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RSPCA Awareness Week takes place each year from 1-8 October.
These dates were chosen to incorporate World Animal Day on 4
October and World Farm Animals Day on 2 October.
RSPCA Awareness Week is a chance to celebrate the joy,
compassion and understanding that animals bring to our world.
The Week also has a serious purpose, in raising awareness of
the many valuable services the RSPCA provides to the community.
Most Australians are familiar with the RSPCA shelters - which
accept more than 133,000 animals from the community each year – as
well as the RSPCA Inspectors, who investigated around 46,000
cruelty complaints per annum.
Nationally, the RSPCA also advocates vigorously against cruel
farming practices such as battery hen farming and the export of
live animals for slaughter; as well as coordinating major
fundraising events such as the annual Million Paws Walk.
However, the RSPCA does so much more - from the Education
Mobile Unit (EMU) in Queensland to the Marine Rescue Centre in
South Australia, wildlife rehabilitation facility in the
Australian Capital Territory to the Animal Emergency Group in
Western Australia, the Safe Beds for Pets programme in New South
Wales to Kitten Kindy and Puppy Preschool in Victoria.
These are just a few examples of the many ways in which
thousands of RSPCA staff and volunteers across the country are
working to improve the welfare of domestic, native, exotic and
farm animals throughout Australia.
RSPCA Awareness Week is your chance to say thank you and to
learn more about the RSPCA and the enormous job it does. You can
visit a shelter, talk with an inspector, participate in a fun
event or organise your own activity!
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Contact your local RSPCA
to find out what’s happening for RSPCA Awareness Week in
your area
Enter our fantastic national competitions!
Send a special RSPCA Awareness
Week e-card
Subscribe to our e-newsletter to
stay in touch all year round
Learn
all about important animals welfare issues with our infosheets
Tell us how you help
animals in your community
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