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SPCA supports housing systems that provide game birds with choices to experience a Good Life with positive welfare and meet their physical, health, behavioural needs.

​SPCA advocates for the end of the New Zealand greyhound racing industry. While greyhound racing continues in New Zealand, SPCA advocates for the greyhound racing industry to improve its practices to provide a Good Life where greyhounds experience positive welfare and meet the physical, health, and behavioural needs of the dogs for the whole of their life.

SPCA advocates that people involved in the showing and breeding of animals must prioritise health, welfare, and behavioural traits, when choosing which animals to breed, permit for entry to shows and select as winners.

SPCA supports the use of managed and targeted Trap-Neuter-Return methods to control populations of stray cats, providing it is carried out according to best practice guidelines.

SPCA advocates for the implementation of humane and sustainable management strategies, including effective non-lethal cat management, such as managed targeted trap-neuter-return programmes with the overall goal of no stray cats in New Zealand.

SPCA advocates that police officers use properly trained handlers to pacify or safely contain animals.

SPCA advocates for deliberate decision-making for animal ownership and that animals must only be kept as companions when a person has the knowledge, ability, and means to provide a Good Life and meet their physical, health, and behavioural needs.

SPCA advocates for animals to be provided with a properly fenced area which allows them to have a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health, and behavioural needs are met.

​SPCA advocates for the horse sport and entertainment industries to improve practices to provide horses with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and meet the physical, health, and behavioural needs of the horses for the whole of their life. SPCA supports the use of low-stress, force-free handling and training techniques for horses in sport and entertainment. SPCA supports housing of horses which allows them to meet their physical and behavioural needs.

SPCA opposes the use of live animals as bait or a lure for the purpose of baiting and training because of the negative welfare impacts on the bait animal.