Comments on: RSPCA Under Fire as Animal Cruelty Trial Collapses

By: janet walker

janet walker — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:41:37 +0000

i really feel for annette as i myself am still struggling to come to terms with having had a dog taken and being dragged throw the courts by the rspca as with annette i was luckily enough to be put in touch with a specialist solisiter who helped me prove my inosence after 6 days in court luckly he is alive and well i feel so sad that her elderly gsd spent the last months of his life in kennels. I have every respect for charitys that help abandoned and misstreated animals how ever with my case and many others i have heard of i have no repect for the rspca its all about publicity and money small charities that have very little funds do more good than the rspca and from what i hear they have millions in the bank. I say stop spending tens of thousands of pounds on these cases that clearly were not cases of cruelty and stop putting healthy animals that can be rehomed to sleep because of lack of space and put the money into building more kennels etc and stop paying the suits that work there ridiculicly high saleries spending millions building a new head quarters (how many animals wouldnt of had to be put to sleep if theyd used that money building accomadation instead)at some point my story will be on the victims of the rspca site found on the rspca animadversion web site.Reading it may show you that even owners who love and care for there much loved pets can still be put through hell by the rspca just because they have been given to much power for one organization to have uncoverned. you might not think it but it could happen to you too so please read the reasent press releases by shg and see that the rspca is not perfect i myself wish someone would lock up these people that starve and beat helpless animals however the rspca for some reason is taking inosent people to court instead and yes being inosent we can prove it in court and walk out of court free men and woman but it doesnt mend the pain of having our pets taken away from us or the fear awaiting court or that some people think the rspcas so perfect that those people they take to court must be guilty even if the court says inosent

By: annette nally

annette nally — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:06:45 +0000

Thank you for the kind comments.
Further to this I would like to add that Holly was actually taken from me on 13th January 2006. This has taken 2 years to be heard.
As it stands at the moment Holly body is still yet to be returned to me to be laid to rest dispite a request immediatly after the hearing.

By: CrazyCanine

CrazyCanine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:08:42 +0000

What a total disgrace, the problem here is that the RSPCA on the one hand have TV commercials and programmes made that show them to be a ‘one stop shop’ for all matters animal. Ring them up when you have found a stray dog (as many people do due to the confusing messages they give out on TV and in the rest of the media) and see if they will help you, I think not! An excellent example of the RSPCA suiting themselves is the case of the confused dog owner from eastern England who was taken to hospital and had forgotten where his dog was, he thought he may have left the dog in his car which he could not remember the registration of. the resultant search for it involved the RSPCA, taxi drivers and a kennel owner who knew he should have rung the local council dog warden when it was clear that the dog was not in the car, it then became a stray dog that was the remit of the local council and to a lesser extent the police (until 6th April 2008). Did the presence of a Sky News satellite van that was covering the search have anything to do with an RSPCA Inspector getting involved with the search for this dog? I may be cynical but you can see that they want publicity at any cost, even when it blurs who is responsible for an actual role. The claim that they are inexperienced at prosecutions in court must be an example of contempt of court, surely a Barrister knows about disclosure? Personally I believe that as the board of the RSPCA has a number of animal rights extremist types on board then they now have a different outlook on human life and rights. Another area where the public get confused is due to the fact that the RSPCA Inspectors wear a police style uniform, what has to be remembered is that they are a charity and have no enforcement powers of any kind, maybe the public needs to be told that? Sadly those RSPCA Inspectors out in the field that do make a difference by their firm but fair approach to animal welfare are let down by people who do not stick to the rules of law, is it not hypocritical to use the rule of law to bring a prosection and to get your own way but not adhere to the law yourself, isn’t that how nazi Germany stated?

By: David Tyne

David Tyne — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:16:42 +0000

I guess that’s what Annette Nally thought, poor innocent that she is. How wrong Annette was because she did not tell them to get lost, even when they were shaping up to took her dog away. How sweet it is that people like you and her are still so trusting. (That is, if you are trusting, John, rather than a member of the animal rights movement!)

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:21:06 +0000

If you are not abusing animals then you have nothing to fear.

By: David Tyne

David Tyne — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0000

The Prosecutions Department of the RSPCA is a disgrace and should be shut down. What on earth can they be thinking of treating someone like this? In the past, I’ve given money to the RSPCA, but they spend it on this and other cases. I’d rather spend my money on a subscription to K9 or Private Eye - great article, incidentally, on the RSPCA v Griffin case this week!