RSPCA, What do u think????

[clair74]

I think it is wrong if you r sister offered to take it home and care for it for the rest of its like that they then still put it to sleep.
It does not surprise me however the RSPCA are idiots.I would focus on the good they did if I ever found any good they have done.

[Rum_Kitty]

I cant believe they were so insensitive and patronising. Got to say the SSPCA (Scottish version) aint much better. They seem to spend most of their donation money on brand new land/range rovers while the rabbits are kept in cages barely big enough to turn around in and they scrimp on hay and bedding because they say they cant afford it (I volunteered for a short period). I got a rescued ferret from them. Apparently they are vet checked and kept for a week to ensure the animal is healthy...and yet somehow my PALE SANDY ferret who is almost WHITE on her back had an enormous black tick on the back of her neck which their well trained vet somehow missed. She was also in full heat, they didnt bother to jill jab her, and to put it politely she smelt like dog crap, literally she smelt exactly like a dogs poo, so I've no idea what they were feeding her but it certainly wasnt a ferret food, or probably even a cat food! Now she's got a good home, and we love the vicious little sod.

[MissCat]

i took in a greyhound a few months ago (long long story, but it was an emergency and the woman needed to rehome it there and then or she was gonna give it to gypsies @_@ because social services had called the rspca to remove all her animals, now if i hadn't taken it in, rspca would never have seen him anyway cos the gypsies would have had him, which IMO -especially around here, the gypsies are worse than the rspca) so i took this greyhound in, was going to keep it as i already have a greyhound and a lurcher, but i also have cats.
automatically this new greyhound attempted to rip the cats apart then spent the rest of the day being highly strung and stressed.
also he was quite underweight and i was worried about him.
after a day i knew i could not keep him, it wasn't fair on anyone in the house so i called around all the greyhound rescues, animal shelters in the whole south of england, practically begging for someone to take this greyhound in, all to no avail (bearing in mind he really was a really lovely boy at heart, a softie, he just hated cats.).
Eventually i caved in and called the RSPCA, who agreed to send an officer round to collect him.
while i was waiting for the rspca i had a call from a rescue in bristol who said they had room for him and had also sent someone to collect him, which i thought would have been FAR FAR better than the rspca, i was praying that they would turn up before the rspca.
unfortunately they RSPCA woman turned up first.
she was really nice and talked through everything for me, she said they didnt really have room for Jaz at the local centre, so i told her about the other rescue who were going to take him, she automatically said that she would take jazz, so the vet could look him over, then she would personally drive him to the bristol shelter.
so i (stupidly in retrospect) signed him over to her.
the rspca woman called me the next day and told me he had a form of mange (cant recall what it was though) which he was being treated for, then he was to be transfered to the greyhound welfare center in devon. i thought it was strange that he didnt end up in bristol but was just happy that he was going somewhere knowlegeable where he might get a nice new home someday.
well i found out a few weeks ago (from my brother who recently started work at the local rspca centre) that the greyhound is STILL there, and is not to be rehomed, they say he is vicious. (erm...only with cats!) basically he is on death row.
so no. i do not trust the RSPCA. not at all. they lie, cheat and blag their way for MONEY and dont even THINK about the animals they claim to know anything about.
my brother says that he is not allowed in the reptile room without an escort and is not even allowed near the tarantulas (despite both him and myself having a good deal more experience with reps and Ts than they have) he is however allowed into pens with violent dogs with only a walkie talkie for help.
sorry for the essay. rant over lol.

[Doogerie]

see this is why i think we as a communaty with love and respect for these anamals should like make a good and caring RSPCA if one of us could get a place of power in the RSPCA we could make a real diffrence

[ginna]

Originally Posted by clair74

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It does not surprise me however the RSPCA are idiots.I would focus on the good they did if I ever found any good they have done.

you are right there my dads mate told him a bloke had a tortoise confiscated by the rspca as they said he diddnt know how to look after it ,they had it a hour and it was dead,
also my dads mate rescued things for the rspca they brought him over 50 iguanas within a 3 month period 1 died and they said they would prosecute him for not looking after it right .So he gave 2 hours to clear every animal they had given him out of his house

[loxocemus]

the vast majority of what they do is great and for the benefit of animalkind just becuase a few dont know thier arse from thier elbows and they have to follow guidelines not of thier making is no reason to demonise the organisation.

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[donia]

like loxocemus says - they must do a lot of good too, but personally i havent had great experience with them:

had a baby squirrel that fell out of a tree come into the reserve i work at and the woman who brought it in was adamant that i get rspca involved - despite me telling her that they would put it down! so off it went tried to call the rspca 4 times to find out about it, but was on hold for so long that i got fed up waiting. doesnt matter, as i know what they did with it

going on a wildlife first aid course so i can deal with this sort of stuff myself next time!

[PSYCHOSIS]

Dont they put down healthy reptiles as well ...........

[The_Real_Moreliaman]

Originally Posted by PSYCHOSIS

Dont they put down healthy reptiles as well ...........

Sorry ...but yes.

And i agree with loxocemus to an extent....we do need organisations like the RSPCA....if they wernt around then alot of animal cruelty would go unpunished......but the RSPCA spend a fraction of the amount they should do on the correct training of their staff & they animals they are meant to care for....they prefer to offload it onto other organisations or euthanise it.
I have knowledge of this because my sister used to work for them.

Someone said "you cant expect the RSPCA to house every injured animal or stray they come accross"....why not ?? have you seen the amount of money they get every year ?? at one point a few years ago they had over £350million quid in their bank account & they were STILL scrounging for more money !!

[catastrophyrat]

I too feel the staff are not properly trained -i feel sorry for any animal who ends up in one of the centres. I dog walked for a while at one -I met another volunteer very distessed as she had seen staff laugh over their cuppas about a dead guinea pig -frozen because the lad forgot to put the heat on overnight.
i have an RSPCA dog who was speyed far too young for her breed and then got told she should be PTS due to her bladder dropping into her pelvic bones -she wasn't and is still with me at 13 years old but been incontinent all those years.
I saw a mother cat separated by a thin partition from very young kittens --to dry her milk up as the new home wouldn't wait longer for her to be speyed. Not only is this physchologically very cruel -it also meant they had to hand rear the kits.
I have seen a GSD kicked into it's kennel with the most abusive language ever -which I could do nothing about as i was visiting and if the staff had realised it was me they would do nothing anyway as by that time I was dealing with head office and threatening them with publicity over the case of the pup I had from them.
They always pass the buck with wildlife and push as much as they can onto private vets -they also expect private vets to help them out then refuse to settle their accounts in a reasonable time.
Sorry but to date I find only a very few people who actively support them and chances are they have never been truly involved with them.