Go to a local animal rescue centre and don’t buy a pet online

Christmas may be over but the online purchase of pets still goes on. Here are 3 cases the DSPCA received in one day at the end of last week:

Ella is a two month old kitten bought online last week. The new owner say that they saw an advert online advertising kittens for sale.

They met the seller in a “dark car park” and handed over €80 for Ella, only to discover when they got her home that the kitten they had bought was not the one they had wanted and that the one they got has a chronic skin condition causing her to scratch so much she ripped into her own skin.