My buzzard

[Will_]

Take 4. I was hiking near Fordingbridge in Hampshire a few months ago and I came across a buzzard caught on barbed wire.
After half an hour shin deep in bog, I managed to release her but she seemed exhausted & had quite a nasty wound on her wing.
So she came home with me wrapped up in my smock and had a day in the dog's cage. I couldn't believe how friendly she was letting me hold her & stroke her beak. My plan was to feed her chicken for a week, let the wound heal, take her back and release her back into the wild...
But, my wife insisted I call the RSPCA. :bluThinki Who promptly came, took her away, and had her put down within a couple of hours.
No bones broken, no major feathers missing, just a small open wound. I smelled a rat when they spoke about releasing her back into the wild but never asked me where abouts I found her. :bluThinki

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[Will_]

Now with pictures

 

[Goatboy]

Good on you for trying Will, I'm not a fan of the RSPCA or RSPB, but I promised not to get into rant mode.
GB

 

[widu13]

I farm on shoot on has been having problems with foxes. I bumped into the farmer and asked if he is still having problems with foxes and had he "removed any". Fourteen last night he said. He then went on to explain he had witnessed the RSPCA releasing "nuisance" urban foxes onto his land and when he asked the RSPCA inspector about it, was told there is no law against it. He has since phoned them and asked if they could let him know when they were releasing so that he could greet them and miss out the faffing about bit!...they don't release there any more

 

[swotty]

I found a Barn owl a few years ago and made the mistake of taking it to the RSPCA and they killed it, I wish i'd cared for it instead of taking it to them too!

Not a fan.

 

[Gray]

I dont understand this at all, why do they do that. I thought they were supposed to fix em up etc etc. Is this a wind up or what, surely to god they dont kill wild animals when with a bit of TLC they'd be right as rain. Can someone explain cos I just dont get it.

 

[petrochemicals]

to be fair to all (rspca inc)

if a bird of prey has got a broken wing, it's curtains, unless they can rehouse it.

Just house it yourself !

 

[British Red]

Given they spend so much money trying to prosecute people, they probably don't have the money for vetinary work these days. Sadly they have become a capmapigning organisation rather than an active welfare group.

 

[Bushwhacker]

That's sound about right for the clowns in uniforms.
They're more interested in generating revenue from old biddies leaving millions in their wills and then wasting it on ridiculous prosecutions that never stand up.

 

[widu13]

if a bird of prey has got a broken wing, it's curtains

True enough but they are a bunch of clowns. What moron came up with the idea of releasing URBAN foxes into the countryside!

 

[Elen Sentier]

Well I'm on both sides of the fence here. The prosecuions do stand up and should do. But ... take your injured critter to your vet (assuming vet is useful!) who will tell you if the critter can be saved. Mine's very good on this, even helped a young seagull hit by a car right outside the surgery (fortunately) who was saveable ... but be aware, seagulls bite !!!

And I'm so sorry about your lovely buzzard, it would have broken my heart!

 

[Rod Paradise]

That's sound about right for the clowns in uniforms.
They're more interested in generating revenue from old biddies leaving millions in their wills and then wasting it on ridiculous prosecutions that never stand up.

And in getting the old biddies in Scotland to leave them money despite not doing anything up here. They refuse to put anything about not operating in Scotland in their national advertising, doing the SSPCA out of needed funds. More about the money than the animals.....

 

[Bushwhacker]

Well I'm on both sides of the fence here. The prosecuions do stand up and should do.

Not so hot with the Heythrop case, though.

 

[Elen Sentier]

Not so hot with the Heythrop case, though.

Heythrop case should have been brought and should stand - Cameron bribes !!!

 

[toilet digger]

as a point of reference for future wildlife injuries. vets will not charge for treatment on wildlife.

 

[Niels]

You should've taken it to that 'wildlife sos' tv show animal planet always broadcasts here, they would've taken care of it It's the only show in it's genre I really like

 

[Bushwhacker]

Heythrop case should have been brought and should stand - Cameron bribes !!!

They could rarely bring around a successful prosecution when Blair was in charge.

 

[British Red]

Take it anywhere but the RSPCA. They should spend donated money on saving animals - but these days its spent on political campaigning and nuisance prosecutions. If you actually want to make a difference to animal welfare, there are far better places to donate your money.

 

[Macaroon]

After a lifetime of training harness horses, a lot of my time over the years has been donated to animal rescue; the last people I want to see anywhere near a cruelty, neglect or starvation rescue are the RSPCA.....they confound and complicate all efforts at relief of the suffering of the animals concerned, give no help or support at all to the people at the sharp end and generally get in eveyones way.............I've more than once known them to STOP a rescue which is obviously life and death to the horses concerned because of some tiny legality that they're not happy about.............most people in horse rescue will have horror stories to tell, yet in the eyes of johnnie urban public, they can do no wrong...............go figger, as our cousins say!

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'm still surprised they've managed to retain the 'Royal' tag.