Save Our Welsh Cats & Dogs from Death on the Roads

Reference: P-04-445

Dear Members

I have highlighted repeatedly over the years, the failure of the RSPCA to acknowledge the distinction between the human activated dog training collars (which should be banned) and the animal-activated boundary fencing collars but also to recognise that their own former Chief Vetinerary Officer Chris Laurence was using the boundary fencing system to protect his own cat & dog legally in England for decades.

The same is now true of Blue Cross whose CEO Steve Goody I was in email discussion in June. However he has failed to reply to my email when I enclosed a copy of the Kennel Club’s response to the 2007 Public Consultation as welcoming the Welsh Assembly’s distinction between the two types of collars and saying that “they did not consider a ban on boundary fencing collars as necessary as the other devices”.

Steve Goody also failed to respond and when I asked him to tell me where I could read for myself the ‘adverse scientific studies’ specific to boundary fencing collars.

The fact these Agencies are putting their names behind the deeply flawed RSPCA so-called “Scientific Evidence” is very disturbing.

Also the fact that some of these Agencies will not rehome healthy cats & dogs in homes situated on or near a road but have them destroyed after a period of time is a horrific, national disgrace.

It is my and many others’ belief that their misplaced ideology ends the lives of more healthy cats & dogs than it saves.

Monima O’Connor