Category: Compassion in Action

September is the final month of our fiscal year, and FY25 came to a close on September 30 as we brought the 4,076th pet of the year into our care. […]

Each August since 2015, we have participated in the national Clear The Shelters adoption initiative. What began as a one-day event has expanded to a month-long focus on adopting from […]

Each animal's story at the Richmond SPCA starts with our Pet Support Services team. In July, they brought 384 pets into our care: 176 who were surrendered by their guardians, […]

Summer is in full swing — and so is Compassion Unleashed Critter Camp, our flagship humane education program! In June, we welcomed hundreds of excited young animal advocates to our […]

Just like May flowers, kitten season was beginning to bloom, and we kicked it off with live kitten cams leading up to our in-person Kitten Shower. Similar to a baby […]

National Volunteer Week is celebrated each year in April, and our volunteers gave us so much to celebrate this month — 1,285 hours of their time, to be exact! We […]

We welcomed spring with our annual Dog Jog, 5K and Block Party on March 22. The event happens on the streets surrounding our humane center and is a celebration of […]

We spent February celebrating love for companion animals and all the people who make "Compassion Unleashed" a reality across our community. That included a tremendous day of sterilization and vaccine […]

Like all of RVA, we started 2025 with a shiver as a winter storm was followed by the city-wide water outage. Though our public programming was disrupted, the care of […]

As we rang in the New Year, we had 196 animals in our care after finding homes for 302 pets during the course of December. It was an active month […]