Nosey people who don't have a clue

[browny823]

well first of all had a card of rspca as someone phoned up saying that all my calfs were housed and not in a field! Then today I've had a visit of animal health at another farm saying my animals are cold and wet even though there's shelter a barn and 5 acre of wood to go in as the animal health woman could see some people don't have a clue about farming and can't do right for doing wrong! Get on my tits rant over I'm going to have to start hiding all my stock and suggest any sheep farmers do same and don't let whoever it is keeps reporting me see anything as the rspca and animal health say they'll stop waisting my time with calls from these two people. Rant over

 

[Kevtherev]

Yet the ones I see with bad welfare standards keep getting away with it[emoji35]

 

[roscoe erf]

Yet the ones I see with bad welfare standards keep getting away with it[emoji35]

this is so true as I've said for years laws are for the law abiding

 

[James]

this is so true as I've said for years laws are for the law abiding

same as a lock only stops an honest man

 

[Tim W]

Had a complaint some years ago that my sheep didn't have anything to eat in the field---RSPCA was out there in the field when I arrived and he started ranting about the 'lack of food'
The sheep had acres of turnips & kale but apparently they cant eat these --------some people, not a clue

 

[cooksey]

used to keep a few pigs indoors in a shed you couldn't see unless you were snooping around the place! we had a sow and boar together for serving and the boar had scratched the sow a couple of times and some one reported us saying we had been abusing the pigs! RSPCA officer said its pigs for you and left didnt want to see any other stock to check how they were!

 

[gone up the hill]

Had a complaint some years ago that my sheep didn't have anything to eat in the field---RSPCA was out there in the field when I arrived and he started ranting about the 'lack of food'
The sheep had acres of turnips & kale but apparently they cant eat these --------some people, not a clue

RSPCA have NO more right to enter property/ remove stock than the next man in the street!!

If they try to enter your property without your consent tell them where to go!

The only people that have the right to enter your property is DEFRA/ AH staff/ trading standards / police without you first giving consent!

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

RSPCA have NO more right to enter property/ remove stock than the next man in the street!!

If they try to enter your property without your consent tell them where to go!

The only people that have the right to enter your property is DEFRA/ AH staff/ trading standards / police without you first giving consent!

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[gone up the hill]

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Trouble is the RSPCA wear police like uniforms and say they have rights of entry etc and many people believe them!

 

[Welsh Farmer]

Our neighbours in a close-by farm had a visit from the police and RSPCA because some woman kept phoning anyone she could think of to report her concerns about the "cow" that was quite obviously calling out in dreadful distress and was dying. The calling was the roar from one bull inside the shed to another out in the field the way stock bulls will occasionally do In spite of the police and rspca telling this woman what was occurring she kept phoning claiming they must have seen the wrong cow because it was now in even more distress. Just to keep the peace our neighbour took the indoor bull to buildings further away.

 

[James]

Our neighbours in a close-by farm had a visit from the police and RSPCA because some woman kept phoning anyone she could think of to report her concerns about the "cow" that was quite obviously calling out in dreadful distress and was dying. The calling was the roar from one bull inside the shed to another out in the field the way stock bulls will occasionally do In spite of the police and rspca telling this woman what was occurring she kept phoning claiming they must have seen the wrong cow because it was now in even more distress. Just to keep the peace our neighbour took the indoor bull to buildings further away.

in a case like that would it not be a good idea to bring this woman out to the farm and show her close hand what was happening and why and explain the diff between a bull and a cow while they're at it. good pr etc she'll leave happier and hopefully explain to others and farmer/public relations improved??

 

[Formatted]

Had the RSPCA called for a lamb stuck in brambles next to the road, arrived to find RSPCA 'officer' on his phone watching it. I walked up to the lamb and it freed itself without needing to be touched. Then got a lecture on how RSPCA and farmers should work together to improve farming welfare.

Great in principal, in reality they only go to farms they get phone-calls about which generally aren't that bad because all the really bad farms are hidden up tracks where no one goes.

 

[neilo]

in a case like that would it not be a good idea to bring this woman out to the farm and show her close hand what was happening and why and explain the diff between a bull and a cow while they're at it. good pr etc she'll leave happier and hopefully explain to others and farmer/public relations improved??

I'd have been more inclined to put a new shed up, as close as possible to the daft bint's house.

Do you think she would be receptive to any advice or education offered by the farmer that was causing the 'distress', when she obviously thought she knew better than both the RSPCA and the police, who had already tried to educate her.

Unfortunately there are a lot of folk living in the country these days, who seem to know an awful lot about very little. I have a lot of them in my local town, where I farm right up to the back gardens. You can explain things until you're blue in the face, but they still know better.

 

[Gulli]

I'd have been more inclined to put a new shed up, as close as possible to the daft bint's house.

Do you think she would be receptive to any advice or education offered by the farmer that was causing the 'distress', when she obviously thought she knew better than both the RSPCA and the police, who had already tried to educate her.

Unfortunately there are a lot of folk living in the country these days, who seem to know an awful lot about very little. I have a lot of them in my local town, where I farm right up to the back gardens. You can explain things until you're blue in the face, but they still know better.

It's acceptable to let your dog take a poo on these peoples lawns

We luckily don't get any complaints about the stock. Only when they are running round other people's lawns...

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Our neighbours in a close-by farm had a visit from the police and RSPCA because some woman kept phoning anyone she could think of to report her concerns about the "cow" that was quite obviously calling out in dreadful distress and was dying. The calling was the roar from one bull inside the shed to another out in the field the way stock bulls will occasionally do In spite of the police and rspca telling this woman what was occurring she kept phoning claiming they must have seen the wrong cow because it was now in even more distress. Just to keep the peace our neighbour took the indoor bull to buildings further away.

Ffs, you just couldn't make that up

 

[Philip Watkins]

The only people that have the right to enter your property is DEFRA/ AH staff/ trading standards / police without you first giving consent!

Don't know about DEFRA/ AH staff/ trading standards but you can tell the police where to go if they don't have a search warrant.

 

[Sid]

RSPCA have NO more right to enter property/ remove stock than the next man in the street!!

If they try to enter your property without your consent tell them where to go!

The only people that have the right to enter your property is DEFRA/ AH staff/ trading standards / police without you first giving consent!

If you get a visit from the RSPCA call Animal Health. They will help you to tell the RSPCA to get fudged!

 

[neilo]

It's acceptable to let your dog take a poo on these peoples lawns

I 'may' have offered to do just that a few times.

Nobody has taken me up on it yet.

 

[Grain Buyer]

Same neighbour has reported me for-

Burying asbestos
Burning industrial waste.
My dogs bothering his stock (he has non....turned out it was a pheasant!)
Me attacking him (asked him to leave my garden)
Claimed to have killed my dog by running it over and wanting money to repair the damage to his car (dog was actually stood next to me when he was telling me this).

there are some proper loons out there.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Same neighbour has reported me for-

Burying asbestos
Burning industrial waste.
My dogs bothering his stock (he has non....turned out it was a pheasant!)
Me attacking him (asked him to leave my garden)
Claimed to have killed my dog by running it over and wanting money to repair the damage to his car (dog was actually stood next to me when he was telling me this).

there are some proper loons out there.

You must be a right arsehole to live next door to!