Cat Rescue Dunedin Charitable Trust Board

Animal Rescue Network New Zealand (ARNNZ) is based in Dunedin, New Zealand.

In January 2015 ARNNZ was formed by a small group of Dunedin residents who had seen the need for for someone to begin to help the stray and abandoned street cats of Dunedin.  We became a charitable trust in June 2015, and since then we have desexed and rehomed hundreds of kittens which would otherwise have been left to breed uncontrollably.

ARNNZ is committed to reducing the stray cat overpopulation using two approaches:

1. TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return), kittens under the age of 8 weeks can be socialised and re-homed.

2.  Educating the community about the consequences of not de-sexing their pets.

ARNNZ relies on donations to carry out this work and we do this without any premises.  All of our rescues are fostered in private homes by volunteers.

The Trust is committed, in attaining its purposes, to:

Maintain a no-kill policy in which no animal will be killed unless he/she is suffering or will be suffering and veterinary care cannot prevent the suffering.

Carry out its work without exploiting animals of any species.

Ensure that every animal rescued and re-homed by the Trust is either desexed before adoption or that the adoptive family receives assistance to desex.

Work cooperatively with individuals and organisations in the animal welfare, animal rescue/desexing advocacy area.