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GB News’ North West of England reporter, Sophie Reaper, visited a Cats Protection centre to find out how our pets are being affected by the cost of living crisis.

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  1. @tl8101

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Animals are awesome
    Politicians are evil

  2. @teoleno4019

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    People should be charged for abondoning their pets!

  3. @dougaldouglas8842

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Lies, lies, and more lies. It is true that some dogs are having to be rehomed, but the vast majority are from bad homes. I have been involved in this and the vile people that think to get a dog in order to pose with, then when the initial thinking, so to speak, goes away, no one really noticing them anymore, it is the dog thrown into the back yard, or even shut up in a house, and hit. My latest rescue dog was shut up in a house, beaten, starved, had all her fur matted. She was a wreck

  4. @Marstepolovsky

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    I want a Cat.

  5. @MarkVA71

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    My current cat is a re-home as the original owner could not afford to keep or neuter him.

  6. @jamiefoyers2800

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Cute kittens at the end there…who couldn't resist those wee things?. I'm sorry for anyone who has to give up a pet, must be the worst decision to make in the world having to feed a cat or a kid. I miss having the neighbours cats around but with the rising cost of food it would've been impossible to keep feeding both of them (they were fussy eaters), there's still the neighbourhood cats out and about outside for feline company.
    It always amazes me how they slip into your heart without much effort, cats especially…one mew and that's me…I'm sure other people are the same.

  7. @WickedFelina

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Re-Homing is putting your pet in danger of being killed by the shelter, dying of missing you and being picked up by a lab, impersonating a person wanting to adopt a pet. The pet will end up being a torturous lab experiment, then they shoot them in the yard. DON'T GIVE UP YOUR MOST FAITHFUL FRIEND AND FAMILY MEMBER YOU HAVE EVER HAD!

  8. @WickedFelina

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    A pet will most likely die, or die sooner when we die. Humans have a much higher rate at not just living, but staying healthy. This is how much pets love and are devoted to us. If you drop your pet off at a shelter, it has a higher likelihood of being killed by the shelter or dying having lost us. If you stop buying pet food and treats rather make the food yourself, the cost plummits. Buy a cheaper brand of something you buy regularly or stop buying anything unnecessary off of AMAZON made in China. We don't need all that plastic crap. Dogs need grains & vegetables or they are liklier to suffer from heart conditions. Cook a whole chicken for you and your family. Pul everything off the bones, even what holds the tiney bones together. ALL this you can feed your pet. Add vegetables. Cheap ones like cooked carrots. Add rice, oatmeal or pasta. Some cheap grain. You will find your pet loving it more than pet food. Dogs love carrots! Give them raw carrots to chew on for a treat or bake your own biscuits. There are ways, and it is shocking how cheap it is! Make soup out of the chicken carcass first. The meat, cartiliage will fall off easier. Use the chicken stock (bone broth) in your pet's food to flavor the grain and vegetables. THEY WILL LOVE IT – AND YOU WILL GET TO KEEP YOUR FAITHFUL FURRY FAMILY MEMBER WITH UNDYING LOVE FOR YOU!!!!!

  9. @WickedFelina

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    READ THIS B4 U EVEN THINK OF RE HOMING YOUR PET ~ I went to the ER 2 days ago being pressed by the social worker at my doctor's office. I had told her that my dentist felt I needed a root canal, except the only oral surgeon who would take my insurance was far away, with only ONE appointment open in July. I had been taking ibuprophen and other OTC painkillers. My intenstines were in severe pain. She felt I had an ulcer and if I didn't go myself, she would have the ambulance sent with the police & be forced to go. Before I left I held my little dog then, put him in my bedroom. I can't afford heat, so I stay in there with him all day with a small space heater. I can't afford anythng, but the essentials. I told the doctor at the ER this. He asked if I was in danger of hurting myself or someone else. Immediately I answered "I have a dog! I can't do that! Oh my God! That little boy would be alone!" The doctor had no concern about me being suicidal or harming anyone else. COVID has made us all poorer, because they said lockdowns would save our lives. Now, if I get sick, I & millions may die without heat with NOTHING to replace fossil fuel which we are told is bad because of carbon that feeds plants – the more carbon, the less water they need. We are being lied to, & we are dying. We are the carbon (as everything IS a carbon-based life form EVERYTHING IS CARBON – NET ZERO IS BS) we are what the UBER wealthy and privaledged want to lower. Our pets are our families. They would die for us. I will go without. I will find something I don't need to save money. Compare everything in your life to the precious, undying LOVE & undying dedecation of your pet – the pet will always win. Sell something on ebay. Buy cheaper shampoo.

    The poor of the world are going to suffer without fertilizer made from fossil fuels. We need cheap energy to get the food and medical supplies to them. This is killing the poor. The UBER wealthy will have a lot more land, and less trash without us. Plastics in the ocean are all coming from one country and the poisionous runoff into the water supplies – and that country is the one every single UBER wealthy world leader admires because they use the military against the people, and your are controlled on all your actions because of a social c r d t score. One of the leaders will get a crown soon, one was born in N z I G m Y and one is famous for saying many years ago "When you control the food, your control the people. When you control the money, you control the nation. When you control the ENERGY you CONTROL THE WORLD." Guess what? They accomplished it. The guy who said that is almost 100 and still going strong – WE AREN'T – we are dying from poverty.

    Keep your pet – they are your family – one day – out of love and dedication to them – THEY WILL SAVE YOUR LIVES!

  10. @marydoherty9188

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    i have 2 cats, a large dog AND a horse! i would go without food myself before i would give up any of my fur babys! and my human babys would never forgive me if i did, however i can understand how some people think that there may be no other choice and more often than not, there is no other choice for these people, at least they have been responsible enough to give their pets to a rehoming centre because we all know what a big massive problem we used to have with people just abandoning their pets onto the streets and altho that is still happening, it is nowhere near as prolific as it used to be 10 years ago. So please stop hating on people who have to rehome their pets.

  11. @paulacannon3452

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    sorry animals first people second

  12. @michelleslinn698

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Could you set up a charity for some to donate to a pet so it can stay at home with it’s family 🙏💞🙏💞💞💞💞💞

  13. @barneymagee3285

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Don't remember any outrage from my fellow animal lovers when Australian police enforcing their covidian cult rules, went into an animal shelter ,and shot every dog, and their puppies to death..

  14. @shapexdd2164

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    My pets come before me any day

  15. @Jen-lg4hp

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Would love a pet, but can't afford a vet!

  16. @ancietman

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Its not so much the cost of pet foods its the vet charges. Our cat has to have flea treatment from the vets because the shop ones do not work it costs £60 for a six month supply hate to think what bigger problems would cost.

  17. @realitychick4502

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    1/3 of rental sector tenants are hiding a pet as letting agents and landlords still discriminate against animals and children. Having to downsize in the rental sector will invariably mean rehoming a pet.

  18. @wayner9765

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Anyone who loves animals/cats/dogs/horses/ whatever – thinks that they are part of their family, right? Right.
    Thus, would you give up your human son or daughter? No. So, what's the difference?
    Be responsible parents!
    Eat less. Drink less. Smoke less. No brainer. No?

  19. @Garethstruelove

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    We have a cost-of-living crisis here in the United States. But I would never surrender my dog. I would rather share my food. I am afraid what they would do to him. I could not. My heart would be heavy, and I would not be able to sleep. I don’t want anything to happen to my puppy dog.
    Do you also take care of dogs?
    I understand that between the choice of feeding the children and feeding the animals, it would break my heart, but I don’t know.

  20. @celestialskye1

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Sad 😭

  21. @clungepoker6749

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    If it came to the crunch my wife and I would go hungry to make sure our four cats were fed and looked after properly

  22. @ruthcollins2841

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    For me a choice of feed a pet or a child, the pet would come first!

  23. @Jack-fs2im

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    30m pets produce 25% of Britains C02 and eat 25% of killed meat

  24. @martinpospisil3747

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    UK is in a process of third worldization.

  25. @pureblood1980x

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Same people were probably saying how much they see their pets as their children and babies. Sickening to think they are just discarding them. Bring in a law if you hand in an animal because its inconvenient you can no longer own a pet I say. Oh and ban the sale of online pets. Plenty in shelters that need homes…we always went down that route.

  26. @elizagrogan9454

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    At least people are taking their pets to animal shelters and not just abandoning them in the country.

  27. @JosephNine

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    ONE OF THE PROBLEMS ARE THE COST OF ADOPTING PET'S HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF
    CONTROL. HEAR IN THE USA PETS ARE GIVEN TO SHELTERS FOR FREE, THEN FOR ME TO
    ADOPT, THEY WILL CHARGE $ 200.00 usd WITCH MOST CAN'T AFFORD ?

  28. @garywebster3585

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Send them to Westminster. Should raise the level of debate.

  29. @RubyMarkLindMilly

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    How could you do it ? I'd rather lose a limb

  30. @dtulip1

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    This was obvious….people paid to do nothing at home got pets….them back to work and the reality of pet ownership hits and on top of that E EVERYTHING costs more, but wages haven't gone up

  31. @briandurber7878

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    LETS PUT UK FIRST, VOTE REFORM

  32. @saberbo89

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Sophie you are such a beautiful mature white woman.

  33. @ivanhowell3461

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    All down to lockdown and compliance. Well done people for being so gullible

  34. @msjannd4

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Are there no pet food banks in Britain? Or organizations that will spay and neuter free of charge or at least at a reduced rate? Maybe if your government stops housing illegal migrants your citizens could keep their pets too.

  35. @hevchip741

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    I bet people would get rid of their pets rather than their TV, alcohol, fags, play stations, dvd collections, excess stuff in their house.

  36. @glenquinn6853

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    It takes no more to feed your pet this is null shit .give up you sat TV or pc or you phon or you TV games or you take a wayes

  37. @kellyrobinson6663

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    I could never rehome my 3 cats

  38. @liam5382

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Cost of living crisis is a myth

  39. @Steve20333

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    They are all comestable and we're traditionally a source of food .

  40. @nataliebutler

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Aren't there pet food banks now?

  41. @MrTamiya89

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    The Pet's Should Go To Loving Home's. 🙏. Pet's SHOULDN'T be given to 'Weed Smoking Animal Abuser's Such As https://youtube.com/@LilXancheX '. 🤦‍♂️👎😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

  42. @leswhiting8943

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    FFS…..I'm surprised these pet owners haven't blamed it on BREXIT…… instead of. Food has gone up………….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  43. @djbogz1921

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    Lockdown pets more like.
    So many people got pets during lockdown, gone back to work, can't cope.

  44. @craphead9842

    January 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm

    A pet is like having a child … Treat them as such…. Your government doesn't give a shit about you and thinks even less about animals….. Tony Cuenca

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