Animal service returns to Ely Cathedral after three years

Aservice celebrating animals and the friendship they bring, has returned to a cathedral in Cambridgeshire three years.

All creatures great and small were welcomed into the service, including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits and even chickens!

Marley the rescue donkey from the Donkey Sanctuary also made a visit, as well as “a very wellbehaved” horse called Thomas.

The last time the event took place at Ely Cathedral was in 2019, before it stopped because of the coronavirus pandemic. the Right Reverend Dr. Dagmar Winter and her dog Tilda,

Bishop Dagmar said it was “a wonderful experience... to bless all those who came, people and their animals, from a great big horse to a little bearded dragon, to commit together to care for all our animals and our environment.”