The Self Help Group for Farmers, Pet Owners and Others
Experiencing Difficulties with the RSPCA (The SHG)
Press Release
For Immediate Release
8th October 2009
RSPCA Attempts To Censor The Internet And Suppress Criticism
The German Shepherd Rescue network (“GSR”) has, during the course of a superb and highly-successful internet-based
campaign, drawn international attention to the RSPCA’s hypocritical annual slaughter of many thousands of healthy dogs.
The GSR campaign focuses on ten German Shepherd dogs (“GSDs”) who were slaughtered together in Pontadarwe in July this
year by RSPCA inspectors using a captive bolt pistol.
The national outcry and response from the national media has been huge. The RSPCA seems to have lost patience. Nothing
they have said or done has been able to stem the flow of criticism.
Things have now taken a darker tone. The charity’s highly-paid lawyers have written to Jayne Shenstone of the GSR in
threatening tones.
They claim that the RSPCA owns the trade mark of the acronym RSPCA “in both upper and lower case”. Part of a
communication from top RSPCA commercial lawyer Amanda Gibbs states: