About KSPCA

The work of the KSPCA Is very varied and complex. We are an extremely efficient animal welfare society with laws, statutes and prosecutions to our name.

-          We supervise the humane slaughter of animals and the loading of animals on to ships when they are being transported. 

-          We have piloted the human slaughter act, which means that animals cannot be slaughtered in slaughterhouses without the use of a captive bolt stunner.   We also offer a sales and repair service of these stunners and the ammunition for same.

-          We visit schools and encourage schools to visit KSPCA where we explain about animal welfare and the humane treatment of all living creatures.  

-          We are the only people who will deal with rabid dogs. The vets and members of the public call us when there is an outbreak of rabies. We uplift any animal suspected to be rabid and we put it to sleep humanely and send the head for testing at our own expense.   We then set up a rabies vaccination campaign in the area the animal was found and vaccinate all dogs and cats free of charge in that particular area.

-          To control the population of stray animals we do also spay and save campaigns. We collect animals, vaccinate and spay them and bring them if possible back to their food sources. We offer the hotels cat trapping and hope to be allowed to bring them also back after spaying. We instruct them in building cat cafés so the cats are not disturbing the guests.

-          Each and every report made to KSPCA is noted down and dealt with as soon as possible.  Is it about a hit animal we go to collect and bring it to our clinic where our vet is treating or in sad cases is putting it down?

Abandoned animals we get with the help of the police if we don’t have access to the compound.

 

Animals abused or not kept well we talk to the owners and go     regularly for check ups.  If the situation is not changing we confiscate the animal and sometimes have to sue the owner.

Unfortunately the law is from the old days so the fines, which have to be paid, vary between 300 and maximum 3000 shillings, which looks sometimes, like a big joke as people just laugh about it.

We have staff living on site that will deal with any emergency calls 24 hours per day.  Our Staff consists of an Executive Officer, Secretary, Inspector, Field officer and 4 Kennel/cattery staff.

 

 

 

 

 

We have 30 dog kennels, 4 isolations kennels, 8 outside exercise areas for dogs, 2 huge catteries where cats can move free around on trees, 4 small catteries and one kitten house. 

We also have our own, on-site treatment facility with a fully equipped operating theatre.   We have on retainer, a veterinary doctor, two days per week. This enables us to do all our in house veterinary work including neutering, vaccinating, treating and many other procedures. We do not, however, offer these services to the public.  Only animals already in our care are treated.

Sadly, we have become victims of our success, the more we do, the more we are expected to do and, in these days of severe hardship for the Kenyan people, we are having to take in more and more animals until we have arrived at the point where we have to put so many animals to sleep because we have no more room for them.  We no longer have the luxury of being able to wait for them to find a suitable home. This means that many, healthy, friendly dogs and cats are being euthanised through no fault of their own. 

Our vehicles cover thousands of kilometres each month and fuel costs are spiralling.   Our fundraising, whilst prolific, brings in less and less each year as corporations chose to donate to HIV/aids projects and forget about animal charities.   We are the oldest charity in Kenya yet now we are the most forgotten. Members of the public think nothing of calling us and asking us to act to uplift stray or injured animals or they arrive with basket loads of puppies or kittens, but very few will donate any money to look after the multitude of animals hoisted upon us.  We can apply for grants for all our various projects, but no International organisation will fund running costs, which are what cripple us as prices rise and rise. We have held a crisis meeting with our trustees in the last few weeks to ask for money from our trust fund as we are no longer able to generate Our running costs reach every year about 6,000,000 shillings with an income of only Ksh2, 500,000, leaving us with a shortfall of 3,500,000.   We have already been asked to curtail some of our activities and will no longer be able to uplift stray animals in outlying areas. 

If we should have really to close down there will be no one to deal with all the animals, which need help, no one to deal with the rabid dogs and no one to supervise the humane slaughter of food chain animals, and no one to deal with the monkeys or birds, which are abused and mistreated by members of the public.