ArsePCA Blunder Again

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Norwich Evening News

 

My cat was put down while I was on break

 

CAROLINE JENKINSON

23 August 2006 14:30

 

A pet owner today spoke of her devastation at returning from a short break to find the RSPCA had taken her 21-year-old cat away and he had been put to sleep.

 

Karen Peat, from Scratby, only found out what had happened to her pet Buster because a neighbour left a message on her answerphone saying a cat had been found and asking if it was hers.

 

Another neighbour had seen Buster and taken him in, concerned at how thin he was. She contacted the RSPCA, who sent an inspector around and took him away.

 

When Mrs Peat learned this fact she called the RSPCA to ask about going to collect him, only to find that Buster had been taken to the Haven Veterinary Surgery in Great Yarmouth and put down.

 

Mrs Peat said Buster's great age meant that he did look very thin, but he was not unwell when she left him on the night of Tuesday, August 8. She discovered what had happened to him when she returned on the Friday; he had only been picked up the day before.

 

She said: “I'm really devastated. I really can't believe they could do such a thing. I feel they could have asked about a little bit more and they should have kept him for more than 24 hours before putting him to sleep.

 

“He was fine the night before when he was fed. He wasn't found struggling or anything like that. He did look emaciated but he was walking and eating fine. He still had a quality of life.

 

“He did look a poor old thing, there's no doubt about it, but he had a brand new collar on with magnets in for magnetic therapy, so you would have thought someone would have realised that with a brand new collar he was someone's cat.â€

 

She added that she found out just in time what had happened to Buster to prevent him being cremated; she managed to get his body returned to her so that she could bury him in her garden as she wished.

 

Mrs Peat has now written a letter of complaint to the RSPCA.

 

Sophie Wilkinson, spokeswoman for the RSPCA, said the inspector had taken Buster to the Haven surgery on the Thursday, August 10 and vets had found him to be emaciated and dehydrated.

 

He was put on a drip and was given treatment but the following day was not found to have responded to that treatment and the decision was taken to have him put to sleep.

 

She added: “As far as the RSPCA is concerned we did the right thing; we were called to an animal which appeared to be suffering and we got the cat to the vets for treatment, which we always do in that situation. If we had ID or a microchip the owner could have been contacted.â€

 

In 2002 the Evening News reported how the RSPCA arrived at a cat owner's Norwich home with her dead pet frozen solid in a plastic bag.

 

Gill Steven claimed the RSPCA put her cat down without her permission despite reassurances no action would be taken without consulting her. The RSPCA said they had acted appropriately.

[nelson 0]

Good,i ferkin hate cats

[bullsmilk 2]

fecking twats

[littlefish 598]

Blimey - a 21 year old cat!

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Good,i ferkin hate cats

 

 

sorry of topic but nelson can i have the number of your decorater please

[nelson 0]

:realmad: :realmad: I just wish she'd f**K off,i'm sick of the smell of paint

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send her here mate i got somethings could do with a lick :11:

[Kay 3,709]

I also have a 21 yr old cat he is scruffy & a bit thin, but like this woman's he is fit & well, they make themselves unpopular with people by doing stuff like this, i wonder if they would have pts if the cat was found to have had a microhip or would that have even been checked,