The most ridiculous calls to the RSPCA in 2009

As well as the emergency services, the RSPCA also get their fair share of mind-boggling calls from the public.

The RPSCA have issued their list of the most ridiculous calls they received from the animal-loving British public in 2009.

A member of the public rang to report a slow moving tortoise on the hard shoulder of a motorway. With the help of the Highways Agency it was finally tracked down; it was a deflated football.
Someone called to inform them that a seagull was looking sad because it was sitting in the rain.
A caller rang to see if the RSPCA would remove a spider from her bathroom sink.
An RSPCA inspector was called out to investigate a bat, which had been asleep on a bedroom ceiling for several days. It turned out to be a damp patch.
A woman called the RPSCA’s emergency telephone number to ask them to reserve a chair she had seen in an RSPCA charity shop window.
Another rang to see if the charity could get her RSPCA catalogue from her friend’s house as she had borrowed it a long time ago and not returned it.
One lady rang to say the farm next door to her smelled and wondered if there was anything they could do about it.
A cat-owner wanted advice on why his pet did not purr.
Staff at a hotel situated next to a duck pond called to say that guests were complaining because they could hear the ducks quacking.
A man rang to ask for help in removing ladybirds which were climbing up his wall.