Dr. Liz Walker

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Australian Finance Podcast · Real cost of pet ownership in Australia · 31 Jan 2022 podcast

and take in over 100,000 animals a year.

So around about 40% of those are cats, about 20% are dogs, and the rest are other animals.

There'd be a lot of horses, a lot of rabbits and guinea pigs, but also every other species, including a lot of wildlife too in some places.

Each state is a bit different.

So we rehabilitate those animals and rehome them.

In addition to that, in every location with the exception of Northern Territory, we enforce the law.

So the RSPCA, and that's a really big role for us.

So RSPCAs, as I said, with the exception of Northern Territory, have an inspectorate.

They enforce the state-based laws around animal cruelty.

So an indication, there's over, across the country,

over 73,000 animal cruelty reports come in annually and our inspectorate teams go and address those.

So that's a really, really, really, really important role.

In Victoria, our role in that space is around companion animals, including horses.

And our inspectors respond to over 10,000 cases a year

And we prosecute around about 100 cases a year as well.

That's a really important role for us.

The other two areas that we do is around education and community outreach.

Lots of education, talking to primary school students, running programs face-to-face using digital technology, and also community outreach to varying extents around the country.

So supporting...

supporting vulnerable communities to make sure that they can get their animals well cared for, and also roles in family violence and people who are homeless and what have you, and just making sure that people can care for their animals in a way that they need to, or if they can't care for them, helping them to surrender them and giving those animals a second chance.

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