PENSIONER ON BENEFITS REFUSED RESCUE CAT BY RSPCA

DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY RSPCA

John White, 62, has previously given a home to two RSPCA cats, but said when he visited the charity’s Paws Centre in Barrack Street, Norwich, intending to find another cat, he was told he would not be able to take one.
Mr White, who lives in Old Catton, said: “A woman there asked if I was on benefits, and I said I’m a pensioner and on housing benefit and council tax benefit, and she said ‘No, you can’t have a cat’.
“I think it’s disgusting: just because you’re on benefits it doesn’t mean you can’t look after a cat. I live alone so having a pet is good company for me.”

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/norwich_man_on_benefits_refused_rspca_rescue_cat_1_796354

READERS COMMENTS

EVERYCAT
I hope that Mr White contacts the animal rescue groups in his area who are absolutely full of lovely cats needing good homes. These smaller rescues are being landed with all the animals that the RSPCA refuse to take in now. I wonder what the RSPCA actually do these days? They won't take in stray animals, they won't adopt out animals. They have an anti-pet agenda and now it looks like they have a discrimination agenda too. Mr White - please visit your local, independent animal shelters. They are crying out for good cat owners!
WENDY RICE
You can't have a cat because you live on benefits. Yet you can go out to work from 7am till 7pm 7 days a week, leaving your dog barking, howling and throwing itself at the wall. I cannot abide the RSPCA. talk about double standards.
JAY
well your damned if you work & damned if you don't! how many people have been refused because they work & they are out most of the day yet you can be a pensioner or on benefits at home & they still refuse you i think the rspca need to make their mind up on their rehoming policies
ANIMAL NUT
Well, the RSPCA are always bleating that they're overflowing with pets, and now I see why. Effectively they will ban any pensioner or anyone on benefits from adopting. I'm glad the Blue Cross didn't take that attitude when I, (a pensioner) adopted my two dogs!
JOHN NORTON
If this is true it amounts to discrimination against an elderly man because he lives on benefits. Just what has that got to do with it? Presumably he would have more time to care for the cat We are talking about a bloomin old cat here not some exotic wild animal. I think this needs some clarification from the RSPCA as to exactly why John was turned down?

RSPCA MAY CLOSE MARTLESHAM & FAIL TO PROTECT ANIMALS IN SUFFOLK

MARTLESHAM TO CLOSE FOLLOWING DROP IN DONATIONS TO USELESS RSPCA

The future of an RSPCA rescue centre in Suffolk is in jeopardy due to a funding crisis, The centre at Martlesham, which was set up in 1970 has only 80 days of funding left.
Although regulated by the RSPCA, the centre only receives minimal financial support from it.
The organisation, which has seen a drop in donations and legacies, is appealing for public support.

(AND IF THEY GET IT THEY WILL SPEND IT ON THEIR HEAD OFFICE, ADVERTISING, PROSECUTIONS AND BARRISTERS, NOT ANIMAL WELFARE)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-12425157

POLICE AND RSPCA TAKE NO ACTION FOLLOWING PIG KILLINGS
Mark Hayward had 18 of his animals killed and another 23 wounded.
“My main concern is that we highlighted a potential animal and neither the RSPCA or the police have been able to do anything.

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/farmer_s_concern_after_pigs_killed_1_224199


PUPPY LEFT WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER IN POLICE CARE IN BURY ST EDMUNDS
THE RSPCA is investigating cops over claims a stray dog they took in was left without food or water for SEVEN days.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article266922.ece

RSPCA WORK, INSURANCE FIDDLE, MURDERERS, YOU COULDNT MAKE IT UP!

INSURANCE FRAUDSTER WORKING FOR RSPCA

FRAUDSTER! EXCELLENT CREDENTIALS TO WORK AT THE RSPCA

Canoe fiddle couple John and Anne Darwin are out of jail – but they’re now “dead” to each other and the sons they duped.

Yet they both looked well on day release from prison in the run-up to freedom.
He hid for five years after faking death in their £250,000 insurance scam.
But after 37 years’ marriage, the pair behind one of the most infamous crimes in recent history are heading for separate lives. She now refuses all contact with him, while the grown-up sons they also callously fooled have disowned them.
Anne, 59, given six years, six months, is due out in March and wants to go back to Panama, where they moved to. Seen working at an RSPCA shelter, she got a “full makeover” in jail from road-rage killer Tracie Andrews, 41.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/01/17/canoe-death-fiddle-couple-john-and-anne-darwin-let-out-of-jail-115875-22854475/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-499265/Wife-dead-canoeist-faced-cash-probe-Panama-months-ago.html

RSPCA TARGET PENSIONERS IN ANTI COMPETITION SCAM

Verinica Mepham with rescued fox cub, the RSPCA would have added this to their 60,000 + animals they kill every year!

READER COMMENT
"I do not trust the RSPCA as far as I can throw them. I will not donate to their ever growing cash mountain that they already have stashed because I feel they are using it more and more for their bullyboy agendas (such as this). They have become more of the "animal police" rather than animal "welfare officers".


READER COMMENT

"But it has emerged those charges are to be withdrawn if the couple sign a legal agreement to shut Rescuers down.

So, a larger competitor shuts down a smaller rival with legal blackmail, and the courts agree?

Just another reason to never, ever, NEVER give any money to the RSPCA.
And the next chugger that accosts me in the High Street soliciting money on their behalf is going to get the shock of his or her life!"

READER COMMENT
"No longer will the RSPCA receive any funding from me. These people did the best they could with NO help from the RSPCA, If the RSPCA were being proactive they would have offered help and support. What happens now when wildlife needs help who do we turn to certainly not the RSPCA, they simply do not respond to calls. It means more suffering not less. The authorities have simply ground this couple down instead of trying to help. Shame on the RSPCA and other parties who could have tried to mediate in this case."



THE husband and wife team running a Benfleet animal sanctuary for 13 years have agreed to close it to avoid prosecution over animal cruelty allegations.

Veronica Mepham, 70, and husband Reinhard, 64, have begun rehoming animals and dismantling the Rescuers Animal Sanctuary they’ve run in Watlington Road, Benfleet, since 1997.
The couple were due to appear at Southend Magistrates’ Court yesterday to face 18 counts each of animal cruelty charges.
But it has emerged those charges are to be withdrawn if the couple sign a legal agreement to shut Rescuers down, which is expected to happen before a court date next month.
The charges related to not giving adequate veterinary treatment to a variety of injured animals and failing to put down four birds.
Other offences included keeping a fox and fox cub in unsuitable conditions, failing to stop a duck from suffering preventable injury, and failing to give a wood pigeon adequate food and veterinary care.
Mrs Mepham told the Echo she had agreed to close the sanctuary, but said this did not mean she or her husband were guilty.
She said: “We deny the allegations and would have fought them in court, but we could not get legal aid. We do not have the money for the case because it has all gone into the sanctuary.
“Our volunteers have supported us and would not have worked here if they had not been happy with the conditions.”
She added: “It is heartbreaking to do after caring for animals for so many years, but we have to return it to scrubland.”
The sanctuary provided owls for use in the Harry Potter films, while squirrels from the sanctuary also featured in the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, starring Johnny Depp.
The Mephams live in a mobile home at the sanctuary and are likely to have to go on Castle Point Council’s housing waiting list once the sanctuary is closed.
The RSPCA, which has brought the case against the Mephams, said it was unable to comment.


http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8797337.Benfleet_animal_sanctuary_will_have_to_close/