Dear Readers, another update to keep you abreast with any developments. Unfortunately there have been few. As the photo shows the compound where the solitary cat is kept is now badly overgrown and I am pleased to say that another winter is almost over for this poor creature. With the minus degree temps at night here it must be very uncomfortable! Once more I stress a good home is waiting for it if only it can be legally rescued. It is difficult to get a good photo of it but when I get one I will publish.

Comments that seem to regularly appear on this site suggesting that the cat is no longer there, that it looks well, etc are rubbish and need to be ignored. I just cannot understand why ordinary individuals try and spread rumours like that. If the Council state that they have not seen the cat that would be very logical, for to go to where the cat exists would involve them trespassing ( their interpretation) on private property, and as they have stated in the past they will not do that.

One body that could effect change is the body that is responsible for regulating the enforcement of POCTA in NSW, and that is the Dept of Primary Industries. This is the Body that has appointed RSPCA NSW as an authority to manage the administration of POCAT and receives an annual grant to do that. Unfortunately it does not seem bothered to check to see whether the RSPCA NSW is effectively doing that, but as taxpayers why should we be financially aiding a body that is unanswerable to us?

I have written to the Dept of Primary Industries on several occasions and they have not been at all forthcoming with answers, either at all or on other occasions in a timely fashion. In fact I have had to get a response only by going to my State MP.

Some of the questions I have asked and have not been addressed are as follows -

(1)`You (Mr Christie, Deputy Director General, Biosecurity and Food Safety) have stated that POCTA is enforced by independent approved charitable organisations, two being RSPCA NSW and Animal Welfare League. They may be independent financially but they are not independent in action and I attach a letter from the AWL whose help I required in getting POCTA infringements addressed at Camp Kitty, Cowra. They would not assist because they maintain the RSPCA NSW is dealing with this case’.

(2) `As the Administrator of POCTA are you concerned with the issues I have raised with you, specifically (1) the lack of independent action from the two enforcement agencies, and (2) the indifference and inaction to breaches of POCTA that the RSPCA have allowed to take place at Camp Kitty. (3) Also, can you get the RSPCA to investigate and report on why the situation had been unresolved for so long, and what happened to the cats that disappeared?

Are there any readers that can ask these same questions (or others) of the Dept of Primary Industries to try and get answers? I did get a most nondescript reply that did not deal with the questions I have raised.

I believe that the more readers that ask them the more this body will pay attention.

NSW needs effective bodies that enforce POCTA and not just accept taxpayers money and do very little, with the collaboration of a government body!

If you can help please let me know. My email address is climpo2@yahoo.com

The DPI email address is biosecurity@dpi.nsw.gov.au

If pressure is put on the DPI then they may decide it would be easier to get rid of the RSPCA NSW as an Administrator, stop the funding of them from the public purse, and approach a boy that may be more accountable!

Please, please help, Keith

ps, Please be aware that there are other people who are so fed up with the RSPCA that they have organised themselves on websites. One such body is the `RSPCA Full Exposure’ site. Please think about joining.