A PET rescue service based in Dyserth is at serious risk of closure unless more donations can be pledged to help keep it afloat, its owner has said.

Marjorie Summerfield has run The Pet Rescue Welfare Association for more than 20 years and also launched a pet foodbank at the centre, at Llewerllyd Farm, in 2017.

But a GoFundMe page has been set up by regular customer, Barbara Peers, with donations to be put towards the centre’s running costs.

You can help the page reach its £10,000 target by visiting: www.gofundme.com/f/pet-rescue-needs-our-help.

As well as “really struggling” for funding, Marjorie said the centre has been hit by flooding and a shortage of vets.

She said: “We’re still really struggling at the moment. Things are really bad.

“We’re on the brink of closing the rescue side of the centre, with no donations coming in at all, and the cost of keeping animals rising all the time.

“We’ve got so many people on a waiting list for animals to come in, but we’re at the stage now where we’re having to look at staffing levels.

“We’ve only got four staff, but we’re looking to possibly have to cut their hours, because we just can’t afford the wage bill now.

“As well as the rescue service here, we run a community vets – but we’re down to one vet, and have been trying to recruit another for about three years now.

“We’re down to two-and-a-half days a week for vet services, so we desperately need another vet to be able to provide for the community.

“We’ve got a surgical unit that we can’t use because we need a surgical vet.”

Last year, Marjorie was forced to close the foodbank temporarily after it ran out of supplies due to dwindling donations and increased demand.

The effects of the floods, meanwhile, caused the centre’s water bills to more than double.

She added: “We’re trying to do things as economically as we can. We’ve reopened the foodbank in the last few days, because people have very kindly brought pet food in again.

“But funding-wise, we’re really, really struggling. We have no donations coming in at all.

“In the summer, we run a campsite, which has really supported us though this last winter. Without it, we would have gone under.

“We’ve had to contend with the floods in Dyserth as well – we’ve just had a water bill for £1,300, which is £800 more than normal. We’re really up against it.

“Things like that have come along and hit us when we least needed them to, to be honest.”

Barbara, on the GoFundMe page she created, urged people to support a “fantastic animal charity”.

She added: “They have been affected by so many things in the last few months.

“They rescue so many animals, and have a community vet that supports people on low incomes with treatments.

“If this closes, it would affect so many people - they have been in operation for more than 20 years, and it would be so very sad to see this go.”