Ms Angela Egan-Ravenscroft - RSPCA Branch Co-ordinator for 10 years
Ms Angela Egan-Ravenscroft was branch co-ordinator for the RSPCA London region between 1990 and 2000.
Disillusioned with the way the charity was being run, she left and went to work for the Countryside Alliance.
She said..
Disillusioned with the way the charity was being run, she left and went to work for the Countryside Alliance.
She said..
‘Healthy, well-adjusted, rehomeable animals were being destroyed, and I didn’t want to be part of an organisation that did that.
‘The RSPCA has badly lost its way and all of its reasons for being set up in the first place have been subverted.. The grass-roots animal welfare no longer exists’.
Ms Dawn Aubrey-Ward - Inspector 2007-2009
Ms Dawn Aubrey-Ward, 44, from Martock, Somerset, joined the RSPCA as a trainee inspector in 2007.
But she soon found herself at odds with what she described as its ‘antiquated military-style’ regime which placed ‘prosecution and persecution’ of owners ahead of protection of their pets.
Ms Aubrey-Ward said..
But she soon found herself at odds with what she described as its ‘antiquated military-style’ regime which placed ‘prosecution and persecution’ of owners ahead of protection of their pets.
Ms Aubrey-Ward said..
‘The RSPCA’s image was that they care for animals, prevent cruelty and help and advise people with animals.. I was horrified when I learned we were going to have to put down healthy animals because we didn’t have room for them.
‘If there wasn’t any room in the nearby RSPCA home or one of a number of approved charities, we were supposed to euthanise them.
‘The RSPCA won’t work with people – they see every case as a chance to prosecute, to generate publicity for themselves’.