Adopt a companion and save a life

Hundreds of animals are abandoned at shelters almost everyday at the SPCA.

People have several reasons for giving up their pets, including financial difficulties, conflict between pets, a new baby, busy work schedules, pet’s behaviour and moving to a new house.

The number of animals in need of a new home fluctuates from season to season, in summer the number increases and in winter it decreases.

The organisation offers various services for animals. It provides a hospital that has a fully equipped theatre which offers essential surgery and sterilisation.

Services are offered at a clinic for pets of underprivileged owners and pensioners. The SPCA educates children to respect animals; how to treat them and it prevents animal brutality.

The organisation has an inspectorate which is responsible for checking on pet shops, circuses, and security firms, monitoring livestock transportation, abattoirs, hatcheries and private homes.

The SPCA needs assistant from the public to provide a home for the animals, every dog and cat offered for adoption has been thoroughly examined.

Lizel van Wyk has started an initiative in a quest to assist it to find a new home and feed the homeless animals; she believes that when you adopt a pet you save a life.

Van Wyk and the staff at Sakpro/Knittex contributed money to buy food for the SPCA in White River. According to her, among the animals available for adoption some animals are developing “kennel stress”. She says a new family is what most of them need.

Strangers walk by the kennel all day, these are just a few of the ingredients that combine to create anxiety. Stress can result in temporary behaviour issues, which can make potential adopters to overlook him/her.

Before you can adopt an animal from the SPCA, an inspection of the candidates home is done to ensure that animals are placed in ones suited to their needs, a pre-home form for a dog or a cat needs to be completed and an inspection fee needs to be paid when submitting it.

Adoption fees include a health check, sterilisation, the first set of inoculations, microchip, collar and ID disk. Adopting saves a life.