The mission of SPCA International is simple but vast: to advance the safety and well-being of animals.
You can now help homeless, abused and abandoned animals all over the world by celebrating your special day with our Wedding Donation Program. Requesting that your guests make a tax-deductible donation in lieu of wedding gifts is a fantastic way to make a difference in the lives of animals in need.
The third consecutive mega spay event done in Panama in association with SPCAI kicked off at 8am in Las Mañanitas at the Santa Ascencion del Señor Church. Low-income families love their pets but cannot keep all the litters of puppies and kittens that are born up to three times a year.
In a country known for its beauty and expansive culture, lies a dark and gruesome secret – hundreds of thousands of Greyhounds are openly abused, abandoned or cruelly killed each year by local hunters.
The age old tradition of hunting hares with Galgos, or Greyhounds, in Spain has been around for thousands of years, and the method by which these gentle dogs are repeatedly tortured and disposed of is by far and large one of the most appalling acts of cruelty that SPCA International (SPCAI) has to come learn of in the past year. As many as 60,000 of these hunting Greyhounds are barbarically tortured and killed each year in Spain.
There’s a line from one of my favorite movies—Ever After—which sums up quite neatly why many people choose not to get involved in charitable giving. It’s part of a conversation between Crown Prince Henry II, and the woman he believes to be a courtier—Countess Nicole de Lancret, aka the commoner Danielle de Barbarac. He’s explaining to the very philanthropic (at heart, because she’s flat broke) Danielle why he hasn’t done much to help others with the plethora of resources at his royal disposal.
You may have driven by the freestanding shelter on the way to the Cape, in the small town of Plymouth, Massachusetts but the work that The Helping Hands for the Plymouth Animal Shelter is no small affair. The three volunteer co-founders did not know each other when they met at the shelter every Tuesday morning […]
Ever since Sasha can remember, he always felt sorry for little puppies and would always try and feed them whenever he saw them. It was in 2008 that he really started to notice that many of dogs he was trying to help were disappearing – what he realized was that the Nis pound was killing […]
SOS Galgos was established nearly 14 years ago, in order to report the unimaginable cruelty inflicted on Spain’s most abused breed of dog Spanish Greyhounds or Galgos. Their efforts are put forth through the media both on an national and international level in order to expose Spain’s widespread and quiet kept hunting traditions that involve torturing […]
SPCA International first partnered up with TerrAnimal, an animal welfare and protection project group in Ecuador, for a successful spay/neuter campaign in early 2013. This year, we are excited to be joining forces with them again to be the proud sponsors of the First Forum on Public Policy for Animal Protection. The international forum will […]
Many people might remember the North Berwick area in Scotland as once the site of a very famous large open-airswimming pool. Others might know it for its rich history, as the area becomes quite a popular tourist destination in the Nineteenth Century. Once a vivid and prosperous region, the 1980’s economic downfall left the town an eyesore; […]
The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) has been dedicated to the protection of animals and the promotion of humane treatment since 1954. It runs an animal shelter that currently houses 45 dogs and 186 cats rescued from cruelty or neglect. The volunteer-based organization rehabilitates these animals in the hope of finding them new homes and […]
