Welcome to the website of the RSPCA Herefordshire Branch

We work in Hereford and throughout the county to further the same animal welfare aims as the national organisation, (Please note: we are not in a similarly named county just north of London!).

NEW! You can now sponsor one of the animals in our long-term care! Please click here for details.

NEW! We now have a facebook page! We hope you "Like" it. To see what we are up to please click here.

The Branch is run entirely by volunteers and its main role is finding new homes for domestic pets, especially those rescued by RSPCA Inspectors and other field staff. We also help people with vets' bills.

In 2010, we re-homed 46 dogs, 90 cats and over 50 other animals, mainly rabbits and birds. Over 70 of these needed to be neutered by us, and we microchipped more than 80. We helped treat over 150 cats, dogs and rabbits owned by the public, including our cat and dog neutering scheme.

Running the Branch costs about £100,000 every year (£2,000 each week) and we rely entirely on donations and legacies for this. We also depend heavily on volunteer effort.  

The RSPCA Inspectors and Animal Welfare Officers are part of the national organisation, not our Branch, but they are active in Herefordshire too. In 2010, they responded to over 1,600 calls in Herefordshire, involving over 3,000 animals.

Almost 600 of the calls were complaints about suspected ill treatment or suffering of over 2,000 animals: sheep, cattle, dogs, cats, horses, and small animals (eg rabbits). The other calls were about animals who were lost, injured or needed to be rescued. Most of these were wildlife, but also included cats, dogs, farm animals, etc.

To find out more about us, please use the menu on the left.

To find out more about the RSPCA , please visit the national site.