RSPCA NSW rehomes a range of adorable animals, including cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, and more! We can help you find your forever friend at one of our shelters and adoption centres. You can also adopt some of our animals from more than 30 Petbarn stores.
When visiting our shelter to adopt, a member of our team will ask you to complete a quick questionnaire to help us understand the kind of animal that matches your preferences, lifestyle, and home. When you’re ready to adopt, don’t forget that you’ll be required to present photographic ID, complete with your name and current address. If you already have a dog at home, you may need bring them with you to ensure they’ll get along with your new forever friend.
Please note that although we update our online lists of available animals every day, there is a chance that an animal you are interested in will have found a home prior to your arrival at our facilities.
When deciding whether to adopt an animal companion of your own, remember to first consider the potential cost of caring for a pet. While there are no universal requirements when adopting a forever friend, different animals will require suitable homes to meet their behavioural or breed-dependent needs. As such, it’s important to ensure your lifestyle and living situation can accommodate for an animal companion.
When you’ve finally decided to adopt, don’t forget to arrive at our facilities with a photographic identity document, complete with your name and current address. If you already have a dog, you may need bring them in for a meet and greet to ensure they’ll get along with the newest member of the family.
After every canine or feline adoption, we promptly reach out to new pet parents to offer support via phone or email, offering advice, referrals to our teams, or access to additional helpful resources. Whether we continue to follow up is entirely up to you, and whether you’d like us to keep checking in to provide advice to help you and your new Rescuoodle.
Though we strive to ensure that new adopters feel supported when adjusting to life with their animal companions, our support channels are always open to any animal lovers in need of assistance. From general over-the-phone advice to referrals to our behaviour or veterinary teams, we have plenty of options available to those in need of post-adoption support.
If you’d like some help with your animal companion and need to reach out to our teams, then feel free to contact us at (02) 9770 7555.
Every RSPCA NSW animal that requires desexing, microchipping, parasite treatment, and vaccinations undergoes all these procedures prior to adoption. Each animal also goes through a series of comprehensive veterinary checks along with any necessary training, quarantine, and rehabilitation.
As a charity, we use our adoption fees to help us recover a portion of these costs, so we can allocate
more of our resources to supporting people and pets in need.
Whether you’re saving adoption for later or simply holding off on a new forever friend, there are so many ways to lend a hand if you’re looking to support animals in need.
Becoming a foster carer is such a rewarding experience. If you’re unsure about adopting but looking to personally assist our animals, consider joining our wonderful team of incredible foster carers today!
Furthermore, our shelters and adoption centres facilitate a range of volunteering opportunities, perfect for those currently unable to welcome an animal into their home. From joining our Emergency Response Team to assisting with animal transportation, there are so many ways you can help support communities and their pets.
Foster carers offer our animals a comforting home environment in addition to a family dynamic that our shelters aren’t able to provide. At any one time, animals in foster homes can account for up to 21% of all the animals in our care. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of more than 900 foster carers, we help thousands of animals:
Foster care can also ready our animals for the dynamic of a family situation. The more we learn about their behaviour in a predictable family setting, the easier it is for our staff to ensure we find their perfect match!
If you’re not looking to adopt just yet, you can still give the gift of a foster home to an animal in need. Lend a helping hand by becoming a RSPCA NSW foster carer today!
With your help, we can give our animals a safe, temporary abode. All you need is an animal-friendly home, time, and love for your foster animals! With that in mind, it is essential that our carers:
If you decide to become a foster carer, Our Foster Care team will provide you with food, bedding, supplies, and veterinary support, meaning you can focus on providing a safe and caring environment for animals in need.
As long as everyone in your household has agreed to foster an animal, your circumstances will not prevent you from becoming a RSPCA NSW foster carer. However, please note that some of our animals cannot be fostered in homes with children, meaning you might not be able to foster every animal looking for care.
If you have other animals at home, they need to be vaccinated, desexed, and treated for internal and external parasites before you can take in a foster animal. You may also be required to bring your animals into the shelter to meet your potential foster animal, to ensure that your preexisting pets get along with their foster friend.
Because every animal at RSPCA NSW is unique, we cannot guarantee a specific time frame for our animals’ length of care. Nevertheless, we’ll do our best to give you an estimate you can work with, using the information at hand and our knowledge of our animals’ needs.
We strive to ensure our carers can focus their attention on their animals, which is why we cover all essential pet food and supplies.
Our dedicated team will cover our animals’ bedding, supplies, and medication, in addition to any emergency procedures that might arise. All you have to do is give our animals your love as you accompany them on the road to recovery and a loving, permanent home!
We promise to uphold the highest ethical standards. Your personal information has never been, and never will be sold or traded to other charities. This is our promise to you.
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we live and work. We recognise and respect the enduring relationship they have with their lands and waterways, and particularly acknowledge the vital role animals have played in Indigenous life, stories and culture for tens of thousands of years.
The RSPCA is an independent, community-based charity providing animal care and protection services across the country.
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