Angrywith the RSPCA/Council dog wardens

MissMoneypenny

I called the RSPCA out one Christmas Day as some people who use to live near to where we use to live, had got 2 puppies and locked them in a downstairs toilet while they went away for Christmas. The RSPCA came out straight away, then came back with the police, who smashed their way into the house so the RSPCA could rescue the pups. The owners told them that they had left lots of food for the pups to eat! The RSPCA persuaded the owners to hand the pups over to them.

On the other, my sister (who was a policewoman) rescued a pup whose owners had nailed a dog basket outside their second storey flat window and put the pup in it! She took the pup back to the policestation but the RSPCA said it was okay for the pup to go back to the owners!

rainbowrisin

RSPCA is a complete waste of time IMHO. I used to spend a lot of time rescuing injured animals, both wild and strays, carted them off to the RSPCA, only to find out they'd been destroyed. A friend of mine worked at our local RSPCA for a few months and told me that nearly all injured animals are destroyed, and not that humanely either. All they are interested in is "cute" animals which they can easily re-home (for which owners pay).
Now I take my waifs and strays direct to my vet, who is obliged to treat them gratis (albeit grudgingly). Sadly I have too many pet animals to foster any more, but do try and ask vet to send animals to a sanctuary or rescue rather than RSPCA, and do keep pestering when I take my pets to find out what has happened to the rescue ones.
I would never support the RSPCA in any way (or the Dogs Trust (FNA NCDL) - they say they never put down a healthy animal, but you can guarantee that any animal with the slightest impairment on its way to the knackers yard.
Sorry you've had such a rough time OP, but hopefully it highlights the disgusting way rescue animals are treated in this country, and helps break down the myth that "charities" like the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust and similar really care about the animals.

MortgageMamma

Yes rainbow I can see exactly what you mean. Sad thing is, I've just set up a new Ltd company, and I was going to donate a % of my profits to an animal charity but now I've gone off the idea. A lot of people say dogs trust are a worthy charity but there seems to be some mixed opinion. unfortunately I don't have time to research a worthy cause so I'll just have to take other peoples words for it. The thing I can't decide is whether to give the whole amount to one charity or give several smaller amounts to lots of charities, as theres plenty of stuff Iget concerned about (especially elderly people)

Tuttifruitty_Theresa

i lost my faith in the rspca years ago. An old neighbour of mine was mistreating his dogs (putting stones and small rocks down their throats), my parents phoned the rspca, they came out but only took one dog, needless to say the other one suffered terribly after they left and when my parents phoned them again they didn't want to know. Last year i had an injured fox in my garden, unfortunately i didn't realise it was there till it was too late and i spooked it and while i was on the phone to the rspca the fox managed to drag itself next door (on tummy and back legs) and was bleeding quite heavily and the woman on the phone said to me as it had left my garden they wouldn't come out. I was really annoyed as the poor thing was so injured it couldn't have gotten far and must have been in a lot of pain. I won't support them in any way now.


Theresa
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GiveItBack

rainbowrisin wrote:

..... but hopefully it highlights the disgusting way rescue animals are treated in this country, and helps break down the myth that "charities" like the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust and similar really care about the animals.

Sadly, the RSPCA, like all charities, are bound and restricted by their income, and for any number of reasons the money coming in is not enough to solve the problems they're working on.

Froglet

MortgageMamma wrote:

Yes rainbow I can see exactly what you mean. Sad thing is, I've just set up a new Ltd company, and I was going to donate a % of my profits to an animal charity but now I've gone off the idea. A lot of people say dogs trust are a worthy charity but there seems to be some mixed opinion. unfortunately I don't have time to research a worthy cause so I'll just have to take other peoples words for it. The thing I can't decide is whether to give the whole amount to one charity or give several smaller amounts to lots of charities, as theres plenty of stuff Iget concerned about (especially elderly people)

Mortgage Mamma,one of the animal charities i support ,and think very highly of,as do many,is the W.S.P.A.They not only help animals all over the world,in every situation,but they also believe that by helping their owners who rely on them,they can do double the good work.I have never heard or read a bad thing about them and i believe they really are one of the best.

I have heard good and bad about the RSPCA but i go on supporting them,If we had not got them to do what they can, we would still be in the dark ages where people believed it was fun to set dogs on bulls and badgers.

tadipercy

I can't believe this. I'm so happy that there are like minded people in this country who will go out of their way to help distressed animals. Yet recently, I saw a dead cat at the side of a road, and phoned the local vets to try to leave a description incase the owners were trying to find out about it. They just weren't interested.
One of my cats was run over and killed a couple of years ago and unforunately lost his collar. We were out of our heads with worry until we eventually found him. He was lying on a grass verge for 3 days and no one had done anything. Maybe we could have saved his life if someone had thought.

Anyway, we now support a local animal sanctuary in Cornwall who take in rabbits, cats, dogs, goats and horses, that other people abandon, mistreat etc. They go without to help these animals and let's face it get no help from government to do so. I wish I could help raise more funds for them. If anyone has any ideas, would appreciate...

purplecatlover

does anyone happen to know the legality of how long the rspca have to wait to get proof that owners are not coming back? 48 hours 72 hours? animals unconscious?
or of who else has authority to enter a locked empty house and rescue the animals?

thriftyjo

Just come accross this thread and had to add to it! I too have mixed stories about the rspca ... but thought I would tell you about the good samaritans who live near me ... During the summer hols we walked our dog early in the morning ussually around the same time 7-9ish we would call at the shop on our way home for milk etc. One day we where in the cue when we heard people talking about the abandonded dog outside and someone was going to take him home and call the rspca becuase he had been tied up oitside for at least a week ... it took a few minutes and was actually my daughter who's penny dropped and realised they were talking about our dog who we had just left outside! The person must have been calling at the shop the same time as us everyday - but she was horrible to us, everybody in the shop looked at us as though we had been abusing him!

Also I have a problem with the greed of vets! We used to have a really good honest vet who had a true passion for animals. He drove an old landrover and his own dog accompanied him everywhere. Anyway after he retired we regsitered with our local vet, last year one of our cats was coughing up blood so we took him along and the vet kept him in for a week on a drip. At the weekend the cat had to be transferred to the local animal hospital as the surrounding vets take it in turns to cover weekends. I had prepared my children that the cat would probably not be coming home after all what my vet had told me it really didn't look good. On the saturday morning they I called and was asked to go in to talk to the nurse. When I got their I had tears welling. The nurse brought the cat out to me with a piece of grass wrapped in plastic. He had eaten the grass and then been sick, the blade of grass had been stuck in his throat and in the nurses words ' visible on his tongue' so she simply opened his mouth got some tweezers and removed it! She was dumbfounded that it had not been noticed before and said what a shame it had been that he had been in so much needless pain.

This visible blade of grass cost me in all nearly £500 but the children were very releaved when I took him home!

Froglet

Jo,that is disgraceful!! To be honest i think there are many on here,myself included, who would have queried the extortionate bill for something they could have sorted out in 5 minutes,and probably refused to pay!!.There must be a regulatory council for vets,like there is for the doctors?

My dog is old and needs prescription drugs.Luckily i can get them a fair bit cheaper on the internet,but every 6 months she needs a check up for them to issue further prescriptions.Last week i took her and to be fair,the new vet did give her a thorough examination.But the bill cost me,in that 10 minutes,over 4 hours to earn at work later that day!!

I wish i'd been intelligent enough to be a vet!!