The ISPCA launched the annual SpayAware public awareness campaign which aims to urge pet owners to do their part by spaying or neutering their pets to help reduce the high number of unwanted cats and dogs in Ireland.
Our role is to prevent cruelty to animals, to promote animal welfare and to pro-actively relieve animal suffering in Ireland. The Society supports the aims of similarly minded animal welfare bodies throughout the world. The ISPCA believes that animals have the right to live their lives free from needless suffering and we aim to rescue, rehabilitate and responsibly rehome animals that are subjected to cruelty or neglect. We also believe that all animals have an intrinsic value entirely independent of their value or use to man and should be respected and protected accordingly.
In short, we:
Promote animal welfare
Prevent cruelty to animals
Relieve animal suffering
Mission Statement
Our Mission is that through education, legislation and ongoing support for our 19 affiliated societies we can Prevent Cruelty to All Animals.
The Declaration of Animal Rights
That we share the earth with other creatures great and small.
That many of these animals experience pleasure and pain.
That these animals deserve our just treatment and that these animals are unable to speak for themselves.
We do therefore declare that these animals:
Have the right to live free from wanton exploitation whether in the name of science or sport, exhibition or service, food or fashion.
Have the right to live in harmony with their nature, rather than according to human desires.
Have the right to live on a healthy planet.
We therefore call for the protection of these rights.
