CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE?
Pyrenees Orientales, France
Heartbreakingly, more than 100,000 pets like me are abandoned in France every year.
More than half of us are dumped like garbage during the summer season - when we are often left to die without food, water, or shade, on roadsides between cities and the coastal resorts.
If we are lucky, a kind person spots us and takes us to a animal rescue shelter. But most animal rescue shelters in France are desperately short of space and sometimes we get turned away.
Those of us who cannot be accommodated at a rescue shelter may end up at the local animal pound where we then face the terrifying prospect of euthanisation if we are not claimed by our owners within 14 days.
It's an agonising situation for those trying to accommodate and care for us all at the shelters. They long for a better life for us, with kind humans and a safe bed. The idea of only a cold stone floor to lie on, no gentle words of comfort and a lonely death by needle is so very scary to us.
We can't understand why our humans abandoned us and why no one else wants or loves us.
To find out more about the challenges facing shelters in France click here