Pets: Animal Welfare

(asked on 13th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of domestic pets being left for rehoming with animal welfare charities in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st December 2021

Defra does not hold exact data on the number of domestic pets being left for rehoming annually over the last three years. However, the Association of Dogs and Cats Homes (ADCH) annual returns for 2018, 2019 and 2020 show that:

The intake for dogs in 2018 was 72,191;

The intake for cats in 2018 was 90,815;

The intake for dogs in 2019 was 65,080;

The intake for cats in 2019 was 99,738;

The intake for dogs in 2020 was 44,771;

The intake for cats in 2020 was 56,672.

The ADCH figures for 2021 will be available early next year.

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