September 27, 2013
Animals at the Kingaroy RSPCA are barking, meowing and squawking with relief now that their improved shelter facilities have been completed, thanks to funding from the South Burnett Regional Council, the RSPCA and the Tarong Community Partnership Fund.
The RSPCA was awarded $20,000 in funding in 2010 to make much-needed expansions and improvements to its shelter and they are now finished.
“The RSPCA now will be able to provide bigger and better welfare services for the South Burnett’s abandoned animals,” Tarong Community Partnership Fund Chair Jenny Gregg said.
The Tarong Community Partnership Fund joined with the South Burnett Regional Council and the RSPCA to get the job done.
The RSPCA Kingaroy Animal Care Centre finds homes for more than 350 animals a year.
“The expansions to the shelter have enabled the RSPCA to house more animals and, in turn, rehome more than 95 per cent more animals in the past financial year,” Shelter Manager Sally Charles said.
“The improvements include new multi-house cat-adoption pens, refurbished dog adoption kennels, a feed room, a laundry facility, a vet treatment room, three new yards for the animals to get daily exercise as well as the commencement of our future dog adoption pens, which will have approximately 20 kennels.”
All creatures great and small come to the centre in need – whether as strays, unwanted, injured, abandoned, neglected, or abused – and the RSPCA provides a second chance to as many animals as possible.
“The RSPCA does a wonderful job in the South Burnett and it is justifiably loved by the community,” Ms Gregg said.
[Photo: Stanwell Corporation]
