Heart-breaking figures from the RSPCA show an alarming increase in intentional cruelty against animals including 21 reports from the Isle of Wight last year.
Overall, the number of reports made nationally to the charity’s cruelty line about intentional harm to animals – including beatings, mutilations such as ear cropping, poisonings and even killings – has increased by 14%, with 12,582 reported last year compared to 11,012 reports in 2021.
In the Isle of Wight, there were 21 reports of intentional harm against animals made to the RSPCA last year.
As a result, the animal charity is bracing for one of its busiest summers this year as it expects another summer of suffering, with more people reporting cruelty to animals from July to September.
The charity has launched its Cancel Out Cruelty campaign, to raise funds to help its frontline rescue teams continue to save animals from cruelty and abuse and to raise awareness about how to stop cruelty to animals for good.
The national figures, exclusively released on Monday (3rd July) by the RSPCA, show:
- In 2022 the charity saw a 22% increase in reports of beatings (9,658 in 2022, compared to 7,857 in 2021) that’s 26 every day
- The number of beatings reported to the RSPCA in 2022 peaked in August, when 1,081 reports were received – a staggering 35 a day
- The number of animals killed in ‘suspicious circumstances’ increased in 2022 by 15% from by 2021 (891 in 2022, compared to 775 in 2021)
- 77% of all cruelty complaints reported to the charity 2022 were beatings
Paul Williams, chief inspector for the Isle of Wight said:
“Right now, animal cruelty is happening in England and Wales on a massive scale and rising. and sadly the number of cruelty incidents in the Isle of Wight are also too high. It is heartbreaking that we are seeing figures which show animal cruelty is, very sadly, on the rise.
Article continues below this advertisement “While we don’t know for certain why there has been an increase in reports of cruelty, the cost of living crisis and the post-pandemic world we live in has created an animal welfare crisis with more people getting pets with potentially less time and money to care for them.
“Each year, these reports of cruelty reach its terrible annual peak in the summer months – when nationally we receive a report of an animal being beaten on average every hour of every day.
“The cost-of-living crisis also means the cost of rescuing animals is at an all-time high and our vital services are stretched to the limit.”
It is not known why reports of animal cruelty peak in the summer months although factors like animal abuse being more visible as people are outdoors more, could be one factor.
Reported many times but they do nothing……
Whoever is cruel to animals deserves to be treated like the low life scum they truly are !!!!
Don’t deserve to breathe the air ,let alone be on this earth….
Scumbags the lot of them , I wish and hope they suffer in life …..
IOW RSPCA do nothing about reports of animal cruelty. But at least they’ve got pretty uniforms and shiny new vans fully stocked with euthanasia drugs to put healthy wildlife to death when given by the public. RSPCA are a joke. Various island animal welfare organisations do more for animals with a very small fraction of the money the RSPCA have.
Very strange how the so called RSPCA conduct their business on this island. I know they are independent from the mainland, but they are employed to investigate, remove and prosecute vile, sick so called humans who think it’s ok to be cruel to animals.
I refuse to give money to the RSPCA nowadays as they euthanise healthy dogs if they can’t find a home for them within a week but make it impossible for people to try to adopt/own them.
I give you my word if I ever saw harm to an animal I would destroy you
If I knew or heard of anyone intentionally beating or being in any way cruel to an animal, I’d beat them, see how they liked it. Animals deserve so much better than lowlife, sick humans being unkind to them.