7th Heaven
Animal Rescue Trust
E-mail us to : animalrescuetrust@hotmail.com
Phone: 02894 432229
Address: PO Box 198, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, BT36 9BP
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"Animals are not commodities to be bought and sold.
They are beautiful creatures with beautiful souls."
Consultation: Wildlife Intervention Options – Bovine TB Eradication Blueprint Closing date: 25 September 2026
DAERA is consulting on major wildlife‑management proposals, including options that would allow badger culling across Northern Ireland. We are asking the public to read the consultation and share your views with us.
Consultation link: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/consultations/consultation-potential-wildlife-intervention-options-part-bovine-tuberculosis-northern-ireland-blueprint-eradication (daera-ni.gov.uk in Bing)
Key proposals:
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Non‑selective badger culling
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Selective TVR
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Vaccination programmes
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Use of trained lay vaccinators
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Various capture methods
Our concerns:
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DAERA’s evidence shows cattle‑to‑cattle spread is the main driver of bTB.
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The NI TVR pilot showed no reduction in cattle bTB.
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Vaccination avoids ecological disruption and perturbation.
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Other regions have reduced bTB through cattle‑focused measures, not wildlife removal.
Why this matters more widely: This consultation sets a precedent for removing wildlife classed as a “disease reservoir”. While feral cats are not being targeted, future legislation could expand these powers. We want to understand public concerns early.
We need your experiences:
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Impact of culling elsewhere
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Concerns about future effects on community cats
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Examples of non‑lethal success
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Practical risks of wider wildlife powers
Please respond directly to DAERA or email your views to animalrescuetrust@hotmail.com before 25 September 2026.
DAERA Animal Welfare Consultation – We Need Your Views by 24 June - Now ended 30/6/26
DAERA has launched a consultation on proposed changes to animal welfare law in Northern Ireland. These proposals will affect rescues, fosterers, pet owners, trainers, vets, and the general public.
Consultation areas:
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Regulation of rescue and rehoming organisations
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Dog licence fee increase
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Ban on specific aversive training devices
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Strengthened dog microchipping rules
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Evidence on compulsory cat microchipping
A major flaw: The consultation does not mention that NI already has a legal exemption to compulsory dog microchipping, where a vet can certify that microchipping would harm a dog’s health. This omission prevents fully informed responses and hides an important safeguard that may also be needed for cats.
Pet Abduction Act concerns: Stronger microchipping rules — especially compulsory cat microchipping — could increase legal risks for rescues, fosterers, volunteers, and members of the public who help stray animals. Clear, accurate legislation is essential.
We need your experiences on:
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How rescue regulation will affect small, foster‑based and home‑based rescuers
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Microchipping issues: health risks, database failures, enforcement, legal implications
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Financial and practical impact on everyday pet owners and rescuers
Why this matters: For small rescues like ours, the combined impact of new regulations, microchipping rules, and the Pet Abduction Act could significantly affect how we operate. Your feedback will help us respond accurately and protect the future of our work.
How to share your views: Comment on our Facebook pages (7th Heaven Animal Rescue Trust or Seventh Heaven), message us privately, or email us at animalrescuetrust@hotmail.com.
Many people not know where to turn in crisis, whilst animals can be used as pawns.....Northern Ireland’s 24hr Domestic and Sexual Abuse Helpline is a free and confidential service that offers help and support female and male victims and survivors, worried friends and family members and professionals.
The Helpline is staffed 24 hours a day by fully trained operators and volunteers who are available to offer expert support and confidential, non-judgemental information. The team work alongside a range of community partners who provide specialist support services to those who have or are experiencing domestic and sexual abuse.
The Helpline, operated by specialist sexual trauma charity Nexus, is free to call on 0808 802 1414 and is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Support can be accessed by email help@dsahelpline.org or contact can be made through the live webchat function available via the website www.dsahelpline.org
You will be heard, you will be believed.
Warning
Please keep your cats in and keep them safe.
7th Heaven has been concerned that there is a lot of abuse and cats going missing or being killed around Northern Ireland. Hopefully the police will find out the source of this. Read this link in the Belfast Telegraph for the latest update of cats going missing around Northern Ureland
Police called in after more than 70 cats go missing around Newry
Update
7th Heaven would strongly urge everyone to keep their cat in at this time. We are already avocates to keep cats indoor due to the ongoing dangers animals face throughout Northern Ireland.
A safe cat does not have a sad owner!
Message from Pet Connection
30/10/17: A further 10 Missing Cats have been added today bringing the total to 230 cats reported missing to Pet Connection. 189 of these beloved pets have gone missing in 2017.
If your cat is missing, please fill in their information at Pet Connection, so they can add them to the map.
Please note: The map preview has not updated to show all the missing cats. Please click through to the map to see the extent of the problem.
Read the article by vet,
Report any adverse reactions
Vaccine Warning
Various newspapers have published a story linking the canine leptospirosis vaccine Nobivac L4 with fatal adverse reactions.
n the article the Veterinary Medicines Directorate claims adverse reactions are rare but it is well known that reporting of vaccine adverse reactions are vastly under reported. This is due to the fact that some reactions do not happen immediately and also because a lot of vets simply will not admit that vaccines can be dangerous and therefore don’t associate them with the subsequent illness.
7th Heaven have been highlighting the dangers of vaccines for years and leptospirosis vaccine is one of the ones with the most side effects including seizures, anaphylactic shock, blindness, the actual illness itself and death. It also contains the preservative thimerosal which consists of mercury, a highly toxic substance which should never be allowed in the body.
In the article it states that the leptospirosis vaccine can give ‘immunity’ for up to a year. This, however, is totally untrue. At most it can give immunity for 2 weeks if at all
If your dog has suffered any adverse reaction after any vaccine please report it to the Veterinary Medicines Directorate. NB you can also report any adverse reactions with Microchips to them too.