SPCA advocates for the horse sport and entertainment industries to improve practices to provide horses with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and meet the physical, health, and behavioural needs of the horses for the whole of their life.

SPCA advocates that all persons involved in the breeding, keeping, or use of horses, ponies and other domesticated equines must have the facilities, skills, knowledge, and resources to provide them with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and meet their physical, health and behavioural needs throughout their life.

SPCA supports continuous improvements in animal management practices and environments to ensure animals used in research, testing, and teaching have a Good Life where they experience positive welfare for the entirety of their life and their physical, health, and behavioural needs are met.

SPCA advocates for solutions for managing unsocialised adult cats that do not result in a prolonged negative state of welfare for the cat.

SPCA advocates that the hunting or killing of wild animals for food must only be done in ways that minimise negative impacts on animal welfare.

SPCA advocates animals should only be hunted with methods that minimise the negative welfare impacts.

SPCA advocates that owners of a companion animal ensure that the animal is appropriately identifiable.

SPCA advocates for farming systems that balance producing food with environmental sustainability and animal welfare.

SPCA advocates that winter grazing of cattle is only undertaken when the welfare of the animals is adequately protected.

SPCA advocates for companion cats to be kept at home to keep them safe from harm and promote positive welfare, whilst minimising their negative impacts on wildlife and nuisance in the community. Cats can be kept healthy and happy at home through a variety of ways including an enriched indoor environment, a safe and secure area such as a fenced garden, or with a cat enclosure or ‘catio’.