Animal in need who would you call??

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Just based on the overwhelming negative stories and feelings for the RSPCA on this forum, if you came across an injured animal or an abused/neglected animal. If you are anti RSPCA who do/would you call???? (please am not after individual stories, just wanting to know if you would still rely on them attending your call, or if not who you would call)
 
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RSPCA have been pretty rubbish for me (on the two occasions I called them out for dog cases), but I'd probably still give them a ring. I wouldn't rely on them though...I'd phone a vet too if serious enough. I'd prefer to get into trouble with the owner or incur costs than let an animal suffer.
 
WoopsiiD said:
Cats Protection
Dogs Trust
WHW
and in my local area Ray Dedicoat at Holly Trees or Lisa H at Fur and Feathers.
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Incase you weren't aware Dogs trust and CPL do not have field officers.
And the above plus WHW do not take prosecutions due the cost involved.

I just personally find it a bit hypocritical if someone slates them pubicly, but would still use their resources??? maybe that's just me?
 
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Depends on the animal although I've never had much look with the RSPCA so wouldn't bother wasting my money ringing them. The animals I've rang about have been animals found and the RSPCA are more interested in cruelty cases to be fair.
 
To be honest I dont know.

I guess the RSPCA for small animals. For horses the response seems to vary, perhaps just all of them in the hope someone would do something.
 
competitiondiva said:
Incase you weren't aware Dogs trust and CPL do not have field officers.
And the above plus WHW do not take prosecutions due the cost involved.

I just personally find it a bit hypocritical if someone slates them pubicly, but would still use their resources??? maybe that's just me?
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CPL will send out people to try and trap any cats that need treatment or are stray.
CPL don't have Field Officers, yes I am aware of this but have an excellent staff and volunteer base who will go above and beyond.
I'm not too bothered by the lack of prosecution as long as the animal is safe.
I do not use the RSPCA, I answered the question asked and feel that this post comes across as a little bit of a dig.
I never said I used the RSPCA. :(
 
WoopsiiD said:
CPL will send out people to try and trap any cats that need treatment or are stray.
CPL don't have Field Officers, yes I am aware of this but have an excellent staff and volunteer base who will go above and beyond.
I'm not too bothered by the lack of prosecution as long as the animal is safe.
I do not use the RSPCA, I answered the question asked and feel that this post comes across as a little bit of a dig.
I never said I used the RSPCA. :(
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Dig?

I realise you answered the question and am thankfull for your input, my point was that there are people on here (not yourself, but others) who openly slate the rspca yet would still be happy to call them and use their resources. I wasn't attacking anyone, just highlighting that whilst people say they get a bad service from them, surely a bad service is better than no service (in some areas)? Yes CPL do have a volunteer base who do an excellent job, and if your not interested in punishing those who abuse/neglect animals then what you are after in animal welfare is catered for. There are alot of people though who do want to see those who do this to animals held responsible for their actions and prosecuted to ensure a disqualification to stop it ever happening again, for these people I say RSPCA are one of the few if not the only organisation to do this.
 
BHS were the only ones to help a field full of starving horses. They were very good and gave the owner help and support to sort the problem out which in my opinion is worth it's weight in gold. Having a kind helpful attitude in trying to solve the problem. It's often a case of the owners don't understand.

Previously reported to the other charities who didn't think they could help due to the number of horses.
 
If you mean people like me, you are right, I dont have any faith but I would still call them.

They are the nationally recognised charity, government sites give links to them. Other charities will ask if you have called them.

I suppose that each time we live in hope that they will take action.

Perhaps in many cases they do, in others they only do after a lot of pressure.

If we all sit here and rave about how wonderful they are, nothing will ever change. Every organisation like this needs to be accountable to the people who fund it, would those people be happy with some of the stories we see?

I couldn't even find an email address on their site to send a link to another post. This suggests they are not interested in public feedback.
 
rockysmum said:
If you mean people like me, you are right, I dont have any faith but I would still call them.

They are the nationally recognised charity, government sites give links to them. Other charities will ask if you have called them.

I suppose that each time we live in hope that they will take action.

Perhaps in many cases they do, in others they only do after a lot of pressure.

If we all sit here and rave about how wonderful they are, nothing will ever change. Every organisation like this needs to be accountable to the people who fund it, would those people be happy with some of the stories we see?

I couldn't even find an email address on their site to send a link to another post. This suggests they are not interested in public feedback.
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If you register under 'my rspca' I'm pretty sure you get an email contact? And what you say is fine, but openly slating on a public forum, when the rspca cannot respond you only get one side and therefore a biast view. If people have genuinely had bad service/experience with them, have they contacted the RSPCA headquarters first? There was a thread on here about the Brooke and people slated the OP who'd had a bad experience for not first contacting the Brooke about it, yet it seems fine for people to do this about the RSPCA?????
 
competitiondiva said:
If you register under 'my rspca' I'm pretty sure you get an email contact? And what you say is fine, but openly slating on a public forum, when the rspca cannot respond you only get one side and therefore a biast view. If people have genuinely had bad service/experience with them, have they contacted the RSPCA headquarters first? There was a thread on here about the Brooke and people slated the OP who'd had a bad experience for not first contacting the Brooke about it, yet it seems fine for people to do this about the RSPCA?????
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Actually I did register in My RSPCA, I followed the links etc etc, no email address.

It seems either you accept the answers to the set questions or you ring the hotlines. As they are for emergencies I dont think comments, complaints etc would be welcome.

If I am wrong and you can find it on their site, then I'm sorry. But they certainly dont make it easy
 
rockysmum said:
Actually I did register in My RSPCA, I followed the links etc etc, no email address.

It seems either you accept the answers to the set questions or you ring the hotlines. As they are for emergencies I dont think comments, complaints etc would be welcome.

If I am wrong and you can find it on their site, then I'm sorry. But they certainly dont make it easy
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go to my rspca, click on enquiries, create an enquiry, scroll down to most appropriate in scroll box, if question is not answered in the FAQ then scroll to Add enquiry, enter house, postcode details, then scroll down to message, then send....

Hope this works, lol!!!!
 
competitiondiva said:
Dig?

I realise you answered the question and am thankfull for your input, my point was that there are people on here (not yourself, but others) who openly slate the rspca yet would still be happy to call them and use their resources. I wasn't attacking anyone, just highlighting that whilst people say they get a bad service from them, surely a bad service is better than no service (in some areas)? Yes CPL do have a volunteer base who do an excellent job, and if your not interested in punishing those who abuse/neglect animals then what you are after in animal welfare is catered for. There are alot of people though who do want to see those who do this to animals held responsible for their actions and prosecuted to ensure a disqualification to stop it ever happening again, for these people I say RSPCA are one of the few if not the only organisation to do this.
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Prosecution is a last resort and the vast majority of cases are dealt with without one.
When I was involved I saw a horse that in my opinion warranted prosecution I was quick to use my contacts in the RSPCA to get them involved .
When everyone worked together playing to their own strengths we tended to have most sucess.
But it difficult difficult work and what you can demand of owners is far short of what most people on here would think was reasonable .
Prosecution takes up a great deal of RSPCA time and keeps the officers out of the field whereas in advice cases others just plain had more time to advise bully nudge browbeat and generally wear people down until they made changes.
 
I have always used RSPCA in past but reading some of the posts on here am not so sure they are up to it anymore????

I use to live by a river and when birds ie swans got caught in fishing lines we rang our local RSPB and they are only interested in Bird protection ie the law and told us they were NOT interested.RSPCA were great they came out on quite a few seperate occasions etc and spent ie couple of hours catching them from huge river.

Have reported dog in another area and they fed back what they did etc.

But no doubt the lawyers drain any budgets fighting cases for both sides etc

So I would try other local charities and Horse BHS etc welfare if it was horse related in particular.

I dont really know as there have been some not so good experiences on here, makes me think not sure???
 
competitiondiva said:
go to my rspca, click on enquiries, create an enquiry, scroll down to most appropriate in scroll box, if question is not answered in the FAQ then scroll to Add enquiry, enter house, postcode details, then scroll down to message, then send....

Hope this works, lol!!!!
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Did all of that, non of the queries matched but I chose couple. When it asked if that sorted my problem I said no and got taken back to add query. Maybe it is possible, but it certainly isn't easy. No wonder people find it simpler to put a post on here.
 
Nit sure what you've done, I'd never used it before, but my message went through ok? The postal address is freely available, if people have a complaint and honestly what to improve the service writing on here will do nothing, writing to the headquarters might just. Or might get you the answer?
 
Never the RSPCA would call local wildlife sanctury for wild animals, Owl rescue for owls and birds of prey, local cat rescue for cats amd same local rescue/rehome for dogs and WHW, BHS for horses .
 
Have to say I won't support them and won't call them, having been let down several times in the past. I'm always call the BHS or WHW.

I also don't see your problem with people posting their experiences on here. Yes it's a public forum but surely that means they could respond to threads if they wanted to?

Just my thoughts.
 
Please I am not saying people shouldn't post about their bad experiences, just pointing out that on another thread the op was slated for not first contacting the Brooke when they had a bad experience instead of jumping on a forum, why us this not the same for experiences with the rspca? Everyone who's had a bad word to say about them, have u addressed this with the rspca direct??? Regarding the rspca monitoring all public forums and responding accordingly....???? U think that us a good way to spend animal welfare money???
 
I have little faith in the RSPCA . I know that they have a lot to do but I've called before and nothing ever happens and Ive never heard back from them.
Also I seem to recall hearing that they'd been out to that awful place in Amersham? after repeated calls from the public and had taken no action.
 
The PDSA.

Recently caught my lost cat (old and blind). The staff went above and beyond their duty in caring for her and even found a retirement home for blind cats in London before I discovered where she was.
 
I find it interesting that first you want to claim that it's unfair to RSPCA bash on a public forum but then you go into ultra defensive '????' mode when someone points out that they can respond to a public thread should they choose to do so.

The Brook chose to respond to the thread you mentioned and did so very well in my opinion. The RSPCA can easily do the same without needing to monitor every public forum! I'm sure someone somewhere within the huge marketing and PR departments of the RSPCA is carefully guarding their reputation.

In my experience complaints are either ignored or replied to with form letters, of which I have received several. Hence why I will not call or support them in the future.

We can each only speak as we find, all equally having the right to do so. For me, I'll call the BHS or WHW. I wish you well in any future dealings with the RSPCA.
 
bikerchickone said:
I find it interesting that first you want to claim that it's unfair to RSPCA bash on a public forum but then you go into ultra defensive '????' mode when someone points out that they can respond to a public thread should they choose to do so.

The Brook chose to respond to the thread you mentioned and did so very well in my opinion. The RSPCA can easily do the same without needing to monitor every public forum! I'm sure someone somewhere within the huge marketing and PR departments of the RSPCA is carefully guarding their reputation.

In my experience complaints are either ignored or replied to with form letters, of which I have received several. Hence why I will not call or support them in the future.

We can each only speak as we find, all equally having the right to do so. For me, I'll call the BHS or WHW. I wish you well in any future dealings with the RSPCA.
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Hyper defensive?? where? how?

The brook responded on that thread because someone notified them about it.

Do you really think it is a wise way to spend money to have someone or some people monitoring all the forums 24 x 7 x 365? God only knows how many forums there are out there!

So if the forums aren't being monitored and people don't send in a complaint how do you expect things to change?

I started this thread simply to know who people would rely on if they came across an injured animal or abused/neglected animal if they did not support the RSPCA...?? For horses (where a prosecution is not required, and it seems from a few replies on here that that is not what people seem to want), with the WHW and BHS to choose from then hopefully the situation will be addressed. But wondered more who you would call in the event of any animal, i.e cat, dog, deer, wild bird etc etc.......
 
An independent animal charity that I support.
They have brought more cases to court than the regional version of the RSPCA and actually have a clue about horses, unlike the aforementioned regional version of RSPCA.
 
You're clearly missing my point. I simply stated that an organisation like the RSPCA would have people in place to protect their reputation, not that I expected them to monitor anything.

My comment about your being ultra defensive came about courtesy of your excessive use of punctuation marks, although I accept that some younger people consistently comment like that so it may not have been intentional.

I admire your dedication to a cause you obviously believe in from your comments here and on your other pro RSPCA thread. I simply hope that you are never as let down by them as I have been.
 
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