Easy wormer for EASE

Opened in the summer of 2004, EASE is a newly established pet fostering charity that supports refuges in the Harlow, Stevenage, Welwyn and Hatfield area.   The organisation, staffed by volunteers, has the ability to house up to 20 cats and 20 dogs at any one time.

“EASE is working with local refuges to enable women and children to leave a violent home, knowing that their pet is going to be kept safe in temporary foster care,” says Melinda Hill, founder of EASE.  “We’re extremely grateful to companies like Intervet who support us by donating products, which help to cut our healthcare bills enormously.”

EASE is certainly offering something special to the local community and Intervet is only too pleased to help.  “We’re delighted to be able to offer assistance to EASE, which is just one of the charities and organisations we work closely with in support of this particular subject,” comments Sandra McLaughlin, Intervet’s Forging the Link Co-ordinator.

Intervet also sits on an active working group, called The Links Group, which is a coalition of animal and domestic violence organisations that aim to raise awareness of the ‘links’ to all professionals in the hope that agencies will work together to help prevent related cases of child and animal abuse from going undetected.    

“The unfortunate fact of life is that there is a link between child abuse, animal abuse and domestic violence,” adds Sandra McLaughlin.     “We’re just one of many organisations that are proactively working together to bring this subject to the fore and raise awareness of these links.”