It’s a long weekend in Perth. If you were wanting a member of the public wanting to adopt a rescue dog and you took a trip out to the shelter at the RSPCA WA, here’s who you would have to choose from;
(there’s also four cats and a horse).
And that’s it.
On a long weekend, when people are most able to visit and at the organisation with the most well known brand and most resources for rescue adoptions in the state – when we’re practically begging people not to visit a pet store, but to consider rescue – at the RSPCA WA there is just two dogs available.
Meanwhile, in care of self-funded rescue community based, foster and rescue groups, who don’t have multi-multi million dollar budgets and who instead work on a proverbial shoe-string… there is 524 dogs and 745 cats (source: PetRescue).
The heavy lifting is not being done by the big players in WA.
Lotti and Zac have been very much loved pets to a couple who rescued them both from the RSPCA WA.
Unfortunately, the wife in the pair passed away in 2011, and the husband works fly in, fly out. It hasn’t been a problem to date as their daughter lived at home, but now she is moving to the UK.
They’ve approached the RSPCA WA to return these guys. They have refused to take them back. Now it is falling onto the shoulders of community rescue and foster groups to try and find Lotti and Zac a home, or a foster home, before the weekend ends. The owners are then facing taking the dogs to their pound, or to the vet to be killed.
These RSPCA WA dogs are facing death row.
If you are an adopter who is looking for a pet, please consider Lotti and Zac. The RSPCA WA may have left them to die, but they are available and they could be yours. Please contact SAFE Perth for the current owner’s details.
I saw a dog wandering near my local shopping center, She had just dropped puppies, her ear had been cut off, her eye was so gunky she had a very bad infection in it, she had diarrhea all up the back of her legs, she also wasn’t wearing a collar…
I rang the RSPCA, I got told, they do not do call outs, she is probably someones pet, even if i do take her to them they will not take her in and they can’t do anything “sorry”
I didn’t care if she was someones “pet” as she was obviously not being looked after.
Female dogs don’t stray that far from their young which made me think maybe she was a stray and lost her puppies? or her puppies were taken away from her too soon?
I’ve been told the RSPCA were unhelpful in the past by friends but I still donated to them, but when i needed them to help a dog in need they couldn’t care less.
I will never support the RSPCA again.
People reading this should forget the RSPCA if they want to adopt. RSPCA are wasting resources that could be better used by other rescue organizations.
I personally also had 2 dogs at my house, available for adoption all weekend, and I have access to more. Means I’m better than the RSPCA right?
My girl and I work with SAFE Avon Valley, and you can contact me on facebook usually. Email is [email protected]
If I haven’t got what you are looking for, I have the contacts to get it.
I will never donate to the RSPCA I can relate several episodes with them but won’t as I do not need them wasting donations given by wonderful people to sue me!