All animals
Results 121-130 of 219, sorted by relevance
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Keeping People and Pets Together
SPCA supports efforts to keep animals healthy and happy in their existing home or community through supportive services, including education, supplies and other resources.
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Killing and Harming of Wild Animals to Protect Fish Farms (Aquaculture)
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.
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Lambing
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.
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Larval Fish
SPCA advocates that the definition of animal in the Animal Welfare Act 1999 be broadened to include larval fish.
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Layer Hen Housing
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.
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Leg-hold Traps
SPCA advocates that only trapping methods that minimise the negative welfare harms caused to targeted and non-targeted animals be used for trapping.
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Live Animals as Prizes
SPCA opposes using live animals as prizes due to the potential negative impacts on the animal’s welfare.
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Live Baiting
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.
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Live Decoy Bird Traps
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.
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Live Export of Farmed and Wild Caught Animals by Sea and Air
SPCA opposes the live export of any farmed animals by sea.
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