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"There isnt any long term residential care for anyone with mental health issues. when they are deemed unwell they go to a clinic for a while"
Some research today shows me there are some, but very few and limited, long term residential care facilities in Australia, but you are so right about most who need that kind of care ending up out on their own again and so that dreadful cycle continues.
Over the years, successive governments have dismantled, displaced and made many mentally ill people homeless, putting them into situations where they have no hope of a decent life/future at all.
Governments of any country bring a real shadow of shame to their countries when they do that, in my opinion.
@davidc4430 wrote:but doesnt your experience show the reporting system working as it should
someone rightly or wrongly thought something needed looking into, reported it, the right people came and talked to you, examined your set up and passed you with flying colours.
id rather 50 people were inspected and found to be doing the right thing if it ment finding just 1 doing the wrong thing than people thought 'well i dont know, maybe its ok' when its not ok and they dont report it.
id be cool if the rspca came to my home and checked out my animals if someone thought i was misstreating any of them.
even if whoever it was did it maliciously cos it would backfire on them.
Not really............... My dogs are well fed, shiny coats, healthy and clean. This is all easily seen from the adjoining road so the person who reported the dogs did not really think the thing through very well..
The problems for RSPCA officers is similar to our hospital emergency services which are being clogged up by people who have minor cuts or a cold. Some people just dont think.
As mentioned in the previous post, the RSPCA officer believes many of the reports she recieves are malicous. ie., neighbours barking dogs or people who have feral neighbours that sit around smoking dope and playing loud music all day. The animals might be well fed and healthy, roaming the back yard, but escape from time to time, upsetting the nearby residents. Rather than contact the council which is the appropriate course of action, they contact the RSPCA out of spite. The animals are healthy, just not being managed in a socially responsible way. I,m not suggesting you would do this David, but it seems many people do.
As I said, by all means report suspicians of genuine animal cruelty, but make sure it is done in a responsible way. The animal inspectors are challenged for time and resources and people making unfounded or malicous reports clog the system.
I,m not arguing with anyone here, just presenting a different aspect to the conversation, that others may not have thought of and has not been mentioned......
