Wherewearenow

Where we are now

We work each day with three things in mind: Helping Animals, Enlightening People and Changing Lives. 

We work in many areas, for all creatures great and small, to provide the best possible outcome for animal welfare and the Queensland community. 

Helping Animals
  • Call centre staff and volunteers provide information and assistance to more than 200,000 callers each year
  • More than 18,000 animals are adopted or reunited with their family each year
  • Inspectorate responds to nearly 14,000 cruelty complaints and over 12,000 emergency rescue calls annually
  • More than 35,200 animals receive veterinary assessment and treatment state-wide annually
  • Nearly 7,500 wildlife patients come through the RSPCA Wildlife Hospital each year
  • Over 25,500 Queenslanders signed the Close Puppy Factories petition in 2011 calling for the responsible breeding, supply, and sale of companion animals
Enlightening People
  • 115,000 people are reached by the Humane Education Department each year through school visits, EMU (our classroom on wheels) and the RSPCA Education website WOAW
  • In the last year, 1,431 people and their pets participated in training programs delivered by the Animal Training and Behaviour Centre 
  • RSPCA Qld’s first regional education centre has just launched in Bundaberg
  • RSPCA Qld has now partnered with Mission Australia to deliver a one-day workshop to teach parents and their children about responsible pet ownership and empathy for animals
  • The Four Paws Forward program was recently launched to ensure consistent training of animals by staff and volunteers.
Changing Lives
  • Each year, over 6,500 animals receive a second chance at life through foster care
  • The Adopt-from-Foster program was recently launched to increase re-homing rates by providing a means of adopting animals while still in foster care
  • The Second Chance program has now been launched, placing RSPCA animals in foster care at the Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre
  • A Kitty Matchmaker online adoption initiative has been created to adopt kittens from foster care, helping to increase feline re-homing rates during cat breeding season
  • The RSPCA Indigenous Youth Traineeship has now been launched in collaboration with Boystown and Moreton South Institute of TAFE, giving students valuable work experience in animal welfare. 
2011 - We provided disaster relief to creatures great and small in the Brisbane floods at, followed by Cyclone Yasi. Inspectors and ambulance officers rescued wildlife stranded or washed away by the floods and cyclone. Throughout it all RSPCA Qld was there as the state’s other emergency service crew – for animals. 

2011 - Two animal evacuation centres were set up in Rockhampton during the flood

2011 - We pledged to improve the welfare of wildlife in Queensland. A formal agreement was signed between RSPCA Qld and the State Government to improve the efficiency of wildlife rescues state-wide by taking over the phone number for all wildlife emergencies. Ph: 1300 ANIMAL (1300 264 625)

2011 - We saw a new beginning with our RSPCA Animal Care Campus - The construction of the new facility was one of the major activities of the year, and arguably one of the most important milestones in the RSPCA’S history in Queensland.

The Animal Care Campus is the most significant animal welfare centre in the southern hemisphere, caring for companion animals, farm animals and wildlife, as well as being a place of education to deliver our mission of ‘helping animals, enlightening people, saving lives’.
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