Appointemnts are available Tuesday – Sunday 11.00 – 3.00, to make anappointment either call in at the animal centre or call 01482 341331. When attending your appointment please bring identification and proof of address.

The microchip is inserted into the animal via an injection and the owners details are then recorded on a national computer database. Many of the animals admitted into the animal centre are never reunited with their owners as they have no means of identification. By inserting a microchip you safeguard your pet if it is admitted into any of the local animal welafre charities or taken into a veterinary practice.

If you care about the welfare of your pet this is the ideal opportunity to take advantage of this great offer.

Come & join us for a great day out for all the family on Sunday 10th June 2012 at the RSPCA, Clough Road, Hull, HU6 7PE. We have lots of stalls to entertain the whole family and lots of classes to enter your dog into from the best condition to our ever popular wacky races. The dogstar flyball team will be performing for your entertainment along with a parade of centre dogs currently looking for new homes.

• £1.00 per adult
• 50p per child

We will be open from 11.00am with judging commening at 12.00.

Is your dog a speed merchant or a bit of an old plodder? Why not try our obstacle course & put them to the test!

Entry forms  available on the day or download below.

Entry Form

Tickets are £30.00 per person. Early bird discount applies to tickets purchased prior to the 31st July 2012 £26.00 per person.

Please complete the booking form and return to RSPCA, Clough Road, Hull, HU6 7PE or alternativley call into the animal centre Tue – Sun 11.00 – 3.30.
Booking Form

We look forward to seeing you at this Great Event

Tom Hutton a dedicated volunteer of the RSPCA Hull & East Riding Branch has taken the brave decision to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft to raise money for the many animals in the care of the RSPCA based on Clough Road Hull. At only 16 years of age Tom is proving his worth by performing a 10,000 ft tandem skydive. Tom is attempting to raise a target of £375 but any extra would be very welcome. Online donations can be provided at www.justgiving.com/Tom-Hutton1995

Please support this great cause and to help Tom achieve one of his ambitions in life on 14th April 2012 .

About the exhibition

As part of National Pet Month (www.nationalpetmonth.org.uk) and RSPCA Week(www.rspca.org.uk), Artlink (www.artlink.uk.net) presents Take Me To The Kittens!, a series of 15 large-format photographs by local Chinese photographer, D. Jun-Yu Low. The exhibition is sponsored by Hahnemühle FineArt (www.hahnemuehle.com).

Printed in Hull using archival pigment inks and the highest quality fine art paper, limited editions of the prints will be available to buy. All profits from the sale will be donated to the RSPCA (Hull & East Riding Branch).

In Britain, we dote on our cats: we often think of them as the ultimate in fluffy cuteness and big-eyed defencelessness. We forget that they have lives of their own, and keen survival instincts honed by generations of evolution.

Inspired by a talk given in Cottingham by renowned feline behaviour expert, Vicky Halls (www.fabcats.org), Low travelled to the isolated coastal town of Essaouira, Morocco, home to one of the largest populations of stray cats on the planet. There he found – and photographed – an alternate reality for cats, a place where cats are truly left to their own devices.

On one level, taken with an absolute minimum of equipment, Low’s photographs operate like giant holiday snapshots that are beautiful to look at, recording his meetings with various cats as he encounters them. But, informed by contemporary photographers who also take pictures of animals, including Charlotte Dumas, Elliott Erwitt, Pentti Sammallahti and Tony Mendoza, Low’s treatment of Essaouira’s cats is far from casual.

Low follows his cats everywhere: down backstreets and onto building sites; alongside open sewers, and behind rubbish bins filled with rotting food; under busy market-stalls in crowded souks, staying with them from morning till night.

Meanwhile, the complex geometry of the photographs and the relaxed, wordless understanding of their subjects, recall the heyday of twentieth-century photojournalism. Once reserved for ocumenting and ennobling human life, that classic genre of photography is now put into the service of these most humble strays.

The utmost seriousness and respect with which Low takes and presents his photographs challenge, head on, the playful familiarity and easiness of the exhibition’s title. In doing so, Take Me To The Kittens! asks us to look again at our pets; to see them in a whole new light.

About the photographer

D. Jun-Yu Low is a self-taught photographer. In 2010, he was appointed as official photographer to Hull’s incredibly popular Larkin with Toads, and his photographs from that project were widely seen in newspapers, magazines and the internet, both in the UK and abroad. Since then, he has exhibited works in libraries across Hull; The Ferens Gallery, Hull; Artlink, Hull; The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton; andLondon Zoo.

Three new photographs by Low can be seen at the Ferens Open Exhibition (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ferens-Art-Gallery/103779456326742) which previews on 10th February and runs until 15th April 2012. All three photographs are from a forthcoming series entitled ‘The Devoted Photographers of Antoni Gaudi’, a study of tourist-photographers in Barcelona, at various locations designed by the famous 20th century architect (http://www.gaudidesigner.com).

Events

Take Me To The Kittens! runs from 30th March to 12th May 2012. Opening times: Mon-Sat, 10am- 4pm.

Preview evening and artist’s talk, 30th March 2012, 6-8pm

A Cat of Nine Tales: The University of Hull’s Larkin Centre (www.ihull.org/larkin) presents an evening of new poetry and prose writing, ‘work with the mystique of cats at its very heart’, 25th April2012 , 7-9pm Anyone interested in taking part should contact Prof. Martin Goodman. Email: m.j.goodman@hull.ac.uk

RED Gallery @ Artlink – Kitten Crit session: RED Gallery’s series of monthly “Public Crit” sessions (www.red-gallery.com) relocates to Artlink for an evening of artist’s talk (slightly more academic than the preview talk), Q&A and lively discussion. Date and time: TBC.

All events take place at:

Artlink (www.artlink.uk.net) 87 Princes Avenue Hull HU5 3QP Tel: 01482 345104 Email: admin@artlink.uk.net

Online

Get the latest news about Take Me To The Kittens! by joining the official Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/161101550668718/

Or ‘liking’ the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Take-Me-To-The-Kittens-30032012-12052012/185632131536690

And Another Thing…

To celebrate National Pet Month and the exhibition, Mustard Café Bar will, for the month of April, be staging Take Me To The Kittens! The Table-Top Easter Egg Exhibition! Pop in for a coffee, a slice of cake, or a hearty pie-and-mush supper, and you’ll find eight new images, different from the ones in the main exhibition, printed small (3” x 3”), on each of the café’s eight tables, on the backs of each Menu.

Mustard Cafe Bar (www.facebook.com/mustardcafebar)

63 Princes Avenue Hull HU5 3QX Tel: 01482 935539

Click on the image below to enlarge 

We had a fabulous turnout and most visitors seemed to go home with their arms full of Easter goodies. Please join us for our next open day which includes our annual dog show on Sunday 10th June 2012. Commencing at 11.00.

This is a diffcult challenge so please support Carina in this great cause by digging deep and sponsoring her at www.justgiving.com/Carina-Mclean-Smith

We had an excellent turn out of bikes and each year our numbers seem to grow. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported this event.

We took the decision to provide some new entertainment this year and we had a selection of ferrets on view from the East Coast Ferret Rescue and two model railway exhibits courtesey of the East Riding Finescale Group. Many thanks to both groups for participating.