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Community Benefits
Spending time with an animal reduces stress, with proven benefits to a person’s physical and emotional health. A new facility will dramatically improve opportunity for this type of community engagement.
A new facility will strengthen the leadership role of the Regional SPCA St. John’s and enable it to facilitate additional transfers from other shelters throughout the province.
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In the process of ensuring humane care and adoption, the SPCA provides other important tangible benefits.
With a strong volunteer base and huge animal intake, the SPCA offers support to animal control officers in municipalities, providing humane services to homeless animals. The once-common practice of euthanizing animals due to limited space or high rehabilitation costs has been all but eliminated. The SPCA’s low-to-no cost education and awareness programs are respected internationally for their pragmatism. They help people understand, upfront, the responsibilities of pet care and ownership. All this results in increased spaying and neutering, fewer animals being given up or abandoned (resulting in less intake), increased adoptions, and a significant reduction in the amount of time it takes to find good homes for intake animals. A pet can be an expensive luxury for lower income individuals and families who want companionship and would make great pet owners. The SPCA offers programs that enable lower income families to adopt healthy, well socialized animals. The SPCA even has a pet food bank and a fostering service to avoid unnecessary surrender in tough times.
AVOIDED COSTS FOR MUNICIPALITIES PUBLIC EDUCATION ACCESS TO GREAT PETS
RE-HOMING OF WELL-LOVED PETS
Not all intake animals are abandoned or abused. Did you ever wonder what happens when a senior citizen or a new mother realizes she can no longer care for their well-loved companion? It’s heart wrenching! Your SPCA is a trusted, non-judgmental organization that takes the matching process for re-homing as seriously as if these pets were their own. The SPCA offers individuals, many of whom cannot permanently adopt a pet, the opportunity to experience affection and companionship. Volunteers engage in everything from fostering to facilitating rehabilitation through feeding and socialization—all much-appreciated services. In the process of doing good, these teams relieve a little stress and establish bonds that make for a great workplace. An organization that cares for more than 1,200 animals each year has a significant supply chain. The Regional SPCA St. John’s directly benefits pet food and sanitization suppliers, veterinarians and veterinary suppliers. More broadly, everyone appreciates and patronizes businesses that support causes they care about, like the SPCA.
VOLUNTEER AND TEAM BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES BROADER BUSINESS COMMUNITY BENEFITS
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