a pair of nearly new mens shoes. CDs and DVDs have also been taken but the most unusual item to have been taken was a rabbit hutch and large tub of rabbit food!
All of the puppies mentioned in last months Living Magazine have now been booked and are going to good family homes. We have had in a newly hatched mallard duckling from Grosvenor Garden Centre, a seagull that had to have his wing amputated as he had been shot and his wing shattered and a seagull fledgling that was found on a building site are just some of the many waifs, strays and orphans brought in to us.
We need a special home for a special needs kitten. She is a very pretty fluffy tabby kitten who wobbles. She was thrown into a skip and left to die, but was found and taken into our vet who asked us to take her in. We do not know if she sustained trauma to the neck or head when thrown into the skip, so causing the wobble or if she was thrown into the skip because she was born with the wobble. Maybe something happened to the mother cat during pregnancy, we just don't know, but she needs a home where she can be an indoor cat with no children or dogs. She gets around okay, will wash herself, use a litter tray, eats and plays like other kittens, she just wobbles!
Sheep Shearing
The sheep shearer came today so we brought Todd, Minty and Buster into the yard for their annual hair cut. I cannot say that they enjoyed it, but I am sure that they will feel better without their great fleeces in the warm summer weather.
Buster and Minty "before".
Buster during shearing.
Todd and Minty after being sheared.
Recent News
We have had a varied couple of weeks. We had a call from moneysupermarket.com asking if Capricorn would like to take part in a video promoting pet insurance, as they are now having pet insurance on their comparison site. We said yes, and a team came along and interviewed and videod the various animals, dogs, kittens, cats, ferrets. It was quite an experience and of course, we are only too happy to promote pet insurance. As a reputable and responsible animal rescue charity we neuter, inoculate, identi chip, worm, flea treat and insure the pet dogs, cats, rabbits and fettets that are placed in new homes.
We have had two litters of kittens in, one from Deeside College and one a couple of weeks later from a garden of an empty house in Wrexham, which were new born. Both litters have needed bottle feeding.
A call came in to us from a social worker to ask if we could take in a complete family of dogs, a litter of 7 puppies only 4 weeks old and their mother and father. We said yes and arranged to collect them all the next morning. The owner of the dogs re-homed four of the puppies that night, even though they were only four weeks old and should not have been homed until they were nine weeks old. I explained this to her and she managed to get one puppy back but said that she didn't know where the other puppies had been re-homed! So we have four puppies now five weeks old and their mother and father. All are now putting on weight and doing very well.
At the moment we have 27 guinea pigs and more expected any day. This is a result of taking in unwanted multiples of guinea pigs from their owners who could no longer cope or who no longer wanted them. 9 from one owner, 14 from another owner, 7 from another owner. We have homed some in pairs, but the last intake had been kept with a male guinea pig and so we have not been able to home any of the females that came in with him. One has already produced two babies and there are four more females who are going to add to the numbers shortly.
Thirty one young ferrets, all neutered and now fit and healthy, are still looking for pet homes. These friendly little animals are handled every day, go for walks on harness and leads, they are great little companions.
Two More Ponies Rehomed
On Wednesday we took two of the rescued ponies over to Anglesey to their new adoptive home. They travelled well and arrived quite calm and relaxed. They were a black and a bay, these two had teamed up as chums and were virtually inseparable. On arrival their stable and enclosed pen was ready for them with two buckets of water and two buckets of food. They unloaded from the horsebox, strolled into their new home, had a bit of a drink, wandered around the back of their stable, came back around and sniffed at the food then decided to explore the stable instead. They kept coming over to us and their new owner for reassurance and treats of carrot but soon settled in. When we left they had not yet met the resident donkeys and pet sheep, but as they were housed at night in the adjoining stable and pen they would soon make friends.
These photographs show the ponies in the horsebox, settled and not stressed at all by travelling and then making themselves at home in their new stable and pen.
They have both been helalth checked by three different vets, as have the rest of the ponies we rescued and all have been pronounced fit and well. They are now losing their winter coats and beginning to look quite smart.
We have been experiencing vandalism at their field, fences being cut, electric fencing switched off, ponies appear to have been driven through these fences, fence posts burnt, main gate for field has been rammed and bent quite badly, plugs have been removed from their water troughs, but luckily these are now no longer necessary as the ponies have access to permanently flowing water from the springs in the field. Hay and feed has been stolen as well as 2 wheelbarrows. The police have reports of these incidents and are now investigating as this has now gone from being a nuisance to being malicious and dangerous, both to the ponies and public, after one pony, the little bay who has just been homed on Angelsey, seemed to have been driven through the fences onto the road.
Charity Shop Opening in Mold
On Saturday 20th March we had a Grand Opening of our new Charity Shop in Mold. The Rev. James Thompson, the Animal Padre who is our Patron, did the official honours, but as we were in the shop from 9 a.m. (the opening was at 10.30 a.m.) the shop was full of customers, who were all very good about being asked to go outside and queue to come in again once the official opening had taken place! The shop is going from strength to strength as more and more people get to know about us. It has only now been 2 1\2 weeks but we are already getting a regular clientelle.
Grateful thanks go to all who helped get the shop ready, especially Robbie, Holly and Pauline, Dave, Sarah, Moira, Lin (and Lin's other half), and welcome to all of the new volunteers who are going to help sort stock, serve customers, fill the rails and shelves and keep the shop being successful.
Planning Permission
On Wednesday 7th April our planning application for Retrospective Change of Use was passed by the Planning Committee, Flintsire County Council. It has been a long, hard battle with many upsents along the way, but we are finally there. We can now start to rebuild and refurbish the Sanctuary, each type of animal having housing suited to that species.
Housing to be built includes ferrets units, rabbit housing, colony style, small animal housing, cattery and kennels, paddock for sheep and goats and aviaries for the many types of birds that are brought in to us for care and rehabilitation.
Eric Davies is running the London Marathon!
Capricorn supporter Eric Davies is running the London Marathon in support of Capricorn. Read all about it here.
Cat Found at Social Security Office, Wrexham
This little, very old cat was found at the Social Security offices in Wrexham. We were called to collect her after she had been locked in the gents toilet.
She has no teeth, is quite thin (probably due to age), very fluffy and has a pretty purple collar and bell. She is extremely affectionate and is, or was, someone's much loved pet.
Does anyone know the owner of this little cat? They probably live close to the Social Security offices in Wrexham.
Larry the Lamb
Last Sunday afternoon we had a visit from a lady who had picked up a tiny lamb from the pavement outside the Pontblyddyn Cricket Club. She found it lying on its side, wet and muddy and thought it had been hit by a car, he was just alive and she brought him into Capricorn. I immediately took him to the vet, as he had no body heat and was extemely weak, he could not even lift his head.
The vet found that he had a temperature, a snotty nose, probably a chest infection and was scouring (the runs), he had not fed in quite some time. After receiving treatment we took him home, named him Larry, and tried to get him to feed, but it was quite literally a couple of teaspoons of milk every half hour. This went on until Monday night when he managed about three tablespoons, then he started to take milk from a bottle, very little at first but he is now taking about a half litre over a day, not enough but more than he was taking and now he can stand and wobble about.
Larry likes to share the hearth with Mitch our resident Chihuahua guard dog. They wash each others faces, nibble each others ears, and curl up together to sleep.
We have tried to find the owner, but no one seems to know the owner of the sheep in the nearest field to where he was found.
He has a long way to go before he is fit and halthy, but we are taking one day at a time with him and even a little progress is good.
Ponies Update
The good news is that quite a few of the ponies have now gone to new homes, three more are due to go this coming week. There are eight ponies left unbooked, still waiting for new homes. We will deliver.
Rescued Ponies
Here are some photos of the rescued ponies that we recently saved from slaughter. There are twenty-one altogether, all colts, all 18 months old and of various colours such as bays, black, dapple grey and chestnut. We brought them in from auction before Christmas and although some were booked to go to homes we do not home animals during the Christmas period until after New Year, then we had the bad weather so it is only now that we are about to get the first seven out to their new homes.
We have been going down to the fields in Wrexham every day, taking hay (£30 a day in hay), giving fresh water and clearing up their poo. 21 ponies make a compost heap a day! The ponies are being offered for permanent loan, with an adoption fee of £100, and what with chipping costs, feed and petrol costs it is going to cost us more than we will be getting back in donations. The ponies will have an adption form, which states that the ponies cannot be sold on or given away. If for any reason they cannot be kept they must come back to Capricorn, they can not go for slaughter for the food chain.
To have one of our ponies you must be experienced, have a field, paddock or good sized orchard. Be prepared to gentle him, castrate him and generally care for him.
New Charity Shop
There is a wonderful lady named Avril Clements of Ruthin, who finding time on her hands decided to set up a Charity Shop in Ruthin with all proceeds for Capricorn Animal Rescue. She chose the shop, stocked the shop, organised volunteers, and has now opened the shop which is 9 Clwyd Street, Ruthin, where there are a lot of wonderful bargains to be had.
We cannot thank Avril enough for her warm hearted generosity and very hard work, this will really help us ensure that our work continues as it is very hard going at the moment due to the recession.
So if you find yourself in or near Ruthin, pop along to this great shop and grab yourselves a bargain.
Capricorn Inundated with Unwanted Pets
We have 48 kittens, 31 cats, 38 rabbits, 3 guinea pigs, 28 ferrets and more are still waiting to come in. Pets are not being adopted at the moment, have not been for the past three weeks. We are full to overflowing. Its odd but dogs are going out so quickly that we haven't been able to send photographs to put on the web site.
Kittens - We have all colours: tabby, tabby and white, black, black and white, ginger, ginger and white, tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell and white, we even have a beige kitten. We home them at the age of 9 weeks and over when they have had their first inoculations, been wormed, flea treated, insured and have a neutering voucher for when they are 6 months old.
Rabbits - We have all types, sizes and colours from 8 months old. They have been neutered and well handled.
Ferrets - We have jils and hobs from 16 weeks of age, albino and coloured. All neutered and well handled. Our ferrets only go as pets, they are not for working or breeding.
Please see the Homeless pages for photos of the animals waiting to be rehomed.
Book Sale
When books are donated to our charity they go to our charity shop, any not sold then go to the coffee evenings and again any not sold then go to our jumble sale, after that I get them for my book sales.
I am trying to have a book sale once a month. I book space on Mold market on a Saturday and have about 10 or 12 tables selling lots of books at 20p each. Last month we raised £320.00, which is a lot of books.
If you are spring cleaning, decorating or having a clear out please give us a ring. We will be glad to have your unwanted books, bric a brac and any unwanted Christmas presents, e.g. the beauty products, hankies etc that you will never use and hide away in a drawer or a cupboard. We would love to have them for our tombola stall.
Please telephone us on 01244 547938 if you have anything we can use to raise funds.
Thank you.
