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An animal sanctuary that cares for abandoned and disabled animals has launched a fundraiser to move to a bigger premises so that they can help even more animals.

Pudz Animal Sanctuary, on Town Street, South Killingholme, is run by Shena and Ian Fairless, who now dedicate their lives to looking after and caring for sick and injured animals that have been brought into them.

The sanctuary is currently run out of their family home, and the pair have handmade nearly all of the shelters that they have for the wide array of different animals that they care for.

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They are currently looking after a few pigeons who cannot fly, dogs, sickly cats, guinea pigs, chickens, cockerels, ducks and rabbits. Two of the dogs that they care for, Jerry and Flo, only have two legs, and they also care for a paralysed cat called Flory, who has to wear a nappy.

There are more than 134 animals currently living there.

Shena said that they started the sanctuary just over five years ago, when they were looking after Jerry, a dog who had lost his rear legs following a car accident. At the time they were told that they would have to put him down, but they felt that at such a young age, he still had a lot of life left in him, so continued to care for him.

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He is now "happy as a dog could be" and moves around using a set of wheels that were crafted out of some plumbing pipes.

Shena said: "Ian and I have always loved animals, and around six years ago someone brought Jerry to us, and then people just kept bringing more animals to us.

"We started out caring for 36, and now we are looking after more than 130.

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"Many of the animals that we look after are either sick or disabled, so the prospect of being able to re-home them is very small, but it is something that we try to do whenever possible.

"Although at the moment we would love someone to come a take a cockerel or two off us, as we have so many at the moment. We received them following a school hatching programme, and really hoped that a few would be female, but only a couple were, and they would have gone to slaughter if we didn't take them in."

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The fundraiser that they have launched hopes to raise £50,000, which will buy a new plot of land so that they can further expand the work they do, and look after even more animals. They have already raised more than £1,300

Ian said: "At the moment we are beginning to run out of space at the sanctuary, and are having to turn people away with animals we would like to care for, but are just not able to.

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"That is why we have launched this fundraiser, as we would like to get a bigger premises so that we can expand the work that we do and help even more animals, particularly cats, which we get a a lot of enquiries about."

If you would like more information about Pudz Animal Sanctuary, please visit their Facebook Page .

If you would like to donate to their appeal please visit their Crowdfunder page .

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