RSPCA - Its that time of year again

Has anyone seen the ads in the papers today, saying they will turn away animals if they don't get more money, it makes my blood boil how they mislead the public into thinking, that money donated goes to help take in unwanted animals particuarly true this weekend when i have take in on foster a 10 year old springer who's owner is terminally ill and who was turned away from the rspca, because they no longer take dogs in so why the need for the sob story adverts, and more importantly how the hell do they get away with it

I haven't seen the advertisement Liz , that sounds awful

I didn't realise that RSPCA shops and RSPCA rescue/rehoming are unrelated until recently.

They're doing well though. They're just about to launch a scheme with a building society. AKA.. You take out an RSCPA account and the building society donate 1% of the average amount in that account over the month...or something like that.

HATE the RSPCA

I can't stand the RSCPA, and I hate the guilt tripping they do.

Mini its in the sun, will scan it

here it is,


DSCF0197 by jalizcazan, on Flickr

not much emotional blackmail going off is there, its not even as though they are asking for what you can afford its at least a fiver, Poor Sonny ended up home alone for two weeks , after they'd turned him away, with people just going in to feed him thats no way to treat this poppet, surely he was abandoned and needed help

How comes they are unrelated? Don't the shops help fund the rescue side of it?

Nope! Or... not as much as you'd think. Infact very little.

I have some literature somewhere ... Kinda disgusted by it to be honest.

Not as far as i'm aware the shops fund the head office, every branch has to fundraise for its self, i know for a fact that the Bradford RSPCA is in the process of setting up its own second hand furniture shop. (We daycare the general Managers Dog) thats what annoys me more than anything, the money generated by that advert will go nowhere near a branch.

As I understand it, the RSPCA operates like a franchise and the branches actually have to send some of the funds raised to head office for using the name. However, I may be wrong about this and to be honest I hope that I am for the sake of the animals at the branches.

I used to support the RSPCA, but I have not given them a penny since the horrific case of those poor GSDs they shot with a bolt gun.