to think that the RSPCA is being totally irresponsible?

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A lady in the town where I live has greyhouds - I think she shows them. She lives in a tiny house with a tiny garden.
A few weeks ago, she bought 8 greyhound puppies. These are kept in a shed in her garden. It's not a tiny shed, but probably about 5' x 8', IMO, not big enought to keep 8 greyhounds in.
These puppies are in the shed all day, apart from a few minutes romp around the (tiny) garden each day. The noise from them is indescribable, and the smell as you walk past makes you gag!
I've rung the RSPCA about them, along with several others, and all they say is "monitor it for a few weeks". This has already been going on for over a month.
We contacted the RSPCA, thinking that they would care that a bunch of puppies were living in squalor, bringing themselves up with barely any human contact, not having any socialisation, so in all probability, they will end up nasty dogs through no fault of their own.
The owner is a strange old woman who has had harrassment charges against her for being very unreasonable with her neighbours, so talking to her about it isn't an option.
Next step is environmental health, but AIBU to think that the RSPCA should have dealt with this, and not passed the buck (although they usually do this, so why should I be surprised and disappointed in them

Thes elf funding thing is quite common in the charity sector though Homestart was the same.

However, having worked in the charity sector for a while- let's just say I wouldn't donate to them after knowing their rep.

Valhalla- good on you, you might know where my sister worked then- palce called Secret world?

The RSPCA have been rubbish every single time we've asked them for help.

We repeatedly reported a horse and by the time they finally came it was so ill it had to be put down on the spot. The same owners had another horse shut in a stable, never fed or cleaned out but the RSPCA never came to check on it even after the previous experience. After loads of us had rung up (and after we'd been sneaking it our own hay for weeks, it was on next-door property, hidden by some ramshackle sheds) a man came but was going to leave again without even looking at the horse until my friend physically dragged him there.
Another horse we reported was in such agony from laminitis that it could no longer stand up. We carried water to it where it lay in the middle of the field for an entire bank-holiday weekend before the RSPCA turned up and said "oh yes we know this one of old". So why weren't they keeping an eye on it then? The owners just moved again and no-one enquired where they had gone to.
Another one was covered in sweet-itch and going frantic trying to scratch the huge sores on it's body. The RSPCA never came back after the owners said it was having medication in its food. Never mind that it hadn't been fed for 4 days so that was a blatant lie!
We saw a feral cat with a broken leg and I asked the RSPCA for help to catch it, maybe some kind of 'trap' cage. They said not to bother as they would just put it down anyway! In the end we caught it ourselves (skin and bone by then) and the PDSA treated it for us. It has been living happily at my sister's house for 7 years now.

They came round my house asking me to sign up for donations the other day. Yes maybe, if hell freezes over!

I had got a cat through the RSPCA and wanted one other. they agreed to one but not the other , the woman at the cattery was going out of her mind as they do not get money for taking in these cats. well to cut a long story short i fiddeled it to get this cat and all was well, someone got a home check for me and i was passed the cat by her. four weeks later the cat was out and a dog had attacked him, i took him to the vet and they said it would cost around a thousand pound to pin his leg!!! i dont have the money but i asked if i could arrange a payment plan as i couldnt bear to see him suffer. the vet said no so i brought the pain killers from them and phoned everyone!! all the trusts could not afford to help me, it was only small organisations without that sort of funding. then i phoned the RSPCA and they said " if you have brought the cat it is now your responsibility, we cant do anything to help you".
i finally found a vet miles away that would do his leg and take repayments. since then i contacted the local RSPCA to explain that it was me who was looking after the cat not the lady who had the home check, and they came to see him , and he is doing well may i add and that they will not take him off me. a week later they turned up and took him off me telling me that when i move in a months time i can have him back!!!! what was the sense in taking him away??? they dont care about the welfare of the animals from what i can see.i would love to know how he is.

I am appalled by what I have read in this thread, and will look at the RSPCA in a very different light from now on.

OP - I hope that something gets done for those poor puppies soon.

The local vets have told the woman to find new homes, or they will take matters into their own hands.
This is after one of the puppies ended up at the vets having been mauled almost to death by it's brothers/sisters due to being in far too small an area for too long.
RSPCA were informed of the fight (and apparently loads of people heard the noise and rang up RSPCA), and they just weren't interested at all

RSPCA huh, don't they only come out if amimals are on the verge of death??????

A few months ago someone had left a dog tied up for hours and hours, the sercurity guard phoned up the RSPCA too get the dog, it was a very hot day, dog directly in the sunshine, but they would not come out because it was not dieing, at what point do the RSPCA think animal cruelty is a problem

There are various greyhound rescue groups around the uk, you can find them from google. I'm not sure which part of the country you're from.

Otherwise perhaps try Dogs Trust.