You may have realized by now that I’m passionate about promoting responsible pet-ownership, especially at grass-roots level, by going into schools and talking with children about animals.

So it gave me enormous pleasure to be contacted by a lovely lady Sue Cole, teacher at Norfolk’s Thorpe House School to ask for my support for her pupils’ Speak Out For Animals (SOFA) Club.

Sue, who stresses that “Not all kids are hoodies”, informed me of SOFA’s campaign to not only encourage more people to micro-chip their pets, but also to make it compulsory for all pets to be chipped in the first place.

These caring animal-loving youngsters already realize that if micro-chipping became law there would be a reduction in the number of lost, stolen and abandoned pets, and what’s more they’re bothering to do something about it.

To achieve their goal SOFA recently launched an online petition needing only 20,000 signatures before they can present their ideas to No. 10 itself in October, so please visit www.gopetition.com/online/19925 and help spread the word.

SOFA are also holding a microchipping day on September 10th which I’m looking forward to attending!

Thank you for the comments! We are really grateful for all of your support. The greyhound, Helen, is SOFA’s mascot and one of my rescued greyhounds… He is a registered PAT dog and very much loved by everyone he meets… He will be at the Microchipping Day, on 10th September which Marc has so very kindly agreed to attend..

Dear Marc,
The S.O.F.A club like to Thank you very much for visiting our school, it was a great pleasure having you with us. The Microchipping day turned out to be a Fantastic!, success. Also, we would like to thank you for microchipping 188 DOGS! You are a kind and generous man, and i will look up to you forever.

Dear Marc
Thank you ever so much for coming to our school and being at the microchipping day. We manged to get 188 dogs microchipped. We really enjoyed you talk to the school. It is lovely that you are so passionate about animals. Thanks again.

Dear Marc,
Im in the S.O.F.A club. Thankyou very much for coming to Broadland District C
Council and the school, it meant so much, i learnt so much that day it was the best day of my life.
It means so much that we have someone famous that agrees with Microchipping.

Dear Marc
Thank you very, very much for coming in on the microchipping day and coming in the next day to talk to us. The microchipping day was a big successes, every thing went perfectly. Thank you ever so much!

Dear Marc
Thank you very, very much for coming in on the microchipping day and coming in the next day to talk to us. The microchipping day was a big successes, every thing went perfectly. Thank you ever so much!

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