May 25, 2015
In what RSPCA staff and volunteers admit is a blatant rip-off of the State of Origin series, the “State of Adoption” challenge has once again gone out to RSPCA NSW from RSPCA Qld.
The Queensland shelters are hoping to win an historic seven in a row!
The goal is to re-home as many animals as possible from the start of the first State of Origin rugby league game to the end of the last.
The toughly fought contest bears another resemblance to the State of Origin series with most of the adoptees having a bit of “the mongrel” in them.
“Of course it’s a rip-off on the whole concept but if we’re re-homing more animals then it’s all worthwhile,” RSPCA Qld spokesman Michael Beatty said.
“We will start as the underdogs, if you’ll pardon the pun, because Queensland has nine shelters, while NSW has 12. But Queenslanders are used to that tag and it just stirs us on.
“Once they’ve seen the fantastic animals we have up for adoption, we know they’ll find their perfect match and for us the perfect match is Queensland winning by a cat’s whisker!”
- You can find out what animals are curently available for adoption in the South Burnett on the RSPCA Kingaroy website
