Jasper with some of his toys
This Christmas we have some fantastic offers in our shop at Newtown animal centre – just purrfect presents for your pets!
So, hurry down to our Newtown animal centre and grab a bargain!
Newtown Animal Centre
For adoptions 
Christmas Eve – 10-4
Christmas Day to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st – 10-4
Friday 1st January – Closed
Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd January – 10-3
Monday 4th January – Closed
From Tuesday 5th January we will be back to our normal adoption opening hours – every day 10-4 with late night adoptions on Thursday and Friday until 6.30pm (cats and kittens only)
Shop
Christmas Eve – 8-6.30
Christmas Day to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st – 8-6.30
Friday 1st January – Closed
Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd January – 10-3
Monday 4th January – Closed
From Tuesday 5th January we will be back to our normal shop opening hours – Monday to Friday 8-6.30, Saturday & Sunday 8-4.30
Vet Clinic
Christmas Eve – By apointment only
Christmas Day to Monday 28th December – Closed
Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st – By apointment only
Friday 1st January to Monday 4th January - Closed
From Tuesday 5th January we will be back to our normal clinic opening hours – Monday to Friday – by appointment only
Waikanae Animal Centre
Christmas Eve – 9-4
Christmas Day to Monday 28th December – 9-12
Tuesday 29th to Thursday 31st – 9-4
Friday 1st January to Monday 4th January – 9-12
From Tuesday 5th January we will be back to our normal opening hours – Monday to Friday 9-4, Saturday & Sunday 9-12
With almost 250 kittens currently in our care, we are still in desperate need for people to offer homes to these adorable animals, on either a temporary or permanent basis.
This current deluge of kittens is a problem facing SPCA centres all over the country and it’s one that occurs every year.
Wellington SPCA strongly encourages responsible pet ownership by having pets desexed, preventing unwanted litters. This would make a huge difference to the numbers of kittens, and other animals, that come through our doors.
Recent media coverage has gone some way to highlighting our crisis and has resulted in about 30 new fosterers coming forward offering temporary homes – which is fantastic! You can watch a report that was featured on TV3 (23 December) by clicking here or read the online version here. You can also read our article featured in The Dominion Post (23 December) here.
However, we still need help! In the New Year, our focus will be finding permanent homes for all the kittens who will have returned from foster and will be ready for adoption (we need to desex them before they can go to a new forever home).
If you think you can offer a home to a kitten, or any of the 700 animals currently in our care, please contact us on 04 389 8044. Go to our adoption page to check out some of our fabulous animals who would love for you to offer them a loving home.
Jenna entertaining the crowds
Jenna Siladi wanted to do something to help Wellington SPCA help the animals over our busy Christmas period.
So she gathered a group of learner violin players together, and they played Christmas songs outside Capital on the Quay on Saturday 19 December.
Proud parents and family members watched as Jenna (8), Anahera Kohu-Smith (9), Georgie (7) and Hugo (6) entertained Christmas shoppers, assisted by their violin teacher Tania Dyett.
Georgie and Hugo have only been playing violin since February this year, Anahera since July, and Jenna since April.
Jenna and her friends raised $140 for Wellington SPCA. Thanks Jenna!
Adoption day at Maungaraki Community Centre
For some of the animals in our care, this Christmas is going to be one of their best yet!
Over the weekend, we held an adoption ‘extravaganza’ at five locations around Wellington and as a result, 39 animals have now found loving new homes. This included 20 kittens, six cats, four puppies, five dogs, three mice and one rabbit!
With approximately 700 animals currently in our care, the adoption event aimed to try and find homes for as many of them as possible.
And despite it being the last shopping weekend before Christmas, the public ‘s response was fabulous and it was great to see animals leaving our shelters with their new families.
Simba
Our animals still desperately need your help! So, if you are think you can offer a permanent home or temporarily foster an animal, we need to hear from you!
Please give us a call on 04 389 8044 or check out the adoption pages on our website!
Thank you.
This weekend (18th to 20th December) we want to try and find homes for (at least) 12 animals in 5 different locations over 1 weekend.
We have over 700 animals in desperate need of a home, so please come along to any of the locations and see if you can offer a loving home to one (or more) of them.
So far, our adoption extravanganza weekend has found a new home for
29 of our animals from our shelter in Newtown including 3 puppies, 5 dogs, 4 cats, 14 kittens and 3 mice as well as one cat and 2 kittens from our shelter in Waikanae, 2 kittens, one cat, one rabbit and one puppy from our location Lower Hutt and 2 kittens from our location in Porirua.
But we still need to find homes for loads more. Please help us!!
I'm Opal and I need a home!
This weekend you could make an animal’s Christmas wish come true!
We currently have over 700 animals in our care and we urgently need to find homes for all of them.
So, we’re keeping our doors open longer and later, as well as heading out to locations all over the Wellington region to bring our fabulous animals to you!
Come along and meet heaps of our fantastic animals who are desperate for you to offer them a forever home.
Our goal is to adopt (at least) 12 animals at 5 different locations over 1 weekend!!
You can keep a track of how many animals we have found loving homes for over the weekend by clicking here.
It won’t cost you a cent to visit any of the locations and there’ll be plenty of friendly Wellington SPCA staff on hand to talk you through the adoption process. We’ll also have retail discounts and Christmas gift packs available!
Click here to get all the details about the place and times where you can come and meet our animals.
Click on the links below to get maps of the 5 locations
Wellington SPCA Newtown animal centre, Newtown
Wellington SPCA Waikanae animal centre, Waikanae
Wellington SPCA Horowhenua animal centre, Levin
Wellington SPCA is quietly celebrating following the sentencing yesterday of William Kain Campbell who was involved in a sickening dog fight earlier this year. The fight involved Lincoln, a 14 year-old Ridgeback cross breed that he had stolen to use as bait in the fight.
Mr Campbell received a 10 month prison sentence and became the first person in New Zealand to go to jail for dogfighting. He also received a lifetime ban that means he can never own a ‘companion’ animal again. Mr Campbell will also have to pay over $4,000 in costs.
“The sentence is a major achievement for animal welfare in this country, as well as for Wellington SPCA”, said Peter Mason, Wellington SPCA’s Executive Director. “We hope that the sentence sends a strong message to anyone involved in this type of brutal activity that they will be caught and dealt with harshly by the courts.”
The case was brought to the courts through the joint efforts of Wellington SPCA, Porirua Police and Animal Control.
Lincoln
In April this year, Campbell unlawfully took Lincoln from a property in Titahi Bay. After transporting him in the boot of his car to a park, he used him as bait for his own dog, Duke, to violently attack.
Judge Geoff Ellis said to Campbell that what he did was ”truly despicable” and that Campbell’s actions were “brutality of the worst kind towards an animal”.
During the fight Campbell not only encouraged his dog to attack Lincoln, but had also physically inflicted further injury by trying to break Lincoln’s hind leg. After the fight, Campbell did not seek veterinary treatment for the injuries inflicted on either dog and abandoned Lincoln at the scene, where he was found cowering in a public toilet.
Both dogs survived the fight but have been left with physical and emotional injuries. The incident has also been very traumatic for Lincoln’s owners;
“They have been very brave throughout their ordeal” commented Ben Lakomy, the Wellington SPCA animal welfare inspector involved with the case. “We hope the knowledge that the man who acted so violently towards their dog has now been held accountable for his actions will enable them to move forward”.
Dukes is being cared for at an animal shelter and will be assessed for adoption.
There has been a great deal of media coverage of the case – there are links below to the news reports from yesterday’s sentencing. Please be aware that the video content is graphic and shows the dogs fighting.
Comet
We are desperately searching for volunteers who can offer a temporary home to some of our fabulous dogs.
With Christmas just around the corner, we really need to find a place to stay for some of our pups.
Dog fosterers play a very important role at Wellington SPCA by providing short-term accommodation to dogs in our care, when we just simply don’t have the space for them at our shelters.
There are a few criteria you’ll need to be able to meet to become a fosterer. However, if you have lots of love to give and care about animals, we would love to hear from you - soon!!
To find out more please contact Rochelle as soon as possible on 04 389 8044 ext: 830 or email her at RochelleP@wellingtonspca.org.nz.
While you’re planning your yummy Christmas lunch, spare a thought for our pooches.
We’ve got lots of mouths to feed and so we are asking you to help us this Christmas by donating tins of wet dog and puppy food for our hungry pups.
Just take your donations of tins of food along to either our Newtown or Kapiti shelters and we’ll gladly accept them!
If you’ve been thinking about adopting a kitten, then now is the purrfect time to do it!
We currently have hundreds of kittens in our care and we are desperate to find them forever homes. Can you help?
And even if you aren’t able to adopt a kitten, we still need your help – we urgently need kitten fosterers who can offer a temporary home for kittens that are still too young to be adopted.
So, if you think you can offer a loving forever home or even one for a short time, please get in touch now!
Please call Rochelle on 04 389 8044 ext: 830 or email her at RochelleP@wellingtonspca.org.nz
