SPCA Far North

01/04/2025

Another couple of updates from recent adoptions 🥰

Ariel (now Ruby) is still a little anxious but is settling in very well, thanks to the efforts of our lovely dog volunteer Fiona who adopted her.

Nova’s new owner Glenn reports that Nova is being spoilt rotten by Glenn’s wife, and that Nova is a big part of their family already.

Thanks so much for these updates, keep them coming please! If you’ve adopted an animal from us we’d love to have a photo or two sent to us by messaging our FB page 🙏

01/04/2025

Frank arrived into our care in August last year, in a pretty bad way.
We’ve just had an update from his new family who adopted him a few weeks ago, they also adopted Marco from us at the same time.
What a fantastic life Frank has now, with his forever people and his buddy Marco! We are thrilled to see them both looking so happy and relaxed 💕

31/03/2025

📣 We have decided that our centre will be open 7 days a week during this campaign, 10am-4pm at 45 Sandys Road Waipapa!! Come in and meet your new best friend with 50% off all adoption fees 5th-13th April 🐾

Help us Clear the Shelters! If you've been considering bringing a new furry friend into your home, there’s never been a better time 💙 From Saturday 5 – Sunday 13 April, we’re offering 50% off ALL adoption fees.

With half-price fees, and the school holidays ahead, it’s the perfect time to settle your new best friend into their loving home. When you choose to adopt an animal from SPCA, you can rest assured knowing they’ve been desexed, microchipped, vaccinated, treated for fleas and worms, and received health checks – all ready to head home with you.

To help you meet your perfect match, we’re also running a nationwide walk-in adoption day this Saturday 5 April. Just be sure to check your local Centre’s opening hours! 🙏

Please note: To speed up the adoption process on walk-in adoption day, we encourage adopters to apply online via our website ahead of time for an animal that might be a good fit for you, so we have your details already on our database when you walk in. Please be patient with the team as our walk-in adoption days are always popular, and you might need to wait for our team to answer your query.

Let’s get as many deserving animals into loving homes as possible, and Clear the Shelters together! Meet many of our available animals on our website here: www.spca.nz/cleartheshelters2025

31/03/2025

Help us Clear the Shelters! If you've been considering bringing a new furry friend into your home, there’s never been a better time 💙 From Saturday 5 – Sunday 13 April, we’re offering 50% off ALL adoption fees.

With half-price fees, and the school holidays ahead, it’s the perfect time to settle your new best friend into their loving home. When you choose to adopt an animal from SPCA, you can rest assured knowing they’ve been desexed, microchipped, vaccinated, treated for fleas and worms, and received health checks – all ready to head home with you.

To help you meet your perfect match, we’re also running a nationwide walk-in adoption day this Saturday 5 April. Just be sure to check your local Centre’s opening hours! 🙏

Please note: To speed up the adoption process on walk-in adoption day, we encourage adopters to apply online via our website ahead of time for an animal that might be a good fit for you, so we have your details already on our database when you walk in. Please be patient with the team as our walk-in adoption days are always popular, and you might need to wait for our team to answer your query.

Let’s get as many deserving animals into loving homes as possible, and Clear the Shelters together! Meet many of our available animals on our website here: www.spca.nz/cleartheshelters2025

29/03/2025

A few adoptions this week - thanks so much for choosing to adopt from us!

27/03/2025

3 new puppies ready for adoption and on the website this week!

Spud, Yogi and Toffee - details are on their photos below

26/03/2025

We are excited to announce that from 1 April 2025, all of our animal Centres will now be able to offer you a standardised range of retail items in-store! 🙌 When you shop at SPCA Centres, not only will you have access to quality products to support the transition of your new family member, but you're also making a positive contribution to support animals in need ❤️

Our Kerikeri Centre will be closed from 2.30pm on Monday 31 March while we get everything organised, reopening again as normal on Tuesday 1 April - however, access to our welfare service lines will remain unchanged during this period. We thank you for your patience while we get things set up, and look forward to seeing you in-store again soon!

26/03/2025

🐾 Calling All Animal Lovers! 🐾

We are looking for more dog and cat volunteers to help us enrich the lives of the animals in our shelter 🙏

🐶 Dog volunteers - we are looking for volunteer dog walkers to help give our furry friends the exercise and companionship they need. If dog walking isn’t your thing, it’s also very valuable to just sit in the pens with our dogs to give them love and cuddles 💙

🐱 Cat volunteers- these amazing people help us to feed the cats/kittens and clean cages etc, then it’s cuddle time!

Why volunteer?
✅ Spend quality time with lonely dogs, puppies, cats and kittens
✅ Enjoy fresh air and light exercise
✅ Make a big difference in a puppy or kitten’s life
✅ Gain some useful work experience for your CV
✅ Meet fellow animal lovers and become a valued part of our team

No experience needed—just a love for animals, confidence in handling them and a willingness to help! It only takes an hour or two out of your day to make a big impact in their lives 🐾

📍 45 Sandys Road Waipapa
📞 Contact us at 09 407 7515 or email [email protected] to sign up today!

25/03/2025

Betty was adopted by a couple who saw her photo in the Northern Advocate.

25/03/2025

🐈‍⬛ Who said black cats are unlucky?? 🐈‍⬛

That’s just some trash talk made up by the orange cats 🙄

These beautiful panthers are waiting for you in our centre, come in and meet them this week!

24/03/2025

You may remember that last year, more than 57,000 New Zealanders signed the petition to protect our world-leading ban on live exports – the ban which our coalition Government is planning to repeal.

We cannot remain silent while the Government attempts to ignore the voices of the many. Only 17% of New Zealanders think the ban should be overturned, and only 12% trust the live export industry 🚫 They plan to bring back this horrific practice, even though the science is unequivocal – cattle suffer during live export.

We have a window of opportunity to make our voices heard. We implore you to email Prime Minster Christopher Luxon, and call on him to protect our ban on live exports by sea. We have created an email template for you to personalise, to make this process as easy as possible.

Raise your voice for the animals who don’t have one 🙏 Email the PM via our website here: https://www.spca.nz/advocacy/details/liveexport

23/03/2025

Just when we thought our week couldn’t possibly get any better….

ALEXEI FOUND A HOME! 🏡❤️

After waiting for 429 days, today was finally HIS day 🎊✨
We knew this special boy had so much love to give - while he patiently waited, Alexei stole the hearts of all our staff and our volunteers, and now he’s found the perfect home with his adopted goofball brother Gordon!

A huge THANK YOU to Kayne for opening your heart and home. And to everyone who shared, supported, and cheered Alexei on—this happy ending is because of you!

Wishing our gorgeous Alexei a lifetime of belly rubs, treats, beach swims and cozy naps with his new family! 🐾🏡

21/03/2025

📣 What an amazing way to end the week - after a whopping 431 days in our shelter, we are absolutely thrilled to announce that Miss Betty Bubbles has finally found her people 🥹

These 2 gorgeous ladies came to meet Betty earlier in the week, bringing their big goofball chocky Labrador also. This is exactly the loving and understanding home we’ve been waiting to find for Betty, and we are so happy that Miss Bubbles will have a doggy playmate to help her adjust to life inside a home.
We can’t wait to receive an update in a few weeks time , watch this space!!

20/03/2025

4 new doggy faces on our website this week! These stunning boys have now been desexed and they’re ready to find their forever families.
Names and the link to their website profiles are on each photo, contact our team if you’d like to come in and meet them!

19/03/2025

Our beautiful Echo (now Pearl) left us last Friday, she went on a huge adventure down to her new home in Christchurch. Her favourite spot in the house is next to the sunny window in the living room. She has settled in really well!

19/03/2025

We have taken in 11 more vulnerable puppies in the past 7 days, including this little guy who we’ve named Yogi.

Yogi Bear 🐻 is the most beautiful little puppy, he was about to be “disposed of” but thankfully a kind hearted member of the public was able to get to him in time and brought him in to us. Yogi is pretty scared, he’s a very snuggly lil fella and we don’t want him spending weeks alone in his pen at our centre.

We are looking for a foster for Yogi please, or if you’re interested in adopting this wee treasure we can arrange a Foster to Adopt as he can’t be officially adopted until after he’s been desexed.
We think Yogi is around 12-14 weeks old, he’s now been flea’d and wormed and has had his first vaccination.
Please message our page if you’re interested in Yogi and we will send you an application form!

We are also looking for fosters for a litter of 4 other puppies that came to us a few days ago (3rd photo) 🙏

Final photo is of 4x abandoned babies that came in recently, absolutely crawling with fleas and far too young to be away from their poor mother 😥 They are sorted though thankfully as one of our amazing existing fosters has taken 2 of them (Nyssa you’re amazing 🤩) and one of our dedicated staff members is fostering the other 2

17/03/2025

We’ve had some lovely update pics sent to us, of 3 brothers Isaac, Inky & Ivan who were all adopted (separately) at the end of last year. So of course we had to include this gorgeous pic of their Mum (Indigo) that was sent to us recently! We’d also love an update from their sisters Ivory & Izzy if their adoptive families see this post! 🙏

15/03/2025

A wonderful week for cat adoptions! Fonzie, Gizmo, Micah, Mia, Maggie, Hazel, Oden, Echo, Nova & Sheila all found homes this week 🎉