RSPCA Can't Make Up Its Mind

It is not news for those who keep up with the hypocrisies of the RSPCA but this has got to take first prize.

Readers of THE LAND will know of a story which ran 12th May 2008 headed -

RSPCA ENTERS THE CLASSROOM TO SLAM PIG FARMERS

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The RSPCA has taken its activism into primary school class rooms in Brisbane, where students donned pink shirts in the lead up to Mothers' Day to tell the community that "pigs are mums too" and shouldn't be kept in sow stalls.

Read the full story here.

If this page does not show up for you, then take a look at the screen capture of this page located here.

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Now for the hypocrisy part . . .

Anyone see A BLIND EYE on ABC Four Corners Television 21st June 2004? (Web screen capture is located here.)

Reading the transcript of this program clearly shows the RSPCA for what it is; an over funded, hypocritical organisation that has totally forgotten its very own charter and clearly has no idea of what it should be doing. Web screen capture of the transcript is located here.)

On one hand RSPCA slams pig farmers, on the other hand it turn a blind eye to the whole thing!

Is the RSPCA for welfare of animals or is the RSPCA an activist organisation?

The answer to both is ever so blatantly clear. The RSPCA IS and HAS been an activist organisation for many years now however the RSPCA plays the fence game in order to get funding from unsuspecting public not to use for the welfare of animals but to use for lobbying governments to further its animal rights causes.

I would encourage everyone to visit the ABC Four Corners Forum, (web screen capture located here) click on the A BLIND EYE link on the left hand side (web screen capture of this topic is located here) and add your comment about this hypocritical organisation which continues to mislead everyone from our law makers to the generous public that continue to open their pockets and hand over cash which the RSPCA misuse!

There are a number of other worth while threads on the left menu that may interest you also.

If you have any tip offs for the ABC Four Corners program about the RSPCA hypocrisy and double standards, go here or here and let Four Corners know about it.

Knox City Council Tougher Dog Laws

Those dog owner in the Knox City Council area need to write to respond to Knox Leader call for emails asking if dog laws should get tougher.

Read on for details.

On April 15th, 2008 Knox Leader reported -

"RSPCA state president Hugh Wirth said amendments to pet laws in December made it much easier for councils to investigate and press charges following dog attacks in public areas.

"There are no roadblocks now to prosecuting public dog attacks. We expect local councils to do what is needed," Dr Wirth said.

"If the Knox community, or any other community for that matter, feels their municipality is not doing their job, they need to go to the state ombudsman," he added.

But Dr Wirth said the amendments did nothing for incidents in private homes that account for about 80 per cent of dog attacks.

He said the attack epidemic was an issue that refused to go away."

The question Knox Leader posed to its readers -

"Do you think the laws should get tighter still? Email us at knox@leader newspapers.com.au."

The Art of Killing a Cat

Ref:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,15974144-2902,00.html

If the URL above does not work for you, please visit Dogs and Politics Google Groups here for a .pdf Web Page Capture of the Herald-Sun news piece.

Although this is 'old' news now, going back to 2005, it is important to note what contribution Dr. Hugh Wirth (President of the RSPCA made on the subject of this unacceptable piece of art.

NIL!

ZIPPO!

NONE!

NOTHING!

A few words which come from his Little Book of Standard Responses, is all the artist, the Melbourne International Film Festival and the organises get for giving this hideous film the green light to screen as scheduled.

The total lack of back bone on the RSPCA behave is unequivocally unacceptable in the case of this film yet the RSPCA has time, money and resources to 'chase' such ridiculous issues as early age de-sexing, breed specific legislation, tail docking and other inflated and very much imaginary problems that only in the minds of Dr. Hugh Wirth and the whole Animal Rights movement.

The piece doesn't say a great deal for the Melbourne City Council either nor for the former Premier Steve Bracks (but thank the good Lord above, he is now gone from office).

More concerning is the fact that clearly one of two things stopped the RSPCA from taking a much stronger stand and ultimately shutting down this particular film;

• The legislation did not give the RSPCA the power it needed to stop the screening of the film
• The film in question was in the TOO HARD BASKET

In either case the RSPCA should NOT be getting its way with the Government when it comes to drafting new legislation or updating existing legislation. Clearly the RSPCA does NOT show it has the ability to address "TRUE" cruelty issues but rather 'invents' problems on those things it knows can win.

All too sad for the animals, when the very organisation set up to protect them has lost its way in the heat of the political moment to have totally forgotten its own Charter.