UPDATE FRI 5 MARCH - The Flop Gear car raising money for the SPCA has sold for $1,170! Well done Team May!

Forget Top Gear – make way for Flop Gear, a 3-day team challenge with a difference!

Three enterprising teams bought cars for under $500, decorated them according to the team theme, and then drove to the East Cape and back during Auckland Anniversary Weekend, completing challenges along the way.

The cars are being sold on TradeMe after the event to raise money for charities - and the SPCA is one of them!

Visit the TradeMe listing here – 100% of the money raised from the sale of the car goes to the SPCA.

To see pictures from the weekend and find out more, visit the Flop Gear Facebook group here.

As the colder weather starts to bite, the smallest SPCA puppies need jumpers to keep warm. You can help us help our puppies keep warm over the colder months by knitting a jumper (or 2!). 

Our target is to have 3000 jumpers knitted by 30 April 2010!

Click here for the knitting pattern (PDF 1 MB). All finished jumpers can be taken to your nearest Knit World Shop.

SPCA are now the proud caretakers of the elephant, Jumbo.

After a 28 year career in the circus, travelling throughout New Zealand, Jumbo is now able to retire thanks to Weber Brothers management who have gifted her to the SPCA.

Over the next few months the options for Jumbo’s continued care will be explored. Plans include seeking a place for her with other African elephants in a sanctuary overseas, if her health status does not allow that, establishing a retirement home for her here in New Zealand.

Meantime costs for her ongoing care will be met by the SPCA and donations from the public to our JUMBO FUND will be used exclusively for her upkeep and to enable her final retirement placement.

Click here for the donation form and select Jumbo Fund.

For the full story see SPCA LAUNCHES JUMBO FUND

The SPCA is pleased to announce the support of Greylands Ridge Vineyard. Greylands Ridge, located in Alexandra, Central Otago, has pledged its support of the SPCA’s work by donating 3% of the sales from one of its premium wines to the SPCA.

Greylands Ridge Vineyard specialises in quality Central Otago Pinot Noir wines, and has named one of its labels for the owners’ late ridgeback cross, Alex, who they adopted from the SPCA many years ago. Ridgeback Alex Pinot Noir, a 2008 label, is available through the Greylands Ridge website, www.greylandsridge.co.nz, and at selected liquor stores across the country.

Alex smiles for the camera. On his plaque is a quote from Lord Byron:

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,
the first to welcome, foremost to defend,
whose honest heart is still his master's own,
who labours, fights, lives, breathes, for him alone."

We are pleased to announce the release of our PREMIUM CAT & DOG FOOD

SPCA Premium Cat and Dog Foods are highly digestible, nutritious blends of premium ingredients including high protein levels and are fortified with essential vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Our food has no artificial colours, flavours, hormones or antibiotics. It has been carefully formulated to provide a premium and very palatable food for your pets.

A principle objective of the SPCA is to save lives and find loving homes for those cats and dogs that come into our care. Revenue generated from the sales of SPCA pet food will contribute substantially to achieving this goal.

Ask for it at your local store or purchase online at www.charitieschoice.co.nz