Rspca!

Sagz_2

Article is dated 2008 - I wonder if there has been any further research done on early neutering.

antw23uk

Your only just starting to loath the RSPCA? ... welcome to the club, its been going for a while now :beer:

Person_one

antw23uk wrote: »

Your only just starting to loath the RSPCA? ... welcome to the club, its been going for a while now :beer:

If you really want to loathe somebody I can think of much more deserving targets.

Rather than loathing a group for trying to help animals but not doing it in exactly the way you feel is right, why not save your loathing for those who make them necessary in the first place?

HeatherintheHills

Person_one wrote: »

If you really want to loathe somebody I can think of much more deserving targets.

Rather than loathing a group for trying to help animals but not doing it in exactly the way you feel is right, why not save your loathing for those who make them necessary in the first place?

Most of us start out with great respect for the RSPCA, then learn that it isn't really animal welfare that is at the top of their agenda these days. On a national level, anyway.

There are more ethical rescue organisations out there who struggle for funds because so many people automatically think RSPCA when they want to donate to animal welfare.

So the RSPCA gets a bad press from some of us now and again to try to redress the balance a little. National RSPCA only have themselves to blame for that.

And it is stated RSPCA national policy to destroy unwanted animals unless there is a cruelty case involved. Some years ago they instructed their local affiliate organisations to adopt this policy too.

Person_one

HeatherintheHills wrote: »

So the RSPCA gets a bad press from some of us now and again to try to redress the balance a little. National RSPCA only have themselves to blame for that.

Valid and constructive criticism is not really the same as 'loathing'!

I'm sure most people who work or volunteer or fundraise for the RSPCA are dedicated animal lovers just trying to make things a bit better, they don't need to come on a pet forum and see that people 'loathe' them.

Air_Cooled_75

How about directing some of that loathing to the idiots who get cats and dogs, don't get them neutered, let them get pregnant or roam and then dump them. Rescue centres are flooded and closing down every day. They rely on public donations, if people aren't donating and/or adopting what else is going to happen?? There isn't a limitless pot of money to keep all these unwanted animals going, as unpalitable as it is this is going to have to happen (given the current economic climate especially) I don't like it but I get angry with irresponsible owners rather than charities who have to pick up the pieces.

snookey

Iv just had my collie neutered at 11months. There are too many dogs being put to sleep in this so called animal lovers country.
Id prefer that every animal in this country were looked after properly ,not starved beaten, used as puppy machines but sadly the reality is very much different.
Spaying or neutering in my mind is less traumatic than a animal being killed because nobody wants them.

~Chameleon~

antw23uk wrote: »

Your only just starting to loath the RSPCA? ... welcome to the club, its been going for a while now :beer:

Whilst I also loathe the RSPCA...I'd also like to point out that all the RSPCA kennels & clinics etc around the country are COMPLETELY INDEPENDANT and SELF-FUNDED from the main RSPCA HQ.

Your direct debit donations DON'T actually help the animals and shelters that so desperately need it, they just go into the HQ coffers which currently sits on around £16million of public donations!!

If you feel you must donate to the RSPCA then PLEASE ensure it is done via your local shelter and/or clinic.