Save-A-Dog Scheme is proudly celebrating 40 years of rescue, compassion, and community.

For four decades, we’ve been dedicated to saving the lives of cats and dogs who need a second chance. Thanks to your incredible support, we have secured another 12 months at our Glen Iris shelter. We’re deeply grateful to the Stonnington Council for giving us this opportunity, and to every single person who stood beside us, showed up, shared our message, and made their voices heard. Your public support helped make this possible.

This isn’t just about staying open.

It’s about saving more lives, fighting harder for the animals who have no one else, and building a community where every cat and dog matters, no matter how long it takes to find their forever home.

  We are a no-kill shelter.

That means we never give up on an animal, not after a few weeks, not after a few years. Every life that comes through our doors is treated with the care, time, and love they deserve. Because every life is worth it.

But right now, we’re struggling.

  It costs over $100,000 every month to keep our doors open.

That includes:

• Emergency and ongoing vet care

• Food and enrichment

• Transport and animal transfers

• Cleaning, medication, heating and shelter maintenance

• Staffing and essential supplies

And the bills don’t stop, even when donations do. We’re at breaking point, and we need your help to make it through.

  Our goal is $50,000 — that’s just half a month of operating costs, but it could carry us through one of the most critical times in our history.

This EOFY, please stand with us.

If you believe in what we do, if you’ve ever adopted, fostered, donated, volunteered, or shared one of our posts, now is the moment to act.

  Donate what you can

  Share this post far and wide

  Talk to your workplace about matched giving  Host a fundraiser on our behalf, a sausage sizzle, office morning tea, footy tipping comp, or pub trivia night, whatever brings your crew together.

  Or if you’re a business, consider becoming a campaign sponsor, we’d love to hear from you!

We’ve been given 12 months to fight harder.

12 months to find more homes.

12 months to prove why this shelter, and every animal inside it, is worth fighting for.

Let’s make them count.

Together, we can save lives.