Christmas is a time when we come together to ensure that those we love – and even those we may never meet – have the chance to experience safety, warmth, love, and joy.
This year, as our much-loved but ageing 35-year-old primary Animal Care Centre undergoes essential refurbishment, we urgently need your help to create the most enriching and happiest, space possible for animals rescued from neglect, pain, and despair.
It’s also a perfect time to talk about how we deliver exceptional animal care through the Five Domains of Animal Welfare. This model recognises that true healing and wellbeing relies not only on physical health, but on each animal’s emotional experience. Every dog, cat, kitten, puppy, and small animal in our care needs to feel safe, recover and to rediscover who they were meant to be before life went wrong.
At RSPCA Tasmania, we first triage the essentials:
Health | Nutrition | Shelter
Then provide the items that transform survival into true holistic wellbeing (physical, mental, emotional wellbeing) through providing species specific positive physical and emotional environments and actively encourage healthy behavioural interactions and enrichment.
This is where you can make a powerful difference
We are desperately needing to raise funds to provide enrichment items that help animals grow into the animal they were always meant to be before things went wrong for them.
Things that create a truly wonderful, stimulating and soul strengthening environment, which encourages the development of natural behaviours like scratching, jumping, climbing, playing, running and exploring.
This also builds socialisation strategies and resilience with toys, games and interactive playtime with their own kind and humankind. Such provisions allow animals to build confidence, reduce stress, and prepare them for life beyond the shelter institution.
Such tools, equipment and experiences help them heal emotionally, learn to trust again, and get ready to become loving members of their future forever families
With heartfelt gratitude,
Andrea Dawkins
CEO, RSPCA Tasmania
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Thank you Royal Canin for helping us feed nutritious meals to these hungry animals.
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