Help Heal Hearts

Help Heal Hearts

Give victims of puppy farms a second chance.

This week, Kerry Fitzpatrick, a convicted puppy farmer, was sent to jail for breaching a court order that banned her from breeding animals, after causing years of suffering for hundreds of dogs and puppies.

The cycle of abuse for profit has finally been broken, and all the surviving dogs from this case now know love and safety in forever homes.

But there are so many mamas and babies who are still suffering across our state in the name of profit, and they need you now.

In the last year, we rescued 553 South Australian animals as part of large-scale seizures of 20 animals or more from a single property (a big jump from the previous year).

Over the last year, our small but mighty legal team have successfully prosecuted 37 matters in the courts, including several cases relating to low-welfare breeding operations and puppy farms. Cases often take months or years to finalise, and during this time the costs keep rising.

Many of these animals come to us traumatised and shut down, with a range of mental and physical health conditions.

We need your help to put back together the pieces of their broken hearts and bodies.

Please make a loving donation today to help expose puppy farms, get justice in the courts and give mistreated dogs a second chance.

How is the fight for animal welfare funded?

  • RSPCA South Australia receives some funds from the State Government specifically to support the work of our Inspectorate and legal team
  • Sometimes we are awarded costs by the courts when we successfully prosecute a case (as was the case with the Fitzpatrick matter), but this rarely comes close the costs of rescue and care incurred
  • Where we can re-home rescued animals we recover some costs through adoption fees, but these rarely stretch to the actual cost of care
  • Ultimately we rely on donations from our big hearted community to care for the thousands of vulnerable animals that come through our doors each year

Thank you for your donation!

Your kindness will make a huge difference to the safety and wellbeing of animals in South Australia.


Do you have friends, family or colleagues who might also want to help? Why not share news of your donation via social media. Every donation we receive goes a long way to expanding the work of RSPCA South Australia.

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Latest donations

$30.00
Ros
21 days jail is not enough, and how does this person collect so many dogs so quickly since the last offence?
$30.00
Branka
$30.00
Saralyn
These people need to be stopped
$10.00
Paulina
Puppy farms should be closed and banned in all states of Victoria.
$20.00
Donna
The difference is to prosecute and get a jail sentence which will be a deterrent.