Nelson, a doberman with a fractured skull and spinal injuries being treated at RSPCA Finsbury Park Animal Hospital. Two years later I photographed him in settled in his new home. It was a joy to see him loved, happy and playful.
The RSPCA's Water Rescue Team bringing a dog to safety from a flooded house after Storm Christoph, Warrington January 2021.
Charlie, an Animal Care Assistant maintaining Covid social distancing while cleaning kennels at RSPCA Millbrook in Surrey, April 2020.
Chief Inspector Mark Thompson during a multi-agency operation to remove horses from unsuitable living conditions, Norfolk 2009.
A distressed guillemot on Chesil Beach following the Napoli oil tanker accident in January 2007. This one was caught, cleaned and released by the RSPCA's wildlife centre at West Hatch in Somerset.
One of a litter of lurcher puppies with sarcoptic mange abandoned in a plastic bag, June 2021. With simple (and cheap) treatment they quickly made a full recovery.
Another pollution incident; an oil spill on a canal in Lancashire in 2020. Inspector Dan Tomlinson had the task of restraining the uncooperative swan, who was cleaned and released several weeks later by RSPCA Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre.
RSPCA Inspectors Lauren Evan (left) and Natalie Kitchin (assisted by a private vet) rescuing an abandoned foal found tangled in a barbed wire fence by a fishing lake in Surrey.
Nate, a longstay lurcher at Millbrook gets a spontaneous cuddle from Beth, who is famed for her casual approach to nail varnish.
Christine, owner of Gamrie Goat Soap photographed for the Good Business Awards in 2009.
Volunteer Jamie Henn encouraging a northern bottlenose whale onto the bank of the River Thames in central London during an unsuccessful rescue attempt by several agencies and charities, January 2006.
Sue Crutchley of the RSPCA's Sea Cage Project releasing a guillemot after successful rehabilitation in a floating enclosure off the Dorset coast in 2005.
Animal Collection Officer Joel Millard (working on his last day with the RSPCA) during the rescue of over 250 dogs from a three-bedroom house.
A female Indian elephant during daily "exercise time" at a UK zoo, taken covertly as part of a campaign to improve welfare in 2002. The image was published widely, and inspired the art critic Brian Sewell to devote his column in the Evening Standard to the issue.
A common seal pup suffering from phocine distemper virus lying on a beach at Brancaster Bay in Norfolk, 2002.
An RSPCA vet nurse feeding a lamb in an emergency lambing pen in Lincolnshire during the Foot-and-Mouth disease outbreak in the UK in March 2001. The RSPCA provided assistance for farmers who were unable to manage their lambing due to livestock movement restrictions.
A wren fledgling being hand-fed at RSPCA Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre in June 2026. There are hundreds of birds admitted in the spring, each needing to be fed every half-hour during their rehabilitation.
All images reproduced by kind permission of the RSPCA.
