Rotorua makes SPCA list of shame three times
Rotorua appears three times on the SPCA's latest list of animal cruelty - twice more than last year.
The list cites 50 examples nationwide of animal abuse occurring in the first nine months of this year. With its three entries Rotorua is the only town in the Central North Island which features.
(check out what the entries were)
Rotorua SPCA president Britta Bowden is appalled but not surprised that Rotorua appears on the national list three times and thinks the dog fighting incidents really threw the area into the spotlight.
"It's really shameful," she said."Anything worse would be horrific. We don't like taking people to court but if we have to we will."
Mrs Bowden said the SPCA saw examples of animal cruelty every day. The most common cases in Rotorua were basic neglect, such as failing to provide food, water and shelter.
"If you can't provide this for an animal then don't get one, it's as simple as that. Baby animals need as much care as a baby human."
She said at present there was a typical case of neglect at the Rotorua SPCA. A dog, brought in about eight weeks ago, had been left tied to a fence, had mange and was under weight."We're just starting to get him back on track but are not sure if we'll be able to re-home him. We'll see how he responds to the treatment. He's so frail, all he wants is for someone to love him."
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Now I do NOT understand animal abuse like this. How can anyone tie a dog up and leave it?? They say that animal abuse is a precursor to human abuse. If this is so, what is the statistics for human abuse in Rotorua?
Some non-dog lovers wouldn't really understand my stance that if caught, they should get penalised as if it were human abuse. Dogs trust their humans to care for them. This is a breach of the right to be well fed, house, and intellectually stimulated. And that's another abuse people don't realise. And that's a different topic!
The list cites 50 examples nationwide of animal abuse occurring in the first nine months of this year. With its three entries Rotorua is the only town in the Central North Island which features.
(check out what the entries were)
Rotorua SPCA president Britta Bowden is appalled but not surprised that Rotorua appears on the national list three times and thinks the dog fighting incidents really threw the area into the spotlight.
"It's really shameful," she said."Anything worse would be horrific. We don't like taking people to court but if we have to we will."
Mrs Bowden said the SPCA saw examples of animal cruelty every day. The most common cases in Rotorua were basic neglect, such as failing to provide food, water and shelter.
"If you can't provide this for an animal then don't get one, it's as simple as that. Baby animals need as much care as a baby human."
She said at present there was a typical case of neglect at the Rotorua SPCA. A dog, brought in about eight weeks ago, had been left tied to a fence, had mange and was under weight."We're just starting to get him back on track but are not sure if we'll be able to re-home him. We'll see how he responds to the treatment. He's so frail, all he wants is for someone to love him."
MORE>>
Now I do NOT understand animal abuse like this. How can anyone tie a dog up and leave it?? They say that animal abuse is a precursor to human abuse. If this is so, what is the statistics for human abuse in Rotorua?
Some non-dog lovers wouldn't really understand my stance that if caught, they should get penalised as if it were human abuse. Dogs trust their humans to care for them. This is a breach of the right to be well fed, house, and intellectually stimulated. And that's another abuse people don't realise. And that's a different topic!
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