We work to prevent cruelty and abuse to animals by educating the public on responsible pet ownership.
We investigate reports of animal cruelty, work hard to protect vulnerable animals and relieve animal suffering.
We can seize animals and prepare case files that may result in legal proceedings.
The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believes the following freedoms should be afforded to all animals:
Our principal ambition is to ensure that all animals in Ireland can live their best life, always. We do this by upholding our Vision, Mission and Values.
All animals are loved, respected, protected and treated with kindness.
Deliver a good life for animals by rescuing and treating those animals in need, advocating on behalf of all animals and guiding everyone to love, respect and be kind to animals.
The values that the Trustees, the Management team, our staff and our volunteers live by every day are to be: trustworthy, transformative, committed, professional, inspirational, compassionate, loving, innovative, dedicated and passionate
ISPCA and An Cumann Éireannach um Fhoirithint ar Ainmhite are the registered business names of The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a company limited by guarantee, registered in Ireland with company number 460571, Registered Charity Number 20008734 and Charity Number CHY 5619.
The ISPCA operates a network of animal rescue centres throughout Ireland, providing care and support for animals in need.
The ISPCA Animal Rehabilitation Centre (ARC) opened in June 2018 thanks to the hard work of our affiliated member organisation Donegal SPCA. The state-of-the-art facilities include an animal treatment room, rooms for small animals, large animals, and aquatic wildlife such as seals, as well as stables, kennels and a cattery. All animals and species are welcome!
The ISPCA Equine Rescue Centre was opened in June 2007 as a direct result of the urgent requirement for such a facility to accommodate cruelly treated and neglected equines in the south of the country. With an increased number of horses, old barren mares, broken down racehorses, laminitic ponies and, sadly, badly abused trotting /sulky horses.
A significant number of the seized equines are held on behalf of statutory bodies such as the Gardai and the ISPCAis required to hold these animals pending court proceedings. This often means that many animals have to be retained by the ISPCA for protracted periods of time.
The ISPCA National Animal Centre was established in order to support the ISPCA Inspectorate with the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of animals that have been cruelly treated, neglected and abused.
The Centre, which opened in 2002, is situated on 88 acres in an area of rural Longford.
The Centre is designed to provide veterinary care and rehabilitation to animals that have been subjected to cruelty or neglect and return them to a state that enables them to be responsibly re-homed in a suitable environment. The National Animal Centre is truly a centre for all animals and is currently capable of holding up to fifty canines, fifty felines and in excess of fifteen equines.
A visit to the ISPCA Memory Garden in the stunning surrounds of a garden nestled in the woodlands of the National Animal Centre also makes for a memorable visit.
The Centre is located on the main R392 half way between Ballymahon & Lanesborough, Co. Longford and signposted near the Bord-Na-Mona level crossing. (No need to go through Keenagh village).
ISPCA Waterford Office, like other regional branches, plays a vital role in the local community by raising awareness and funds to support our life-saving work.
Please contact (051) 841 432.
ISPCA Wicklow Centre, based in Sharpeshill, Co. Wicklow promotes responsible pet ownership, prevents animal cruelty across the county, rehabilitates and responsibly re-homes countless animals. Over this time, the Centre has become an intrinsic part of the Wicklow community and a focal point for social good, through volunteering, education, employment, fundraising and the promotion of rural sustainability.
The ISPCA is calling on the public to become responsible pet owners and to be ambassadors for helpless animals by reporting any cases of animal cruelty they come across online here or by calling the National Animal Cruelty Helpline 0818 515 515 in confidence.
Our Strategic Framework 2023 – 2027, available for download below, highlights our vision for the next five years.
We believe that man has a responsibility to care for the earth and all creatures on it, and that each creature has an intrinsic value, entirely independent of its value to man, and should be respected and protected.
We believe that animals have the right to live their lives free from avoidable suffering at the hands of man and that man has a duty to provide for their welfare.
We believe that all animals kept by, or under the control of humans must be kept in circumstances appropriate to their species and where the physiological and behavioural needs of a species cannot be met, the species must not be kept by man.
We believe that the different purposes for which animals are used must be regularly re-evaluated.