RSPCA In Horse, Pony & Donkey Rescue In Buckinghamshire |Sky News|UK News

Just thought that they way people go on about the RSPCA being evil etc etc and doing nothing etc etc and they should be abolished I would postthis and ask the question if the RSPCA were gone tommorow as some people keep saying they want then who will take over and carry on the majority of the good work the RSPCA do?

tbh andy, if the rspca was abolished, it would free up over £250 million. that, i think, would be enough to fund something a bit better.. rather than saving up to replace defra.

if the rspca took their hands out of their pockets and spent some of the money given to them by duped members of the public, they might not have had to kill over 850,000 animals in the last 10 years, and maybe their statisitcs for rescue and rehoming, would not show a defecit one year of over 40,000 animals.. with the average rehoming % being less than 50% of what is taken in. (this is taken from figures collated from the rspca's own data btw)

let me see if i can find the link of the pictures of the sites the RSPCA use to hold horses they have rescued.

personally, i know of many many other groups who are much better placed to help equines than the rspca.

N

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The RSPCA said 14 animals were removed over the weekend "on veterinary advice" and were taken to the Home of Rest for Horses at Westcroft Stables in Speen, near Princes Risborough.

This taken from the article, is that a good group?

well, andy, THIS is an rspca approved horse holding.. so who knows...

Would you keep a horse in these conditions? The RSPCA have.

Would you keep a horse in these conditions?
The RSPCA have.

Buildings at NantGwynFaen Farm where animals had been kept with nowhere to lie down or eat except in pure muck! When were they cleaned out or given straw?





Note the jagged rusting corrugated iron sheeting used to block the doorways.

Front and back view of unprotected drop. Spike harrow (drags) in which horses could catch their feet and break a leg.



Superintendent Manning of the RSPCA stood next to the unprotected drop when surveyor Mr. Barry Stone was trying to estimate the height of it and said "If it helps I'm 5'5" but if anything fell over here an inch or so either way wouldn't make much difference."



Note string which animals could eat, and wire and muck.

Just imagine what would happen if a child or a horse ran into this unguarded implement!



There were cattle there and this was where they came to try and drink. Although no water was there at the time, when it rains and fills up, they would undoubtedly try and drink the filthy water.



The water supply for the mares at Nantgwynfaen was a muddy trickle at the bottom of a steep slope and very difficult to get at.





Old tin shed near unfenced silo. This could collapse on horses if they went in or near it and they did go down towards it as we were leaving.



There are many photos of dumped corrugated sheeting left where the animals could run into it and cut or injure themselves. Photos of coils of barbed wire strewn on the ground for horses to catch their feet in are also available



more to follow

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Thats all very nice but doesnt answer the question... I am sure you could go out and find pictures like that anywhere but the fact of the matter is you cannot just get rid of the RSPCA without having something ready to take the place of them.

EDIT: Just looked at that site where you have got those pics from bit of an anti RSPCA site, I am sure for every bad picture you find there are hundreds of good ones out there...

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That looks like an awful place to keep any kind of animal, there are some very cruel people out there

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i have to say, i do agree, the rspca should be replaced yes.

in fact, many of the inspectors on the ground are decent people. its only the heirarchy that are "merchant bankers"

so why not get rid of the men and women at the top, who care about money and power and playing people off against each other, and instead replace them with the decent inspectors who they do have, but are largely under funded, under rewarded, and under euipped

N

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I agree with that - but the people who ran this were to blame not the RSPCA as a whole!

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Two big babies Tammy the terrier and Ellie the yorky!

Two noisy Chins Betty and Bubbles.

Cornsnake Guss the old grouch

Royal python Savannah

just think, it would not have taken a lot out of their 250,000,000 pounds stashed in the bank, to improve that place.. just a few days interest would have given them a good head start on improving it!

and andy, the only way i could answer specifics, would be to go there, or see pics from there, otherwise how would i know? and how, for that matter, do you know they are a good place? you don't, any more than i know its a bad one.

all i am saying, is the rspca's track record in animal care, is, to put in mildly, pretty shit.

N

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