LO L A’ S S A N C T UA RY A N I M A L R E S C U E
LOCAL SANCTUARY TO THE RESCUE
Ebony’s kittens.
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Bella before and after her time at Lola’s Sanctuary Animal Rescue.
ola’s Sanctuary Animal Rescue is based in
situation with empathy. Sadly, it is too common that
Crawley and dedicated to giving abandoned,
people with good intentions take on more animals
stray, neglected, abused and surrendered cats
than they can properly care for, become too unwell or
and dogs a better tomorrow. We rescue and rehome as many cats and dogs as possible. Our centre also provides specialist facilities
don’t have the support needed to look after their animals. We spoke together at length about the needs of
and lifelong care to animals with complex needs.
the animals and agreed that it would be best to let us
In action
find new homes for them. We’re thankful that this
Rescuing animals off the streets: When we received a
person is now accessing support and has kept a
call about an injured stray cat called Ebony, we rushed
couple of their animals, who have received veterinary
to get her straight to the vets. Once her injuries
care and are living in much better conditions.
healed, we took her to be spayed and vaccinated only
A significant amount of time, cost and work goes
to find that she was six weeks pregnant! She had a
into caring for animals - they are not an easy nor
difficult pregnancy but stayed strong and had two
short-term commitment! Before taking on an animal,
gorgeous kittens!
please do your research to understand the
She soon went into heat again and without
commitment you are making. We love getting to
keeping her inside she would have quickly gotten
know our animals’ new families to make sure they are
pregnant once more. This is why it is so important to
well matched and have all the right support.
have your cats neutered/spayed or keep them indoors;
How you can help
if we hadn’t been able to rescue this cat, more and
Sponsoring a cat or dog at Lola’s Sanctuary Animal
more kittens would have been born to live on the
Rescue is one of the best ways you can help animals in
streets. Instead, she and her babies now have all the
need. We are a volunteer-run, not-for-profit
love and care they deserve.
organisation and receive no government support.
Helping those in need: We were alerted to a situation
Your sponsorship goes directly to providing our
with someone who cared very much about their
animals with shelter, warmth, food, veterinary care
animals but was no longer able to care for them. Their
and all the love they need.
home was full of animals but, due to illness, their care
You can sponsor one of our sanctuary animals for
had become unmanageable. This left them all in a very
as little as £5 a month.
unhealthy environment.
Please visit
We could see that this person needed support so we took time to better understand and approach the To advertise call 01403 588618 CRAWLEY PAGES South
www.lolassanctuary.co.uk for more information. APRIL/MAY 2021
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