{{Short description|British animal welfare charity}} {{Other uses|Blue Cross (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox organisation | logo = Blue Cross (animal charity) standard logo.svg | logo_size = 200 | name = Blue Cross | founded = {{start date and age|1897}} | location = Burford, Oxfordshire, England | region_served = United Kingdom | focus = Animal veterinary treatment, rehoming and owner support | website = {{Official URL}} | revenue = £36.05 million (2020)<ref name=annual2020>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=Annual Review 2020 |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/d8/2021-09/Blue%20Cross%20Annual%20report%202020%20signed.pdf}}</ref> | num_volunteers = 4,327 (2018)<ref name=annual2018>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=Annual Review 2018 |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/Blue%20Cross%20annual%20report%202018.pdf}}</ref> | num_employees = 779 (2020)<ref name=annual2020/> }}
'''Blue Cross''' is a registered animal welfare charity<ref>{{EW charity|224392}}</ref> in the United Kingdom, founded in 1897.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=History of the Blue Cross |url=http://www.bluecross.org.uk/1992/about-the-blue-cross.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018201037/http://www.bluecross.org.uk/1992/About-The-Blue-Cross.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-10-18}}</ref> The charity provides veterinary care, offers expert behavioural help, and finds homes for pets in need. Their pet bereavement service supports those who are struggling to cope with the loss of a much-loved pet.
The charity works closely with a number of other organisations to help animal welfare and responsible pet ownership.
==History== thumb|left|upright|1916 poster promoting the Blue Cross Fund
The organisation was founded on 10 May 1897 in London as Our Dumb Friends' League (ODFL) by a small group of men and women to care for working horses on the streets of the British capital.<ref name="Hunter 2004">{{cite book |last=Hunter |first=Pamela |date=2004 |chapter= List of Records of Charities| title=Veterinary Medicine |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315235103-18/list-records-charities-pamela-hunter |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1315235103 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/our-history|title=Our History|work=Blue Cross|archive-date=February 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210065247/https://www.bluecross.org.uk/our-history|url-status=live}}</ref> The objective of the league was to encourage kindness to animals. The League's headquarters were located at 164 Buckingham Palace Road, London.<ref name="Hunter 2004"/>
Janet Stuart-Dennison{{efn|Janet Stuart-Dennison was also known as Janet Charlotte Bennett Mathew and Mrs J. C. Mathew.}} claimed to be the sole founder of the League.<ref name="The Herald">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004049%2F19350126&page=11|title=Fifty Guineas Refused: And The Reason Why|newspaper=The Herald|date=January 26, 1935|page=11|url-access=subscription}}</ref> A granolithic trough from the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association with the words "Sole Founder and Originator of Our Dumb Friends' League" was erected in her memory on Ditton Road, Surbiton.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2025|title=Janet Charlotte Bennett Mathew|url=http://mdfcta.co.uk/details/t262.html|website=Surbiton|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 1, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250301225155/http://mdfcta.co.uk/details/t262.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Stuart-Dennison's claim of being the sole founder has been disputed by the League. In 1935, the deputy secretary commented that "according to our minute book she was the original president, but Mr. Arthur J. Coke, the first secretary, was the real founder".<ref name="The Herald"/> Rev. Lionel Smithett Lewis has also been cited as a founder.<ref>{{cite book |last=Venn |first=John |date=2011 |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900|url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Alumni_Cantabrigienses/OuU54j4aT6QC |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=164 |isbn=978-1108036146}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2025|title=Lionel Smithett Lewis, at St Mark Whitechapel and Glastonbury|url=http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/lionellewis.html|website=St George-in-the-East Church|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 2, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250302145557/http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/lionellewis.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Rev. Lewis stated that in its early days the League opposed the caging of birds and captive wild animals at the London Zoo.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002470%2F19490715&page=5|title=Captive Animals|newspaper=The Central Somerset Gazette |date=July 15, 1949|page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref> thumb|right|Arthur J. Coke, first secretary of the League The 1897 Committee of the League consisted of president Janet Stuart-Dennison, secretary Arthur J. Coke, Baron de Bush, George Samuel Measom, Lady William Lennox, R. Sommerville Wood, Mrs Matthews Coke, Lady Ellis, Miss Telfer, Rev. Lewis, W. H. Chilcott and others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002627%2F18970731&page=36|title=Our Dumb Friends' League|newspaper=The Queen |date=July 31, 1897|page=218|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1898, the League held their annual meeting at Grosvenor Hall, Buckingham Palace Road.<ref name="The Zoophilist">{{cite journal|year=1898|title=Home Intelligence|journal=The Zoophilist|url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Animal_s_Defender_and_Zoophilist/D3DJAAAAMAAJ|volume=17|issue=4|pages=81}}</ref> Rev. Lewis presided with speakers Lady William Lennox, George Candy, R. Somerville Wood and Dr. Washington Sullivan. Sommerville Wood argued that the League was opposed to vivisection and that any lover of animals should be an ardent anti-vivisectionist.<ref name="The Zoophilist"/>
The League opened its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London, on 15 May 1906. It also operated other committees including the Animals' Hospital Fund whose president was the Duchess of Teck and Horse Ambulance Fund whose President was the Duke of Portland.<ref name="War 2020"/>
In 1912, the League launched the Blue Cross Fund to care for horses during the Balkan War.{{efn|The Blue Cross Fund was also known as the Blue Cross Society.}} On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, it was quickly reopened again. By the armistice in 1918, the Blue Cross Fund had raised nearly £170,000 – the equivalent of almost £6.5 million today – to care for the animals of conflict. Over 50,000 horses were treated in Blue Cross hospitals in France, and the charity had sent vital veterinary supplies to 3,500 units of the British Army.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluecross.org.uk/our-history-helping-horses |title=Our history of helping horses|work=Blue Cross |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> The president of the Blue Cross Fund was Olive Smith-Dorrien.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000748%2F19151116&page=5 |title=Wounded Horses in War time|newspaper=The Leeds Mercury |date=November 16, 1925|page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Chairmen of the Blue Cross Fund included Charles Forward in 1914 and Sir Ernest Flower from 1915 to 1919.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004049%2F19141031&page=10|title=Blue Cross Society |newspaper=The Herald|date=October 31, 1914|page=10|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003544%2F19151009&page=7 |title=Blue Cross Fund |newspaper=Kent Messenger|date=October 9, 1915|page=7|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003340%2F19190222&page=45|title=The Blue Cross Fund |newspaper=|date=February 22, 1919|page=273|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In 1914, the President of Our Dumb Friends' League was Lord Lonsdale and the chairman was Roy Horniman.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001861%2F19141219&page=33|title=Our Dumb Friends' League |newspaper=The Sphere|date=December 19, 1914|page=9|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000183%2F19140324&page=12|title=Decrepit Horse Traffic: Protest By Our Dumb Friends League |newspaper=The Standard|date=March 24, 1914|page=12|url-access=subscription}}</ref> There were 86 members on the League's Grand Council.<ref name="War 2020">{{Cite web|date=2020|title=The Blue Cross at War|url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/d8/2020-05/Blue%20Cross%20at%20War.pdf|website=Blue Cross|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 1, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250301010101/https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/d8/2020-05/Blue%20Cross%20at%20War.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Notable members of the League were Annie Bradshaw and Louis Wain.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001769%2F19100318&page=5 |title=Our Dumb Friends' League|newspaper=Holborn and Finsbury Guardian |date=March 18, 1910|page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000619%2F19390707&page=16|title=Obituary: Mr. Louis Wain|newspaper=The Birmingham Post|date=July 7, 1939|page=16|url-access=subscription}}</ref> F. Russell Roberts was appointed secretary of the League in 1922.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003212%2F19250205&page=9 |title=Dumb Friends League|newspaper= The Daily News|date=February 5, 1925|page=9|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The secretary in 1935 was Evan Keith Robinson.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003350%2F19530429&page=8|title=The Animals' Friend: Death of Mr. Evan Keith Robinson|newspaper=The East Kent Times|date=April 29, 1953|page=8|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In 1938, the League condemned blood sports such as fox hunting. In response the British Field Sports Society noted that patrons and vice-presidents of the League were well known hunting people, including at least one Master of Hounds.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004779%2F19380708&page=4|title=Field Sports Society|newspaper=The Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald |date=July 8, 1938|page=4|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Sixteen patrons and vice-presidents resigned from the League's opposition to blood sports. Among those who resigned were Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, Earl of Mar and Kellie, Earl of Kintore, Duke of Portland, Countess of Coventry, Marchioness of Exeter and the Duke of Westminster.<ref name="The Midland Daily Telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000337%2F19380617&page=1|title=Followers of the Hunt Resign From Dumb Friends League|newspaper=The Midland Daily Telegraph |date=June 17, 1938|page=1|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000732%2F19380624&page=9|title=Resignations|newspaper=Mercury & Herald |date=June 24, 1938|page=9|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Secretary Evan Keith Robinson commented that "we are a society for the protection of animals and therefore we cannot possibly, at the same time, be in favour of causing suffering to any animal".<ref name="The Midland Daily Telegraph"/> In October 1938, an article in the ''Truth'' newspaper had alleged that money from funds had not been used for the League's campaign to rescue old war horses from Belgium and suggested that the conduct of Robinson as secretary justified the attention of the Public Prosecutor.<ref name="Nottingham Evening Post">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000321%2F19410623&page=1 |title=Truth's £2000 Libel Case That Cost £15,000|newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |date=June 23, 1941|page=1|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1941, Robinson sued Henry Newnham editor of ''Truth'' for libel and was awarded £2000 in damages in High Court.<ref name="Nottingham Evening Post"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000320%2F19410623&page=1|title=£2000 Libel Damages|newspaper=Gloucestershire Echo |date=June 23, 1941|page=1|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Donations to the Blue Cross Fund enabled the charity to care for more than 350,000 animals during the Second World War, many of whom were wounded during the Blitz.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluecross.org.uk/1752-93755/remembering-the-role-of-brave-animals-in-war-.html |title=News |work=Blue Cross |access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref> The name of the appeal fund became more widely known than the official charity title and the league officially changed its name to "The Blue Cross" in 1950. In 2011 the charity dropped "The" from its name and is now simply known as "Blue Cross."
Sally de la Bedoyere became the charity's CEO in November 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/big-hire-sally-de-la-bedoyere-blue-cross/management/article/1313340 |title=The Big Hire: Sally de la Bedoyere of Blue Cross |access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref> In June 2020, Chris Burghes joined Blue Cross as CEO.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/animal-charity-blue-cross-appoints-new-chief-executive/management/article/1675844 |title=Animal charity Blue Cross appoints new chief executive |access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref>
==Operations== [[File:Blue cross horse ambulance.JPG|thumb|upright|Blue Cross horse ambulance at Badminton 2015]] [[File:Blue Cross Animal Hospital, Hugh Street, London SW1 - geograph.org.uk - 739535.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.5|Blue Cross Animal Hospital, Hugh Street, near Victoria Station, Pimlico, London, United Kingdom]] Blue Cross operates a number of services throughout the United Kingdom. Its major services are: rehoming unwanted animals, providing veterinary services to pet owners who cannot afford the private fees charged by private veterinary surgeons, promoting animal welfare through education, and operating the Pet Bereavement Support Service, a free and confidential support line for those who have lost a pet. They also operate a horse ambulance service, including at large equestrian events.
Blue Cross operates four animal hospitals, three of which are in London, at Victoria, Merton and Hammersmith, and a fourth in Grimsby, Lincolnshire,.<ref name=what>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=Find us |url=http://www.bluecross.org.uk/find-us}}</ref> In 2014 it opened a pet care clinic in Derby,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/fleas-jolly-good-fellow/story-22737358-detail/story.html |title=For fleas, a jolly good fellow! |work=Derby Telegraph |access-date=2 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033922/http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/fleas-jolly-good-fellow/story-22737358-detail/story.html |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and has since opened a further four. Blue Cross carried out over 97,000 treatments, operations and diagnostic investigations in 2010.<ref name=annual2010>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=Annual Review 2010 |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/Annual%20report%20and%20accounts%202010.pdf}}</ref>
Blue Cross is also heavily involved in animal adoption, arranging adoption for companion animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits and small rodents, as well as larger species such as horses.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Blue Cross |title=Adopt an animal |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/rehome-pet}}</ref> In 2015, the charity's rehoming team helped 9,160 animals and its veterinary team helped 29,549 animals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/Blue%20Cross%20annual%20review%202015.pdf |title=Blue Cross annual review 2015}}</ref> The organisation also works to improve the lives of animals through promotion to pet owners and work in animal behaviour therapy. Every pet owner that rehomes a pet through the charity can benefit from free behaviour advice for the pet's lifetime. The Pet Bereavement Support Service is a free and confidential telephone and email helpline and is available 365 days a year to help people who are struggling to cope with the loss of a pet.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-bereavement-and-pet-loss |title=Pet Bereavement Support |website=Blue Cross |access-date=2022-01-11}}</ref>
On 26 January 2010, Blue Cross announced the proposed closure of the two animal adoption centres (Felixstowe and Northiam, East Sussex), both of which had been in existence for over 50 years. Final decisions on both sites were announced on 4 May 2010. After an extensive publicity campaign by locals, it was announced that plans to close the Felixstowe centre had been dropped.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/blue_cross_animal_rescue_centre_saved_1_263688 |title=Blue Cross animal rescue centre saved! |author=Richard Cornwell |work=Ipswich Star |accessdate=2 February 2016}}</ref> The Felixstowe centre was relocated to a brand new purpose-built site near Ipswich, Suffolk, in 2016 and can now care for double the number of pets as the previous site was able to care for.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/new_blue_cross_rehoming_centre_opens_at_bourne_hill_in_wherstead_1_4418378 |title=New Blue Cross rehoming centre opens at Bourne Hill in Wherstead |last=Mitchell |first=Gemma |newspaper=Ipswich Star |access-date=2017-01-16}}</ref> Blue Cross also opened a new animal adoption centre in Newport, South Wales, in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/14912854.New_pet_rehoming_centre_opens_its_doors_in_Newport/ |title=New pet rehoming centre opens its doors in Newport |website=South Wales Argus |date=18 November 2016 |access-date=2017-01-16}}</ref>
==Partnerships== The Irish Blue Cross is a related party of Blue Cross.
The Blue Cross is an Advisory Member of the Animal Behaviour & Training Council (ABTC).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advisory and Supporting Members – ABTC |url=https://abtc.org.uk/advisory-and-supporting-members/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Animal Behaviour & Training Council}}</ref>
==Awards== Medals have been awarded by Blue Cross to animals and people who have demonstrated bravery or heroism. While the first medals were awarded to people who helped to rescue animals, medals were awarded in 1918 to honour a number of horses which had served in the First World War. Medals were then given out between 1940 and 1951 to a number of dogs, including Juliana who reportedly extinguished an incendiary bomb by urinating on it. In 2006 Jake, a police explosives dog, was given the honour after helping to clear out the London Underground after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.<ref name="Telegraph040913">{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10285810/Dog-cocked-leg-to-extinguish-Nazi-bomb.html |title=Dog cocked leg to extinguish Nazi bomb |date=4 September 2013 |author=Sam Marsden |work=The Telegraph |access-date=7 September 2013}}</ref> In 2017, Staffordshire bull terrier Romeo received the Blue Cross Medal for being a therapy dog for stroke victims and dementia sufferers and donating blood.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/staffie-who-cares-for-the-sick-wins-pet-award-9rlqxq8sj |title=Staffie who cares for the sick wins pet award |access-date=2017-01-16}}</ref>
==Presidents== {| class="wikitable" |1897–1914|| Janet Stuart-Dennison<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000174%2F18990418&page=3|title=Asphalte Roads|newspaper=The Morning Post|date=April 18, 1899|page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004596%2F19000801&page=2|title=An Inhumane Pastime|newspaper=The Echo|date=August 1, 1900|page=2|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000183%2F19140921&page=3|title=Wither-Pads|newspaper=The Standard|date=September 21, 1914|page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1914–1930|| Lord Lonsdale<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000563%2F19300711&page=8|title=Our Dumb Friend's League|newspaper=The Evening Telegraph|date=July 11, 1930|page=8|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1931–1934||Basil Bourchier<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004623%2F19310731&page=5|title=Street Traders' Donkey & Pony Show|newspaper=St Pancras Gazette|date=July 31, 1931|page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="The Leicester Mercury">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000760%2F19340609&page=11|title=Friend of Dumb Animals|newspaper=The Leicester Mercury|date=June 9, 1934|page=|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1934–1937||Charles Barrowdale Carryer<ref name="The Leicester Mercury"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0003330%2F19400422&page=1|title=Death of Mr. C. B. Carryer|newspaper=Leister Evening Mail|date=April 22, 1940|page=1|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1941–1942||Lady Portsea<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000290%2F19410506&page=2|title=Lady Portsea Honoured|newspaper=The Evening News|date=May 6, 1941|page=2|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1943–1951|| Countess Mountbatten<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000563%2F19430807&page=5|title=Dumb Friends League|newspaper=The Evening Telegraph |date=August 7, 1943|page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004606%2F19510615&page=1|title=A Prize for Bulldog Jeff|newspaper=South Western Star|date=June 15, 1951|page=1|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |1995–2005|| Alastair Porter<ref name="Vet Click">{{Cite web|date=2006|title=New Blue Cross President|url=https://www.vetclick.com/news/new-blue-cross-president-p67.php|website=Vet Click|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 3, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303003149/https://www.vetclick.com/news/new-blue-cross-president-p67.php|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001598%2F19950713&page=13|title=Boss of Animal Welfare Society|newspaper=Mid Sussex Times|date=July 13, 1995|page=13|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001598%2F20011206&page=15|title=Dr Alastair Porter|newspaper=Mid Sussex Times|date=December 6, 2001|page=15|url-access=subscription}}</ref> |- |2006–2011|| Tom Vyner<ref name="Vet Click"/><ref>{{Cite web|date=2011|title=Blue Cross Annual Review 2011|url=https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/d8/2020-08/blue-cross-annual-review-2011.pdf|website=Blue Cross|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 2, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250302173717/https://www.bluecross.org.uk/sites/default/files/d8/2020-08/blue-cross-annual-review-2011.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> |- |}
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite journal|author=Mills, Georgina|year=2022|title=125 years of helping pets and people|journal=Vet Record|url=https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/vetr.1914|volume=190|issue=12|pages=486-487|doi=10.1002/vetr.1914|url-access=subscription}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Blue Cross (animal charity)}} * {{Official website}} * {{EW charity|224392}}
{{Animal welfare}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Blue Cross}}
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