RSPCA inspector caught out.

Animal welfare and its enforcement has never changed in almost 200 years, it is in a mess and it is time for change. The proof is in RSPCA's own admission that cruelty and neglect is getting worse. By ever campaigning for more legislation, tougher sentences etc is admission in its self, but read the article below to see how the RSPCA have failed in PREVENTION, P in RSPCA is for PREVENTION, though you would be excused if you thought it was for prosecution.

The RSPCA have failed

Failed the animals.

Failed the humans.

Failed it's supporters.

So why do you allow it to continue on it's same path if animal welfare is still such a problem in a nation known as animal lovers?.

Dogs being killed, poisoned, beaten and

 mutilated on massive scale, says

RSPCA

Cost-of-living crisis and pandemic created animal welfare crisis, says charity as cruelty cases climb 20% in a year

Dogs are being killed, poisoned, beaten and mutilated on a “massive scale” – and attacks are rising, the RSPCA says.

Cases of deliberate harm to dogs, including improper and attempted killings, have increased by more than a quarter – 27 per cent – in three years, which the charity thinks could be down to financial strains on owners.

Last year, the RSPCA received 9,776 reports of dog cruelty in England, compared with 8,176 in 2021 and 7,691 in 2020.

The number equates to 27 dogs a day being cruelly treated – more than one every hour – and a rise of nearly 20 per cent.

Dermot Murphy, head of the RSPCA’s rescue officers, said: “Right now, animal cruelty is happening in England and Wales on a massive scale and rising.

“It’s heartbreaking that we are seeing such sad figures, which show animal cruelty is on the rise.

“While we don’t know for certain why there has been an increase, the cost of living crisis and the post-pandemic world have created an animal welfare crisis.”

Overall, 42,690 reports were made last year to the charity about dogs – including intentional harm, neglect and abandonments – a seven per cent increase in a year.

Beatings of animals accounted for more than three in four cruelty complaints, rising by 22 per cent to 9,658.

Such reports peaked last August, when 1,081 were received – an average of 35 a day – in line with a pattern of cruelty regularly increasing in summer.

In 2021, a puppy called Terry was left with life-threatening head injuries after his then-owner beat him until he collapsed, lifeless.

A member of the public rushed the whippet to Hull PDSA pet hospital, where staff believed he was already dead until they noticed light breathing and saved his life.

Vet nurse Rachel Coombes, who helped in the emergency treatment and eventually adopted the puppy, said: “I just felt a connection as soon as he was brought in as he was in such a state we actually thought initially he hadn’t made it.

“Then when we spotted gentle breathing, I said, ‘If he survives this I am going to give him a home’, which is exactly what I did.”

Mr Murphy said: “Dogs are the most abused animal in this country and we investigate more complaints about them than any other type of animal.”

The skinniest dog a rescuer had ever seen in his 16-year career with the RSPCA was found barely alive dumped in a street in South Yorkshire.

The animal had lost 98 per cent of its fur due to an untreated skin condition and had a broken tailbone so badly infected that part of it had rotted off.

Before being rescued, the greyhound/lurcher cross was so weak it could barely move.

RSPCA figures also show the number of animals killed in “suspicious circumstances” climbed by 15 per cent in 12 months, to 891 last year.

Last month, the charity revealed cat cruelty rose by 25 per cent last year, leaving five cats a day suffering at the hands of humans.

Reports to the charity about intentional harm to cats reached 1,726 – up from 1,387 in 2021.

Sam Gaines, head of the RSPCA’s companion animal department, said: “In many cases, these pets have been injured deliberately by their owners, the very people who are supposed to love and protect them.

“But cats are also more vulnerable as they tend to be out and about on their own, which can leave them vulnerable to airgun attacks and other forms of cruelty by complete strangers.”

The charity’s Cancel Out Cruelty campaign raises funds for rescue teams.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dogs-rspca-beaten-poison-animal-cruelty-b2398879.html?fbclid=IwAR3kQ797jDKXmhC5LUxz0Jr73RdNm9KoBsJx4Ie5vR8vARolN9rk803tBNc

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Please watch this video, in full, from 23rd November 2020. This lady, Linda Joyce Jones is an ex RSPCA trustee and volunteer. She says the RSPCA stage photographs, does she know more than she can say in this video?.

In this video, this lady Linda Joyce Jones is warning people not to involve the RSPCA in anything animal. She also emphasized that the RSPCA say "whatever it takes" in relation to the prosecutions they bring, she is not emphasizing that for nothing!

It has been shown many times, over many years, that the RSPCA are a cruel heartless charity, who care little for animals or humans they claim to benifit by their charity status.

If you support or donate to the RSPCA you, YES YOU, are funding and faciliting this cruelty, you are part of this.

The RSPCA's and it's avid followers mantra, about anyone who the RSPCA has prosecuted, is

NEVER FORGIVE NEVER FORGET

How apt.

The answer from Inspector O'Hara from the Met police was very different to the RSPCA's propaganda, when giving evidence later on the same day as Michael Flower in July, in fact Inspector O'Hara said: 

"The majority of offences that I have seen prosecuted by the police are probably not cases that would hit the higher end of the sentencing bracket. They are largely cases involving an animal hoarder—generally somebody who has some mental health problems or another underlying reason for amassing 20 animals in a property. It is that sort of offence that we typically see day in, day out". Which is more in keeping with the extract above from the RSPCA's website!

From the evidence collected in July 2019 it was proposed that all offences under sections 4-8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 would carry 5 year prison sentences, thankfully that bill did not make it through parliament at that time, otherwise people could be being sent to prison for five years because their dog had fleas and the RSPCA claim that the animal is suffering due to this!.

As the Met police inspector said most cases are due to things like mental health problems resulting in hoarding and thus the person fails to cope. People fail to cope with things for all sorts of reasons not just mental health, physical illness, poverty, old age, can all be reasons why someone fails to cope, the reasons are many and some are temporary. Should someone be criminalised and face a prison sentence for not being able to cope? or should they receive help and support, perhaps even from a charity, now wouldn't that be novel for a charity to actually help instead of prosecute!. F.A.I.R. suggests that law enforcement and prosecution are left to proper authorities and charities start to do actual charitable acts!

One of the RSPCA's arguments for increasing the sentence, is that the increased sentence will act as a deterrent, they also like to compare ourselves to other countries as we have one of the lowest sentences for animal welfare offences, as though that is a bad thing. F.A.I.R noticed in the evidence put forward by the RSPCA, in July 2020, to the justice committee for the inquiry into private prosecutions the RSPCA comment about how animal offences are prosecuted in other jurisdictions, namely England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland, of particular interest was the fact that they stated:

Despite these different models, the per capita rate of cases and convictions and success rates are similar.

The interesting thing is that in Northern Ireland the sentence is up to 5 years in prison, seems that the prospect of 5 years in prison has had no effect of deterring these crimes in Northern Ireland and instead of increasing prison sentences just to come in line with other countries we should be looking at other countries rates of cases per capita and if longer sentences really do act as a deterrent, or just put more strain on an already over stretched prison service.

Whilst F.A.I.R. are not against increased sentences for deliberate acts of cruelty, (providing the people or persons responsible can be found)! we are against these crimes being investigated and prosecuted by a charity as first resort.

Charities should concentrate on helping people, by helping to clean up their pets environment, help with vet bills/treatment, education where needed, etc and help people to cope by involving other charities who can provide other services, not remove animals and prosecute, not only would this be of public benefit it would be in the interests of the animals to keep them in a familiar home environment. Also it would free up valuable space and resources for animals who really do need help and are at real risk. Unwanted and stray animals would have a safe haven again. Leave prosecutions to proper accountable authorities who have no personal interest or personal benefit from bringing them.

We would recommend that along side increasing sentences, a new offence of deliberate cruelty be created and this be subject to the new sentences, not the broad and subjective catch all phrase of "unnecessary suffering".

It also needs better guidance as to what creates all offences under the act, as many concerns and differences have been raised on this subject.

Laws should be objective, clear definition of when the law has been broken, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 falls short on this.

Proper enforcement is also needed by an appointed authority or the police and CPS, we would urge the government to implement this as a matter of urgency before any increase in sentences.

People will go to prison for 5 years because they cannot cope and their dog has fleas, the RSPCA regularly prosecute under section 4 of the animal welfare act for fleas, as can be seen in the case on our blog :

An extract from an article by Lynne Wallis:

Former RSPCA deputy treasurer Bill Jordan says the RSPCA is made up of pragmatists who believe doing something is better than doing nothing, but who never rock the boat. "They are an establishment organisation," he says. "They never, ever listen to new ideas." The RSPCA would be the first to admit to pragmatism rather than idealism. But is reacting to external events and taking half measures good enough? Change certainly doesn't feature on the RSPCA's agenda. The society believes the best way to prevent cruelty is to prosecute and publicise. How about better education programmes, more advice and help for animal owners, and financial assistance with veterinary care for those who need it? The RSPCA says such help is available, but testimony from those who have had dealings with the RSPCA does not bear this out.

The Michael Howard approach, meanwhile, seems to hold sway. Confiscate the animals, fine offenders, and all will be well. But it isn't working. According to the RSPCA, there has been a steady increase in cruelty. More than a million complaints of cruelty against animals were investigated by the RSPCA last year. If the country's only law enforcement agency for animals is to be properly effective, it needs a new start.

'It needs a new start', it certainly does. That new start could be initiated by the government stopping listening to this rapidly failing charity and listening to the public, after all every MP in parliament was voted there to represent their constituents, listen to them and what they want, stop taking advice from people who are not experts, if you want advise about animals and welfare there are plenty of vets who can advise, after all the RSPCA take advice from vets on welfare for prosecutions, proving they are not experts.