To think that the RSPCA is useless ?

[albertcamus]

Their immediate response to my sister's online report of a 5-month old puppy left out from 8am to 6pm next door to her (as owners cba to make her comfortable indoors as they don't like her 'chewing & making a mess' in their words) was: 'We don't consider that the animal is in distress and will not be responding.' So are they employing psychics now ? What does it take for them to pay a visit to check on a frightened & distressed animal left out for long hours ?

Think about what this thread is doing, here. Is there a better organisation out there to help animals in distress? If not - and I don’t think there is - threads like this which diminishes the good they do might make LOADS of people stop supporting them and lots more animals will die in distress.

Seriously.

Think about it. Mumsnet is a massive forum. Do you really want people to stop donating to such a worthwhile cause? Ffs.

It's not the RSPCA that is the problem, it's your neighbours.

What do people expect, that they have teams of rescuers ready to swoop anywhere in the country at a moments notice, whenever anyone calls up? Who is paying for that then?

Pivotine - if what Cornflake reports is accurate, I hope that this thread might go part of the way to demonstrating the inefficiency of the RSPCA at the point of delivery. A vulnerable, distressed puppy is crying and suffering due to its owners' neglect, but they are not prepared to respond. That's the top & bottom of it. They say on their website: 'No dog should live outside' but, when given information, say that it's not a problem. So what do they actually do then ?

Thanks to all who have contributed, my sister's going to speak to her local Dog Warden about the noise, but that won't solve the problem of the owners' neglect.

They're bad enough regarding domestic animals, but when it comes to livestock they're a joke. We had a welfare case near us a few years ago with some sheep that were on a bare field and not getting hay or feed brought regularly. About half the village reported it over a period of 3 months, the only action that was taken was each time a complaint was made, the local inspector contacted the owners on Facebook and asked them to do something. 21 dead sheep between November and February and that's not counting the lambs either born too prematurely to survive or who died because the ewes were too thin to produce enough milk. That inspector is no longer in post, thankfully, but it took a few more years after that to get them out, despite the strongly-worded letters of complaint that went to the divisional inspector about how that situation was handled.