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RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

davidc4430 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:00:12 GMT

Melbourne couple demand more transparency from RSPCA after foster greyhound euthanased

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-25/rspca-called-out-for-how-it-euthanases-animals/11899682

not a good look for the RSPCA

i think from my experience greyhounds require better treatment than the one size fits all motto of the RSPCA

i very much doubt a GAP greyhound would be given a death sentence because it didnt asimulate fast enough.

GAP is a one dog breed organisation, why a greyhound was even with the RSPCA i have no idea.

the dog should have been passed on to the Victorian version of GAP, where the people understand the dogs.

it makes me so angry when death is the easy solution.

Re: RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

123-cavaliers — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:11:42 GMT

Just sickening !!! I always thought the R.S.P.C.A. staffed "Animal Angels", but now I've completely changed my mind, big time. We have a 16 year old furkid with dementia ... he now doesn't remember to go outside for a wee ... he sleeps inside and is up a lot during the night, wandering around due to the dementia, but my hubby and I take turns and ALWAYS get up to see to him, calm him down, and give him a cuddle, then he's o.k. and settles. It's like having a newborn all over again, but he still eats well, is happy, and even 'tho he's "lost the plot" a wee bit, there is NO WAY we'd even dream of having him put to sleep !!! The R.S.P.C.A. needs to be ashamed of themselves ... we really feel for that poor couple who had fostered him, they must be just devastated !!!

Re: RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

imastawka — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 04:34:51 GMT

I'm sad, angry disgusted, frustrated and a whole lot of other emotions.

Death is not the answer for a stressed out dog.

I've heard stories about the RSPCA but this story confirms them.

Re: RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

go-tazz — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:43:24 GMT

How can you take a dog from a place it was happy at and put it in a place where it thinks it's being punished or it's

not wanted and then put it down because it was "stressed".

Off course it was stressed because they made it stress out because of a convoluted process that's obviously

designed to be used so that they have an excuse to put the dog down.

A sensible way would be for an behaviorist to work with the dog whilst it's with foster carers in a loving and

happy place not in a kennel where it's unhappy and stressed out because it got booted from a happy place.

Re: RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

domino-710 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:46:29 GMT

I'm not even going there.

Being an animal lover - and everytime they asked - I gave.

Never again.

Re: RSPCA foster greyhound euthanased

bright.ton42 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:27:49 GMT

This is just sickening , even just watching the RSPCA show on TV when i've seen badly abused dogs put through a 'sociability assessment' about 5 minutes after it's been rescued and deemed unfit for adoption. so out comes the lethal needle. I don't know what the answer is when they are overcrowded but there has to be a better way.

In this case the greyhound shd have been returned to its foster carers there was no excuse.

I had made them partial beneficiaries in my will but now i will contact them and ask them why i should. . I'm just disgusted by this.