Doubts Over the RSPCA Leadership

That august body, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), seems once again to be suffering from multiple schizophrenia. Part does sterling work rescuing and caring for ill-treated, neglected, or unwanted animals. Another part pursues wrongdoers with fervour, if not zealotry, and campaigns vigorously for stronger laws and stiffer sentences. Yet another seems to have a talent for attracting ridicule.

Evidence of the latter has over the years included cases such as the ‘Home Alone’ goldfish, the neglected rat, chilly pythons, stamped-on spiders, hotplate shrimps and pompous declarations that ‘there is no reason why the RSPCA should not prosecute anyone who was cruel to flies’. But there are more disturbing elements, one of which involves the Society’s current Director-General, Miss Jackie Ballard.

For legal reasons, we cannot print the full article and letter here, but you can read it in Hunting Magazine.