The Solicitor I instructed dealt with that case as well and it was very sad. Oh and by the way, I didn't actually need to instruct a solicitor, but with what was going on, and the others being put to sleep, it seemed the right thing to do, to bring in somebody in a more authoritative position than myself to keep tabs so to speak on the others, and prevent any more losses.
The cat was 16 and had been with his family since a kitten. He was a long haired variety, and needed a lot of regular grooming, which he hated. For so many years he was being taken to a vet to have a light anesthetic, so that grooming could take place, but as he got older that no longer became an option. He liked to lay on the husbands lap and fall asleep while he was being stroked, and then his wife would trip of any obvious mats as best she could while he was snoozing.
The next door neighbor called in the rspca after seeing the cat looking so tatty in the garden and he was seized by them, and the husband was actually prosecuted by them for 'willful neglect'. It took 2 years for the case to go to court and the rspca paid out a ridiculous amount of money bringing the case to court, and no doubt out of donations made by the public, for it to be thrown out by the judge on the first day because of insufficient evidence. That poor family having that hanging over them for all that time. I know I found the stress of 7 weeks nearly unbearable.
When the cat had been seized and the family then informed that he was going to be put to sleep, they begged them to let them bring him home for one last night so that they could say their goodbyes, and then they would take him to their own vet and the Inspector could attend with them if deemed necessary, but this was also refused, and they have been fighting ever since to get his ashes returned but I doubt that will ever happen, and if it did I doubt it would even be their cats.
Actually recalling that terrible ordeal for that family just makes my blood boil with hatred for them now to be honest. Who the hell do they think they are bringing such misery into people's lives, with their 'bullyboy' tactics. That poor cat must have been totally bewildered after having been with his family all his life and then taken by strangers, to a unfamiliar place, and put to sleep. I doubt anyone even bothered to hold him and make a fuss of him, before he passed away, and they call that animal welfare and compassion!!
Personally, I'd like to see them disappear of the face of the earth, and I fully intend to publicly
slaughter them for what they did to my beloved buns, and all the other families and animals lives they have destroyed. I have a meeting with my MP next week, and the government is already seriously peeved of with them, and there is talk of taking their powers of prosecution away, and if I can help that along by just a little bit, then that will be one step closer to getting them back to doing the job they were originally set up to do, which was to promote animal welfare, not destroy them!!
For all the comments that have been posted about only hearing one side of the story, well you will soon be able to hear both, because the best bit of advice the Solicitor gave me, was to record every single conversation I had with them, and that is exactly what I have done.
I only ever spoke to them on my land-line on speaker phone, so that I could record the conversations on my mobile, so now we'll see who's telling the truth won't we :evil::evil:
Personally, the Chief Executive should be seriously concerned about what people are going to hear, and I am delighted in a strange way to be able to provide this evidence, and with what happens afterwards, at least that will be some sort of justice for Buster, Paddington, Pippa and Marmalade
