The Rotorua SPCA has more than dozens of handfuls of animals waiting for a wonderful home. They all are adorable and one look can just melt you from its cuteness. Many people have adopted them but the animals just keep rolling in non-stop! It's worth going to the Spca because you never know when you might just meet your perfect and suitable companion(s). So get off you're back side and visit the Spca in your free time and have some to think if you're ready to take on some responsibilities and you're own free time to take care of one special friend.
INFORMATION
The rotorua SPCA is addressed at 24 old taupo rd
Contact detail: 349-2955
Rotorua Spca opening hours are the following:
MONDAY-FRIDAY: 3:00 ~ 5:30
SATURDAY-SUNDAY: 10:00 ~ 4:oo
On Mondays till Fridays, the animals are not able to be seen (unless you are adopting an animal) the shop is opened with animal goodies,collars etc.
Saturdays and Sundays anyone is allowed to come and see the animals.
WHAT ROOMS ARE THERE AND WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
Alltogether there are 15 rooms
- Food area
- It's where all the food are stored so like a kitchen
- Sick bay
- Where the sick animals are kept in. they have each room seperated by wall to keep other diesase spreading to other sick animals.
- Unwanted puppies All the puppies that were left or given to the spca is there.
- Adult dogs The big area for grown up dogs.
- Cats They have rooms that are being renovated but all the cats are in seperate rooms shared with 4 or 5 cats.
- Birds The hurt birds are treated and cared of until they are able to go back to where they were found.
- Inspectors office This is the room for the inspecters. they take phone calls about people finding hurt animals on the path etc
- Adoption office This is where you go when adopting an animal. They explain about what expectations you need to follow and so on.
- Check up room Th room to check your animal
- Kittenery Where all the kittens are.
- Rabbit hutch This is right behind the unwanted puppies.
- Playground The play ground is more of an little field which they let they dogs run and play.
PHOTO GALLERY
Im changing the photos every 2 weeks this week its has the photos of rabbits, unwanted puppies,unvaccinated cats.
This is the rabbit hutch. Currently they have 2 rabbits
he's looking for a new home.
Inside these cages there are the unwanted puppies. Although they may have been given up, they are still adorable and worth having intrest in them.
This is one of the puppies that are unwanted and needs a good home.
These are the place for unvaccinated cats.
Remeber theres more! just wait 2 weeks so keep looking!
Animal Survival stories
These 2 stories was written by the Rotorua spca inspecter, Barbara Daw
(If you visit them they will give you panflet with the stories written on it)
*Neglected to death*
Left to drown or swim for their lives
In March 2003, a heavy rain warningwas issued for the Northland area. 200mm of rain rain followed, fooding the Waihau River and valley. Despite the officail warnings, and several from concerned neighbours, a local farmimng couple (the Jonson's) failed to move the cattles to higher ground.
As the rain poured down, the cattl, which included calves, were left powerless and traped, watching as the water rose around them. After a terifying wait they were eventually swept off the high grounds and they had to fle to, and were forced to swim for their lives.
"To put the animals under that amount of stress, just through your own laziness, is just diobolical." -SPCA Inspector
At least one of the calves that was swept away in the torrent was later found drowned, whilst those that survived were left in a state of distress, confusion and panic. After fighting for their lives in the cold water, they eventyually swam to saftey over the top of submerged fences and out onto the State Highway.
"When I arrivied at the flood, I saw a calf runn ing along the road towards me. It was so scared, so highly, highly stressed, that it was like a wild animal." -SPCA Inspecter
The jonson's were convincted under the Animal Welfare Act 1999 for failure to ensure the physical and health needs of their animals. After admitting that they were aware if the warnings, and that theri land wa prone to flooding, they were fined a total of $2,000 each (which was later reduced on appeal). The maximum penalty for their offence was 6 months imprisonment and/or a $25,000 fine. While the judge obviously felt this was sufficient, it unfortunately was not enough...
*Neglected Stories* Cattle starved and left to die.
In August 2005, the same Spca Inspecter uncoverd a horrific scene at another jonsons farm. About 70 cattle and 10 calves were found emaciated (Bony, Just very thin) and suffering from starvation. 8 dead cattle were found, some of which had been stuck in a swampy areas but were so malnourished they didn't have enough energy to stand up.
"Dying of starvation is one of the cruelist ways to die. The cow must have seen somethibg it though was food and got stuck in the mud trying to to get it. It was so weak that it didn't even have enough strength to pull itself up"-Spca Inspector Barbara Daw
Those cattle that were still alive were visibly starving, restless and bellowining in distress from huger. the spca Inspector measured the grass at a mere 1cm in length, far too short for cattle to eat. It was later that the Jonsons were grazing almost twice the number of cattle the land could sustain at the time. In January 2007, Jonson was sentenced to 350 hours communinty service. However, based on past actions, it semmed unlikely that his penalty will prevent him and others, from offending again. After the suffering of so many innocent animals, does the seem like appropriate justice to you?
For more information visit www.rnzspca.org.nz or www.rotoruaspca.org.nz
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