Big rise in Auckland animal welfare complaints, SPCA says
By Angela WoodsNZ Herald·
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Save Animal welfare complaints to the Auckland SPCA in Mangere rose by 9 per cent last year.
This meant another 600 pets were allegedly subject to abuse, neglect or abandonment than the year before.
The SPCA has seen 10,000 pets a year come to its South Auckland centre and nearly three-quarters
of these animals have been subject to abuse.
"I think in shelter medicine you see some of the worst of the worst," said Dr Shalsee Vigeant, an SPCA vet.
"We don't get animals that people care for every day.