Blue Cross (animal charity)

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Blue Cross is a registered animal welfare charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1897 as our Mute Friends League . Charity provides support for pet owners who can not afford private veterinary care, help find homes for unwanted animals, and educate people in animal ownership responsibilities.

Charities work with a number of other organizations to promote animal welfare and responsible pet ownership.

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Histori

The organization was founded on May 10, 1897 in London as Our Silent Friend League, to care for horses working on the streets of the British capital. It opened its first veterinary hospital, in Victoria, London, on May 15, 1906.

In 1912, the league launched The Blue Cross Fund to care for horses during the Balkan Wars. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, it quickly reopened. With a truce in 1918, the Blue Cross Fund has collected nearly Ã, Â £ 170,000 - equivalent to nearly Ã, Â £ 6.5 million today - to care for the animals of conflict. More than 50,000 horses were admitted to the Blue Cross hospital in France, and the charity sent vital supplies of animals to 3,500 units of the British Army.

Donations to the Fund enabled the charity to care for more than 350,000 animals during the Second World War, many of whom were injured during the Blitz. The name of the appeals fund became more widely known than the official charity title and the league officially changed its name to "The Blue Cross" in 1950. In 2011 the charity dropped "The" from its name and is now known simply as "Blue Crossing."

Sally de la Bedoyere became the charity's CEO in November 2014.

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Operation

Blue Cross operates a number of services throughout the United Kingdom. The main services are: reprobate unwanted animals, veterinary services to pet owners who can not afford the private fees charged by private veterinarians, promote animal welfare through education, and operate Pet Bereavement Support Services, free and confidential support channels for those who lose pets. They also operate a horse ambulance service, including on major riding events.

Blue Cross operates four animal hospitals, three of which are in London, in Victoria, Merton and Hammersmith, and the fourth in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and running mobile clinics around the country. In 2014, a pet care clinic opens in Derby. Blue Cross performed over 97,000 diagnostic treatments, operations and investigations in 2010.

Blue Cross is also heavily involved in animal adoption, organizing adoption for companion animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits and small rodents, as well as larger species such as horses. By 2015, the charity rehoming team helps 9,160 animals and the vet team helps 29,549 animals.

The organization also works to improve animal life through promotion to pet owners and work in animal behavior therapy. Any pet owner who reacts to a pet through a charity can benefit from free behavioral advice for a pet's lifetime. Pet Bereavement Support Services is a free and confidential phone and email line and is available 365 days a year to help people struggling with losing pets.

Proposed closure of two animal centers and the opening of two new animal centers

On January 26, 2010, Blue Cross announced the proposed closure of two animal adoption centers (Felixstowe and Northiam, East Sussex), both of which have existed for over 50 years. The final decision on both sites was announced on May 4, 2010. After a vast publicity campaign by the locals, it was announced that plans to close down Felixstowe's center had been canceled. The Felixstowe Center is relocated to a specially constructed new site near Ipswich, Suffolk, in 2016 and now can treat twice as many pets as the previous site was able to care for. Blue Cross also opens a new animal adoption center in Newport, South Wales, by 2016.

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Partnership

Irish Blue Cross is a related party of Blue Cross.

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Awards

Medals have been given by Blue Cross to animals and people who have shown courage or heroism. While the first medal was awarded to people who helped save the animals, medals were awarded in 1918 in honor of the number of horses who had served in the First World War. Medals were then given between 1940 and 1951 to a number of dogs, including Juliana who reportedly extinguished the incendiary bomb by urinating on it. In 2006 Jake, a police explosive dog, was honored after helping clean up the London Underground after the London bombing of July 7, 2005. In 2017, Staffordshire bull terrier Romeo received the Blue Cross Medal for being a therapy dog ​​for stroke victims and dementia sufferers and donated blood.

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Charity Commission. Blue Cross (animal charity), registered charity no. 224392.

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