The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Selangor (abbreviated: SPCA Selangor) is a

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animal shelter An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would ...

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. The SPCA Selangor was founded by Ruth Spiers in 1958.https://www.spca.org.my/who-we-are/our-history/ SPCA Selangor History SPCA Selangor receives almost 1,100 animals ranging from

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s to

rabbit Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). ''Oryctolagus cuniculus'' includes the European rabbit speci ...

s every month. Due to shortage of space and funding, and a 10 percent adoption rate, SPCA Selangor must

euthanize Euthanasia (from el, εὐθανασία 'good death': εὖ, ''eu'' 'well, good' + θάνατος, ''thanatos'' 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering. Different countries have different eutha ...

many animals each year. The SPCA Selangor aims to become a no-kill facility by 2010. In addition to operating animal shelters, SPCA Selangor educates the public about responsible

pet A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular pets are often considered to have attractive appearances, intelligence, ...

ownership, lobbies for animal protection and

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laws, spays and neuters animals, and investigates animal cruelty complaints. Currently, SPCA Selangor is working to persuade the local government to increase the

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for animal abusers. This campaign came about when a dog breeder in Cheras was found guilty of abusing 13 of his dogs and fined RM200. In another case, Tim, a

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, had its chain wrapped so tightly around its neck that the chain had become embedded into the skin, causing it to suffer a bloody six-inch wound around its neck. Its owner got a fine of RM200 and was put in jail for one day. In response, these and other punishments which SPCA Selangor felt were insufficient, SPCA came up with a

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and is appealing to the courts and the law makers to increase the maximum fine of RM200 and/or six months of imprisonment under The Animal Ordinance 1953 to a fine of RM100,000.

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* {{Official website, http://www.spca.org.my 1958 establishments in Malaya Animal welfare organisations based in Malaysia

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