Summary:

For concern’s with regards to safety & welfare of animals, please contact the local authorities as well as the nearest animal welfare organization. For further information, please refer to the 11 services listed below.

 

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Information:

Animal Welfare

For concern’s with regards to safety & welfare of animals, please contact the local authorities as well as the nearest animal welfare organization.

 

DFAM – Department Of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

If you own animals, process them or are responsible for animal health, the Department offers a variety of services to help you. This includes information on animal disease, rules for animal care, advice on general welfare, advice and rules on travelling with your pet and more.

Dedicated helpline to report incidents of Animal Cruelty

Phone: 01 607 2379 or 0761 064 408

email – [email protected]

 

ISPCA

The ISPCA is a national charity and was established in May 1949, by a group of committed volunteers from across Ireland, and since then the ISPCA has worked locally and nationally rescuing, rehabilitating and responsibly re-homing cruelly treated and neglected animals. The Society is the umbrella organisation for 17 affiliated local animal welfare organisations and as such provides training and support to a dedicated and committed core of volunteers. The ISPCA is also represented internationally through their active membership of the World Society for the Protection of Animals. Together the ISPCA and their members help, rescue, treat and responsibly rehome tens of thousands of animals of all different species.

 

Irish Blue Cross

The Irish Blue Cross is an animal care charity (Charity Registration Number 20007959), founded in Ireland in 1945, well known for the provision of pet care amongst the least well off pet owners in the Dublin region. Our teams deliver in the regions of 27,000 veterinary treatments and procedures annually at our ten mobile veterinary clinics and the main Inchicore Clinic. Our vets ensure pets are restored to full health and receive the preventative care they require to defend against disease. Responsible pet ownership is heavily promoted at our clinics and owners are made aware of the benefits of having pets neutered, vaccinated and microchipped which becomes mandatory for all dogs from early 2016 onwards. The mobile clinics are located on a weekly basis as follows: Ballybrack, Ballyfermot, Blanchardstown, Cabra, Crumlin, Donnycarney, Finglas, Smithfield, Tallaght and Walkinstown. All clinics operate in the evenings and are run by dedicated volunteers drivers,

assistants and veterinary personnel. The core administrative activities of The Irish Blue Cross are carried by a team of 17 staff and a voluntary management committee.

The Irish Blue Cross horse ambulance service operates at all Irish race meetings and at main equestrian events such as the RDS Horse Show and Ballindenisk and Tattersalls International Horse Trials each year. Our operatives work closely with veterinary officers to assist equine that become injured or need assistance during the course of racing or eventing.

15A Goldenbridge Industrial Estate is the charity’s main base and garaging facility for its mobile veterinary clinics. It is also the location of The Inchicore Small-Animal Clinic, which has flourished since its establishment in 2009. There is an average of 38 patients attending the Inchicore Clinic on a daily basis.

 

DSPCA

Opened in 2003, it is a state of the art facility offering shelter and care to a wide variety of animals including dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, goats, cows, pigs, rabbits, ferrets, gerbils, budgies, snakes, terrapins and all manner of farmyard fowl.

The rescue and re-homing centre is also a rest stop for a number of injured and young wildlife awaiting release including swans, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs and small birds.

 

Rescue Animals Ireland

This website was created to try to make it as easy as possible for people to adopt animals and not buy from online classifieds.

 

Animal Advocacy

Animal Advocacy is one not-for-profit person, nested in an inspiring network of charitable, government, public and networking organisations, volunteers and individuals.

 

Dogs Trust Ireland

Dogs Trust is Ireland’s largest dog welfare charity. We established our Dublin rehoming centre in November 2009.

 

PAWS Animal Rescue

PAWS was founded in February 1997 by Deirdre & Gina Hetherington in Sallins Co Kildare. The original concept was to rehome unwanted pets from their current homes and take in dogs from Kildare Dog pound to save them from destruction. At the time, there were 35,000 dogs being killed in Irish Dog Pounds every year, with Kildare being among the top ten and we felt this was no longer acceptable. Soon, word about PAWS spread via the media and Ginas weekly appearances on TV3 and we were assisting animals from the 26 counties and beyond.

 

Kildare Animal Foundation

Founded in 1994 by on the outskirts of Kildare town by Geraldine O’Hanlon and a group of very dedicated volunteers, the Kildare Animal Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the welfare of cats, dogs and small animals.  Located in an ideal setting, the Foundation today cares for almost 100 animals, providing sanctuary to injured, sick and abused animals.

 

Dogs Aid

Dogs Aid is a charity set up by three ladies in 1987 to help dogs that were unwanted and abandoned in Dublin, Ireland. Since then we have helped rehabilitate and rehome hundreds of dogs and cats. Dogs Aid has a no destruction policy so we never put a recoverable dog or cat down, and as a result the sanctuary is a permanent home for many forever dogs  that are “too old or too bold” to be rehomed. From time to time we also take care of other animals including rabbits, bats, birds, foxes, feral cats, hedgehogs etc.

Dogs Aid is entirely staffed by volunteers and entirely funded by public donations, and all of our money goes to help the animals. We are currently in the process of building a new sanctuary on our permanent site and look forward to moving the dogs to their new home later this year.

 

National Animal Rights Association – Ireland

The National Animal Rights Association, formed in 2007, is a voluntary, vegan, animal rights group based in Dublin. We have many ongoing campaigns, and are constantly out spreading awareness through our protests, demonstrations and information tables. Whether it’s a fur shop, a circus or a pharmaceutical company that funds vivisection