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Care Act - Pets taken into care
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1. In your role under the Care Act on how many occasions in the calendar year 2023 did you as an authority have to take care of the animals/pets of somebody living in your area who was for whatever reason unable to care for them, or unable to find anybody else able to take over their role as carer for those animals/pets?
5 occasions spread across 2 different sets of animals.
2. For each occasion please state (a) the number of animals and their species, (b) the names of the animals if applicable, (c) what happened to the animals (were they put in a cattery/given to a animal charity etc), (d) specify what if any costs were incurred by the council.
Two of the occasions involved 2 dogs (names unknown) where the dogs were put into a kennel on a temporary basis costing a total £1807.20.
Three of the occasions involved 3 cats and a tortoise (names unknown) where a pet sitter came for a set period of time and fed the pets in their home, costing a total of £650.
