Do any animal sanctuaries actually accept old duvets?

[Gooseandanothergoose]

It's everyone's immediate response when you've got an old duvet to get rid of. "Oh, X sanctuary will want it!"

Except I've never found an animal charity who actually wants old duvets. Many of them explicitly say on their 'donate' pages that they don't accept them.

So where are all these duvet-wanting animal rescues? Or are they an urban myth?

The duvets are old, but clean. I can take them to the tip but I keep being told I should be donating them. I'm in the SE - maybe there's just a surplus of duvet donators already?

It's because the filling can choke the dogs or cause blockages if they actually swallow it. A rescue I worked for used to accept them but stopped after a dog died because of this.

Thanks - how awful though.

I'm going to feel a lot less guilty about dropping duvets at the local tip!

Nowhere locally to me, we have 2 rspca sites.
I ended up taking them to the laundry then donating to the nightshelter

Dunelms take old duvets pillows etc for recycling.

Because the animals will go for the feathers and will rip the duvet apart til they get them.
Creating mess and a choking hazard.

I agree, people always say donate to animal shelters but they never want them. Dunelm take them, but that's the only place I know who do.

There’s a grey hound kennel near me that takes them.

We did used to have a vets that would take things like that, but I've not tried recently.

They don't want them because they can't be easily washed and are a nightmare for them to get rid of when soiled. Take them to the tip.

We use old duvets and pillows in the loft as extra insulation.

I work in a vets and we do not take them , it would be impossible to wash and dry duvets at the rate we get through bedding , that would apply to recues too.
Towels which are chucked if very soiled and fleece material blankets are the best things as they wash and dry so quickly and are very warm and cosy for animals.

What about homeless charities?

I'm sure local homeless charities would take them

You can take old duvets and bedding to Dunelem Mill, they usually have collection boxes at front of store.

It's called Textile Takeback, as long as its clean they accept it.

Try your local large vet hospital. They use duvets all the time because the vet beds can be very hard on old dogs skin and cause sores. All our duvets go to the vets

That’s funny. So do I and we do take them. But we have industrial sized washers and dryers so have no issues washing or drying them. We go through loads of them for our large breed dogs

I donated last year to our local greyhound trust and dogs trust a couple of years before that. It must depend on needs I guess.

Greyhound charities would snap your hand off.

There was a small independent animal rescue (now closed sadly) that took them, but it seems like very few do. Safety reasons makes sense, I guess

I suggest offering them on Freecycle or Trash Nothing. If they're single duvets a local stables might take them to use as an extra warm layer under a stable rug.

Our local greyhound sanctuary will take them.

I volunteer with a homeless charity working with rough sleepers. Part of our agreement with the council is that we won’t give out duvets. We can give out sleeping bags, but duvets look ‘messy’ apparently 🙄🙄