If you spot an animal that you feel is being cruely treated or neglected you should:
Call the RSPCA 24 hr National Helpline on: 0870 55 55 999
If it is a pet shop, you can also contact your local council (see yellow pages), as they are responsible for issuing pet shop licences.
You should not:
Contact the person concerned
Encourage others to contact the person concerned
Post Details on the forum
Why? Contacting the person concerned may result in evidence being destroyed preventing a prosecution. Photographs or any other 'evidence' you attempt to collect cannot be used as evidence in a prosecution.
If you keep contacting the person involved or more than one person contacts them, it could be deemed harrasement and lead to a police investigation and action being taken against you.
You may need to be patient when waiting for an inspector to visit. Cases are prioritised depending on the risk to an animal not how many calls are received. Although neglect maybe distressing for you to see, it is not necessarily life threatening. It is essential that you do wait, otherwise again evidence may be lost. If a case is being brought or indenting to be brought against someone for creulty or neglect then the RSPCA will not be able to give you details of the case. Doing so could harm/prevent the case being brought.
Encouraging any illegal activities will result in an infraction or ban from the forum.