‘Tweet-a-thon’ will show breadth of RSPCA’s work

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The RSPCA will be tweeting animal emergencies as they happen today (Wednesday 15 December).

Twitter fans who follow RSPCA_Frontline at: twitter.com/RSPCA_Frontline will be able to view the wide range of calls for help the RSPCA receives.

On average someone in England and Wales calls the RSPCA’s cruelty line on 0300 1234 999 every 30 seconds. The charity received more than 1.25 million phone calls last year and responds to around 1,000 incidents a day.

Inspector Tony Woodley, communications and liaison officer for the RSPCA inspectorate, set up the RSPCA_Frontline Twitter feed as he wanted to publicise the work of the RSPCA’s 288 inspectors, 119 animal welfare officers and 74 animal collection officers.

He said: “Following in the footsteps of Greater Manchester Police who published details of every incident for 24 hours on Twitter, we plan to tweet as many incidents as possible on Wednesday 15 December.

“For the last couple of months I’ve been tweeting a few incidents a day, but I’m going for a marathon push to show the situations RSPCA officers face on a daily basis and the number of animals we help.

“Feedback on Twitter has been excellent and people are interested to know about the RSPCA’s frontline work, although they are understandably shocked by the extent of the cruelty and neglect we deal with.”

Calls to the RSPCA’s cruelty line are in confidence.

Details of incidents tweeted are edited so no one is identified and will not include a location. To report animal suffering or cruelty to the RSPCA, call 0300 1234 999. Don’t send a message via Twitter.