RSPCA isn’t ‘anti-pets’
Jeremy Clarke’s article (‘Animals don’t have human rights’, 22 January) contains so many inaccuracies that it is virtually a fact-free zone.
It is absurd to suggest that the RSPCA has an ‘anti-pet agenda’. Caring for unwanted pet animals and re-homing them as pets is the principal work of the RSPCA’s 52 animal centres and many of the Society’s staff and volunteers; in 2003 the RSPCA found new homes for 69,956 animals. We also publish an extensive list of pet care booklets, the express purpose of which is to help people care for their pets. We have four animal hospitals and a number of clinics. We provided 263,155 subsidised or free treatments for pet animals in 2003 — and in many cases these vital treatments prevented animals from suffering or being euthanased due to owners’ lack of funds.
The assertion that the RSPCA’s policy on wild birds is to euthanase all but the most superficially injured is also utter nonsense.
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