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I agree Tilly, sounds like someones getting confused with fact and fiction (or opinion as the case may be)

did you not read what they did berti? and not for the first time either. there are other organisations that imo would do a far better job than them, organisations that actually care about animal welfare..

thanks for that bandycoot i like your opinion

thanks nestonlad; gsd rescue are an amazing charity i know because i have dealt with them recently when 3 gsd's were in birkenhead dog pound, 2 quite agressive and one had a skin condition they were all due to be put to sleep, i rang gsd rescue and they came and took all 3 rehabilitated them etc and they are all happy in new forever homes. and they dont have the money the rspca have but they still do it.
but i did'nt highlight because they were gsd's i highlighted it because they were dogs..

thanks summer i have seen all the vids on utube too it's so sad but the rspca cannot keep getting away with it,i have just heard tho that south wales police are investigating the shooting thank goodness. lets just hope they pay for what they did..

Of course this is an isolated case. I do a lot of fund raising for Wallasey's RSPCA via my site and other events and I can honestly say they do a lot of good work.

http://rspcawirral.piczo.com/?cr=5

Isolated??? what about the beagles too. no way isolated.
some of workers at the rspca do do a good job, but i know their hands are tied when it comes to rescuing animals,
and the big wigs tell them what they can and what they cant do. the rspca are sitting on 2 million pound, for what? their next xmas lunch?

Anyone that feels that strongly and to ensure that the Wirral RSPCA never puts a good animal to sleep then why not donate today. Your donation helps the centres.

I agree bert but I have seen it so many times where another organisation will use "shock tactics" to gain notoriety especially when they are struggling with donations due to the economical downturn.

They all do great work.

i'm sorry Paul but i'd rather give to a charity that helps wherever possible no matter what the situation. and since this has come out so would thousands of other people.
the rspca as i said before are sitting on 2 million pounds why don't they use it?? also if they had informed other rescues about these GSD's the rspca would'nt have even had to even fork out for extrea bolts, it would'nt have cost them anything..

Can I ask where you get the evidence that the RSPCA have £2m in the bank? I would be surprised if no charitable organisation has some revenue to fall back on (common sense would tell you that) but please point me in the direction where you got your information.

Companies House could get you an idea of that kind info

Of course thats your choice. If we all thought like that then a lot more animals would de destroyed due to a lack of donations. You hear so many times how 'Social Services' have let down the system but you will never say "I am not giving to Children In Need".

The GSD simply look after a particualr animal, a partucular breed of animal whereas the RSPCA look after a huge range from domesticated to wild. The amount of strain on the RSPCA is enormous. So much is expected of them with so little monies. Forget all this executives with high pay. Thats not the fact. Over the years I have both volunteered for the RSPCA as well raised a lot of money and the work they do is fantastic. Don't always believe what you read.

We've been here before and I don't agree with it. An organisation the size of the RSPCA is bound to make mistakes, and in fact, they deal with so much crap each and every day, they are bound to have to take decisions that they don't want to. They are also under constant media scruitiny, whereas when a smaller organisation or COMPANY makes a mistake, they are not usually noticed. Money might not come into it, but where do you place 10 hungry and desperate dogs if you have neither the capacity or funding? Just put them on the street, or stick them together in an overcrowded pen - either way the RSPCA would not have been able to do right for doing wrong.

As for the GSD link - it's a company making a whole lot of money out of donations, and for what exactly? So they can sit there and critisize every charity and use every mistake/tough decision a charity has to make to against them in a bid to earn some more money.

With regards financials, of course the RSPCA would have funding in the bank... if you had any knowledge of business, you would understand that capital is extremely important to a normal business, nevermind a charity who can suddenly see their donations fall-off due to circumstances beyond their own control. Do you think they should trade on donations only, and plan on the basis of expected donations - its impossible to do that. I have a sizeable amount of capital tied up in my business and am always increasing the figure - not because its ever really been used, but simply because should something adverse happen, the capital is there to be used to ensure the business can keep trading and providing the services my clients rely on and honour contracts etc... Simple rule of business im afraid. Many businesses and even charities have gone to the wall during this recession, basically due to a lack of capital and trading on revenue only - when that revenue falls off, they are in the shit. Id rather the RSPCA kept a few million in capital to ensure that should they ever hit hard times, they can keep doing the great work they do.

What these types of slurs are, are actually propaganda, they exist all over the internet against many organisations and charities... and the one thing that most of these types of slur's include, are donation links. My reference to them living in Marden, is because its a pretty expensive place to live, so the donations that the COMPANY generates, must be making them a mint - hence why they need to create propaganda like this to keep the money rolling in. Next time im at my dads, ill get a photo of the place, from the sounds of things, its one of the mansions as the normal people in the village live in small named closes etc.

Ill keep supporting the RSPCA financially both personally and via my business, because for every bad decision they make, for every COMPANY that tries to say they are bad and trades on a bad decision/mistake they have made, there are tens of thousands of other animals in need that they genuinely help. The RSPCA place in Birkenhead helps those who simply can't afford a vet, and that in itself is worth contributing for. The RSPCA do so much great work and help so many people, in so many different ways... and guess what, they are not biased towards one breed either, they help all animals (bar the scumbags on the streets thankfully), no matter what breed or colour.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8230378.stm

yes i did read it.