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Battersea hits the silver screen
Battersea Dogs Home's awareness campaign continues this summer with adverts in cinemas around London, telling everyone that life is more fun with a dog. 12 cinemas will be showing the two thirty-second adverts until July 25th.
If you can't get to the cinema yourself, why not take a look at stills from the cinema adverts.
Going away? Make sure your pet's OK
During June, you may have seen Battersea's summer campaign posters on bus stops all over the capital.
Every year at Battersea Dogs Home we see a dramatic increase in the amount of dogs arriving during the summer months.
Our latest summer advertising campaign urged pet owners to make proper arrangements for their pets when they go on holiday.
There were four posters in the campaign, asking dog owners who is going to feed, exercise or pamper their dogs when they go on holiday, and publicising Battersea's
Lost Dogs Line.
Our Holiday Checklist advises owners how to ensure their pet is well cared for while they are on holiday, with a range of advice including how to find the best boarding kennels and catteries and how to find a registered dog sitter.
For more information on this campaign, please contact the press office
Mutts with a Message
BATTERSEA'S RESIDENTS GO "WALKIES" IN STYLISH NEW COATS
Any regular visitors to Battersea Park will be familiar with the sight of our dogs being exercised by our fantastic volunteer dog walkers.
Usually the dogs can be spotted wearing distinctive blue and white Battersea coats, however they now sport updated versions complete with eyecathcing messages.
The coats - the brainwave of Simon Haslehurst from local advertising agency Claydon Heeley Jones Mason - feature the charity's logo together with one of four quirky statements: 'I will not eat the cat', 'I was lost. Now I'm found', 'I'm a pussycat' and 'Some of my best friends are postmen'.
Haslehurst came up with the idea after spotting Battersea dogs being walked in the park, and it occurred to him that the Home could use them as "walking billboards".
Seeing as our aim is to rehome as many dogs as possible, these coats are a fun and eye-catching way to raise awareness in our local area, and hopefully encourage people to come and talk to us about a new addition to their family, of the canine variety!
Battersea Dogs Home's three sites can have up to 600 dogs in their care at any one time. These dogs are all exercised in Battersea Park at least twice a week by one of a 50-strong volunteer team. By the end of 2001, the volunteers managed to walk a staggering 7,931 dogs - that's a lot of walking!
Please note that our volunteer programme is currently oversubscribed, and that anyone wishing to apply must be able to give a regular and consistent amount of their time during the day on weekdays. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for Battersea please do not call us in the first instance, but instead check out the section on the website for further information and contact details.
For more information on this feature, please contact the press office