We don't do anything in your country but we want your money anyway...

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Mostly of interest to Brits, link copied from the uk_pets community.

One of my friends is a vet who is often very angry about the behaviour of the RSPCA. This story from Scotland is unlikely to change her mind - the RSPCA don't operate there, but are nevertheless raising funds and advertising in Scottish media without making the distinction clear, at the expense of the Scottish SPCA.

Comments

[pete-darby.livejournal.com]

They're going like the NSPCC*, a charity in name, a branch of Westminster in action...

[epocalypse.livejournal.com]

Actually the SSPCA is more a branch of Holyrood than the RSPCA ever will be of Westminster. That said, it really does operate on a shoestring.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

They have various government responsibilities which the RSPCA can't legally handle, which is why this is so reprehensible. Plus the RSPCA increasingly seems to act against the interests of animal owners for political ends, even to the point of lying in court.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

I can't stand the RSPCA. I used to be skeptical of the horror stories I heard, until it happened to us.

On the basis of an accusation of a neighbour who was harrassing my Mom, they took her dog away. We were very, very lucky that the vet they went to with him, was his own vet.

[draconin.livejournal.com]

Not exactly cricket, eh what?

What a mess!

[epocalypse.livejournal.com]

This story doesn't tell the half of it. Concerns were raised a number of years ago especially about the status of legacies made out with obvious intent to go to SSPCA but because of the inclusion of the R went to RSPCA (ie Scottish RSPCA or RSPCA Scotland). The RSPCA completely refused to stand down on the issue. The SSPCA's response was a fairly low key publicity drive.

Then when the RSPCA began a media drive in Scotland the SSPCA attempted to negotiate with them but instead got an escalation in campaigning. Their tactics are shoddy and frankly immoral. I confronted someone in a supermarket about it and they first lied about it and then claimed that they didn't know themselves that they did not operate in Scotland (this may be true, I strongly suspect that these were not RSPCA volunteers but PR Firm drones).