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SPCA Report

We recently studied Causes in Our World. I choose the SPCA, here is my report.

The SPCA

You probably already know a lot about the SPCA. It was formed by English settlers to enforce animal acts and to stop animal cruelty in NZ.

They are amazingly well known throughout NZ, but you’d be surprised that they receive no government funding unless there is an emergency such as a drought. The SPCA attends to over 20,000 animals per year. Providing animals in their care with food, water and shelter these animals would have been otherwise homeless or mistreated animals.

As they are not government funded they run a few businesses inside the organisation. One of these is a cattery another is a pet supplies store and they run their own pet insurance company to. They also sell the rescued pets if they pass a test to see if they can behave in a family environment.

You may be wondering what you can do to help. You can do one of the easiest things, look after your pet so the SPCA does not have masses of pets come in their doors. You can also help by supporting HOPE a monthly pledge programme, putting pet food into the bins labeled at supermarkets. You could support cupcake day or maybe even consider adopting from the SPCA.

If you see someone being cruel to an animal call the SPCA and they will come and inspect the state of the animal or animals being badly treated.