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Should Pet Education Be Taught in UK Schools?

Posted by Emma on 22 March 2012

The lovely Matt Brash, celebrity vet and animal fanatic, joins us in the studio this morning.

He's backing a movement, headed by the Pet Food Manufacturers Association, willing the government to include Pet education in the school curriculum. This has come as research carried out by the organisation found that nine in ten parents of younger children believe that teaching a child how to care for a pet is more important than sex education and money management!

20 animal charities have formed an alliance and created an educational website, so that these children and their families can learn the life lessons and gain the support that they aren't getting at schools....