Tipperary-based animal rescue centre says ‘sorry, we’re full!’

At the recent Nenagh Municipal District meeting, Cllr Seamus Morris called attention to the serious issue in Tipperary of dog rescue centres being at capacity.

He urged that “If people are getting dogs this Christmas you might choose to rehome them”.

Cllr Morris specifically mentioned the Thurles based rescue centre ‘Mo Chara’ who recently posted on social media to express their concern: “We are getting several calls a day from owners looking to surrender their dogs and entire litters of puppies.

“Our facilities are full to capacity and we can not accommodate any more dogs at the time being.

“We currently have 24 puppies in our care, ranging from 4 to 10 weeks on top of 26 adult dogs.
We are very sorry to say this, but we are FULL!”

Mo Chara aren’t the only local rescue centre facing these issues as North Tipperary-based The Haven Rescue also took to social media to express that they were at capacity last week. “We are now unfortunately unable to take in anymore dogs until our transport goes next week (we also have scheduled dogs to come in from pounds next week... thankfully, those pounds have the capacity to hold until next week.”

Speaking to the Tipperary Star Nikki from Mo Chara Animal rescue explained “People don’t seem to realise the costs involved in us taking in these dogs, if they’re puppies we pay for all their core treatments and vaccinations as well as all of their food. For any adult dogs that come in, if they’re medically able, we pay for their spaying. Plenty of dogs also come into us from bad situations and may have disease or conditions that we need to treat with medicine or special shampoo and we pay for all of this ourselves.

“So when we do ask for an adoption fee, that’s what this is going toward.”
She continued “At the moment, we are well over capacity and just this weekend we had to rescue four dogs who were found abandoned in a bog. These dogs all had worms and fleas and all four are emaciated so we will have to treat them and help them back to good health.”

In terms of how people can help Mo Chara, you can do so by visiting their two shops located in Thurles and Cashel or you can set up personal donations.

Nikki also advised that Mo Chara offer free animal welfare education courses that can be offered to schools, individuals or anyone else who may be looking to learn more on this subject. For further information on this or about how you can help, you can contact them at mocharaanimalrescue@live.ie.