SPCA Otago desperately needs new facilities

$31,320 donated

Given by 133 generous donors in around 10 months

We need your help! We're falling to pieces at SPCA Otago and we urgently need to fundraise $1.5 million to upgrade our animal facilities.

Otago

The mission of SPCA Otago is to encourage the humane treatment of all animals and to prevent cruelty and alleviate suffering to animals by actively promoting their care and protection.

SPCA Otago currently rescues and rehabilitates approximately 1,700 animals each year; at any one time there may be up to 180 animals at our Dunedin centre requiring care and attention. We provide essential medical care and support to help every animal we rescue, and we provide a safe haven for them, until we can find them a home. We also work with the community to prevent cruelty and encourage the humane treatment of all animals, and we are the only charity with the legal power to bring offenders to justice.

SPCA Otago has operated effectively from its current premises in Opoho, Dunedin for almost 70 years. There is now an urgent need to refurbish the existing dilapidated facility. Already components of the buildings are either unusable, or will become unusable in the near future, thereby materially affecting SPCA Otago's ability to achieve its mission.

We plan to launch a capital project focusing on the construction of a new building that will provide a hygienic storage area for pet food, an adequate laundry facility to sterilise pet bedding, and two veterinary triage rooms for urgent animal treatment. We must also redevelop two existing animal facilities that house new arrivals and quarantined animals. This project is urgently required as already two areas have been closed for safety reasons and others are beginning to fail us.

Overcrowding of animals and the spread of disease is our biggest concern within the current constraints of our animal centre. We need to be able to provide the very best of care to animals that have already experienced the distress of neglect, abandonment, illness or abuse. Animals that come into our facility need a stress-free, hygenic environment with a first rate disease control arrangement.

The total building project will cost $1.5 million! Please help us to grasp the challenge ahead and rebuild our centre to keep animals safe in Otago.

SPCA's involvement (page creator)

SPCA Otago has a dedicated project team committed to this capital project. We will work tirelessly to meet the fundraising goal and tackle the project responsibly and professionally.

About us

SPCA works with the community to prevent cruelty and encourage the humane treatment of all animals. Every year we care for thousands of animals that have been neglected, abandoned, injured and abused. We rescue animals from harmful situations, attend animal emergencies and investigate numerous complaints about animal cruelty.

Latest update

Good progress toward the rebuild project! 16 November 2016

We're thrilled to let our supporters know that our capital fundraising campaign is doing very well. The $28,612 raised through this Givealittle page so far adds to our other fundraising efforts including community events and successful grant applications. The overall running total as at now is $909,000, which means we're almost two-thirds of the way to our goal. It also means that we have enough to start on the first building complex, which includes two veterinary consultation rooms for incoming animals, an adoption reception area for outgoing animals, a laundry to house the industrial-strength machines we need, and the all-important education room for community groups who visit our centre. We are thrilled to be able to start moving forward with stage one of the plan, and now we look to finish the fundraising efforts for the remainder of the buildings. The second building complex will be a dog isolation facility for incoming canines. This improvement will allow us to continue rescuing dogs like those we have uploaded in our new video today. These dogs need a warm, healthy environment to enter when they first arrive to us, this is exactly what we plan to build them with your help. Please share and help us reach the final goal!

Thank you all - from the dedicated team at SPCA Otago

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