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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Branch Animal Welfare Statistics for 2013

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Breakdown of reasons for animal intake In 2013 Cambridge branch rehomed 9 dogs, 95 cats and 54 miscellaneous "small furries...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Interesting take on the flood situation via twitter

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The ponies shown in this picture may be wishing the rain would let up, but there's really no indication that their welfare is seriously...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Is this the future for England?

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4,000 acts of horrific animal cruelty in Northern Ireland but just one court case  Northern Ireland's equivalent of the RSPCA—the Ulst...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Mill Road Winter Fair this Saturday

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Mill Road's popular Winter Fair is this Saturday, 7th December, and local author Saumya Balsari has kindly donated some free copies of ...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Lost and Found

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The way calls to the RSPCA about lost or found animals are handled has changed. Instead of recording these on the central computer (along w...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Westminster Hall debate on fly-grazing and equine welfare

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Storify of today's conference on welfare of dogs and cats in the EU

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[ View the story "The welfare of dogs and cats in the EU" on Storify ]

Welfare figures for first three quarters of 2013

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Finished writing up the branch welfare statistics for January-September last night: Dog Cat Rabbit ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

So, if we can get pet births down to replacement levels, problem solved?

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Alfie looking for a home Not entirely. It's quite possible to have a situation where most of the young animals are wanted but th...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Cats and dogs

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Virtually every week our branch gets requests for help with dogs or puppies who've been recently purchased and now have some kind o...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

How not to keep dogs

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Fortuitously (I sincerely hope it is not a portent of more of the same!) this week's calls could have been used as case studies to illu...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Newmarket shop re-launch!

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We've now recruited a new manager to replace Lorna and our shop in Newmarket will be re-opening next week. Lynne will be at the shop ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

RSPCA rehoming?

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Our inspector's request for us to crank up the numbers of rabbits we foster and rehome has provoked some soul-searching among the reh...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

RSPCA access to Police National Computer

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News stories about RSPCA access to the PNC earlier this year implied that inspectors might be trawling computer records looking for sensi...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Look out for "The Dog Rescuers" on Channel 5 on Tuesdays

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Monday, September 30, 2013

Animal Welfare in practice

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Lots of different definitions of animal welfare: The state of the animal's body and mind, and the extent to which its nature (gene...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Best ever Sunday at our Burleigh Street shop

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Fantastic day at 61 Burleigh street, although Anton, Una and I are now more or less crawling on hands and knees. In all, we took £340 -...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Freedom Food Farm Assessors

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A major reason why the bulk of the RSPCA's work is not "news" is that much of it is fairly technical and detailed. This y...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Pics of the spiffy new signage at RSPCA Cambridge Burleigh Street Shop

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"Pub sign" to make the shop visible to people facing parallel to the frontage Frontage The whole ensemble   Righ...

Rabbit interest group???

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Would anyone in the Cambridge, Ely or Newmarket area be interested in joining a branch rabbit welfare group? Our inspector has aske...