RSPCA SHOP, BANS HELPER BRINGING IN HER DOGS.

RSPCA volunteer Julia Anderson has blasted the charity´s bosses after they banned her rescue dogs from their shop.
Julia was stunned to be told her Staffordshire cross pets Gina and Tully were no longer welcome — despite them coming from a local rescue home run by the charity.

A health and safety review has outlawed her pets — despite customers still being allowed to browse the shop´s bric-a-brac with their dogs.

Julia, 52, used to let the pair snuggle down behind the counter in Halifax, West Yorkshire. She is a life member of the charity and has been a shop volunteer for 16 years.

She said: "It´s ridiculous. The shop raises money for the local RSPCA rescue home and that is where I got my dogs — but they are banned from the shop.

"I don´t bring them in every week but if I´ve had nobody else to look after them I have done.

"It has never been a problem. They would just snuggle down, they didn´t cause any fuss. Unlike people, they don´t steal charity tins from the counter, or £25 jackets from the rails, drop chewing gum, food or rubbish on the carpet or disrupt the displays.

"But last week I was told the rules had changed. It´s absurd when customers can come in with their dogs.

"Health and safety is robbing people of common sense."

Trustee Kath Airey said the ban was a "blanket decision for all shops".

She said if all workers brought dogs to work then risk assessments would be needed along with volunteers´ insurance — and it wouldn´t be possible to predict dogs´ behaviour.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3961017/RSPCA-shops-ban-on-helpers-RSPCA-dogs.html