# The RSPCA's Strangest calls for Help **By Megan Balmer** · 2018-01-23 For many January is slow, depressing and ultimately just very dull! So in order to cheer it up a little bit the RSPCA has released their most comic call out of 2017! For example, the RSPCA Inspectors were called to a field after a farmer's elderly neighbour called about 4 ewes stuck in a hedgerow and was concerned because they has been there for two days, when the RSPCA Inspectors arrived.... They did not find 4 ewes but a runaway bunch of balloons! ![Making a H-ewe-g Mistake!](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_large.jpg?v=1516103598) And then there was the time when they got several cals from multiplie concerned people about the blindfolded horse, who was being transported, in a trailer with their legs tied to the trailer..... and was made of plastic! ![Frozen in Fear... or He's just Plastic](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_1_large.jpg?v=1516103837) Or when a people called to report a dead horse in a field only for it to be a bathtub and a scrap piece of carpet! ![Bathtub and Carpet](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_2_large.jpg?v=1516105741) Even when a delivery man contacted the RSPCA to express his concern for a dog he reported as being "immobile" and "covered in frost", which then turned out to be a painted statue of a collie! ![Collie ](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_4_large.jpg?v=1516107117) And the terrified lady who'd called horrified by the giant spider she'd seen under the stairs... later found out it was her son's toy! ![](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_5_large.jpg?v=1516109024) Oh! and don't forget the heron with the broken leg stuck on top of a back garden fence, which luckily turned out to be a stone figure! ![Stone Blooded](//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0225/4471/files/stream_img_3_large.jpg?v=1516106728) Dermot Murphy from the RSPCA stated:  "When you’re working with animals, you expect the unexpected - but some of the calls we get are downright bizarre! And while it’s a bit of light relief in a generally tough and emotional job, there’s a serious message here too. We appreciate that most people mean well but we would urge callers to stop and think before asking us for help." ###### Original Article: [https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2018-01-15/from-plastic-spiders-to-balloon-sheep-rspca-reveals-comic-call-outs/](https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2018-01-15/from-plastic-spiders-to-balloon-sheep-rspca-reveals-comic-call-outs/) **Tags:** All Blogs, Cat, Dog, Horse, News --- > Source: [Pet n Pony](petnpony.co.uk/blogs/news/ditch-those-january-blues-the-rspca-released-a-list-of-their-funniest-calls-for-help)