Grab your ingredients, dust off your chef’s hat and get your mixer ready for action for Cupcake Day for the SPCA. Join us in launching the official national Cupcake Day celebration on Monday 31st August. SPCA Cupcake Cooks across New Zealand will descend on their schools, workplaces and social groups with batches of yummy homemade cupcakes to sell. 100% of the proceeds will go to support SPCAs across the country.

Visit www.spcacupcakeday.co.nz to register and get ready to
bake bake bake!

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Many pets and people met their perfect match last Valentine’s weekend at their local SPCA. The first ever national adopt-a-thon, Second Chance for Love, was a resounding success with almost 500 animals adopted during the 36 hour period.

Tell us your adoption story at www.secondchanceforlove.co.nz. When you share your pet adoption story - with photo of course! - you go in the draw to win prizes from Hill's Pet Nutrition, who are also donating $1,000 to the local SPCA with the most votes.

Hill’s Pet Nutrition are the exclusive sponsor of the SPCA centre feeding programme. Their support is an essential part of enabling SPCAs throughout New Zealand to save animals' lives.

(Pictured are Katie & Franky, who met at the Wellington SPCA)

One of the Family is an education initiative launched by the SPCA in 2007 to take empathy education to schools around New Zealand. Norm Hewitt and SPCA education officers will be meeting with intermediate age children to encourage them to treat animals as one of the family.

Helping One helps the Other
Research shows strong links between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence. Teaching children empathy through compassion for animals can encourage the same behaviour towards humans. Our inschool program will teach children positive behaviours. The SPCA recieves no Government funding and needs your support. To learn more about this campaign or to donate visit the One of the Family website at www.oneofthefamily.co.nz

In 2009 Norm and the team are starting on the second round of school visits, after already meeting over 25,000 intermediate aged children during the first two years.  'One of the Family' is ongoing and schools throughout New Zealand will be contacted to offer the opportunity for classes to participate in the program.  

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Now well into the third year of operation, the SPCA mobile clinic has achieved more than 9000 free desexing operations for animals of low income owners.

Roving vet Alistar, and vet nurse wife Sue, have travelled the country from top to bottom. Currently they in the South Island for their second visit.

Good news is that the effects of this activity and other de sexing initiatives around the country have resulted in the first ever reduction in the annual numbers of stray and unwanted animals sheltered by the SPCA.