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Campaigns  RSPCA Qld is an active participant in national and state-based RSPCA campaigns to improve animal welfare throughout Australia.   Community support is vital to ensure the success of our campaigns.   Puppy Factories The desire for “designer dogs” is on the increase. In response to this demand mass production facilities, known as “puppy factories”, are on the rise. Puppy factories are inhumane and unacceptable. They operate to produce puppies for profit, with little or no consideration given to the welfare of the animals. RSPCA is strongly opposed to puppy factories, and believes these operations should be closed.  Please support our campaign to Close Puppy Factories. Chicken Rights 470 million birds are raised and slaughtered for the table, but only 4% are free range. For the rest of them, life is brief and brutal, often crammed into a space smaller than an A4 sheet of paper. Support Chicken Rights, not Farming Wrongs. Justice for Animals For years RSPCA Qld has been urging Queensland magistrates to treat cases of animal cruelty as the serious crimes that they are, not the misdemeanours that paltry fines and lenient sentences indicate. Current sentences and fines do not meet community expectation of the intent of the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001, under which offenders can receive up to two years' imprisonment or a $100,000 fine for cruelty. Breaches of duty of care can earn a fine of up to $30,000 or one year imprisonment. Desexing RSPCA Qld has to euthanase almost 12,000 unwanted cats and kittens every year. We do our best to find homes for all animals entering our shelters, but there simply are not enough people willing to adopt all the cats and kittens. Mandatory desexing is the only solution. -NEWSFLASH- cat registration and microchipping now mandatory Dogs Die in Hot Cars An animal left inside a closed car on a hot summer’s day can die in less than 6 minutes. Choose Wisely There are 11.6 million hens living in and laying eggs in cages in Australia. Caged hens can’t do things that come naturally, like flapping their wings. Choose wisely – choose cage-free eggs and support restaurants and cafés that are part of the Choose Wisely program. Fair Go for Farm Animals Farming is big business today, with cost-efficiency and profit margins often taking priority over the welfare of the animals. Animals are typically confined to cramped metal cages. The RSPCA is calling for the replacement of extreme intensive farming practices with more humane alternatives. Battery Hens There are 11.6 million battery-caged egg producing hens across Australia living in cramped, overcrowded wire cages. Each hen is a prisoner in a space no bigger than an A4 sheet of paper. The welfare of battery hens is the most compromised of all farm animals. Cage-free housing systems offer a humane alternative. Sow stalls From the age of 8 to 10 months, many intensively farmed breeding sows spend all day and night for much of the next 3 years in 200cm x 60cm metal-barred crates called sow stalls. The sows have barely enough room to stand and lie down. The RSPCA demands that sow stalls be banned. Live Export Trade Australia exports over 4 million sheep, 600,000 cattle and 25,000 goats each year by sea to the Middle East and South East Asia, where most are slaughtered often inhumanely. Thousands of animals die every year on these journeys. The RSPCA opposes the export of live animals for slaughter. Say No to Animals in Circuses Captive-born wild animals do not lose their wild animal instincts and needs. Circuses deny wild animals sufficient mental and physical stimulation and the space to exhibit natural behaviours. The animals spend a lot of time “on the road” in cramped beast wagons. RSPCA Qld, in collaboration with Animal Liberation Queensland, opposes the use of wild animals in circuses. -NEWSFLASH- Ipswich City Council bans circuses! Tested on Animals Research has shown that people who are violent towards other people often start out by being violent to animals, commonly during childhood. The “Tested on Animals” campaign seeks to raise awareness of the link between child abuse, domestic violence and cruelty to animals.   Please support RSPCA Qld’s campaigns. Phone 3426 9914 or e-mail campaigns@rspcaqld.org.au for more information.   To make a donation to support any of our campaigns, please phone 3426 9914 or e-mail ahartley@rspcaqld.org.au.