Tuk’s Law - Scan Me

17/09/2026

Please could you help us find the 140 signatures we need to ensure a government response to our petition?

Thank You

Dawn and Sue and Tuk 🌈

16/09/2026

Today we saw a post stating that healthy and treatable dogs are not being euthanised in the UK.

That sadly is not accurate. Daily dogs in pounds are losing their lives after 7 days in an environment that often doesn’t allow them to be accurately assessed and others euthanised in vet practices are losing their lives due to lack of rescue spaces.

Commercial stray facilities, rescues are not subject to Freedom of Information requests and the RCVS have confirmed to us they keep no records on euthanasia.

Personally we are glad this post was made as it gives us the opportunity to ask you to support our petitions and join our community who want this topic out in the public domain so it can be discussed calmly and action taken to stop it from continuing.

Please sign and share as we need 10k signatures for a government response 👇

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766482

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/773426

16/09/2026

Sadly Noah has been found and it isn’t the news any of us hoped for 💔

This is super urgent - please share for Noah

Full Details Below 👇

https://www.suffolk.police.uk/news/suffolk/news/missing/2026/september/noah/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Orlo&fbclid=IwRlRTSAUXTdZwZG9mAWZkaWQWUOi58vMKHU_8adMMMTThu00ZQNI6VWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4iwhMtwhIxNOE5EKQUWRXcGQXhFHL8jD-UIvyHrvvGvJ9y3lf9wYvyLId8uA_aem_2mTXFRCpeGtUjwSnWeHNqQ

💙Rest in Peace little man💙

Thankyou everyone for your shares and support 💙 not the outcome we wanted 💔

"I am sure you appreciate the family now need time, space and privacy and I thank you for your understanding in this."

16/09/2026

❌ 360 signatures needed for a government response 🐾

If you have already signed THANK YOU 🐾

Please remember that another member of your household can sign using your email address and postcode xx

We are so nearly there 🐈🐕‍🦺🦮🐈‍⬛

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766482

13/09/2026

13/09/2026

On we think, as always of beautiful Tuk and the life he should be living today which was taken from him prematurely by someone not on his microchip who knew he had full rescue back up… and chose to ignore it, choosing instead, to end his life.

The fact Tuk was killed at 16 months of age is something no one who knew him or was involved in his life in some way, will ever be able to forgive and will never be able to forget.

He was just a baby and he had so much life to live. He had people who cared about him, loved him and would have saved him, if only they’d been given the chance. He was a beautiful young boy who deserved to experience all the best things in life and we wish with all our heart he was still here to do so. If only… the 2 words so many of us are haunted by.

It’s been nearly 9 years since Tuk died. And in those 9 years we have worked so hard to ensure his legacy lives on in everything we do in order to save the lives of those at unnecessary risk. Yet still, after all this time there is so much change still needed and so many wrongs in the system that need to be made right. And we fully intend to continue to do what we can to change as much as possible.

We want to see rescue back up honoured as it should be, so no lives are ended prematurely and rescues are given the respect, the support and the recognition they deserve, so the animals they dedicate so much to are not at risk.

As time goes by we find more things all the time that need our attention and we are addressing it all with Defra..we are fortunate that as stakeholders we have a great relationship with them and our opinions are listened to.

So please sign and share our petitions, talk to your vets, your friends , your mps, tell them about Tuk and ask them.. do they know what rescue back up is, how to find it, how it works and what to do if it is in place.

Each conversation that is had, that raises awareness is one more life that you may well have managed to save.

Please scan our QR code to follow us.

For Andra, for Bianca, for Tuk….❤️

With all our love

Sue & Dawn xx

13/09/2026

Please support Amy Peat 👇

13/09/2026

HOW MANY RESCUES REGISTER THEIR RESCUE BACK UP ON A DEFRA COMPLIANT MICROCHIP DATABASE?

There are still rescues advertising Rescue Back Up as part of their adoption process but who are not registering it on a microchip database.

If it’s not available via a scan it’s worthless when your rescue is facing euthanasia, lost, stolen or abandoned.

13/09/2026

Every year this post appears on timelines across the globe and every year it still hits home because not much has changed in the 5 years since it was written.

The true scale of how many healthy and/or treatable dogs and cats euthanised in the UK is not known as euthanasia data is not recorded. Without it there is no evidence and therefore no proof that changes to the way dogs and cats are bred in back streets or puppy farms with no long term accountability when those dogs are dumped in shelters or abandoned on the streets.

Please read the words Amy has written carefully and help us reach the signatures we need to keep this in Westminster. ❌

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766482

I have been writing this post in my head for nearly 3 years and until today I've never been brave enough to post it. But recently some people doing similar work and facing much the same reality have used social media to speak up about a topic that for so long has not been discussed. Their bravery has given me the courage to finally share my thoughts and experiences about something that I’ve needed to for so long.

Today I euthanased 5 dogs. This is not an uncommon task for a vet to perform and getting into the profession you are well aware of the fact that this is something you will have to do in your chosen career. However, the dogs I put down today were not sick, they were not injured, they were not old and they were not unhealthy in any way. They were not untamed and they were not aggressive. They were perfect, healthy and normal dogs. There was no reason for them to lose their lives today other than that they were failed by humans because of the current overpopulation crisis of domestic animals particularly dogs that so few people are prepared to accept and try to understand.

The euthanasia of healthy animals by animal welfare organisations and shelters across the world is something that we need to start talking about but it is not an easy topic for someone who is in this line of work to discuss. One, because how can you possibly put into words something that is so deeply personal and difficult to come to terms with in your own mind and two, how can you risk the possibility of losing such important funding that keeps welfare organisations and shelters alive by drawing attention to something that the public at large simply know very little about and so few people understand.

The dogs that I put down today were so excited to see me. How lucky they were to have someone in their kennel giving them attention and maybe just maybe they'd even be so lucky as to be taken out for a walk - their tails were wagging and everyone was jumping for joy. One of them was nervous and scared of me. This was a dog that had likely never had much in the way of attention or love from a human being. I have tried everything possible to make the task easier for myself and for those who assist me. I have tried doing it in their kennels, I’ve tried doing it on the grass outside so that the dogs can walk for a bit to experience one last bit of freedom and fresh air. I’ve fed them last meals, I’ve done it in the clinic and nothing makes it easier. The only thing that makes it bearable for me is to sedate them first so that they are sleeping when their lives end and not wagging their tails looking at me – I know this is a luxury that many other people doing this work do not have access to.

Today I chose to put them down in their kennels after I’d sedated them. Letting them leave on a bed and blanket that they have used for comfort for the past few weeks or sometimes even months. I take care to make sure that no other dog or animal is a witness but still the others around them must know. Usually the dogs bark endlessly at any small movement or sound but there is nothing more deafening than the silence of nearly one hundred dogs while ending the life of one of their neighbours or friends. They must know and I so often wonder if they are thinking if they are next or when their time will come.

In their final moments I tell each of them that I am sorry and for those who leave behind friends, puppies or siblings I promise them that I will take care of them and do my very best to find them homes or see that they are cared for properly. These are trivial words compared to what I should be saying to them but it’s hard to give them the apology they so deserve in the short time it takes for the life to leave their little bodies. What I should be saying to them is that I’m sorry you never got the opportunity to experience what it’s like to sleep on a couch and I’m sorry that those who did get to sleep on a couch once have ended up being unwanted and failed by the humans who took them into their homes in the first place. I’m so sorry that they were born into a world that didn’t have space for them and so many others. I’m sorry that they weren’t pretty enough or the right breed to be one of the chosen ones and I’m sorry that for months or for some of them nearly a year countless people walked past their cage and decided not to choose them or to leave and rather choose to buy a puppy somewhere else instead.

I have tried my best to cope with it as I know many others do too - by doing what I believe is everything humanly possible to find unwanted dogs and cats homes. I spend hours of my time holding them while they pose for photos, writing posts for Facebook, advertising them and putting their stories and personalities into words as best I can all in the hopes of someone deciding to choose them. I talk to people and encourage them to adopt but this does not always work. I have spayed until 10pm at night before because if I can just do one more spay it might help. Like so many others in this line of work, I have done hours of work behind the scenes and out of the public eye for no benefit other than hopefully having to euthanase one less healthy animal. I have done my fair share of adopting too having adopted 8 dogs and regularly contemplate whether I could take on another one or two despite my home already being near overrun.

But it is still not enough and the burden of this crisis and war that we are fighting against over population is not to be borne by only a small group of people across the world who are prepared to sacrifice so much because they are not ignorant to the reality of what is going on around them. It is something that everyone who has ever loved an animal has to accept as their fight too. Which is one of the reasons I am writing this post and have been trying to write it for so long.

Everyone has a way in which they can contribute to this fight and many are simple.
- Volunteer - spend time at a local animal shelter or organisation so you have a better understanding of what is happening out there. The animals in shelters love attention and walks even if it is only to make their time there more comfortable until it must come to an end.
- Donate if you can and especially towards sterilisation programs. We must stop these animals at their source – the more puppies and kittens we can prevent, the fewer healthy dogs need to be put down.
- Adopt if you are in a position to get a new pet. There is no reason to go out and buy a dog or cat when there are such perfect ones looking for homes. If everyone who could did choose to adopt, the world would be a much better place for it.

Thank you to those who continue to support me and my work especially through donations towards my sterilisation programs. Every donation that helps me do a spay gives me the strength to face another day and I have a lot of hope that we can change the world one spay at a time. I only wish to create more awareness about the crisis we are facing and I hope that those working in this line of work feel that my words here have done this important topic justice.

I do hope that in my lifetime I could live in a world where no healthy animal is euthanased due to lack of space, lack of homes or lack of resources available. I’m not sure if I will ever get to see that be a reality but I think we all know by now that I will never give up trying!

📷 : Photo by Kate Jackson-Moss

The dog featured here was a dog I euthanased last year. I was very fond of him but sadly had to let him go. I still think of him often and wish things were different for him and so many others.

Written by Dr Amy Jackson-Moss from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa 🇿🇦

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