Welfare case-what can be done?

Also ( I should not really say this ) but get your friends to ring it too and to all three BHS WHW and SSPCA .
Numbers do make a difference .
 
chillipup said:
Rspca officers investigated 159,831 complaints of cruelty or neglect during 2014 and secured 2,419 convictions through prosecution, approx. 1.5%.

Advice and guidance would have been issued to those that did not warrant prosecution, but no doubt, many were issued with a warning. The owner's legal responsibility to their animal(s) is likely to have been discussed as too would the consequences of not complying with the law.

Where financial assistance regarding vet treatment and/or help with spaying/neutering of pets would improve the situation, owner's may be offered it, where available, as too could assistance in reducing the number of animals through rehoming centres.

I think the numbers above speak for themselves.
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I am actually betting that most of the times they attended were actually a total waste of their time! No action or advice is needed in the majority of cases as the complaints are unfounded and some just malicious.
 
Until humans stop breeding such vast quantities of horses/ponies neglect will continue. There was a horrendous clip on Radio 4 about 6 months ago. A stupid mother living on what appeared to be a council estate had bought a pony for her small kid. It appeared to live in her garden. It had not been gelded (she could not afford to have it done - it's going to be Xmas soon innit), she had no idea how to feed it worm it etc. Let alone when it gets older and being a stallion becomes difficult to deal with. It will just end up as another statistic.

Such things happen when there is such an oversupply - the poor thing has probably been dumped by now
 
Horsewithsocks said:
Until humans stop breeding such vast quantities of horses/ponies neglect will continue. There was a horrendous clip on Radio 4 about 6 months ago. A stupid mother living on what appeared to be a council estate had bought a pony for her small kid. It appeared to live in her garden. It had not been gelded (she could not afford to have it done - it's going to be Xmas soon innit), she had no idea how to feed it worm it etc. Let alone when it gets older and being a stallion becomes difficult to deal with. It will just end up as another statistic.

Such things happen when there is such an oversupply - the poor thing has probably been dumped by now
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Yes, I think I heard that one - she had bought it for a couple of hundred from the gypsy family in the same street. Say no more.
 
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