Pets at Home has introduced blue-badge parking for colleagues with elderly dogs at their head office in Wilmslow.

The spaces will allow extra room for getting a dog in and out of the vehicle and enough room to use a ramp or tail lift.  

Pets at Home introduced parking spaces for disabled dogs after a worker with a 14-year-old Labrador, named Mackie, told bosses that she commonly struggled to park near enough to the office, and had to carry her pet a long way from her car to her desk.

A spokesman for Pets at Home said: “We have a brand new office space suitable for colleagues and their dogs, which has adjustments in place so that we don’t discriminate against our canine companions like Mackie who are less able. 

“The blue badge feels like a natural extension of one of our core values of putting pets first. We hope the initiative makes a tangible difference to the wellbeing of our aging and disabled pets, as well as their owners.”