Help your SPCA in its crusade for animal welfare
The local SPCA is once again low on food due to the fact that there are fewer adoptions.
According to the organisation’s vice-chairman, Ludi Botha, their overall food supply is now at a very low 19 per cent.
The SPCA is the only animal welfare organisation governed by law, according to the SPCA Act No 169 of 1993.
It believes that every living creature has intrinsic value and is a sentient being.
As people uniquely have the ability of moral values, the organisation believes that it is responsible for the welfare of the animals that humans have domesticated and those upon whose natural environment they encroach.
The SPCA recognises that animals are in the service of humans, but that it does not give people the right to exploit them or treat them inhumanely.
Animals must be evaluated by the so-called “five freedoms”
• Freedom from hunger and thirst
• Freedom from discomfort
• Freedom from pain, injury and disease
• Freedom from fear and distress
• Freedom to express normal behaviour.
Should you wish to assist the shelter, you can visit 6 Meidlinger Street or call 013-753-3582
