Southwest Coast SPCA

12/08/2025

‼️ STILL LOOKING FOR A RIDE‼️

Are you driving from Stephenville to St. John's? Please message us, comment below or call 709-214-1750. Thanks so much.

🚘🐱RIDE NEEDED: STEPHENVILLE TO ST. JOHN’S🐱🚘

Arie has a forever home waiting for her in St. John’s! We just need to get her there.

If anyone is driving from STEPHENVILLE to ST. JOHN’S anytime soon and can take Arie with them please private message us, comment below, or call 709-214-1750.

Arie will be traveling in a medium-sized cat carrier and we will provide everything she needs for the trip.

Thank you!

12/07/2025

🐶❤️🐱DRAW DATE CHANGED🐱❤️🐶

‼️Please note the draw will be happening tomorrow, Dec. 8th, when we will be announcing the winner live on our page! Good luck, everyone‼️

‼️ SOLD OUT ‼️

🎅🤶HUGE FUNDRAISER JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS 🤶🎅

🐾UP TO $2000 prize with just 400 blocks to sell!

🐾Ticket price: $10 each

🐾Draw date: December 7th.

All money raised will be for ongoing vet bills!

Who wouldn't like to have extra money just in time for Christmas? 🎄

12/05/2025

UPDATE: OWNER FOUND!

💔🐱IS THIS YOUR CAT?🐱💔

This very friendly cat has been hanging around Rainbow Crescent in Stephenville. He/she is wearing a blue and white collar with a bell on it.

If this is your cat, please call Ed at 709-649-2396. Thank you.

12/04/2025

❤️😻’DOUBLY DELIGHTFUL’ ADOPTION😻❤️

Why is this a doubly delightful adoption? Because Glisten and Glimmer were two of our longest residents and because…well, two of them got adopted!😹

Glimmer and Glisten were at our shelter for WAY too long! They are absolutely adorable kitties who love people and are good with other cats. What may have slowed down their adoption was the fact that Glisten…aka Mr. G…is black and white. We know! It’s crazy that black, and black and white, cats are harder to find homes for!🤷‍♀️ But Bonnie fell in love with both siblings and couldn’t have cared less about colouring!

She met them, fell in love immediately and off they went to their very first home where the most interesting development is talking place.

Glimmer is a bit more timid and so is taking her time getting used to being in a home with another cat and a cat-friendly dog. This doesn’t surprise anyone. She eating, drinking, using the litter pan and loving rubs so it’s all good.

The surprising thing is that Mr. G is completely and utterly focused on Bonnie! Doesn’t seem to notice the dog. Couldn’t care less about Garfunkel, the other cat. Is more than happy to go visit Glimmer when his new mom spends time with her. But when Bonnie comes home from work, Mr. G immediately wakes up and follows her around. If she sits down, he’s next to her or on her lap.

It’s as if he’s saying he did his time at the shelter helping other cats adjust and now it’s HIS turn to get ALL the love! And Bonnie is more than happy to oblige!🥹

Congratulations, Bonnie, Wallace, Connor, Glisten, Glimmer, Garfunkel and Ben. We hope you all enjoy many years of love and cuddles.

12/02/2025

🚘🐱RIDE NEEDED: STEPHENVILLE TO ST. JOHN’S🐱🚘

Arie has a forever home waiting for her in St. John’s! We just need to get her there.

If anyone is driving from STEPHENVILLE to ST. JOHN’S anytime soon and can take Arie with them please private message us, comment below, or call 709-214-1750.

Arie will be traveling in a medium-sized cat carrier and we will provide everything she needs for the trip.

Thank you!

12/02/2025

🐶 FOSTER HOMES NEEDED 🐶
📍Located in Stephenville/Bay St. George area

When someone abandons a dog, the dogs face severe emotional distress, anxiety, and depression from separation and abandonment. They grieve the loss of their loved ones. They lose their trust in humans. They are often left hungry, scared, cold and helpless. They are vulnerable to predators, disease, and the elements. 🥲

YOU can help! Together with the Southwest Coast SPCA, dog fosters can make a difference in these animal's lives by providing a safe temporary home environment that significantly improves the dog's well being and increases its chances of adoption. In a home setting, dogs receive one on one attention, affection, and consistent care. Fostering also helps a dog learn to live in a home environment and eventually become a family pet. Foster parents can work on basic skills such as house training, manners, leash walking, and essential commands, while at the same time, foster parents can learn about the dog's true personality, quirks, likes and dislikes; which provides the rescue with vital information to help find the best home for the dog.

The Southwest Coast SPCA Dog Foster Group members work together to help the abandoned, the unwanted, and the helpless, offering 24-hour support to all dog fosters! We provide medical care when needed, food, supplies, etc. You simply provide the love and the care.

If you would like to help, please ✨APPLY✨ using the foster application form in the comments below.

12/01/2025

💙 ADOPTABLE BOYS 💙

DOB: June 26th, 2025

These three young chaps are searching for their first families! Born outside after their mama cat (Dorothy) was abandoned, these boys have never lived inside before coming to the shelter. They will be sure to make any house a true "home" once they settle in!!!! ❤️

Please note that they are still working on socialization and are quite shy. They will need understanding owners who continue to work with them as they keep learning with you.

Each one of these boys are extremely curious and talk about PLAYFUL! They have also begun to loveeee pets and head scratches 😍, but it can take a little time for them to come to you. If they're not ready for rubs right away, a wand toy is the purrrrfect way to their hearts! They are very food motivated as well, so between toys, wet food and lots of patience, they will slowly blossom into your bestie(s)!

They are available to be adopted together or separately (however, we are seeking homes with another friendly cat to learn from and bond with) 🤞🏻🐾 They would not be ready for a home with young children at this time. Homes with dogs can be discussed per applicant.

Their adoption fees cover their neuter, testing for FIV/FeLV, vaccines, flea/worm treatment, a 6-week free trial of pet insurance and a health care examination.

If you are interested in meeting and adopting either DaVinci, Pumpkin or Lester, please ✨APPLY✨ using the adoption link in the comment section.

12/01/2025

Check out our stats for November ‼️

🐾 We had a FANTASTIC month of adoptions, including a few double adoptions and many of our long-term residents! 👌🏻 If you cannot adopt at this time, SHARING➡️ posts is an easy and effective way to spread the word about rescue pets in need.

🐾 Intake remains low to allow us to continue catching up and take a weight off of our foster homes at "just" 14 intakes, including one dog. These were all strays or emergency cases!

🐾 Unfortunately, there were again no Trap, Neuter/Spay, Release (TNR) program cats. With the veterinary shortage and inability to obtain enough spay/neuter appointments, trapping is not possible. 🙁 If you see any strays around your community, make sure to check their ears for a "tip" (a slight cut across the top of one of the ears). This may indicate that they were already spayed/neutered by a rescue group.

🐾 Spay/neuter appointments are picking back up this month with 27 rescues that much happier and healthier and ready for new homes! As of now, this number will drop again in December and January due to the ongoing veterinary shortage.

❣️ TRANSFERRED: There were 11 puppies and 4 kittens transferred to other rescues for the month of November! We want to express our gratitude to our volunteers who drove the animals and of course, the other rescue groups for helping divide up the load! Working together makes us all stronger. 💪🏻

Peep the kitty drawing on the right side of our board this month by one of our talented volunteers. 🐈

Thank you all for your ongoing support! 👏🏻

12/01/2025

❤️ October 2025 Cat of the Month: April ❤️

The SWC SPCA has a program where every month, volunteers get to vote on which cat at our shelter should be cat of the month. For the month of October, our volunteers voted for April!

April is a younger cat around 1.5 years old. She is the most gentle and sweet natured! April can be shy, but she will seek pets and loves to be brushed. She also likes to play with other cats (see adoptable, Apollo) and would thrive in a consistent home setting with another friendly cat to bond with. Originally coming into our care with a litter of kittens, April is now waiting to be adopted and start her new journey. 🐾

Available for adoption?: YES

Date April joined our shelter: July 2025

Volunteer comments about April:

"April is the most gentle kitty there is! She loves to explore and play with her BFF Apollo. After a long day of that she loves some rubs and head scratches❤️ She is a people lover for sure!"

"April is a very sweet and gentle cat. A little timid at first but quickly starts loving the attention and mews at you 🥹❤️ and she loves other cats!!!"

"April is the sweetest little girly❤️she can be a little shy but she loves rubs and warms up so well and so quickly. She LOVES to be around other kitties!! She is the most perfect girl and has the SOFTEST FUR💓"

Her adoption fee covers her spay, testing for FIV/FeLV, vaccinations, flea/worm treatment and a 6-week tree trial of pet insurance. If you are interested in meeting and adopting April, please ✨APPLY✨ using the link in the comments below.

11/29/2025

💗🐱”CLARA-LY” A SPECIAL ADOPTION🐱💗

It’s funny how certain cats can catch a special person’s eye! Sometimes it’s their colouring or their purr-sonality! And sometimes the person wanting to adopt can’t quite put a finger on what attracts them. Either way, it’s always wonderful when it works out for the cat and the person! (Yes, we put the cat’s needs first. 😻)

In Clara’s case, Sonya saw Clara’s post and fell in love with her right away. She put in an application, was approved, and was overjoyed to be told she could adopt Clara. It didn’t take long before Sonja came to meet Clara and then start the long drive to bring her to her forever home.

For Clara, this was a dream come true! Her previous owner had passed away and while she was safe and loved, she was very uncomfortable with the other animals and level of activity at the shelter. Now that she’s in a quiet home with her very own family, she’s a much happier girl!💗

Congratulations, Sonja, Paul, Austin and Clara! May you have many years of quiet love and cuddles.

11/29/2025

🐶❤️🐱 LION'S CLUB CRAFT FAIR🐱❤️🐶

Come join us at the Lion's Club in Stephenville today from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

We're selling tickets on a liquor basket and also on a Santa & Mrs. Claus wooden yard decor.

The rest of our items are by donation!

More pics in comments. 😃

11/28/2025

... AND THEN THERE WERE TWO! 💔

For the last 2 months, you may have noticed our long-term residents showcased in the front window of our shelter. All of the cats have found their happily ever afters... Well, all except for Brutus and Kai! 😞💔

These two boys have been with us since July 2024 and December 2023, respectively. They've had the odd interest here and there, but nothing concrete, and we are seeking the perfect match(es)! 👌🏻 They would do best as the only pet in the home, unless they were adopted together, but this is NOT a requirement.

They deserve the everlasting, unconditional love that they haven't experienced before. The shelter has been fantastic for them and has taught them safety, how to trust, consistency, and socialization skills. BUT.... Every cat deserves a forever home and we will never stop rooting for these two boys until they find that! 🐾❤️

Please read more about Brutus here: https://www.facebook.com/share/19uJMuyRdL/
Please read more about Kai here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1G91YB6Aqe/

If you are interested in meeting and adopting either Brutus or Kai, please ✨APPLY✨ using the adoption link in the comments below.

Let's rally together to network and find forever homes for these two!!!!! 🤞🏻