ANVIL Ireland is a voluntary organisation dedicated to achieving proper protection for all animals, using the democratic process.

This Web site is run by one person, Denise Cox, and it is not affiliated with any group, organisation or individual in Ireland. She started it as the 'Animal Welfare Resource of Ireland' in 1996. It remains her passionate aim to create a useful online resource - for all welfare groups, individuals and pet owners across Ireland, regardlesss of region, county or border.

For nearly sixty years the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has worked locally and nationally rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming animals. The ISPCA has continued to develop its facilities and staff functions in order to fulfil its core function, the rescue, rehabilitation and responsible rehoming of cruelly treated and neglected animals.

The forum for Irish pet owners