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Animal Advocacy

Position Statements

All animals

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  • Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)
    SPCA supports the rehoming of FIV positive cats.
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  • Feral Cats
    SPCA acknowledges that feral cats are considered a pest under New Zealand law and recognises the need to act on ecological and conservation concerns where predation is likely to be a serious problem. Our organisation opposes methods of killing feral cats which do not result in a humane death.
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  • Feral Horses
    SPCA advocates for fertility control be adopted by wild horse advisory groups as a tool to reduce the need for mustering, rehoming, euthanasia, or slaughter. SPCA advocates for feral horse management to be conducted with only the most humane methods of control.
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  • Fighting Animals
    SPCA opposes animal fighting for sport or entertainment, for example dog fighting and cock fighting.
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  • Fireworks
    SPCA advocates for a ban on the private sale and use of fireworks in New Zealand due to the distress and harm they cause to animals. SPCA advocates that fireworks, pyrotechnics and gas-fired explosions should never be permitted to be used at events involving animals due to the distress they cause animals.
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  • Fish
    SPCA advocates fish must only be kept as companions when a person has the knowledge, ability, and means to provide them with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and meet their physical, health and behavioural needs.
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  • Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates
    SPCA advocates that wild fish and aquatic invertebrates must be treated humanely and practices that have the potential to cause unnecessary pain, injury or suffering must be avoided.
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  • Found Kittens
    SPCA advocates that healthy, pre-weaned stray kittens should be kept with their mother, provided they are in a safe location and not at risk to welfare harms.
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  • Freeze and Hot Branding (Companion)
    SPCA advocates that the freeze branding of animals must only ever take place when easily visualised permanent identification of an animal is mandatory and when microchipping is not a valid alternative.
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  • Fur Trapping
    SPCA is against trapping of wild animals for their fur.
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