We are highlighting the potential tragic consequences of feeding your dog chocolate intended for human consumption.

Today, we launched our annual dog fouling awareness campaign, ‘The Big Scoop’ to encourage more people to be kind to their community and pick up after their dog. Dog fouling is a human problem not a dog one. We want to encourage responsible dog ownership in order to reduce the amount of dog poo being left in public spaces.

Each year we see a large volume of people looking to surrender their dog after Christmas and sadly this year is no different.

Dogs Trust has removed all photographs of dogs looking for homes from its website today to highlight that a dog is #NotJustAPrettyFace.