THE RSPCA ARE VEXATIOUS, LITIGIOUS TWERPS AND IDIOTS

Someone needs to teach the same lesson to those prize 21st-century twerps at the RSPCA.
Forty years ago, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was a much-needed voice of mercy on animal matters.
It identified serious lapses of humanity towards helpless beasts and campaigned for an end to practices which discredited us as a civilisation.

The mistreatment of pit ponies, the conditions in which livestock were taken to market, the keeping of trophy animals in tiny cages in zoos: these were issues on which the RSPCA and other animal welfare campaigners put a stop to shameful neglect.
I used to be a youth member and still remember the RSPCA's magazine, Animal Ways, with its black and white photos of inspectors in peaked caps and factual stories about animal husbandry. There was a brisk, slightly manly practicality to the RSPCA in those days.

Sally Case RSPCA Prosecutions Head

Today, sadly, it seems to be losing touch with common sense and is pursuing animal rights with a furious logic that seems to have more to do with vexatious litigiousness and a big-sister view of social engineering rather than balanced, public interest charity work.
Yesterday came news of a court case which suggests that modern Britain has fallen prey to this soppy-mindedness.

The stupid thing is that it will only bring real animal welfare into disrepute.
It is the sort of idiocy, I suggest, that springs from animal 'rights' becoming a vehicle for shrill, politically minded, urban activists - often with nose studs and purple hairdos and a problem with tolerance. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1296366/Why-I-hate-squirrels.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

RSPCA THREATEN HUNDREDS WILL BE PROSECUTED FOR KILLING PESTS

The Daily Mail reports that a man has just been fined £1500 for drowning a squirrel.
Tim Bonner, a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance, said the RSPCA was using the courts to push its policy on animal rights.

'Killing grey squirrels is a good thing - there are far too many of them and they threaten our native species and woodland,' he said.
'It is absolutely ridiculous that the RSPCA has spent thousands dragging this man through the courts when he was clearly unaware of the law.
'They are using the courts as a propaganda vehicle.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295883/First-case-kind-Man-told-pay-1-500-guilty-drowning-squirrel.html



The ludicrous thing is that a fine of this magnitude is rarely handed out by magistrates courts for what most of us would consider serious crimes, clearly hurting a squirrel is far more serious than hurting one of your fellow beings.
The prosecution was brought by the RSPCA who warned that "that many common methods of killing grey squirrels and other pests could now fall foul of the law, and said the only humane way to dispatch them would be to take them to a vet for a lethal injection - at a cost of up to £70."
Clearly, the RSPCA has now become an Animal Right Organisation, rather than an animal protection organisation, and it is apparently is more interested in publicity than genuinely protecting animals. Grey squirrels are a pest, but it seems that we are not now permitted to kill pests unless it is done in such a manner that the animal might suffer in the course of its death.What about rats? I've used a standard bait feeder with warfarin laced corn on and off for a number of years now; does this cause suffering to rats and are the RSPCA going to start prosecuting people who do this?
I wonder if this is what the people who put money in their collecting boxes really expect?
Certainly they won't be getting a penny more out of me.
http://english-pensioner.blogspot.com/2010/07/tree-rats-and-rspca.html

MALICIOUS RSPCA INVOLVED IN YET ANOTHER FORCED ADOPTION CASE

1 CASE RSPCA AND 18 POLICE OFFICERS, ANOTHER CASE RSPCA AND 5 POLICE OFFICERS.

DEEP CONCERNS EXPRESSED OVER RSPCA LINKS GROUP INVOLVEMENT

http://www.thelinksgroup.org.uk/Links%20Conference%20Speakers.htm

The case concerns a woman, for 20 years an NHS nurse who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first Gulf War. Until recently, she was a semi-professional dog breeder, living happily at home with her eight-year-old son (his father having walked out when she was pregnant).

In March, their home was raided by two RSPCA officials and five policemen, complaining she had too many dogs in the house. Her home was untidy because she was clearing an attic, but the seizing of the dogs (breaking the leg of one of them) left it a befouled mess.
Acting on a tip-off from the RSPCA, Leeds social workers then intervened, and expressed surprise that the house was tidier than they expected. Nevertheless, they told the mother to bring her son's clothes to school, from where he was taken into foster care.
After three months, during which he has only been allowed short supervised "contact" with his mother, the boy is miserable, constantly asking when he can return home. His mother has repeatedly had to draw the social workers' attention to various conditions, such as head lice and threadworm, which indicated that he was not being properly cared for. Last week they announced that they were moving him to another foster home.
Although there was no evidence that she was anything other than an admirable mother, apart from the temporary mess made of the house in March, the social workers say her son cannot be allowed home until they have both undergone "psychiatric assessments". These cannot be arranged until October. Nor has the boy yet been given a guardian to represent him, as the law lays down.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870342/Forced-adoption-is-a-truly-dreadful-scandal.html

I want to come home mummy: Aged five, 'Jenny' was torn from her parents by social workers after an RSPCA raid. Now a court says she must be adopted...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1198957/I-want-come-home-mummy-Aged-Jenny-torn-parents-social-workers-RSPCA-raid-Now-court-says-adopted-.html

Lord Justice Wall branded behaviour as disgraceful 

The chief reason offered by the social workers for abducting the girl two years ago was that her home had been left in an appalling mess after a raid by RSPCA officials and 18 policemen. They ransacked the premises looking for non-existent guns, and released into the house a pack of dogs kept in kennels outside by her father, a professional dog-breeder. The parents were arrested for protesting at what was happening (the mother suffering a miscarriage while in police custody) and the social workers were summoned to remove their daughter.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6073914/Secret-agenda-to-score-adoptions.html

Concerns over 'overzealous' RSPCA

 Mr Rich said he has clients who have been reported to social services after animal welfare workers inspected their animals.
He added there was no evidence in these cases to suggest the children had been abused.
Draft proposals have been drawn up by the London Safeguarding Children Board and the RSPCA.
These protocols would see the RSPCA cross reporting to children's social care departments households with children where there has been deliberate harm to animals or where animals had been deprived food, water, shelter or access to a vet.
Mr Wass, is adamant that this is not how his staff operate in the field.
"I am not aware of these protocols....that is not the way we want our officers to behave."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/7632082.stm

RSPCA - Kind to animals, cruel to humans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2008/11/07/south_east_rspca_s14_w9_feature.shtml

BLUNDERING RSPCA KILLING BIRD SPARKS PUBLIC OUTCRY

RSPCA MARK THOMPSON

A giant 4ft 9ins bird which had been on the run since Christmas has died after the RSPCA made a disastrous attempt to rescue it.

The rhea was recaptured by staff from the charity on Wednesday after being cornered and tranquillised with a dart gun in a country lane in Suffolk.
But the creature died around four hours later when it suffered a suspected panic attack while recovering from the anaesthetic.The flightless rhea, which weighed around 90lbs, is thought to have escaped several months ago from its enclosure on an estate near Woodbridge, Suffolk.

It managed to survive the freezing winter and was repeatedly spotted by locals in fields and on lanes around Campsea Ashe, Marlesford, Tunstall and Eyke.
The RSPCA decided to capture it over fears that it could run on to a road and cause an accident, even though it seemed to be thriving in the wilds of Suffolk
Kate Cornforth, an animal collection officer for the charity, made several visits to monitor it - but was unable to capture it on her own.
She returned on Wednesday with RSPCA chief inspector Mark Thompson who was armed with his tranquilliser rifle.
Helped by two villages, the pair tracked the white-feathered rhea down to a wheat field in Eyke - but it kept running away when they got near.
The bird, a native of South America, finally went through a hedge into a nearby lane where they managed to corner so it could not get away.Mr Thompson fired his first shot into the body of the bird which could run at 40mph, but the needle was unable to penetrate its thick feathers.

His second shot was a success as it hit the top of the bird's thigh, injecting tranquilliser straight into its bloodstream, so it was dazed within seconds.
The semi-conscious bird was loaded into a trailer after the two-hour rescue operation, and taken to be re-homed with a bird lover who has other pet rheas in Eye, Suffolk.
RSPCA spokeswoman Nicola Walker said: 'It was put in a field to recover and appeared to be breathing normally.
'It lay down for a while, but the new owner said it suffered some sort of panic attack and died.
'We do not know what the cause of death was and we will not be holding a post mortem.
Read more:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291139/Giant-runaway-bird-dies-panic-attack-RSPCA-tries-rescue-it.html#ixzz0sSpjh6fV
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291139/Giant-runaway-bird-dies-panic-attack-RSPCA-tries-rescue-it.html

READER COMMENTS

When I lived in the U.K., I found the RSPCA to be just a scam for collecting money to run an organisation which really shows very little interest in the day to day activities of supporting animals.

As long as they are funding themselves to be in jobs, that's all they care about.
It's a legalised scam !!!! In any other walk of life they would be prosecuted for taking money under false pretences.

- Brian, Florida, 01/7/2010 19:18


BEEP! BEEP!
the RSPCA.............

- mel drew, uk, 01/7/2010 18:58

I am proud to say I have never donated to RSPCA & many other corupt charities. They only carry out political will, which seems to be to euthanise prefectly healthy animals or animals considered 'pests'. Sadly they are not there to protect & serve most animals, they are merely there to ensure a few elite species are pampered perfect specimens. They seem to have a license to gass the many other less desirable species for convenience. They even seem to feel they have a duty to go out of their way to capture & kill as many harmless creatures as they can.

- Jessica, Surrey UK, 1/7/2010 18:47

Someone bizarrely abandoned a dog in my street, right outside my house, with bowls, food and lead. I took it in and spent FOUR HOURS on hold to the rspca whose message repeatedly told me 'my call mattered' (I know - it sounds crazy in hindsight, but I didn't know what to do with a random dog!) They never even picked up the phone to take my call. I rehomed the dog myself and vowed never to be suckered by all the big-eyes puppy adverts. The rspca doesn't care for dogs, big-eyed or not. It just cares about manipulating the public and taking its money.

- Anna Morell, Rochester, Kent, 01/7/2010

 I no longer donate to the RSPCA. They have become a very politically motivated organisation, paying big salaries to executives and only caring when there is pulblicity involved.The days when they actually cared about animals, especially domestic pets, are long gone. Far better, in my opinion, to support local animal charities, where you know money is spent directly on animals, and there are no huge salaries and offices to upkeep. The same can be said for most big charities.


- reece, cambs, 1/7/2010 18:27

I agree with many of the people here that the RSPCA only ever get involved for publicity or if it's an interesting creature. They are an absolute joke.


I have contacted them before about an injured pipstrelle bat we found and then noticed by our cats as we tried to get it to climb a tree to fly away. Of course it couldn't fly away and the cats wanted it. Their response was to let the cats have it and to stop wasting their time.
I know someone who takes in injured animals temporarily for recovery and rehoming and she needed them to take a cat which was so starving it couldn't walk anymore. She was told that 'they don't do' animals like cats, that it was just a stray and not worth their time. She had to take in the cat and pay for it's care herself. Thankfully it's ok now and a wonderful little cat.
Volunteering at a local wildlife rescue centre, I have also overheard many other people speaking of similar experiences. It's disgusting.

- KTedham, Carlisle, 1/7/2010 18:02

Ah, this would be the same RSPCA who refused to help me when I found two tiny tiny kittens abandoned, one with a hernia, as big as its head! Oh yes, I remember... no room to collect them, no one to assist me - no, no, no, if it makes it through the night then take it to the vets tomorrow but you will have to pay!! I ended up feeding them up until the ill one was strong enough to withstand the operation, then paying out £300 for the operation. Oh well. At least I know they are loved and well cared for.


- Helen, Devon, 1/7/2010 18:00

I hope that the RSPCA will be prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering.


- Howardinmk, Milton Keynes UK, 1/7/2010 Actually the RSPCA kill all non-native species.


I watched one of their officers throw an injured grey squirrel with a broken leg into a cage by its tail, after I had gone to them for help. I've never forgotten that.

- Jane, UK, 1/7/2010 17:16

Another RSPCA rescue attempt gone wrong ..

I called these numb skulls out to some cats near my work place who were terribly underweight and emaciated ..
The officer reported back to me the cats were underweight and emaciated looking because they were old ..
within 3 weeks 2 had to be put down, because they had feline aids .. Of course these numb skulls know about animals. .

- clippy zippy, Norfolk, 1/7/2010 17:07

RSPCA are only interested in situations that could give them some publicity. Anything else and they couldn't care less. Utterly hopeless.


- Andy, London, 1/7/2010 16:54

The RSPCA is a PC organisation that tries to grab headlines in order to bolster contributions.If you watch them on TV,they are a brainless,jobsworth lot,(its the uniform) and couldn't pass 11 + between them.


- peter simmonds, chichester
I stopped giving to the RSPCA after I found out that this charity is only interested in lining it's own pockets.



Last year (2009) RSPCA chief executive, Mark Watts, received £105,500 in pay and perks.

IT'S JUST ANOTHER GRAVY TRAIN

- Andrew, Aylesbury, 1/7/2010 16:36

I reported a dog left to fend for itself to the RSPCA but they said they couldn´t do anything because the owners were police officers. They´re a waste of time.

- Francesca, Not claiming benefits and paying for private health care in Marbella, 1/7/2010 16:23

In my experience, the RSPCA are a complete waste of time. They do not attend when requested, they are not completely trained in the care and management of the the animals they are supposed to be attending to, and must have a book of excuses as large as the telephone directory.
As a livery yard owner, rider and competitor and farmer of some 50 odd years, I know what I'm talking about. Give us the Blue Cross any day of the week.

- Elizabeth, Worcestershire, 1/7/2010 16:19The RSPCA normally love publicity, but I bet this time they wish they hadn't got any!


The RSPCA are hopeless!

- Lesley, Wimbledon, 1/7/2010 14:58

Exactly what 'cruelty' were these numpties preventing by hounding this unfortunate creature? Don't forget that the RSPCA gave a massive cash donation to the Labour Party because they were the most likely to ban foxhunting. Now foxes are roaming cities freely and looking to eat children, are they showing any remorse? This is a charity that has fallen into the wrong hands.

- Clive Blake, Victor Harbor South Australia, 1/7/2010 14:57

RSPCA was a good charity when the vets. ran it, not since the animal rights nutters took over!


- chas warner, taunton somerset, 1/7/2010 13:25

More muppets - panic attack indeed - they darted it twice. It died of an over-dose - what is the correct dose for a rhea?

They just cannot leave tthings be.

You know animals have got on fine for millions of years before the RSPCA came along

- Dave, Chorleywood, 1/7/2010 13:23

How very convenient for the RSPCA if it happened to have some undiscovered "illness" that "caused" its death.

- JB, South, 1/7/2010 13:22

Better round up all the wallabies that are roaming free around various parts of the UK countryside, along with Badger, Foxes, Deer etc who all go across roads too, because this is also a danger on roads and damage to cars etc.

Whilst I appreciate the good work of the RSPCA they are also such hypocrits too. I have reported animals in distress in the past and they have never wanted to know. They seem very good at picking and choosing certain cases to suit them.

- Louise, Plymouth, 1/7/2010 13:19

How typical of the RSPCA. I would never support a this charity, they will never get a penny from me. They spend more lining their own pockets and pursuing court cases than on animals. Did you know that unless you leave money to your local branch it doesn't go to help any animals at all but straight to head office, none of the branches of the charity will see a penny of it.


- Sun Dai, Home, 1/7/2010 13:15

RSPCA VICE PRESIDENT TO FACE PROSECUTION FOR THEFT

Mr Morley, the ex-agriculture minister, continued claiming for the mortgage interest on his constituency home for more than 18 months after the loan had been repaid.


Lawyers said that the claims could constitute a criminal offence under the 2006 Fraud Act and the 1968 Theft Act.


http://www.rspca.org.uk/in-action/aboutus/corporate/patronsandvps
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5320852/Elliot-Morley-claimed-16000-for-mortgage-that-did-not-exist-MPs-expenses.html

NEW £2M RSPCA KENNELS TO HOUSE ALLEGED CRUELTY CASES, NO PUBLIC ALLLOWED

SO NOW THE RSPCA ARE A PROSECUTION BASED CHARITY!

Some of the region’s most cruelly-treated hounds will get to enjoy luxury at the new kennels, kitted out with underfloor heating, an indoor and outdoor area for each dog and Perspex panels so they can see their neighbours.
After 10 years of planning, work started in August last year to create the shelter, which opens this week and boasts 36 kennels, which will be used for animals involved in cruelty cases rescued from their former homes by the RSPCA.
Maggie Eden, manager of the RSPCA Felledge Animal Centre, said: “While it’s a great shame that such a place is needed in this day and age, and despite the current economic climate, the RSPCA has remained committed to ensuring it becomes a reality.”
Unlike most animal centres, members of the public won’t be allowed to wander around the kennels looking at the dogs.
Maggie added: “All of the dogs at our kennels have come into us from inspectors or animal welfare officers and have had difficult backgrounds.“These dogs are among the most needy in the North East.

“In many cases they have experienced extreme cruelty and aren’t themselves in kennels.
As part of the £2m kennels opening, the RSPCA has taken on four new staff members.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2010/06/28/rspca-opens-luxury-dog-shelter-in-durham-72703-26741016/

RSPCA TELL PARENTS OF FOX ATTACK BABY THEY COULD BE PROSECUTED IF THEY HARM THE FOX!

A fox has attacked a baby as it lay sleeping beside its mother on a sofa in their sitting room.

Louis Day, who is only 14 weeks old, was left covered with blood and crying with pain as the fox grabbed his head after creeping in through the open french window of the family's home in Kent.
Louis's parents, Sue Eastwood and Peter Day, say they think the fox was trying to drag the baby outside with the intention of eating him, and are now frightened to let their son out of their sight.
Louis was detained overnight in hospital and given two courses of antibiotics. He is now recovering at home, but the teeth puncture wounds on his temple and forehead are still clearly visible.
The incident happened while the family were watching television in their terraced home at Dartford last Wednesday evening. The French windows that lead to the back garden were open, and Mrs Eastwood and Louis were dozing on the sofa together while Mr Day was in the kitchen.
"I had only been there a second when I heard Louis scream and then Sue scream as well," Mr Day, 44, said. "By the time I got back in the room, the fox was sitting there, just looking at me. I did not see him grab Louis, but the baby was covered in blood.
"I chased the fox out - it was sat by the door, just looking at me. Sue was in hysterics, I didn't know what to do. We were just really worried about Louis, it was terrifying."
Mr Day and Mrs Eastwood, 36, who have six other children from previous relationships, were appalled that a fox could be so bold that it would come into the house and attack a sleeping child.
"There are a lot of them round here, but we have never heard of anything like this," Mrs Eastwood said.
"We have heard of them attacking pets and growling at people on the estate, but this has really scared us. We won't open any of the windows now and we daren't let Louis out of our sight."
Mrs Eastwood said they feared the fox might have been trying to drag the child off the sofa and outside. She added: "I used to like leaving him on a mat on the floor while I pottered about, but I daren't do that any more.
I can't forget the sight of that animal, the way it just sat there on the carpet, and I can't forget the way Louis screamed. I can't take my eyes off him now."
Louis was taken to Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford where doctors who examined him agreed that the bites could have been caused by a fox.
The baby is recovering, but now Mr Day and Mrs Eastwood cannot relax . They say they spotted what they believe to be the same fox in their garden again on Saturday evening.
"I heard the noise and opened the door and he was sitting there looking at me," Mr Day said. "I threw things at him and chased him through the neighbours' gardens. I was seeing red and if I could have got hold of him I would have done something to him." However Mr Day said he had been told by the RSPCA that he could be prosecuted if he harmed the fox.
"If a dog had done this they would have had it put down," Mrs Eastman said. "But there is nothing we can do."
The couple say there are dozens of foxes, possibly hundreds, in the area and that they have become a menace.
Neighbours agreed that the fox problem was growing. Mr Day's brother, Dennis, 41, a lorry driver who lives on the same street with his wife Sharon, said: "They have tried to get at our guinea pigs in the cage in the back garden. We came back here one night and found a fox asleep on the doorstep. It did not move - it just was not scared. You can see them jumping over the fences."
Residents of Temple Hill, an estate close to Dartford town centre, have asked the local authority and the RSPCA to help them tackle the problem, but say they have been met with little interest.
"They seem more interested in the foxes and tell us we can't hurt them. But people are worried - what will happen next?" Mrs Eastwood said.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-125763/Parents-tell-horror-fox-attacks-sleeping-baby.html#ixzz0qFuridXm