Pets in Crisis

Pets in Crisis

No-one should feel like they can’t leave a violent home, which is why RSPCA Qld and dvconnect have joined force to create a Pets in Crisis Domestic Violence Program.

RSPCA & DV Connect

dvconnect counsellors and workers in the wider domestic violence sector regularly speak to women whose pets are beaten or tortured by abusive partners in order to frighten and control them into staying in violent relationships.

For others, especially the children, moving into refuge without their special companion at this time compounds the loss and makes the trauma they are facing their family life that much more intense.

Until now, as refuges are neither equipped nor approved to house animals, women have been faced with the difficult decision of abandoning their pets to get refuge, or paying prohibitive fees to board pets at a time when they may have nothing but the clothes on their back.