SPCA New Zealand
Animal Advocacy

Position Statements

All animals

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  • Feral Horses
    SPCA advocates for wild horse advisory and management groups to use fertility control as a tool to reduce the need for mustering, rehoming, euthanasia, or slaughter.
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  • Fighting Animals
    SPCA opposes animal fighting for sport or entertainment, for example dog fighting and cock fighting.
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  • Fireworks
    SPCA advocates for a ban on the private sale and use of fireworks in New Zealand due to the distress and harm they cause to animals. SPCA advocates that fireworks, pyrotechnics and gas-fired explosions should never be permitted to be used at events involving animals due to the distress they cause animals.
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  • Fish
    SPCA advocates fish must only be kept as companions when a person has the knowledge, ability, and means to provide them with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and meet their physical, health and behavioural needs.
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  • Fishing and Harvesting of Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates
    SPCA advocates for the humane treatment of wild fish and aquatic invertebrates and for avoiding fishing practices that have the potential to cause unnecessary pain, injury or suffering.
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  • Found Kittens
    SPCA advocates that healthy, pre-weaned stray kittens should be kept with their mother, provided they are in a safe location and not at risk to welfare harms.
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  • Freeze and Hot Branding (Companion)
    SPCA advocates that the freeze branding of animals must only ever take place when easily visualised permanent identification of an animal is mandatory and when microchipping is not a valid alternative.
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  • Fur Trapping
    SPCA is against trapping of wild animals for their fur.
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  • Game Birds
    SPCA supports the keeping of game birds provided they have a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health, behavioural needs are met.
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  • Genetic Technologies
    SPCA recognises there may be potential value in using genetic technologies that improve the welfare of animals. SPCA advocates for a precautionary approach to the use of genetic technologies.
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