We've heard about Cadi, we've heard about Arthur; I want to tell you about a member of my family: Blue, the rescue whippet from North Clwyd Animal Rescue. We picked him up 11 years ago; he was a thin and scrawny thing, nine months old, and when we got him home, he stretched his little legs out on the carpet in the lounge, two legs forward, two legs back, like a draught excluder, and we fell in love with him, as many people do when they pick up their pets.

Blue is one of 1,900 animals that the North Clwyd Animal Rescue centre rehome each and every year. It was founded in 1978 by a lady called Anne Owen, and she started off with a thin lurcher; a thin, scrawny dog, and it now rehomes that many animals. I think they do a tremendous job, and there are many excellent examples of animal rescue centres, of course, across the whole of Wales. Another in my constituency is the RSPCA's animal centre in Bryn-y-Maen just outside Colwyn Bay. I can remember very well seeing a hedgehog, a baby hedgehog, in distress on the roundabout near my office in work; it was panting away in the heat of the day, clearly going to walk into the road and be a familiar flat sight in the way that many hedgehogs unfortunately are, but I scooped it up in my flat cap, stuck it on my lap, and off I drove to the Bryn-y-Maen Animal Centre and they gave me advice and he was eventually released in the wild. He was 9g when he arrived in the centre; he had some medical treatment and was released just a few weeks later; it was enormous when it reached 1kg in weight, so goodness knows what they were feeding it; probably the same stuff that I'm eating for most of the time.

Then of course, there's the work of the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay, which very often takes in animals and rescues them, particularly exotic animals that nobody else has experience of being able to care for. We've had all sorts of animals traipsing their way across Colwyn Bay over the years, including parrots, tortoises, lizards, all sorts that have been taken in by the zoo and they do a wonderful job. They also, of course, rescue wild animals as well; they have a grey seal rescue centre there, so they, too, do a good job.

But the thing about the RSPCA, the North Clwyd Animal Rescue centre and the Welsh Mountain Zoo is they all abide by the very highest standards of animal welfare. People can go there with confidence, knowing that if they take a stray animal in or an animal that's in distress, it will be cared for well; it will be gotten back on its feet—if it's got feet—and then, rehomed into an appropriate environment. And of course, they vet everybody that comes in that asks to rehome an animal, and that's the sort of quality we should aspire to in every single part of the country. It's a travesty that there is no registration system for animal rescue centres in Wales, that we don't know where these rescue centres are, and that puts animals at risk, and none of us want that to be the case.

I'm glad that the Government, I know, is on the same page with us in terms of this; it is a bit disappointing that they've tabled an amendment without a clear timescale for implementing some change, but it's an amendment which is nevertheless very similar to our original motion, so I can see that this is something that the Minister does want to address. And if I may, just in closing, just refer to some of the consequences of poor animal welfare rules or inappropriate animal welfare rules: I was contacted—slightly off topic—I was contacted by a farmer this week in my constituency who was talking about the fact that one of his friends who owns a farm where TB was present had to see the cattle that he had reared and fed and cared for for a number of years shot in front of him in the farmyard. That caused him terrible mental distress and anguish, and we know that mental health among the agricultural community has been at rock bottom in recent years, and we've had organisations like Tir Dewi in Sam Kurtz's constituency that have tried to meet those challenges. I think that we need to have a think about whether that sort of action in response to a TB find on a farm is appropriate, and whether we can't adjust our rules here in Wales so that there's more flexibility and animals can be taken away to be destroyed so that that sort of distress isn't caused to those who've given such good care in rearing those animals. So, I wonder if the Minister can respond to that particular issue as well when she sums up the Government's response today. Thank you.