A dog sits in its enclosure at Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New South Wales shelter, during a coronvirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Sydney, Australia, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/James Redmayne 

A kitten sits in its enclosure at Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New South Wales shelter, during a coronvirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Sydney, Australia, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/James Redmayne 

A dog sits in its enclosure at Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New South Wales shelter, during a coronvirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Sydney, Australia, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/James Redmayne 

An injured koala is treated by RSPCA vet at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, at the Wildlife Emergency Response Centre in Parndana, Kangaroo Island, Australia January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy 

An injured koala is treated by RSPCA vet Lauren Eyre at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, at the Wildlife Emergency Response Centre in Parndana, Kangaroo Island, Australia January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy 

Shoppers pass "Shrek", a Chow Chow dog raising money for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), on Oxford street during the final weekend of shopping before Christmas in London December 20, 2014. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY ANIMALS HEALTH) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

Two badgers walk through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger walks through woodland near Pickering, northern England, July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANIMALS) 

A badger looks for food at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, southern England July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) 

A badger looks for food at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, southern England July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) 

A badger looks for food at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, southern England July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) 

A badger looks for food at the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield, southern England July 21, 2011. Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain's government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle herds.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT) 

Lommond, one of four rescued seal pups is seen swimming in the sea after being realeased back into its natural environment by RSPCA officers, after being cared back into good health, at Silver Sands beach in Aberdour, in Fife, east Scotland January 19, 2009. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) 

A worker from the RSPCA holds a guillemot bird covered in oil spilled from the ship the MSC Napoli at Branscombe on the southern English coast January 21, 2007. The ship was abandoned earlier in the week and now the cargo is being washed up onto nearby beaches. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN) 

- PHOTO TAKEN 10DEC05 - Two of the eight Asian elephants destined for zoos in [Sydney and Melbourne] walk inside a quarantine facility near Bangkok December 10, 2004. [An Australian tribunal ruled on December 7, 2005 that importing them from Thailand would not breach any laws after the International Fund for Animal Welfare, RSPCA Australia and the Humane Society International argued that national wildlife trade requirements had not been met, and that the zoos could not adequately provide for the elephants' behavioural and biological needs. However the licence to import the endangered animals will be subject to a number of conditions to ensure their welfare. The elephants have been raised in Thai camps, for a breeding and conservation programme and five of them were to go to a new $40 million purpose-built enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, and the other three to Melbourne Zoo.] Picture taken December 10, 2004.
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- PHOTO TAKEN 10DEC05 - One of the eight Asian elephants destined for zoos in [Sydney and Melbourne] is washed by its keepers at a quarantine facility near Bangkok December 10, 2004. An [Australian tribunal ruled on December 7, 2005 that importing them from Thailand would not breach any laws after the International Fund for Animal Welfare, RSPCA Australia and the Humane Society International argued that national wildlife trade requirements had not been met, and that the zoos could not adequately provide for the elephants' behavioural and biological needs. However the licence to import the endangered animals will be subject to a number of conditions to ensure their welfare. The elephants have been raised in Thai camps, for a breeding and conservation programme and five of them were to go to a new $40 million purpose-built enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, and the other three to Melbourne Zoo]. Picture taken December 10, 2004.
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Horses are rescued by members of Britain's RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals) in flood water at Llanrwst, near Betws Y Coed in North Wales, February 4, 2004. Many parts of Britain continued to suffer heavy rain on Wednesday with the area around the village of Llanrwst one of the areas worst affected by the flooding. NO RIGHTS CLEARANCES OR PERMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS IMAGE REUTERS/Ian Hodgson IH/MD/JV 

Horses are rescued by members of Britain's RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals) in flood water at Llanrwst, near Betws Y Coed in North Wales, February 4, 2004. Many parts of Britain continued to suffer heavy rain on Wednesday with the area around the village of Llanrwst one of the areas worst affected by the flooding. REUTERS/Ian Hodgson IH/MD/JV 

Amy Erbacher of Sydney cuddles her pet chihuahua "Pikelet" at a
National Blondes Day function held in Sydney September 10, 2003. Part
of an Australia-wide attempt at the Guinness Book of Records for the
most blondes in one place, participants took part in joke telling,
dance routines, make up and hair displays and fundraising for the
RSPCA. REUTERS/Will Burgess

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- UNDATED FILE PHOTO - A sick common seal pup lies in the isolation unit of the RSPCA Norfolk Wildlife Hospital in this undated file photo.The disease Phocine Distemper Virus has been discovered in Britain it was announced August 13, 2002. Scientists are claiming that up to half Western Europe's seal population could be killed by a virus that is raging between the Swedish and Dutch coasts. 

Seals suffering from the Phocine Distemper virus wait for treatment in the Norfolk RSPCA wildlife hospital, August 14, 2002. The deadly virus that has killed 3,000 seals in northern Europe, has spread with six confirmed cases confirmed in common seals in the Wash on England's eastern coastline. 

A seal suffering from the Phocine Distemper virus waits for treatment in the Norfolk RSPCA wildlife hospital, August 14, 2002. The deadly virus that has killed 3,000 seals off northern Europe has spread with six confirmed cases confirmed in common seals in the Wash on England's eastern coastline. 

- UNDATED FILE PHOTO - A sick common seal pup lies in the isolation unit of the RSPCA Norfolk Wildlife Hospital in this undated file photo.The disease Phocine Distemper Virus has been discovered in Britain it was announced August 13, 2002. Scientists are claiming that up to half Western Europe's seal population could be killed by a virus that is raging between the Swedish and Dutch coasts. 

Seals suffering from the Phocine Distemper virus wait for treatment in
the Norfolk RSPCA wildlife hospital, August 14, 2002. The deadly virus
that has killed 3,000 seals in northern Europe, has spread with six
confirmed cases confirmed in common seals in the Wash on England's
eastern coastline. REUTERS/Darren Staples

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A seal suffering from the Phocine Distemper virus waits for treatment
in the Norfolk RSPCA wildlife hospital, August 14, 2002. The deadly
virus that has killed 3,000 seals off northern Europe has spread with
six confirmed cases confirmed in common seals in the Wash on England's
eastern coastline. REUTERS/Darren Staples

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"Frazer Island" with jockey Richard Guest (foreground) falls in a pile-up at Bechers Brook in the Grand National at Aintree April 10. Behind are; "Eudipe" riden by Tony McCoy (C) who was later put down by racecourse vets, David Muir the RSPCA equine consultant present described the death of Eudipe as 'a pure accident which couldn't possibly have been predicted', and "Addington Boy" (R) ridden by Adrian Maguire. "Frazer Island" and "Addington Boy" survived this fall although no information has been given over what their injuries where. Irish horse "Bobbyjo" ridden by Paul Carberry won the race.
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LIV18D:SPORT-HORSERACING-NATIONAL:LIVERPOOL,ENGLAND,10APR99 - "Frazer Island" with jockey Richard Guest (foreground) falls in a pile-up at Bechers Brook in the Grand National at Aintree April 10. Behind are; "Eudipe" riden by Tony McCoy (C) who was later put down by racecourse vets, David Muir the RSPCA equine consultant present described the death of Eudipe as 'a pure accident which couldn't possibly have been predicted', and "Addington Boy" (R) ridden by Adrian Maguire. "Frazer Island" and "Addington Boy" survived this fall although no information has been given over what their injuries where. Irish horse "Bobbyjo" ridden by Paul Carberry won the race.

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Race course officials try to help 'Eudipe' ridden by Tony McCoy after they fell in the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool April 10, 'Eudipe' was later put down by vets, David Muir the RSPCA equine consultant present described the death of Eudipe as 'a pure accident which couldn't possibly have been predicted'. 'Bobbyjo' ridden by Paul Carberry won the race, 'Blue Charm' ridden by Lorcan Wyer was second with 'Call it a Day' ridden by Richard Dunwoody third.

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RSPCA employees Peter Barton from West Hatch Taunton (L) and Simon Dix from Worcester treat an oil-covered swan at an animal clinic in Milford Haven February 25. Thousands of birds and fish have been put at risk after the oil tanker the Sea Empress ran aground off the coast of Wales losing over half its cargo 

Actress Sharon Maughan, star of television's Gold Blend advert, sits in a veal crate January 18 to highlight the RSPCA's campaign to stop the export of calves. The RSPCA is asking the government to introduce laws preventing animals ending up in continental farming systems which were banned in the UK five years ago 

Actress Sharon Maughan, star of television's Gold Blend advert, sits in a veal crate January 18 to highlight the RSPCA's campaign to stop the export of calves. The RSPCA is asking the government to introduce laws preventing animals ending up in continental farming systems which were banned in the UK five years ago 

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan signs a giant version of a new manifesto of the European Committee for Improvements in the Transportation of Farm Animals in London, December 1, 1993. Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the RSPCA believe that if the manifesto's demands were adopted by the British government and the European community, much of the suffering involved in long distance transport could be stopped. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque KL/JO