Pet rescue centre's race against time to find new home

CURRENT BASE IS BEING SOLD

- By COREENA FORD

Amy Donoghue with rescue poodle Ruby

A HULL animal rescue centre owner is in a race against time to raise funds for a new home as her landlord announced plans to sell her current base.

Amy Donoghue has been rescuing animals for more than 14 years, revealing how her former pet shop operation evolved into a rescue centre, caring for unwanted animals she would find dumped outside her door.

Unable to turn them away, for the last six years she has been running a rescue service from her rented home on Harley Street in Hull, rescuing and rehoming thousands of cats, dogs and other animals.

Spending hundreds of pounds in food and energy bills every month, she ensures they receive all the vets' care they need, taking cats in to be neutered every week, but her passion for the pets has always kept her going.

Now, however, the house she rents which has been her home as well as the cats' sanctuary — is being sold. She has around three months to find a new place to live, as well as somewhere to continue the rescue centre.