Wellington SPCA operates two animal shelters, one in Newtown and the other in Waikanae. These animal shelters provide a number of services for animals and the community. Wellington SPCA’s Newtown shelter operates a 24-hour, seven-day-per-week emergency service for animals. Our Newtown shelter has four ambulances and employs four inspectors who attend an average of 15 incidents each day. These range from attending accidents involving animals to investigating complaints of animal abuse. Our shelter in Waikanae has one ambulance and one inspector. An answer phone will advise you on what to do if you find a sick, injured or abused animal that needs assistance in the weekend or after hours.

Animals arriving at our shelters must be checked for disease or injury. Details of why the animal is at the shelter are recorded on a card which stays with the animal during its time at the shelter. This card will also record information relating to the animal’s health and general progress during its stay at the shelter. If an animal is reported as lost or stray, every effort is made to reunite it with its family. All lost or stray animals which arrive at Wellington SPCA are placed on the pet phone and Pets on The Net. These are private services designed to reunite lost pets with their owners.

For more information call:

Petsonthenet

If you have lost or found an animal:
Check this wonderful website if you have lost or found a pet You can also post details of your lost pet on the site. Click here: www.petsonthenet.co.nz


Wellington SPCA Shelter Hours

Animal adoption during the following hours:
Weekdays 9.00am – 4.00pm
Weekends 10.00am – 2.30pm

Veterinary consults:
Weekdays 10.00am – 12.00pm and 3.00pm-6.00pm
Weekends 10.00am– 12.00pm and 1.00pm-3.00pm
Late night Thursday open until 7.00pm

General business
Weekdays 8.00am – 6.00pm
Weekends 10.00am– 3.00pm
Late night Thursday open until 7.00pm

24-hour emergency service – seven days per week
Ph: 04 389 8044 – Wellington
Ph: 04 293 4292 - Kapiti


Animal Adoption

Each unclaimed or abandoned animal in our care is assessed and recommended for adoption or euthanasia. Animals which are badly injured or have ongoing health problems are not generally put up for adoption. Animals that are aggressive or have behavioural problems are also difficult to rehome. Once the assessment has been completed (the assessment is made by a team including a veterinarian, caregiver and supervisor), the animal is either put up for adoption or humanely euthansed by a veterinarian.

Animal Adoption – Prices

Dogs and puppies - $250.00
(includes desexing, deworming, defleaing, vaccination and microchipping)

Cats and kittens - $150
(includes desexing, deworming, defleaing, vaccination and microchipping)

For more information about adopting an animal call:
Wellington SPCA Newtown (04) 389 8044
Wellington SPCA Kapiti (04) 293 4292

Every animal is desexed before adoption. 33% of the animals that arrive at Wellington SPCA each year are puppies and kittens. Most are lost/stray or unwanted. It is unacceptable to the SPCA that this indiscriminate breeding of animals be allowed to continue. So many are callously dumped or simply not wanted. SPCA shelters throughout New Zealand plead with communities to ensure that their companion animals are desexed. At Wellington SPCA these animals make up one third of all animals coming into our Newtown shelter, taking time and resources away from abused and neglected animals.

Education

Wellington SPCA’s education service aims to teach compassion and responsible behaviour towards non-human as well as human animals and towards the environment we all share. Our education service helps people recognise that all creatures matter, not just those we regards as cute, friendly or economically beneficial. It encourages people to realise that humans do not own the planet, but share it with other animals, and leads them from a restricting human-centred world view towards an ethic that includes empathy and respect for all life.

One of our friendly team can:

• Visit your group, school/class
• Provide resources on a variety of animal-related topics
• Respond to student and general enquiries by letter, phone, fax or email

For more information or bookings please feel free to contact Jennifer Rizzi

Wellington SPCA
305 Mansfield Street
Newtown
Wellington
Ph: (04) 389 8044
Fax: (04) 389 5577
Email: info@wellingtonspca.org.nz

Our Mission

Our mission is to promote the humane treatment of animals and to prevent cruelty to animals. The progress of recent centuries may have benefited humans, but has in many instances led to inhumane and indecent treatment of animals. It would be great to live in the new millennium with the knowledge that attitudes and practices which cause animal suffering are disappearing.