to think 3 people standing on the doorstep wanting a charity donation is a bit ott?

[migola]

just opened the door to 3 people asking me to give them my bank details for a regular donation to RSPCA! One of them looked like somebody out of the Sopranos!! - surely it can be a bit intimidating to some people?

[rubyslippers]

It is intimidating

You can report them to the charity

Hate chugging

[SquishyCinnamonSwirls]

I HATE it! If I want to donate then I will, but not with someone begging on my doorstep.

[migola]

Exactly, it has the opposite effect on me. I might well give them a ring - surely one person is enough if they insist on doing it.

[TheFlyingOnion]

three people?? Overkill.

I feel perfectly entitled to close the door in charity beggars' faces, tbh.

And the ones who give it "£2 a month is the price of a pint of beer" make me . How dare you guilt trip me on my own doorstep? Am v. rude at that point....

[migola]

yes, 2 in bibs and one dodgy looking bloke with dark glasses and a long black coat lurking in the background!

they said they'd had a lot of support from my neighbours (expect me to fall for that line?!) and did I have pets - I said no, so one of them asked if I'd ever had pets, and I lied and said only a goldfish so he asked what the goldfish's name was! FFS GO AWAY. And it's always when I'm cooking the DCs' dinner

[TheFlyingOnion]

God I'd have told them not to be so effin' rude!

Slam Door. Faces. Definitely.

[AmyStake]

Haha a chugger that managed to get through two locked security doors in to our building told me that "loads of my neighbours had donated to them and so why wouldn't I?"

I wish I'd had said "because only half of what I donate will go to the charity and the other half will pay for chuggers like you". :(

[DogsBestFriend]

No, no, three would be welcome here because I have three dogs.

Work it out...there are three R$PCA money-scroungers, right? That equals one R$PCA money-scrounger per dog to "greet".

And means that I wouldn't have to feed the dogs tonight. :o

Folk need to know that the R$PCA already has £119 MILLION in the bank yet a year or so ago decided that they "couldn't afford" to take in any more dogs from the public, so leaving them to be taken in by already over-exhausted, over-burdened independent rescues who themselves get little or no public support and often have no charity tax breaks.

Then I'd remind them that .

Yep, THE R$PCA USES YOUR DONATIONS TO BUY CAPTIVE BOLT GUNS IN ORDER TO SHOOT AND KILL HEALTHY DOGS. THE R$PCA ALSO SAYS ITS OKAY TO LEAVE DOGS TIED UP IN THE SNOW WITHOUT SHELTER DAY AND NIGHT.

The moral of this story - tell the three R$PCA muggers to fuck off and, if you wish to, donate to hardworking, struggling but morally respectable independent rescues or the Dogs Trust instead.

[Clytaemnestra]

Bolts? Wow. They're off my donations list. I assumed they had a kind of lethal injection or something. And even then didn't really like it. But....no more donations there.

[massive hypocrite who eats meat emoticon]

[chicletteeth]

I knew about their bank balance dogs and the way they treat dogs and so i cancelled it.
They rang me to ask why and so I told them and the lad on the phone didn't know what to say (he probably didn't even know)

[psiloveyou]

DogsBestFriend is that youvalhalla . Whoever you are thanks. I've had a regular dd set up for the RSPCA for years. They really piss me off with their constant phone calls asking me to up the amount. I will now be cancelling and giving the money to a local animal shelter.

[migola]

that's news to me too

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

Oh god im crying now after watching that video. I feel very naieve, I had no idea they shot the dogs. I don't know what I imagined but fuck that's awful.

[chicletteeth]

Oh yeah, OP, tell them to fuck off

[Onemorning]

Three sounds intimidating. Definitely tell the RSPCA.

[AmyStake]

Peta don't chug over here (as far as I know) but they're another kill rather than rehome charity.

In 2010 Peta recieved 2,345 animals. They transferred 63, rehomed 44 and killed 2,200. :(. In 11 years they've killed 25,000 animals.

[http://www.petakillsanimals.com]

[AmyStake]

Sorry PETA not Peta