Welcome to the Te Awamutu SPCA

Our Mission:

• To prevent suffering and cruelty to animals
• To provide a safe-haven for animals in need of treatment and TLC
• To educate the public about the needs of their pets
• To rehome animals to safe and loving forever families

The Te Awamutu SPCA is a not-for profit community organisation. We receive no government funding or any funding from our national body. We rely solely on the generosity of the public to keep our centre up and running. To donate to the Te Awamutu SPCA please see our donations page and find out how you can help the animals. We are also always in need of new and passionate volunteers to help us look after the animals and keep them happy and healthy during their time with us. If you think volunteering is for you then please see our volunteer’s page.

The Te Awamutu SPCA is a ‘saving lives’ shelter which means we rehome every animal that comes through our doors unless they are deemed too aggressive to be rehomed or so ill or badly injured we cannot save them. We do have limited treatment facilities for housing sick animals while on medication and all these animals are rehomed once they have been rehabilitated. Due to this we are always in need of foster parents to help us house some of these ill or injured animals and if you are interested in helping in this way please see our foster page.

News and Events:

December 2011:

Christmas Hours:

The Te Awamutu SPCA will be closed to the public on:                                            December 25th - Christmas Day                                                                                      December 26th - Boxing Day                                                                                               January 1st - New Years Day and                                                                                         January 2nd

For any animal emergencies please contact the after hours number on 0277427706. Thanks and have a great Christmas from the team and the animals at Te Awamutu SPCA!

Opening Hours:

Due to personal reasons, Craig, our centre manager, has had to leave New Zealand.  At the moment we only have one staff member at the centre so have changed our opening hours.  We will now be closed on WEDNESDAYS.  Our normal hours from 10am until 2pm for the rest of the week is still the same.  We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your continued support of the Te Awamutu SPCA.

Opp Shop:

We are still in the process of opening our opp shop so any donations will still be accepted.  We are going to be having a garage sale on Saturday the 17th of December from 8am to help us raise some much needed funds before christmas.  Please come down and get a bargain before christmas!

November 2011:

Annual Appeal:

Thank-you so much for your support over the annual appeal week this year.  Due to the generosity of the public and the time donated by our lovely collectors, we made over $1000 for our centre this year.  Thanks again for your much appreciated support!

September 2011:

Opp Shop:

We are currently looking for premises to open a opportunity shop to help raise much needed funds to keep our centre up and running.  If you have any quality items you would like to donate us please give us a call on 07 871 5222 or feel free to drop any items in to us during opening hours - 10am- 2pm daily.

Annual Appeal:

The SPCA annual appeal is coming up in November the 5th to the 11th.  We are in urgent need of volunteers to help collect for us.  If you are interested please call us on 07 871 5222 for more information.

August 2011

Animal Welfare Inspector:

The Te Awamutu SPCA now has a warranted Animal Welfare Inspector on staff.  We are hoping this will make a postive impact on animal welfare in our community.  If you have any animal welfare concerns please see our contact page and get in touch with us.

Cupcake Day:

The Te Awamutu SPCA cupcake day stall will be outside Viands Bakery, 246 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu.  Make sure you get down there and support us by buying a cupcake or some of our cool cupcake day merchandise!

Cupcake day this year is August 29th so all you bakers out there who would like to help us raise some money check out the website www.spcacupcakeday.co.nz and register to be a baker. We have some great ideas to help you with this i.e. themed cupcakes, cupcake parties, mancakes etc so if you would like some help with this give us a call. We also have some great merchandise available for sale so come down to the SPCA cupcake stall on the 29th of August for some cool SPCA gear. We would love to see people around the community supporting this great cause so come on Te Awamutu and help the Te Awamutu SPCA ‘raise some sweet dough’!

June 2011

Adopt a Kennel/Cage:

Our latest fundraising initiative is to adopt a Kennel/Cage. Each one of our kennels and cages houses a dog or a cat. We have 12 dog kennels and 30 cat cages. We are asking for sponsors of these via monthly payment to cover all costs incurred to care for that animal while waiting for its forever home. By sponsoring a kennel or cage you will receive a monthly newsletter and photo telling you about the animal currently in your sponsored spot and how they are doing, your kennel or cage will have a plaque with your name or company name to acknowledge your contribution as a sponsor and any advertising, either on our website, facebook or newspaper, will have your name or company name attached to the photo of the animal currently in your sponsored kennel or cage. For more information please give us a call on 078715222.

One of the Family:

This month we have had the pleasure of hosting the education team from national office and support them while they go through some of our local schools to teach children the importance of treating animals like ‘one of the family’. Norm Hewitt and Shelley Ryan have gone to two schools in Te Awamutu to present their talk which is very educational and touches on really relevant issues of the links between animal welfare and domestic abuse in New Zealand.

Desexing Caravan:

We had the desexing caravan here at the Te Awamutu SPCA and we were fully booked which means we desexed over 250 animals from around the community for free! This is a national office initiative and hopefully this will make a huge positive impact on the number of unwanted animals around our area. We are truly grateful to national office for choosing us this year as a candidate for this awesome project. We would also like to thank Select Securities for monitoring the caravan while it was here and keeping it safe.