Cats, dogs, children and old people…

Gillian Nuttall (PR & Marketing Manager)

Thirty years ago if someone had put a cat into a dustbin (bearing in mind that cats, at least the ones in my neighbourhood) enjoy rummaging in bins, it would not have even made the newspapers.

We have all embraced social media, especially the marketing team at Ralli, and we have used it to our great advantage. Had we not had this technology, word of the cat in the bin would probably not have made it to tomorrow’s fish and chip paper.

Quite what Mary Bale was thinking of is beyond anyone’s understanding, sticking a cat in a wheelie bin should not be anyones idea of fun and I fully understand the furore surrounding this matter.

However… only yesterday a Bolton pensioner was sentenced to a prison sentence for the abuse of a young girl over an 18 month period, only a couple of weeks ago the Guardian reported a young, vulnerable 14 year old girl who had been forced into prostitution after being targeted with offerings of vodka and cigarettes, in March of this year an inquest heard of a war veteran who had died in a nursing home just ten days after moving in. It was found that most of the residents in the home (which was eventually closed down) were unkempt, dirty and left wandering around.  www.nursinghomeabuse.co.uk gives far more serious examples of elderly abuse and has acted for some truly shocking, very sad cases.

The point I make here is that we appear to be a nation of animal lovers and are utterly outraged by Mary Bale’s ridiculous act of sticking a cat in a wheelie bin. Yet what of the child abused by the pensioner, the young child prostitute, the war veteran left to die? Who cares about those vulnerable members of society? Where are the CCTV cameras then? Who Tweets that information? Hard to do in 140 characters but certainly food for thought.

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  By Kathryn Whitehead, September 8, 2010 @ 9:21 am

  She has a point. According to statistics over 340,000 old people were abused in the United Kingdom last year. Who gives those people a voice?

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