My Cousin is on benefits he gets his dog seen free by PDSA. He has three cats and some reptile or other that is in a tiny box type enclosure.
He had guinea pigs but kept them outside all year in a broken hutch. On occasions when he was away for the weekend he asked me to feed his animals. He was keeping the fairly large dog in his small kitchen as he always does when he goes out or when it gets on his nerves. The guinea pigs were outside all year round in the broken hutch with no exercise. His garden is a dump full of over grown grass and the dog just poos all over it.
The guinea pigs died and recently he's got more but they fight so he's asked me to take one and I said no as I don't have a garden and I told him he shouldn't have even got them because at times he can't even afford to feed himself.
His reptile has had to stay at mine because he ran out of electricity for the heater and when his cat and his dog needed vets treatment, he couldn't afford to get them to the vets and demanded I take him there and we fell out because I was busy and couldn't.
After he asked me to take this guinea pig I told him that I feel he has more animals than he can afford and that this is not good for their welfare and he said that if I cared about their welfare I'd have helped him get his animals to the vet when he asked.
He said what I am saying is none of my business and I should butt out. He says he looks after his pets perfectly but I disagree simply on the grounds that his benefits leave him in extreme poverty to where he can't meet his own needs and although he's not beating the animals with a stick, their diet is very basic, their enclosures are not big enough or in good repair and if they're sick he can't help them even when one of the animals is free to treat, he can't get it there.
Is it none of my business?