Improve Welfare
Rescue and rehabilitation, prevent animal cruelty and alleviate suffering in animals.
- Investigating cases of animal abuse, neglect and mistreatment.
- Enforcing animal welfare laws.
- Providing veterinary care to public and shelter animals.
- Operate animal care and adoption facilities.
- Prompt legislation and standards, code of practice and all aspects of the animal welfare policy.
Promote Welfare
Leading authority, education and advocacy.
- Community awareness programs and key commentator on animal welfare related issues.
- Awareness through education and marketing programs.
- Advocacy and call to action issues.
- Provide resources to inform public.
- Collaborate to establish standards.
- Training programs.
Support Our Community
Solving problems and meeting animal related needs.
- Emergency accommodation.
- Vet support.
- Desexing programs.
- Advice and information to owners and prospective owners.
For the animals.
Our Values
Project Home: Our Vision
Building a best practice campus for animal welfare and community connections that meets the changing needs of the ACT, delivering consistently high animal welfare outcomes.
- The campus will provide a safe and fit for purpose workplace for RSPCA ACT staff and volunteers.
- The campus will enable the highest standard of husbandry with best practice canine kennels, cat condos and accommodation spaces for small animals, farm animals, pocket pets, exotics and select wildlife.
- Animal to human meet and greet areas, plus sufficient spaces for enrichment, rehab and socialsiation will be catered for.
- It will house a state of the art vet clinic, where much needed capacity can be built to include:
- Wildlife veterinary care
- Desexing support for other rescue groups
- Primary animal health and vet care to at-risk and low-income families.
- Public Boarding will be available.
- Tailored pet retail options.
- Prevention work including training, education and connection spaces.
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So much more than just an animal shelter ….
It’s a place of learning and connection: Effect changes in animal cruelty behaviours and promote responsible pet ownership.
It’s a refuge in times of crisis: Provide safe refuge to animals whose owners are in crisis.
It builds much needed capacity: In primary veterinary care for domestic animals and medical care for injured wildlife.
Designed to meet current and changing future needs: Flexible design to accommodate changing needs and facilitating ability to respond.
