Brand new dog quarantine unit opens in Christchurch

Christchurch’s SPCA is already inundated with dogs needing desperate help.

A brand new dog quarantine unit has opened at Christchurch’s SPCA and has already been inundated with dogs needing help.

It’s one of three nationwide designed to help manage disease control and quickly treat neglected and abandoned canines.

It’s opening comes almost seven years after the initial fundraising campaign started.

At the facility they’re able to flea, worm, vaccinate and weigh dogs and then decipher whether they are healthy enough to be in an open kennel or need to be in isolation.

Around 5000 dogs are handed into the SPCA every year, the bulk of those in the winter months.

CEO Andrea Midgen says that’s often because in the winter its harder to leave animals outside and exercise them and often owners get frustrated with them causing problems in the house.

The Christchurch centre alone has looked after 3233 dogs since they opened in August 2018.

Since October last year they’ve had 264 dogs handed in, 117 of those have been since the quarantine unit opened.
 

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