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Pet
Blessing Service at Ely
ANIMALS
ARE to become the focus for a special service at one of the
country’s finest cathedrals on Saturday April 20th at 3pm
in aid of Wood Green Animal Shelters.
The service, a ‘Blessing of animals and those who care
for them’, will be the 15th annual pet service, which gives
animal lovers a chance to have their animals blessed by the
Reverend Canon Inge and to show their support for their local
animal charity.
Wood Green Animal Shelter’s own animals will also be attending
the event with the Shelter’s mascot Noddy, the Shetland
pony, leading in a procession of animals. The procession of
working animals will parade around the cathedral at the beginning
of the service and will include animals from other organisations
as well as those from Wood Green.
Simon Blows, Event Co-ordinator at WGAS, said, ‘The Annual
Pet Service is the jewel in our event calendar and a very important
day for the Cathedral. What could be better than being in the
magnificent surroundings of Ely Cathedral, surrounded by a hundred
dogs and other various animals, joined by 1000 supporters of
Wood Green Animal Shelter? The answer is easy... nothing.’
The event is open to all members of the public, with or without
their animals. Every year there are a variety of animals, all
shapes and sizes including an owl, numerous guinea pigs and
rabbits and even the Shelter’s two ferrets.
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