OPINION AND INVESTIGATION- THE RSPCA HAVE ABANDONED WILDLIFE FOR CORPORATE LOBBYING

THE RSPCA HAVE ABANDONED WILDLIFE. 

Wild animals are no longer being rescued as they once were because they are not economically viable to the RSPCA directors model, in that they are aware that some animals like dogs are more equal than others in attracting public donations, facebook likes and social media shares.

In many ways this replicates the absolute stinking hypocrisy of “animal lovers” in the UK. I would argue that if you eat animals you are not an “animal lover” in terms of being separate to the harm that caused that animal to end up on your plate. You make a choice and a decision that it is acceptable to do this, and yet stroke a cat or pat a dog and give it a name. Someone in the Far East however may eat a dog and yet in the Western world great anger is aroused as the bacon sandwiches from a supermarket or butchers fry on the go from a factory farm where industrial scale abuse of animals is rife. It is a series of trump cards where you place some animals above others, and the RSPCA are well aware of this in how they target their donation appeals.

Wildlife has always been the second rate pastime of the RSPCA. Convictions for cruelty are almost none existent, as is the detection of wildlife crime through lack of interest in putting out appeals or real investigation, whereas dog fighting rings get the eye of the RSPCA “special operations unit” on the case, with no expense spared on covert surveillance and other means.

My personal experience with the RSPCA over 25 years has been they favour eugenics and euthanasia over rehabilitation or attempted healing. It is almost impossible to take wild animals to a rescue centre in the West Midlands because there are none in the county other than back garden jobs that the RSPCA would no doubt be happy raiding if they got wind of “collectors” doing the job they won’t. Wildlife would frequently be dumped by inspectors at other centres in the wider area because the only RSPCA wildlife centre was based in Cheshire at Stapeley Grange. Too far to go to keep dropping off pigeons, geese or the odd hedgehog every call out. Of course, with the donations that they receive, they could have opened one in The West Midlands, but instead chose to rehome themselves from Barnes Hill to  a place known as “Newbrook Farm”.                  .

A “political animal” is born 

In recent times nationally, the RSPCA has upped its advertising profile via a “new” logo- the same 5 letters in a different font. 😆 This is what they stated on social media regards this, and the reasons behind this. Queue the “focus group” initiative, so used by the political class for their aims and objectives. I wonder who suggested this tactic to them? 😮

“before embarking on the rebrand, we carried out extensive research and testing which concluded that we couldn’t afford not to do it. Sadly many people told us they felt the RSPCA wasn’t for them, and with a decline in our share of donations and a lack of understanding of both our role and the role people can play helping animals, we had to take action.

The scale of the challenge facing animals is huge. As the biggest animal welfare charity in the country, we have an important role to play leading the sector and bringing individuals and organisations together to drive change. We must attract more people to us so we can change people’s relationships with animals and collectively have a greater impact for them.

Our new brand is much brighter, bolder and more welcoming to inspire everyone, whoever they are, to get involved with animal welfare. Our audience testing has demonstrated that our new brand drives more engagement across people considering to donate, volunteer and campaign for animals. This means that investing in our brand is an investment in animal welfare.”

What a load of bollocks!

On their official page, the RSPCA explain why they stopped rescuing wild animals.

You mean you will be fobbing people off and not caring anymore about wild animals and birds.

Although it states that larger animals such as swans will still be rescued, I can tell you that this is a lie. If you call the NCC, they take your details, then at the end after they have checked the number of jobs for resources in the area, they end the call by reading out a script off a screen informing you that “unfortunately at this time we cannot attend” or words to that effect. They then attempt to palm you off onto a vet, or ask you to find a wildlife centre.

Vets do not accept wild animals for free or treat them for free either. Many vets have next to no experience of dealing with wildlife, it is not how they make their money! In doing this, the RSPCA are putting intolerable pressure on wildlife rescue centres from not doing the work.

I can also tell you that despite also claiming that wildlife cruelty cases will still be investigated, my experience is also that they are not. I have reported birds that have been shot, quite obviously so like the one below with a hole in its head, and yet the call was not put through by the NCC when I first reported this. I was told to call the police, who if you have dealt with WMP you know are fucking useless.

As a juxtaposition to this, here is the RSPCA attempting to make people gamble on their lottery to swell their coffers by using a swan and lying they “help animals of every kind”.

1. Frontline Welfare Arm
   • Inspectors, cruelty complaints about domestic pets, rarely wildlife rescues, rehoming.
   • Still dealing with large numbers of sick/injured animals each year but far less wildlife as evidenced above.  
2. Political Lobbying Machine
   • Dedicated “Political Animal” public-affairs division targeting MPs, peers, councils, ministers, and Whitehall.
   • Registered with the Electoral Commission as a non-party campaigner (via “RSPCA Campaigns”).
   • Actively shapes legislation, briefings, amendments and debates.
   • Runs its own award system to incentivise political compliance.

• Hansard references show repeated citation of the RSPCA in Commons and Lords debates.

• “Political Animal” publishes manifestos and campaigns aimed at MPs, councils and ministers.
• The RSPCA may not be a Labour Front, but many of their policy asks align naturally with Labour/Green/Lib Dem positions.
• Their public-affairs style and urban policy focus also align with these groups.
• High-profile awards have gone to Labour-run councils and Labour politicians (e.g., Sandwell’s Cllr Kerrie Carmichael). See below
• However, they also reward Conservative, Independent, Coalition and NOC councils.

• These are given to councils and services that adopt RSPCA-approved policies.
• Councils self-nominate with 1,000-word submissions and “evidence packs”.
• Awards include Gold/Silver/Bronze for stray dogs, housing, licensing, etc.
• The pawprints award scheme is basically a self nomination award scheme run by the RSPCA for their own PR and that of public sector bodies.

• Recognises individual politicians (leaders, cabinet members, councillors) who champion RSPCA-aligned policy.
• One of the first  “winner” was Cllr Kerrie Carmichael (Labour – Sandwell).
• Also awarded to councillors of other parties — but the criteria reward politicians who amplify RSPCA policy lines.

This year Councillor Richard Jeffcoat from Sandwell “won” this award after being nominated by someone from Sandwell council. I put in a freedom of information request for the submission of his entry, as well as asking if anyone from Sandwell had attended the sickly selfie laden “awards” dinner at a hotel in Leeds at £80 per head as reported on the RSPCA website. The council have so far been very coy in delaying the request, but I will be chasing this until they cough up the information as to whether taxpayers money was spent on this shite.

“awarded” after nominating themselves

“Herrow!”

This backward Asian country aside from making cheap plastic crap that doesn’t work (lateral flow tests) etc are also best known for their squalid inventions of “avian flu” and other laboratory created gain of function research psychopathic yellow perils.