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’.

SPCA supports efforts to keep animals healthy and happy in their existing home or community through supportive services, including education, supplies and other resources.

​SPCA opposes the killing or intentional harming of wild predators, such as seals or seabirds, to protect fish farms. SPCA is concerned with the use of deterrent and exclusion devices, where the welfare impacts on wild animals are poorly understood.

SPCA is concerned about the welfare harms and death of lambs as a result of early lambing that is scheduled to take place during winter or spring, when temperatures may cause thermal stress.

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

SPCA advocates that only trapping methods that minimise the negative welfare harms caused to targeted and non-targeted animals be used for trapping.

SPCA opposes using live animals as prizes due to the potential negative impacts on the animal’s welfare.

SPCA opposes the use of live animals as bait for the purpose of baiting, training, and fighting because of the negative welfare impacts on the bait animal.

SPCA opposes the use of live decoy animals in traps (such as Larsen traps, PeeGee traps) to lure and trap other birds because of the potential injury and distress caused to the confined animal.

SPCA opposes the live export of any farmed or wild-caught animals by sea.