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	Cruelty - LoveToKnow Watches
		There was at one time a tendency among jurists to question whether, for instance, the prevention of cruelty to animals was not a recognition of a certain quasiright in animals, or whether it was merely that such exhibitions as bulland bear-baiting, cock-fights, andc., were demoralizing to the public generally.
		The Cruelty to Animals Acts 1849 and 1854 render liable to prosecution and fine practically any act of cruelty to an animal; such acts as dubbing a cock, cropping the ears of a dog or dishorning cattle, are offences.
		The Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was passed for the purpose of regulating the practice of vivisection (q.v.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cruelty (598 words)

	Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The English/Welsh RSPCA was founded by a group of twenty-two reformers led by Richard Martin MP (who would thereby earn the nickname Humanity Dick), William Wilberforce MP and the Reverend Arthur Broome originally as a society to support the working of Richard Martin's Act.
		In 1876 the Cruelty to Animals Act was passed to control animal experimentation.
		By the 1970s the work of the RSPCA was considered by many to have lost its radical force and the animal rights movement claimed to have taken over the struggle to improve the lot of animals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals (730 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - cruelty, prevention of
		In all states, parents guilty of bodily cruelty to, or moral corruption of, their children may now be lawfully punished, and the children may be taken from them to become wards of the state (see child abuse).
		Societies of both types—for the protection of children and of animals—promote better legislation and enforcement, investigate and report alleged cruelties, establish shelters and sometimes (animal) hospitals, and carry on education against cruelty.
		The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Westchester.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cruelty.asp (522 words)

	American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (usually referred to as the ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing the abuse of animals.
		It is the first animal welfare group in the Western hemisphere and is the oldest humane organization in the United States.
		Additionally, the ASPCA provides relief services for the domestic animal victims of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, where the National Outreach department collected donations to provide supplies; coordinated volunteer efforts; deployed rescue teams to recover abandoned pets; provided temporary shelter to displaced animals; and reunited pets with their owners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ASPCA (452 words)

	RSPCA - Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
		In those days, animals received no protection from the law and horses in particular were often overworked to the point of death and were kept in conditions of extreme filth and deprivation.
		The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as it was originally know, initially concentrated on gaining the sympathy of the public at large.
		In fact the work of the Society became so celebrated that in 1840, Queen Victoria honored the SPCA by allowing it to bear the title of ‘Royal’ and the RSPCA was born.
	www.cheappetinsurance.com /rspca.html (600 words)

	RSPCA: THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 1932 ACT: RSPCA COMPLAINTS WATCHDOG: LINKS FROM BUSHY ...
		The objects of the Society shall be to promote kindness and to prevent or suppress cruelty to animals and to do all such lawful acts as the Society may consider to be conducive or incidental to the attainment of those objects.
		None but members of the Society as defined in Rule III shall be competent to vote at any annual or extraordinary general meeting and the voting at each meeting shall be personal In the event of equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
		Subscribers to the Society who are not members as defined by Rule III may attend the annual general meetings of the Society but to obviate confusion in voting they shall be provided with seating accommodation apart from those entitled to vote.
	www.solarnavigator.net /www.horsesanctuary.org/royal_society_for_the_prevention_of_cruelty_to_animals_act_1932.htm (3941 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS [American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] (A.S.P.C.A.), chartered in 1866 in New York by Henry Bergh to shelter homeless animals, to assist farmers in caring for their livestock, and to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in the prosecution of game-law violators.
		The A.S.P.C.A. is patterned on the English organization, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded in 1824 through the efforts of Richard Martin (1754-1834), an Irish member of Parliament.
		On behalf of their animal friends: involving children in animal advocacy: since time immemorial, animals have been serving human society in at least three broad roles: as teachers, as healers, and as companions and friends.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AmerSPCA.asp (383 words)

	Report: Animal Cruelty Deep-Rooted in U.K.
		Sponsored by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and researched by Manchester Metropolitan University, the report said it was most alarmed by the assertions of some survey respondents, who said deliberate cruelty to animals was a normal stage in growing up.
		The RSPCA report cited the especially heart-wrenching case of 17-year-old collie cross named Misty, who was left to die zipped inside a sports bag that was left on a garbage heap.
		They note that animal cruelty cases in the United States are hard to track because they're rarely reported, and when they are, the complaints are filed under agricultural law, not penal law.
	www.totalobscurity.com /mind/news/2001/animal-cruelty.html (515 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first meeting to discuss concerns for the welfare of animals was held at the assembly hall in Collins Street Melbourne in 1871.
		Many animals are looked after at the R.S.P.C.A. Thirty to forty members of the public attended and discussed, crimes against animals and ways to prevent them.
		In 1881the name of the society was "Society for the Protection of Animals" and, in1956 it became,"The Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals." (R.S.P.C.A) In 1926 the first animal shelter was built, mainly as a rest home for horses.
	teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /cyberfair2004/RSPCA.htm (265 words)

	RSPCA: THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, HOMEPAGE LINKS: RSPCA COMPLAINTS WATCHDOG: LINKS ...
		As rivers burst their banks and farmland slowly disappeared under water, RSPCA inspectors tackled the dangerous task of moving animals that were at risk of drowning.
		However, the RSPCA is prone to assisting Councils in planning cases, for all the wrong reasons, and frequently gang up on farmers and refuse to account for complaints, which they later say were received anonymously - but in fact were not.
		The RSPCA (national Society) is responsible for four animal hospitals, three specialist wildlife hospitals, one wildlife rehabilitation unit, 13 animal centres and five clinics throughout England and Wales.
	www.solarnavigator.net /www.horsesanctuary.org/rspca.htm (1000 words)

	Animal Concerns Community - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In its early years the Society's major campaign was to win over the hearts and minds of the general public, and to change people's indifference to animal cruelty.
		The 181 convictions for cruelty that the Society achieved during 1832 - the first year such figures were recorded in its annual report - made a telling impact on public opinion about the treatment of animals.
		By 1840 the Society's work was held in such high regard that Queen Victoria gave her permission for the SPCA to be called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
	www.animalconcerns.org /resource.html?itemid=200601291302250.996609&catid=5 (500 words)

	Ministerial Section
		The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) today, November 14th, welcomed the Doha WTO Agreement on Trade as a step forward for farm animal welfare.
		A recent RSPCA report on the egg trade, Hard boiled reality showed that these costs would enable farmers still using intensive farming methods in other countries to undercut European farmers unless solutions are found.
		David Bowles, Head of RSPCA International, said "The decision is a good one for animal welfare, farmers and consumers at a time when safer, healthier food produced to humane standards is being demanded by the public.
	www.ictsd.org /ministerial/doha/docs/pressRSPCA.htm (346 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - RSPCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whether caring for abandoned or neglected animals, prosecuting animal abusers, educating or lobbying for animal welfare, the RSPCA is one of the largest welfare enforcement agencies in UK.
		The RSPCA Inspectors are the front line representatives of the societies activities and they investigate and react to incidents.
		Although the RSPCA aims to prevent cruelty through education and only use court proceedings as a last resort, the Society does not hesitate to prosecute in cases of cruelty.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/rspca.shtml (816 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| 'Alarming' rise in animal cruelty
		The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it continued to see an increase last year in the number of animals found abused and living in appalling conditions.
		The RSPCA's Communications Director John Rolls said the charity was currently discussing the introduction of compulsory microchipping with the Department of Trade and Industry.
		An RSPCA inspector called it "the worst case of animal cruelty" he had seen during nine years at Loughborough.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/sci/tech/323368.stm (567 words)

	The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The charitable objects of the RSPCA are to promote kindness and to prevent or suppress cruelty to animals and to do all such lawful acts as the Society may consider to be conducive or incidental to the attainment of those objectives.
		The RSPCA has a field force of about 475 inspectors and animal collection officers who respond to around 1.6 million phone calls reporting cruelty or lost and abandoned animals.
		The Society re-homes just under 100,000 animals a year through its network of 53 animals centres and provides treatment for animals of those who cannot afford it and wildllife through a network of seven hospitals and 47 clinics.
	www.fabcats.org /rspcaprof.html (206 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| UK animals' 'brutal year'
		The society says: "Although the majority of cruelty cases are still classified as neglect, the RSPCA is concerned at the growing amount of violence to animals up and down the country...
		John Rolls of the society said: "The RSPCA fears that if this level of violence goes unchecked and is ignored by society, many more may cite cruelty as 'normal behaviour' in future.
		The society has begun a pilot project which works with young offenders who have harmed animals to try to understand their motives.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2984809.stm (559 words)

	AR.net >> Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
		RSPCA releases booklet of prayers for people to use to pray for souls of animals killed for food or as part of animal research.
		In April 2004 the UK Animal Welfare Minister announced that the government had rejected calls for a ban on halal and kosher slaughter.
		The oldest animal welfare organization in the world is doing all it can to eliminate medical research with non-human primates.
	www.animalrights.net /archives/related_topics/organizations/pro_ar/rspca.html (431 words)

	Cork Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals
		The first Annual Meeting of the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals was held at the Royal Cork Instituition, on Thursday, the 18th of January 1872,
		He observed that the Officer of the Society has been during the past year very active, for he perceived that he had interfered in 224 cases, out of which there were 69 convictions, and a large number of the remainder were cautioned.
		The real value of these convictions was not confined to the effect produced by them on the persons convicted, but extended to that far larger number who thereby became cognisant of the fact that there was a Society in existence for preventing Cruelty to Animals, and that such cruelty would not be tolerated in Cork.
	homepage.eircom.net /~cspca/history/agm1.html (357 words)

	Estonian Society for Animal Welfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Associated 2001.
		The Estonian Academic Society for Animal Welfare (EASAW) was founded in 1990 at the Veterinary Faculty in Tartu Estonia.
		Animal welfare with veterinary ethics have been put into curriculum of Agricultural University students and these are obligatory for veterinary students.
	www.eau.ee /~ereintam/easaw.htm (1357 words)

	NAIA: Orion Pet Products Pty Ltd v Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alternatively, it claimed that the RSPCA had, in connection with the supply of goods or services in trade or commerce, falsely represented that goods were of a particular standard or quality, or had a particular history.
		Another source of income was from animal sales (being the sale of animals rescued) and dog training (being fees received from a dog trainer who conducted a training school at the shelter car park at Burwood).
		However, it was submitted that where the RSPCA had communicated to the public at large, either directly (through Dr Wirth's radio broadcasts and the material appearing on its website), or indirectly (through the provision of information to journalists such as Mr Papps) these communications were in fact quite central to its trading activities.
	www.naiaonline.org /articles/archives/holliday.htm (18958 words)

	Jet48 RAF Lakenheath's Weekly News Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Exception is given if the mammal is killed humanely as an act of mercy or if the animal is humanely killed after being injured or taken in the course of lawful shooting, hunting, coursing or pest control.
		A wild animal may also be killed by the lawful use of a poison, trap or snare.
		Editors note: This article is printed with permission from the RSPCA to educate the base populace on British wildlife laws.
	www.lakenheath.af.mil /jet48/discoverbritain/britain1003.htm (809 words)

	RSPCA Victoria: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1840 Queen Victoria honoured the Society with the prefix 'Royal' and the Royal Society for the
		> The primary objectives of the RSPCA are the prevention of cruelty to animals and animal rehabilitation by:
		In Victoria we currently have 16 inspectors investigating cruelty complaints, prosecuting offenders and inspecting pet shops, farms, abattoirs and areas where animals are used for public entertainment.
	www.rspcavic.org /kidsstuff/projects.htm (846 words)

	Study links child abuse with cruelty to animals
		A LEADING children's charity is to work closely with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals after research showed that investigations into cruelty to pets could also help to trap child abusers.
		Officials at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children are in talks with the animal welfare organisation about pooling information and setting up joint training programmes.
		Teaching children respect for life, human or animal, was at the centre of the RSPCA's education programme in school, she said.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/10/11/nabus11.html (738 words)

	Ontario SPCA (Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
		Ontario SPCA (Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
		Financial support is essential for humane societies to carry out their important work in investigating animal cruelty and providing care and temporary shelter to abused, neglected and unwanted companion animals.
		All animal lovers can make a difference to the lives of animals across the province by participating in the celebration of Be Kind to Animals Week.
	www.yorkregionospca.com /BeKindtoAnimalsWeek.htm (923 words)

	excerpts from the 1888 Chambers's Encyclopedia of Universal Knowledge
		PRIVY-CHAMBER, GENTLEMEN OF THE, officers of the royal household of England, instituted by King Henry VII., to attend on the king and queen at court, and in their progresses, diversions, andc.
		There are also four Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy-chamber, who are in regular attendance on the sovereign, waiting in the Presence-chamber, and attending on the royal person; they have the honor of conducting her Majesty, in the absence of the higher officers.
		It was resolved to apprentice promising boys and girls, the young persons (who were to be at least thirteen years of age on appointment) giving assistance in the school-work, and receiving separate instruction for one hour and a half daily from the principal teacher.
	vickipedia.livejournal.com (2627 words)

	Sports Features Communications - Press Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The international Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) recently sent a representative to
		Founded in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was the first humane organization established in the Western Hemisphere and exists to promote humane principles, prevent cruelty and alleviate pain, fear and suffering in animals.
		The original reality series Animal Precinct, airing on the Animal Planet network, chronicles the work of the ASPCA’s HLE agents as they investigate cases of animal cruelty.
	www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=12094 (420 words)

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