Yesterday’s aggravation

[Bri963]

Unfortunately the RSPCA are their own worse enemy when it comes to rehoming animals. I know quite a few people who have been turned down for silly things like trying to take the dogs to work. They would rather it's locked in a cage and have a dog walker at lunch time than belong to farmers/ foresters / fencers.
I also detest them due to the way they have treated some people confiscating perfectly healthy gun dogs as they don't agree with field sports.

I think that’s probably down to how some individual officers work. Regarding the gun dogs, you don’t always tend to hear both sides of that particular argument. Some gun dog owners treat their animals like absolute s**t so I don’t have any sympathy when their animals get confiscated.

 

[JD450A]

Some gun dog owners treat their animals like absolute s**t so I don’t have any sympathy when their animals get confiscated.

In my experience, Most......

 

[Smiffy]

In my experience, Most......

There are as ever a few bad apples but by and large most the gun dogs I have met have been pets and cared for no different to all the dogs aforementioned in this thread.
And the cases where, at the time quite well publicised, with the RSPCA abusing their powers to punish people involved in field sports.
The RSPCA also put down a huge amount of healthy dogs whilst we import a great number of stray dogs from foreign countries.
Unfortunately you won't change my mind that they have completely lost their way and it's further exasperated by drawing staff from the most woke sections of society.

 

[HuntingHicap]

In my experience, Most......

Sorry don't agree with this. Best part of 20 years spent season after season beating and helping on shoots, more recently on a syndicate, the vast majority of Pickers up and beaters treat their dogs better than they treat themselves or their family. A lot of negative bull**** about country sports these days, mostly lazy stereotyping from people who have barely been involved other than seeing from afar.

 

[Furniss]

Sorry don't agree with this. Best part of 20 years spent season after season beating and helping on shoots, more recently on a syndicate, the vast majority of Pickers up and beaters treat their dogs better than they treat themselves or their family. A lot of negative bull**** about country sports these days, mostly lazy stereotyping from people who have barely been involved other than seeing from afar.

my old man was a part time keeper in his later years and I spent a lot of time around country sports and agree

 

[V8Druid]

Pam's brother was a weekend 'shooter' .. spent serious money 'mixing with what he thought were the right kind ' ... had three spaniels that lived in a shed and only saw fresh air at weekends ... treated 'em like sh*t ... didn't even know one had died 'til he came to get 'em out (like tools) on a Saturday .... I'd considered reporting his 'behaviour' several times, but Pam always veto-ed it -- should've just done it

 

[HuntingHicap]

Pam's brother was a weekend 'shooter' .. spent serious money 'mixing with what he thought were the right kind ' ... had three spaniels that lived in a shed and only saw fresh air at weekends ... treated 'em like sh*t ... didn't even know one had died 'til he came to get 'em out (like tools) on a Saturday .... I'd considered reporting his 'behaviour' several times, but Pam always veto-ed it -- should've just done it

Thats animal abuse on any level. By the sounds of it wouldn't he have treated anything else any better, have seen people keep chickens eye deep in s**t as well, hardly feed them and wonder why they don't lay. Just seems in todays world any chance for a cheap shot at fieldsports is a given, one day we will have a sterile society with everyone eating chemical laden s**t from a tin, is that what we want?

 

[Bri963]

Sorry don't agree with this. Best part of 20 years spent season after season beating and helping on shoots, more recently on a syndicate, the vast majority of Pickers up and beaters treat their dogs better than they treat themselves or their family. A lot of negative bull**** about country sports these days, mostly lazy stereotyping from people who have barely been involved other than seeing from afar.

Not from afar in my case. I grew up on the land and worked on it from 12 to 26, and stand by what I said, some gun dog owners, plus some farmers, some pet owners, some slaughterhouse staff, and in one case a vet, shouldn’t be near any animal. Anybody involved in cruelty deserves more than hurt feelings.

 

[Smiffy]

Not from afar in my case. I grew up on the land and worked on it from 12 to 26, and stand by what I said, some gun dog owners, plus some farmers, some pet owners, some slaughterhouse staff, and in one case a vet, shouldn’t be near any animal. Anybody involved in cruelty deserves more than hurt feelings.

But it's a minority of every group and it shouldn't be allowed to tar everyone.
And it really is every group as hunt sabs who supposedly lover and adore animals have been seen hiring hounds and horses.

 

[Bri963]

But it's a minority of every group and it shouldn't be allowed to tar everyone.
And it really is every group as hunt sabs who supposedly lover and adore animals have been seen hiring hounds and horses.

That’s my point, it’s a minority, and I’m not tarring everyone, but I’d like to tar and feather some I’ve come across.

 

[Bri963]

Well this has gone off topic by some. On a brighter note this is a shelter I designed and organised for a local school recently. All built by volunteers over two Saturdays. It’s for an outdoor school area that was a bit too outdoors when it pee’d down. Not massively impressive compared to what some of you boys are doing, but my bit for the community. My primary school wouldn’t have had a playing field if it wasn’t for the local saddler donating an acre to the school. I couldn’t do that but wanted to do something.