(09-20-2015, 05:07 PM)Catherine Wrote: One has to wonder if the RSPCA even remembers why it was founded in the first place.Yes, indeed. The RSPCA seems to have lost its way. There is a lot on the net about heavy handed treatment by the RSPCA recently. Here is one example:
"In the past two years, convictions secured by the charity have increased from 2,579 to 3,114. Last year, spinster Georgina Langley, 67, of West Hougham, Kent, was raided at her home by the RSPCA and had five of her 13 cats put down.
The charity prosecuted her for neglect, but Mr Smith, 62, came to her aid. After sending two of the cats’ bodies to the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) for an independent post-mortem, he said: ‘There appears to be no good reason why the RSPCA allowed these animals to be put to sleep.
‘The RVC post-mortems concluded the cats were healthy, with no signs of incorrect feeding or major problems with fleas or other illnesses.
‘They were very heavy-handed with an elderly lady and kept her standing out in her garden in the rain for hours while they searched her house.'."
The above quote comes from here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...althy.html
I put the quote in before the source, as the article itself seems to have an agenda of its own (including support for the Countryside Alliance, in favour of fox hunting) and I don't like all of the tone. But the reported case of the old lady is similar to many others where cases have been handled in a very heavy handed way - rather similar to the OSPCA you mentioned in another thread.
PS. Just found another example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ution.html
The above does not deny, of course, that the RSPCA does a lot of good work, too - just like the OSPCA, no doubt.
