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Welcome to FOUR PAWS website! Enjoy reading!    :::    Petition to ban force-feeding on ducks and goose in Hungary: we collected more than 10.000 signatures! Please protest against the cruelty to animals!    :::    Let's put an end to fur farming in Europe!    :::    DANCING BEARS PARK BELITSA: Since 10th of April dancing bear Elena is FREE - see the clip!    :::   

FOUR PAWS disaster relief operating
in Pakistan

A skilled group of vets and logistics experts of FOUR PAWS, together with the local group "Vets Care", which consist of volunteer vets under the special direction of Dr. Waseem Shaukat, is providing food, medical care and vaccinations for animals in Layyah, one of the regions most affected by the flood in Pakistan. The team has spent its first week in the area now, having arrived in Lahore on August 24, 2010. One of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the impoverished country, the flood so far has killed over 2000 people and over 200.000 animals. Many farm and work animals had to be left behind when the families depending on them were rescued – those that survived are in urgent need of food and clean water. Due to the high risk of epidemics, vaccinations [more]

Nutrition feature
Eggs in processed food and in gastronomy

For several years, FOUR PAWS has been campaigning to improve the catastrophic conditions faced by battery hens. There have been several successes: for instance, barring minor exceptions, battery cages are banned in Austria. However across the EU, only the “old-style” cages are forbidden. From 2012, new cages are permitted. These cages include apparent „improvements“, which [more]
 
News from LIONSROCK:
lions Saba & Seeta and a trio of hyenas

With plenty of new arrivals in spring and early summer, there is plenty of work to do at FOUR PAWS big cats sanctuary LIONSROCK. Lion cub Saba and two-year-old lioness Seeta had recently come in from Jordan after having been saved by the Princess Alia Foundation – but the team also has to look after a pack of hyenas: the first of their kind at the lion domain. While individual measures are [more]