RCPCA CLOSE YET ANOTHER COMPETITOR

ARE THE GOVERNMENT BLIND TO WHATS HAPPENING?

OR ARE THEY PARTY TO THE PLAN?

RSPCA CLOSE COMPETITOR CHARITIES AND SIGNPOST FUTURE CASES TO THEMSELVES, AND THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS.

Scores of seagulls have been seized by the RSPCA from a charity which cares for the birds.

The seaside birds were taken from Sussex-based National Gull Rescue and Protection Charity amid rumours of mistreatment of the creatures.
The gull charity, which was founded and run by Tim McKenzie and is the only one of its kind in the UK, shut suddenly in April.
Yesterday Mr McKenzie, 54, from Bexhill, confirmed the charity had been suspended after a series of raids by the RSPCA.
He has consulted a solicitor regarding the matter.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9053300.RSPCA_raids_Sussex_animal_rescue_charity/
NATIONAL SEAGULL RESCUE SITE CLOSED AS RSPCA NOW PROMOTE THEMSELVES
http://www.seagullrescue.co.uk/
The RSPCA

ST LEONARDS ON SEA , U K (Hastings Observer) - THE Seagull Man of Hastings has hung up his gloves and is now taking on a purely advice based back-seat.
Tim McKenzie, who for years has been helping stricken gulls across 1066 Country, is no longer available for call-outs.
Anyone who finds an injured gull is instead urged to call the RSPCA on 0300 123 4999 or the charity’s Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre on 0300 123 0723.
The RSPCA hotline is not a 24-hour number, but answerphone messages are checked regularly.
And Mr McKenzie is still available to offer advice on seagulls after changing his charity from National Gull Rescue to National Gull Protection.
He still hopes to be able to hold information stalls similar to one last year which attracted hundreds of gull-friendly passers-by in Priory Meadow.
http://charity-charities.org/news.php?artid=1042524
RSPCA cost Devon and Somerset Fire Brigade £23,000 rescuing seagulls 
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Seagull-rescues-cost-service-23-000/article-947591-detail/article.html

http://www.bexhillobserver.net/news/bexhill-news/gull_team_rescue_another_stranded_bird_1_1402579
http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/news-in-video/seagulls_1_1433171
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sussex/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8352000/8352443.stm
http://www.saveourseabirdscharitabletrust.org.uk/newsletters/newsletter2010.htm

STILL BEGGING; RSPCA FUND JOLLY TO TURIN

WHAT DO THE RSPCA DO WITH YOUR DONATIONS?

Representatives from Kenyon Fraser will be heading over to Turin in Italy later this week to speak to the leaders of the world’s 8 most influential animal welfare organisations about social marketing.

World Animal ForumThe World Animal Forum is an association comprising of the chief executive officers of organisations including the World Society for the Protection of Animals, RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming.
They will take part in a full day of seminars with Kenyon Fraser and Professor Alan Andreasen from Georgetown University, a specialist in social marketing.
“We are really excited about facilitating this important step in an emerging strategy for the WAF, and wholeheartedly support their aims for creating sustainable behavioural change to support the animal welfare movement globally,” said Ben O'Brien, director of health & society at Kenyon Fraser.
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-marketing-services/kenyon-fraser-advises-world-animal-forum-on-social-marketing-2011051811012/
http://www.worldanimalforum.org/events_en.php

THEIF, FRAUDSTER, CONMAN, PRISONER, EX RSPCA VICE PRESIDENT

FORMER Labour minister Elliot Morley was told he had "thrown away his good name and character" as he was sentenced for 16 months for fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds of false expenses.
The former MP for Scunthorpe, who falsely claimed more than £30,000 for a so-called phantom mortgage, became the first former minister to be sent to prison for the expenses scandal which rocked the British political establishment in 2008 and 2009.
The 58-year-old followed his former Labour colleagues ex-Livingston MP Jim Devine and ex-Bury North MP David Chaytor into prison, as well as Tory peer Lord Taylor of Warwick.
The former Labour environment minister, who was once also a teacher, pleaded guilty last month to claiming more than £30,000 in the scam.
It was the largest claimed by any of the politicians so far convicted over the expenses scandal.
Sentencing Morley to 16 months' imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court yesterday, Mr Justice Saunders said he was guilty of "blatant dishonesty".
Morley previously entered two guilty pleas for false accounting relating to his home in Winterton, near Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, between 2004 and 2007.
In total, he claimed £16,800 on a bogus mortgage and £15,200 after inflating the amount he was previously paying - for which he should have been entitled to only £1,572.
Mr Justice Saunders said: "I am satisfied from the nature of the mortgage transactions and the correspondence that the excessive claims were made deliberately and are not explicable even in part by oversight."
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said Morley had "engaged in the wholesale abuse of the expenses system".
The packed courtroom heard that between May 2004 and November 2007, Morley claimed significantly more than the value of his mortgage on his second home.
In that period he submitted 19 claims for "excessive mortgage payments" to which he was not entitled, worth £15,200.
Despite paying off the mortgage for the property in 2006, he continued to claim £800 a month in fraudulent payments.
Between March 2006 and November 2007 he submitted 21 second-home allowance forms totalling £16,800 for payments on a mortgage that did not exist.
Mr Justice Saunders said: "The continuation of the claim for £800 a month after the mortgage had been redeemed can properly be described as blatant dishonesty.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Elliot-Morley-gets-16-months.6771915.jp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13467137
http://www.rspcafinance.co.uk/content.asp?page=50
http://rspcanotwhattheyseem.blogspot.com/2010/02/rspca-vice-president-morleys-porkies.html
http://germanshepherdrescue.freeforums.org/rspca-vice-president-charged-with-false-accounting-t894.html
http://www.headsup.org.uk/content/default.asp?page=s157_1

RSPCA KILL WAR HERO'S PUPPY

AREN'T THE RSPCA SUPPOSED TO BE AN ANIMAL WELFARE CHARITY?????????

A WAR hero who suffered horrific bomb wounds in Afghanistan claims an animal charity killed his beloved puppy.

Steven Doolan and Charlotte Gayter, of Grangeway, said the RSPCA put down Poppy after she ran away from home.
Miss Gayter, 23, said the couple had asked to delay collection of the dog as the family were struggling to arrange transport.
She said their car was being repaired at a garage and no-one else was available to pick up the dog.
Miss Gayter had tracked down Poppy to RSPCA Liverpool in Halewood, a day after she ran away on April 26.
Miss Gayter phoned back last week, only to discover that the dog had already been put down.
Mr Doolan, 24, who served as a private in The Mercian Regiment, lost a leg in an IED explosion bought the puppy nine months ago to celebrate the first year of the couple’s relationship,
They believe the puppy, a one-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, escaped through a gap in a fence. It was the fourth time she had run away.
Miss Gayter said the dog was much loved by her, Mr Doolan and her two-year-old daughter.
She said the loss has ‘devastated’ the family.
She said: “The RSCPA centre tried to claim that Poppy was a nasty dog but she was such a loving pet. My daughter kept asking where she was but now she knows Poppy’s not coming back.
“The RSCPA didn’t even ring me before she was put down. I wasn’t informed. It just seems like no-one understands, that they don’t care.
“We’re all devastated.”
An RSPCA spokesman said a vet made the decision to put the dog down because it was not good around other dogs.
He said it was the fourth time a warden had handed Poppy, who was microchipped, in as a stray.
http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/runcorn-widnes-news/featured-stories/2011/05/19/rspca-destroys-ied-wounded-runcorn-soldier-s-dog-55368-28717914/

CASE THROWN OUT AFTER RSPCA BREAK INTO STABLES

A TOP pony showman has hit out at the “over-zealous” approach of RSPCA inspectors who landed him in court.
David Roberts faced 10 animal welfare charges but all were thrown out by a judge sitting at Caernarfon Crown Court last week.
He said the whole process had been pointless and had cast a two-year shadow over his business and family.
“It’s been a nightmare that’s been hanging over us for two years,” he said.
"The case could have cost me my reputation but it really should never have been brought in the first place.”
Mr Roberts, 56, who breeds and shows Section B Welsh Ponies, is the winner of many county breed titles in both Wales and England.
His ponies are stabled near Waunfawr and he visits them daily from his home in Caernarfon.
Two years ago he was shocked to discover two RSPCA vans and a police car outside the stables.
It followed an unannounced visit by the animal welfare charity a few days earlier, when an RSPCA officer had expressed concern about the condition of two mares out in a field.
Mr Roberts said: “I arrived on a Monday evening to feed the animals when I saw the vans parked outside.
“They’d broken into the stables and were in the process of loading up the two mares and a foal into trailers.
“At no time were they interested in discussing the situation.
“I was never told where the mares went – they just disappeared.”
Charges ranged from a failure to pick up horse droppings to empty hay nets.
RSPCA officers also described a smell of urine and said they had found an empty water bucket.
Mr Roberts accused the animal welfare charity of going out of its way to find fault in what was otherwise a well-run stable.
He said: “Yes, one water bucket was empty, but there were five others that weren’t. And while the nets were empty, but that’s because the ponies had eaten the hay.
“I muck out every day but like most stables, I don’t replace the straw every time – I tend to have a spring clean at the weekends.”
The RSPCA’s main concern was the condition of the mares. In court it was made clear these had been loaned out to a lady who had failed to look after them.
Following a phone call from a worried neighbour, Mr Roberts had seized them back a few weeks prior to the RSPCA visit, and was in the process of restoring them to health.
“I had wormed them and de-liced them but the RSPCA insisted the mares were still my responsibility when they were loaned out,” he said.
“This was rejected by the court.”
Solicitor Gareth Parry, defending, accused the animal charity of not fully investigating the case before bringing it to court.
“It was a rush to judgement,” he said.
Mr Roberts said he didn’t harbour ill-feelings towards the RSPCA but added: “This case shows they don’t always get it right.
“All it needed was a phone call and a bit of commonsense.”
An RSPCA spokesman said the case had been investigated thoroughly and the prosecution had been brought in good faith. He added: “The RSPCA's mandate is to prevent animal cruelty and our interventions are always based on this conviction.”

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/farming-north-wales/farming-news/2011/05/12/rspca-should-never-have-taken-me-to-court-says-caernarfon-pony-breeder-55578-28678991/