Coats for cold dogs – another “confusing” message from the RSPCA
The RSPCA’s PR department put out a press release on 7 January 2009. It stated that young dogs, old dogs and those with thin or sparse coats could benefit from a coat and that letting your dog get cold was an offence. By 13 January 2009, it was warning the same dog owners that they faced prosecution if they followed this advice.
Anne Kasica of the SHG said:
“This is a very unfortunate state of affairs. The central message is that the RSPCA can do anything it likes. It can prosecute people for having thin dogs, or for having a fat dog. Given the way that evidence is handled, with their vets often producing several versions of their reports before the final one is disclosed, the only people who are safe from the RSPCA are people who don’t keep an animal.”
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