These are the seven main issues the SPCA is working on to improve animal lives:

While all of these issues are important, we are asking our broad support base to focus on helping pass two county-wide regulations.

Issue 1: On July 1, 2008 Wake County Environmental Services is routing animals away from the SPCA to the Wake County Animal Center. Sending more animals into an already crowded shelter where 67% of all animals were euthanized will have tragic consequences to all the animals in their care.
Update: As of July 1, 2008, the town of Garner began routing their animals to the Wake County Animal Center. The town of Cary organized a Task Force to evaluate routing animals to the Wake County Animal Center and extended their contract with the SPCA of Wake County by 90 days.

Issue 2: A current report issued by Wake County Government criticizes deficiencies in animal care and cleaning at the Wake County Animal Shelter, yet administrators are planning to route more animals into that same building.

Issue 3: Overcrowding and under staffing may have contributed to the two significant outbreaks of disease at the Wake County Animal Center for the past two consecutive summers.

Issue 4: Wake County Environmental Services has refused to discontinue the use of the gas chamber even though the gas chamber is considered an inferior method of euthanasia, is only conditionally acceptable by humane groups, is more expensive to taxpayers and is condemned by Wake County residents.
OBJECTIVE ACCOMPLISHED: Due to public outcry, Wake County Environmental Services dismantled the gas chamber!

Issue 5: Wake County Environmental Services is continuing to release fertile animals back into the community. By sending out unaltered animals into the public and allowing them to reproduce, the government is directly contributing to the number one killer of companion animals: pet overpopulation.

Issue 6: This failure to commit to preventative efforts will cost even more taxpayer money and will cost thousands of animals their lives.

Issue 7: Wake County Environmental Services is about to ask this community to allocate even more tax money to cleaning up after the problem instead of solving it. This July 1, 2008 $4 million dollars will be allocated to warehouse more animals instead of committing to the prevention of more animals.