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SPCA supports the rehabilitation of wild animals when there is a reasonable expectation that they will be successfully returned back into the wild.

SPCA believes humans have a duty of care to assist wild animals found in pain or distress as a direct consequence of a human activity or interference, or because of a natural disaster.

SPCA is concerned with the welfare of wild animals, both native and introduced.

SPCA advocates that there should be an overall maximum total limit of eight hours for all journeys for farmed animals within New Zealand.

SPCA advocates that all farmed animals should be killed humanely.

SPCA advocates for unrestricted access to shade and shelter for all pastorally farmed animals.

SPCA advocates that farming systems meet the species-specific and life-stage specific physical, health, and behavioural needs of farmed fish.

​SPCA supports farming systems that provide goats with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health and behavioural needs are met.

SPCA opposes the selection of animals for accelerated growth rates and other enhanced production traits where this may result in the inhibition of normal activity, cause metabolic or skeletal defects, chronic lameness and pain, increased mortality or other welfare problems.