🚀 go-pugleaf

                                    Brisbane, Qld.

Hi:
   I recently lost a dog and approached the RSPCA with
a view to getting another one. Since I got my last two
dogs ten years ago from the RSPCA for ten dollars each,
the society has raised their prices by ONE THOUSAND
PERCENT. Over the same period, the cost of living has
been rising at a rate of an estimated 6 percent!

    The reason for this post is that, in my opinion, there
is no way the society can justify a rise of this magnitude,
and that by pricing the society's dogs out of the reach of
those in the lower income groups, a large number of abandoned
and otherwise homeless dogs are going to be destroyed by the
society in the future because they have raised their prices
to unrealistic levels, and most people can no longer afford
to buy dogs from the society that is supposed to be dedicated
to the welfare of animals!

    Putting animals down has a cost besides the moral issue!
The "green dream" that the animals are injected with would not
be free and the services of the people doing the nasty job
would have to be paid for as well.

    I would like to believe that a society that I have
supported for most of my 68 years has some valid reason for
putting their prices up to the point that they are shortly
going to be putting down hundreds of animals every week across
the country, primarily because they have priced them out of
reach of a large portion of the population! Is there a valid
reason for the outlandish prices, or have, as I suspect, the
folks in the RSPCA boardroom just lost the plot!

Anyone???









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