how terrible for her children.
I am not sure why its so bad that the RSPCA euthanase healthy animals they can't rehome/don't have room for though. what are they supposed to do with them?
Very very sad she was clearly a lady with a huge heart. If the report is true and I have no reason not to believe it the RSPCA are despicable. To euthanse 44% of the rescued animals!!!!! This is why I NEVER give to the RSPCA, they interfere where they shouldn't and ignore where they should and they kill healthy animals.
I don't know the full back story to this, but I do know that when I watched a series on the RSPCA once, a female inspector "rescued" a kitten from a home, took it to the back of her van and in front of the cameras, put the kitten to sleep by injecting air or saline, I honestly can't remember, into the kitten. I was horrified, there was not even an attempt at rehoming, as the poor baby didn't even make it into the van. I have never watched such a programme since and certainly would never give any money to the RSPCA.
The removal of their uniforms would be a pretty good start I think.
Would be interested to know if the owner was classed as a 'upstanding citizen' in the area or donate to the charity, I had a similar experience though about 15years ago, reported a field full of horses (along with many locals) and basically was told "do you know who the owner is, she is very well known in the area for her charity work!I tried to watch the series about the Aussie RSPCA & was shocked. It's old, kill it, it's injured (not badly), kill it, it will be difficult to rehome (an adult cat, friendly nothing wrong with it apart from lacking kitten cute appeal, they were happy to rehome its kittens), kill it, it's nervous (well yes, it's just been abused), kill it. Basically unless it was healthy & easily rehomeable they wouldn't even try, just killed it. Try watching it & see. They don't even try to make out its any other way.
I've also had dealings with the RSPCA when I reported a very underweight horse. Despite much protestation from the phone bod about how they maintained confidentiality I refused to give my name (& called in number witheld). When they came to see horse, the person asked who reported horse & inspector told her it was report from public place next door (what I had said to them & was assured would be kept confidential). I know, was stood by them & heard. Called out owner & vet. Crocodile tears later (about 2 hours) declared horse fit for another winter. I found it dying in the field 2 weeks later to weak to get up, owner had barely been down in that time, no-one had come to check how horse was doing. They didn't want to know basically. How can you miss an animal skin/bone with couple weeks to live due to being so emaciated?