F&£@ing RSPCA

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So a few months back we found a straggly stray dog. Called RSPCA and they couldn't care less told us to let it go!

Today on my horse's gate is a card saying they have concerns about his welfare. This horse is old but has two meals a day, hay always in the field clean water and a rug. His feet were trimmed two wks ago and vet coming next wk for annual teeth and jabs. He is skinny but not poor and his diet is designed for him by a nutritionist. Apparently someone was worried about him they never see anyone checking him and thought he was abandoned and underweight. Field is muck picked twice a week btw.

So cross with meddling busybodies I know RSPCA have to respond but the way they spoke to me was criminal even after I gave them vet records numbers of farrier and nutritionist etc.
 
So they question you about a well cared for old horse and didn’t bother to come out to Carrot and Spud until all hell broke loose.

Beggars belief.
 
Don't feel bad. We had the scottish version of them round at my friends house a couple of weeks ago investigating a 'dead donkey' in a beautifully clean paddock containing four other ponies and a donkey.

These ponies had hay in the field, muck obviously picked up daily and not a problem between them.

As for the dead donkey, that was a rug which the highland likes to play with and tow around the field....... said rug could be clearly seen from the road.
 
Its no wonder they get such a bad name. I think they 'pick on' so called cases that they clearly do not need to intervene in to avoid dealing with any real issues. I'd be furious too
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I'd still rather they go checked and found everything was fine.

But I worry about similar cases taking up time and also if they all get reported as the same thing (ie old thin horse) by the public it is hard or the RSPCA to differentiate initial between those needing immediate attention and those that are just old and a bit thin.
 
A local pony gets reported every year. He is in his 30s and a bit thin and with a rather dippy back....but he is loved and very well cared for. People don't like to look at elderly horses.

But I despair of the RSPCA. A friend of mine reported two dogs which were being kept in a tiny shed that had no windows and no lighting, the poor things were being kept in total darkness. An officer eventually called but decided the dogs were being fed and watered so were OK.
 
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I'd still rather they go checked and found everything was fine.

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Totally agree. Its just a shame they can't seem to tell the difference between fine and not........
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I reported 2 lovley cobs in a field that was mud no grass at all next to a sdrap yard. (The owner of the scrap yard owns the horses) With a 50-60 foot pile of crap, some of it was plants that are poission to horses and would kill them if they ate it.
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No water but there was a hosepipe from he scrap yard to the field, that he said cost to much money to fill the water bucket!!!!
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Hooves were a real mess, not fed apart by passing peole. But looked fat, (could be worms, but RSPCA wouldn't take that as an answer!!) they said all that was needed were the horses feet doing!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing about no water or food!! So I really feel for people that look after their animals but still get them coming saying that their not!!!!!
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Now then......you dont think this is related to the busy-bodies where your pony is out on loan do you?

Or is that just me being a crabby old witch????

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this was my first thought too
 
i had the sspca (scottish version) out because during the lovely summer months they had a complain my horse was out in the field with a rug covering its whole body and it was far to warm to have a rug on and it is cruel. the horse has sweat it and it was a Boett Sweet Itch rug
 
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Perhaps Joe Public need education--how I dont know but preferable they report rather than ignore
Spoken today to Horse Welfare lady who has been chasing all over her county after we had heavy rains in August because people off trains were reporting horses trapped/nothing to eat because of floods.
On visiting all were being cared for with hay in the field but again what is best scenario --surely that something gets checked and is found to be OK

OP at least you had everything in place to show you care but no excuse for them being unpleasant.
 
We had the same last winter - 2 16.2hh's full necked rugs, turned out in Feb (quite happily) with hay in field - reported as turned out with no rugs, in an arena with no food and water
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RSPCA man put card through door as they have to following report but was so concerned after driving past he didn't even want to see them
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Can I just interject here and say, though not wholly whiter than white, the RSPCA are governed by legislation. By and large they do not just ignore animals suffering but they must act within the contraints of the law.

The RSPCA can only be as good as the law allows them to be in most cases, so time would be better spent trying to change the law, than slagging of the people trying to work within it.
 
My they can't do right for doing wrong, when they don't respond everyone has a b!tch...when they do respond...everyone has a b!tch.

Old horse looking thin in field, passers by know nothing about horse's fairly call the RSPCA, they come to check and leave a note to check the horse is actually being cared for correctly and they are the devil? WTF?!
 
Does the scottish spca go round in kilts and ask "will ye noooooo be having a sale" and everthings awwwwwwwfully expensive the noooooooo, or is that a bit stereotypical, the wifes Scottish you see
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My they can't do right for doing wrong, when they don't respond everyone has a b!tch...when they do respond...everyone has a b!tch.

Old horse looking thin in field, passers by know nothing about horse's fairly call the RSPCA, they come to check and leave a note to check the horse is actually being cared for correctly and they are the devil? WTF?!

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Glad I'm not alone in thinking that....
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Too right PrincessSparkle!! I'm afraid for alot of people the rspca really cannot get it right no matter what they do!!! As pointed out they have to act within the law. They leave an animal they are criticised, they take an animal they are criticised!!!!

Take carot and spud, they were old thin horses just like you admit yours to be zoeshiloh how on earth can you expect the officer to be a fortune teller or have a crystal ball to tell him/her which are being cared for correctly and which aren't without turning up and making enquiries!!

With regard to stray cats, if the cat required vet treatment the rspca would have taken it on, the fact that they didn't would indicate that it was just a stray cat, which rescue centres do not have room to take if healthy!!
 
I was not having a go because he checked up - that is fair enough, I have nothing to hide. It was the way he spoke to me as if I were a criminal, despite showing him vet bills for treatment, the diet plan written by a nutritionist, and the numbers of my farrier and vet. It was his attitude that peed me off, not the fact he checked.

I had another RSPCA run in three years ago when someone reported my horse to be "obese, lethargic and hardly able to walk" - I pointed out to the officer then that she was 11 months pregnant and due to drop any day! He was fine and joked about it, but this officer was just a complete c$%k that knew nothing about horses IMO.
 
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RSPCA officers do go through training, but like any profession - you get thickos no matter how hard you train them.

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"Profession"?????
If they want to play at being law enforcement officers, then perhaps they should join the Police! But there again perhaps these are the "thickos" that fail the Police entrance exam!

Let's remember the RSPCA inspectors have no more legal rights than any other member of the community - although by virtue of the fact they wear a uniform, they would like us to think differently!

It's a strange world when Joe Public (1), who knows nothing about horses, contacts the RSPCA who then send a uniformed Joe Public (2) who also knows nothing about horses, yet this version of Joe Public appears to believe they have a right to enter private premises, question owners, and issue notices which have no legal standing.
When they get it wrong - will you get an apology?
No chance!

For future reference, have a look here;
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Why would any sane person want an apology? Any sane person would understand they are doing a job and have to check things out and any sane person will understand for every substantiated complaint there will also be ones that aren't and in order to properly enforce the laws in which they have to operate under they have to check out every complaint.

I have had my old dogs checked over by the RSPCA after unsubstantitated claims of neglect were made against us, he came, he checked on her he made his decision and left. Did I expect and apology - no. Its for the greater good. Only fools can't see that.
 
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