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Improving chances for lost dogs
Lost and found collaboration launches at Crufts

Petlog is to announce its collaboration with both DogLost and Scanner Angel at the Kennel Club's (KC) Crufts 2013 event.

The collaboration is hoped to give lost dogs a higher chance of being reunited with their owners, through the use of microchipping, a lost and found database and a nationwide team of search volunteers.

Celebrating the collaboration at the Cruft's Petlog stand will be two German shepherd dog puppies and an English springer spaniel puppy.

Bandit, Daley and Alfie have come from West Midlands Police and are each registered with Petlog, the UK's largest lost and found database for microchipped pets.

Petlog, which is run 24-seven by the KC, safeguards about seven million pet contact details. When a pet is found, the database helps reunite that pet with its owner.

Soon volunteers from DogLost, a UK-wide lost dog search team, and Scanner Angel, the missing pet microchip scanner, will be able to help in Petlog's search for dog owners.

The new process involves the owner filing an initial missing pet report to Petlog. These details will then be checked and a confirmation email will be sent to the owner with a direct link to the DogLost website.

The owner can then register to DogLost so that a team of volunteers can begin the search for that pet. Scanner Angel will simultaneously be updated – alerting any person that then scans that pet that there is a lost alert connected to it.

Celia Walsom, an executive at Petlog, commented: "With the impending change in legislation regarding compulsory microchipping, we are delighted that we can offer this end-to-end service for dogs. We know only too well the stress that losing a pet can cause.

"The DogLost network of volunteers are based all around the country and thanks to them and the unique intelligence of the Angel Scanners, our customers can be safe in the knowledge that we are doing all we can to help reunite them with their dog."

Crufts is taking place between Thursday, March 7, and Sunday, March 10, at Birmingham NEC. Highlights from the arena programme will be televised each evening.

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Birmingham Dogs Home makes urgent appeal

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 Birmingham Dogs Home has issued an urgent winter appeal as it faces more challenges over the Christmas period.

The rescue centre has seen a dramatic increase in dogs coming into its care, and is currently caring for over 200 dogs. With rising costs and dropping temperatures, the charity is calling for urgent support.

It costs the charity £6,000 per day to continue its work.

Fi Harrison, head of fundraising and communications, said: "It's heart-breaking for our team to see the conditions some dogs arrive in. We really are their last chance and hope of survival."

More information about the appeal can be found here. 

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Avian flu confirmed at premises in Cornwall

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial poultry at a premises near Rosudgeon, Cornwall.

All poultry on the infected site will be humanely culled, and a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place. Poultry and other captive birds in the 3km protection zone must be housed.

The case is the second avian flu case confirmed in commercial poultry this month. The H5N5 strain was detected in a premises near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in early November. Before then, the disease had not been confirmed in captive birds in England since February.

The UK chief veterinary officer has urged bird keepers to remain alert and practise robust biosecurity.

A map of the disease control zones can be found here.