One Stop Shopping Centre hosting an animal Easter Road Show

• Apr. 5 by Aneesa Malik (1)

Perry Barr’s One Stop Shopping Centre is putting on an animals Easter spectacle on Wednesday 7th April, 12- 4pm, with help from some furry friends.

Allied with Amazing Animals, an organisation which supply various different animals, One Stop hope to showcase chicks, ducklings, rabbits and much more, to get kids and parents into the Easter spirit.

The organisation is adamant on prevailing their message of conservation of these timid animals.

Mark Burbridge, the deputy centre manager of One Stop stated:

‘We are fully aware of the terrible issue of cruelty to animals, so we made sure we went through a professional source. It would have been easy to just pick them up from a farm, but we wanted to do it the proper way.

We wouldnt have brought them into the centre if we thought they weren’t being looked after.’

Unlike other animal agencies, Amazing Animals actually owns, keeps, breeds and trains its animals, from giraffes to neon tetras.

Alongside presenting these animals to families and children, leaflets and posters will be distributed around the store, promoting the values and the responsibilities they have to the animals.

As they care for a number of endangered animals, including Bengal tigers, they aim to highlight the importance of what families can do to help support such beautiful creatures.

A representative from Amazing Animals Sarah Lawson stated:

‘We make sure to provide our animals with the utmost safety, wherever they may be travelling. They are very important to us.’

For the more vulnerable animals, like the ones which will be publicised at One Stop, there will be a picket fence surrounding the chicks, as well as heat lamps, to keep them warm and safe.

However families will not be able to pet the animals, due to the safety of the creatures- as well as for their own well being. If handled precariously it may cause unwanted stress for the animals.