SPCA New Zealand

Santa Paws Ponsonby (Auckland)

21 December 2025
The Broken Lantern

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🎄Join us at The Broken Lantern for SPCA's Santa Paws Celebration!🎅🏼

SPCA has partnered with The Broken Lantern for a Santa Paws an extra festive Santa Paws celebration!

There will be music, a Super Santa Gift drop, delicious food and drinks, a prize draw for ticket holders, pet photo ornaments, professional photography, and of course, Santa himself. The Broken Lantern is 100% dog-friendly, so bring your pooch, get some photos together, have some lunch, and celebrate the holidays while giving animals a second chance at life!

We are asking for donations to our Santa Paws fundraiser in exchange for a ticket to the event.

While this event is primarily focused on dogs, if you would like to bring your cat or other small animal to have their photo taken, please email community@spca.nz to organise a time.


📸 Important Info:

Date: Sunday, 21 December

Time: 1pm-5pm

This is our FINAL Santa Paws event of the year, so Visit our Santa Paws website to get your tickets and avoid missing out!

🎁 Thank you for helping to give animals a second chance this Christmas.

✨Super Santa Gift Drop✨

Be a Super Santa for local SPCA Centre animals and help make their Christmas morning a little brighter!

All you have to do is purchase an item from the list below, and bring it to Santa Paws with you. Super Santas will be entered into our Centre animal naming competition, where three Santas will be able to name an animal in SPCA's care. All Super Santa donations go directly to our Hobsonville and Mangere Centres.


🎁SPCA Centre Animals Christmas Wishlist

  • Baby grows (for post-surgery puppies and kittens)
  • Dog and cat toys
  • Litter trays
  • Dog collars and leads
  • Dog and cat beds
  • Ice cream containers or other storage containers
  • Litter trays
  • Flea combs
  • Dog houses

If you are unable to attend Santa Paws but would still like to be a Super Santa, you can drop off presents at our Mangere or Hobsonville Centres during opening hours from now until 24 December.

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