rspca

[maggie01]

following on from twinkle and the rspca. Several years back my daughter used to have a cat visit her as she was always left outside. She eventually had her kittens outside my daughters back door. She rang the rspca but they couldn't do anything about it. My daughter knew where the cat came from and took mum and all babies back home. A few days later the mum bought some of them back again. Again my daughter took them back. She didn't see them again untill the cat was pregnant again and again she let herself in my daughters to have the kittens. The rspca still said they could no nothing so she kept her. Sold the kittens for a small amount to pay for the mum to be spayed and has had her ever since. Some people just do not deserve to have pets.

[B00]

The RSPCA are usually about as useful as a chocolate teapot maggie. I've yet to hear of any instances where anyone's contacted them and they've actually helped!

And I fully agree with your statement that many people do not deserve their pets, they buy them when they look all cute and cuddly, and as soon as the novelty wears off, sadly so does their feelings of responsibilty.

I'm still hoping twinkle takes that poor dog from her 'friend', im worrying over it now :-(

[wooo12]

im so surprised teh RSPCA don't do anything about cases like this. my bubble has been burst!

[Drusilla]

I agree with Boo. The RSPCA has become a money raising organization that has lost touch with its original ideals.

[coyn]

The RSPCA is the most worthless organisation I've ever had the misfortune to deal with.

If you want opinions on how much good they do ring any private "cat shelter" and you will see that nobody has a good word for them.

The only time the RSPCA are interested is when it's televised, Why? because when it's on telly more people send their "�3 per month"

All they are interested in is raising cash for their own wages.

Bunch of T*****s

[twinkle2]

i give them a donation every month and they wouldnt do this one thing for this dog (see : so worried about my friends dog). im so disappointed in them. Its down to me to sort this whole situation out now, I dont mind cause I want to help him but it would be nice to get the support from them. I will update you as soon as there is any info. why do people have animals if they dont want them? i just dont understand them! its so sad. I have a dog and he is my world.

[Vics]

Oh for goodness sake guys. Is it the RSPCA's fault that your terrible neighbours got a puppy from a private breeder who didn't vet them because they just wanted money.? Jeez they cannot be responsible for every eventuality. If you take things to the RSPCA as opposed to phoning them they are far more likely to take them in. Maggie if you were that concerned about them what is a car ride away?. They are a charity not a customer service organisation.

Twinkle2. If your neighbours dog has water they cannot intervene. Why are you blaming the RSPCA as opposed to your neighbours? As one person suggested just steal it and take it in.

The RSPCA is at the end of the day a charity. It is not a bottomless pit. It cannot account for the growing no. of breeders and wanna be pet fanciers who then decide they can't be bothered with one. I work as a Volunteer there at the week end. The Kennel staff get paid a pittance but do a bloody good job. I have been fostering a dog that was involved in one of their biggest ever pet shop raids that was reported in the Sun yesterday - where dead cats and dogs were found in the freezer. If it wasn't for the RSPCA that pet shop would still be trading. Give them a break and start to apportion blame on Society.

[twinkle2]

sorry, but at what point did i blame the rspca? i do blame my friend and that is why i am trying to sort it out with her on my own. yes they do a great job im not saying they dont, i just said a little support would be nice but they have their reasons etc as to why they cant help in this situation. There is no reason at all for you to say that to maggie01. Im not going to turn this into some pathetic argument, i asked for advise and got alot of help for which im grateful.

[Vics]

Sorry Twinkle - no hard feelings - I didn't mean to come across as harsh!! (perhaps I've had a bad day!!) - . But look at the first 5 answers and they all are are against the RSPCA within their 1st sentence - including yours which states - I'm so disappointed in them (So all I was doing was providing a positive angle for the RSPCA-. Maggie - i was trying to make the point (probably not very well at all I appologise) that if that happens again you have much more chance of the RSPCA taking them in if you actually turn up with them there.

However both Twinkle and Maggie - you are great in the fact that you are actually concerned about the animals in the first place - but I do now see the point you are making that I suppose you "expect" an animal organisation to back you up - and therefore it's disappointing when they don't.

[twinkle2]

no hard feelings at all vic. we are all entitle to our opinion and all have our off days. well done for the work you do for the rspca. i read about it in the paper, awful. x

[maggie01]

Take your point Vic.. If the cat had been a stray then that is what I would have done. The fact she belonged to someone made it a bit difficult. Her little boy was in my grandsons class at school so she had every opportunity to do right by it.

In the RSPCA's defence. I did find a ferret in my back garden. Obviously someones pet. I rang them up as I was a bit scared of catching it (heard all sorts of stories about getting bitten) and they did come and get it. I had managed to get it into a cat basket by then. I suppose as long as a pet is fed and watered and has a dry place to sleep, in their opinion it is better off than some which I can understand. Anyway I do hope twinkles neighbours see sense and find a new home for their dog.

[clair3934]

I have to admit the RSPCA can do a good job at times but like all organisations they have a down side It is not the first time that I have heard the RSPCA being called a money grabbing organisation and that actually was by a member of its own staff! But other organisations are not that great either I found a stray dog last week, I dont drive and so had no way of getting it to my local Dog shelter/RSPCA and as it was after 4.30pm the dog warden was closed and directs you to the RSPCA which is also closed and directs you back to the dog warden or to the police who are not interested in stray dogs, As I have a dog of my own I did not want to take any chances of a fight etc so could not take this dog over night so I eventually managed to talk my local vet in to taking her which they really did not like doing I may add. there was no contact for and RSPCA inspector to perhaps come and help out so how the hell do you get hold of these wonderfull people we see in the TV in my whole time working with animals I have only ever met one once! and that was a long time ago.

[orange-gnome]

I feel like I just have to add that the RSPCA DOES actually help hundreds of thousands of animals every year but like someone else has said they are restricted by the law and they can't help every single animal that needs them, which of course is a shame and can be disappointing and frustrating when you need them.
They do seem to have a large amount of money building these fancy shelters but to be honest I would rather they have enough money to help the animals and some head honcho pocketing a bit than not having the RSPCA at all.
While I was in New Zealand I did a lot of voluntary work for the SPCA over there, they don't have anywhere near as much money as the RSPCA here and were constantly having to put animals to sleep and turn them away because they had no room for them and no money to build bigger kennels. It was tragic, it really was. So put into perspective they do do some great work even if they can't help everyone.