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George I've signed the petition, I hope it goes through with me here in California. I've never heard of such a thing and I find it disgusting and I am shocked. I know these days I shouldn't be shocked on something like that, but I am. :(

Peggy

[QUOTE=GeorgeS]Sorry this does not directly involve Italy, but I have been sent the attached link, it's VERY disturbing...
[url]http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCACampaigns/Campaign/sharkbaitpetition[/url]

This is one of my serious posts I assure you... :mad:[/QUOTE]

George...I've signed the petition as well.

Me too, George.
Kath

Thank you for posting this link and bringing this brutal practice to our attention George. John and I have both signed this petition and we'll send this link as an attachment to our personal emails as well.

Felt physically sick when I read this particularly as Cassie 'went missing' over at a friends' house yesterday....found her at the bottom of an unfinished swimming pool ( no water !)...but that's another story.
We've both signed petition.

Absolutely disgusting!!! Thanks for bringing this up, George! Have signed it... and a few others on top of that! Very sad sign of the times...

I'm glad the RSPCA are doing something! However, my mother had several negative encounters with the RSPCA in southern England over the years. In one case a horse in a field near her house was left in a sad state of starvation & neglect, as the owner didn't look after it at all. But they were unable to help, as apparently their hands were tied for some legal reasons (which was 'the horse has an owner to look after it') and left it there, repeatedly!! Eventually the horse freed itself from the fence it was tied to all the time, ran out onto a busy road nearby and got killed! :(

I guess you can't help everywhere at all times...

Stephanie

[QUOTE=alex and lyn]Felt physically sick when I read this particularly as Cassie 'went missing' over at a friends' house yesterday....found her at the bottom of an unfinished swimming pool ( no water !)...but that's another story.
We've both signed petition.[/QUOTE]

OMG what a worry! Was she ok?

... sorry, me again! George found one of my perpetual bugbears! Hadn't been to the campaign pages before and find them shocking!

Scrolling through their campaigns, I found a section for tourists, which includes how to deal with stray cats in foreign countries and other touristy features. Very good on them to highlight it but I wonder how many tourists read it...

Also read a 'diary' of a sheep being transported from Spain to Greece for slaughtering (in their Live Transport Campaigns pages). Extremely sad story... with them dying of thirst and hunger on the truck in 40 degrees C heat while the driver has a nice meal somewere cool. I did lots of campaigning in the 80s about this during my teens, but clearly not much has changed, not even want to mention the word 'improved'. Am still annoyed at any animal transporter I see! I know fridge trucks are expensive... but can it be that difficult making laws to force companies to use them? Argh!

Getting on with work now...

I have very mixed feelings about the RSPCA, they now seem to see themselves as a political pressure group, but I feel that just occasionally they do bring issues up that you might otherwise not see, If your mother had reported the poorly horse as a lurcher, it would have been snapped up PDQ, lurcher or terrier owners do not have any rights in the eyes of the RSPCA nowadays...

[QUOTE=GeorgeS]I have very mixed feelings about the RSPCA, they now seem to see themselves as a political pressure group, but I feel that just occasionally they do bring issues up that you might otherwise not see, If your mother had reported the poorly horse as a lurcher, it would have been snapped up PDQ, lurcher or terrier owners do not have any rights in the eyes of the RSPCA nowadays...[/QUOTE]

Hmm probably true. You got personal experiences with them about dogs? I heard about some absurd cases where they barged in and charged people.

Though... at my last workplace at a Uni in a South Wales small town, we often had dogs roaming the campus! Lovely, friendly dogs, one a lurcher, another two complete mongrels, but they all seemed malnourished. We always contacted RSPCA who simply referred us to the local dog warden who took the dogs from us (held in our office with some water & our lunches) - and returned them to their owners with a slap on the wrist!! Over and over again this happened (and probably still does)! The owners were well known for letting their dogs run loose all over town & campus and didn't much look after them! It was very sad watching the same dogs scour the campus for tidbits while no 'animal care' agency was prepared to take these irresponsible owners to court!