 The centre received more than 30,000 calls with a few hours |
Thousands of animal lovers from across the country have inundated the RSPCA with offers to provide homes for 180 labrador dogs. The animals were handed to the RSPCA in Cambridgeshire after a Norfolk breeder found she could not care for them all.
But after an appeal to find new homes for the pups, the charity received "an unprecedented" 35,000 people responses.
The charity has now asked the public to stop calling.
An RSPCA spokeswoman told BBC News Online: "We are grateful to the thousands of people who offered their support and offered homes for these dogs.
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"We have had such a large response - about 35,000 calls within two hours - that we are confident of finding all of the dogs new homes."
She added: "However, there are still lots of animals at centres up and down the country which need new homes... but please call next week as our centres have been close to meltdown."
The dogs, which have been microchipped and inoculated, are still on their way to RSPCA centres across England.
Anyone who is chosen to have one of the dogs will be contacted by the charity shortly to arrange a home inspection.
The RSPCA said people living closest to its centres would be given priority but thanked everyone for their interest.
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