The SPCA rescued more than 50 animals yesterday and members are ploughing through the floodwaters to do the same in Edgecumbe today.
About 30 SPCA members are going door to door in the red zone to save pets and farm animals. They are also feeding animals in the dry zone.
On Friday a "mixed bag" of cats, dogs, cows, rabbits and ducks were rescued from the Bay of Plenty town, Whakatane SPCA senior inspector Liisa Jones said.
However not all animals were so lucky. Jones said they had found some fatalities, with caged birds being particularly vulnerable to the flooded conditions.