It's looking like it's going to be a shaky year for collective sanity, if recent news is anything to go by. We have the batty examples of the owners of a porky pooch being taken to court by the RSPCA and babies being loaned out to prospective teenage parents in the name of public entertainment for the TV programme 'Baby Borrowers'. The country has gone quite mad!
Who really cares if a dog gets overweight when obesity is such a serious epidemic among children? (Indeed, this week, social services were considering taking Connor McCreaddie of Wallsend into care, because the eight-year-old weighs 14 stone.) Someone needs to put things in perspective here. On a social level, why do we have a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and merely a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children?
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