Where BigMacs used to be served, animals are getting medicine.
I want to tell you about a unique McDonald’s. Not the food – what is happening inside it. In the earthquake zone in Caracas in Venezuela, a group of volunteer vets and doctors has turned a McDonald’s restaurant into a temporary animal clinic. Where the tables used to be, animals are receiving medical treatment, care […]
Please help this brave disabled dog get moving again
Brave, disabled Skippy urgently needs a doggy wheelchair. This joyful two-year-old greyhound mix has only his back legs fully functioning. Yet every morning, he wakes eager to greet his friends, visit the dogs in the rehabilitation kennels and explore the rolling lawns of our partner, Rural Animal Care (RAC), in Harare, Zimbabwe. Skippy desperately wants […]
700 animals are arriving — but their home isn’t finished
More than 700 rescued animals urgently need your help. Friend Animal Foundation (FAF), Zimbabwe’s largest no-kill animal rescue, is home to 450 dogs and puppies, 200 cats and kittens, and over 50 rescued farm animals. Every one of them has a sad story. Some were abandoned. Others were abused. Many arrived starving, injured or terrified. […]
Fake shelters are breaking dogs’ legs for donations
In Uganda, there is a terrible scam in which criminals disfigure dogs and pretend to be an animal welfare organization helping them in an attempt to make money. Typically, scammers will intentionally harm dogs, film their pain, then use the footage to trick animal lovers like you into donating to help care for them. Of […]
Time is running out to protect La Digue’s animals
n the tiny tropical island of La Digue in the Seychelles, a tragedy exists: dogs and cats are born into lives of never-ending hardship – they are struggling to find food, suffering from untreated injuries and illness and neglected simply because there are not enough resources to care for them. They breed uncontrollably and live […]
Their animal ambulance broke down, but the rescues cannot stop
Imagine a call comes in. A dog has been found badly injured, unable to move and left abandoned on a street in one of the roughest neighborhoods of the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The volunteers at APA El Refugio animal shelter drop everything — as they always do. They head for the animal ambulance. And […]
Finland’s hidden suffering huskies need your help now
This is what is happening to huskies in Finland right now: suffering out of sight as ‘winter wonderland’ tourist experiences explode in popularity. They need your help. Behind the postcard-perfect snow and smiling tourists enjoying magical sled rides lies a hidden world of cruelty. A world where huskies are pushed to breaking point, beaten when […]
Overcrowded shelters begin with uncontrolled breeding
For decades in the Balkan countries, street dogs have been treated as a problem to be removed, not lives to be valued. Many shelters in the region are trapped in a devastating cycle of overcrowding, underfunding and poor conditions — becoming lifelong prisons or worse, death sentences. In the small city of Trebinje, Bosnia, something […]
We have TWO weeks to move 297 animals
After more than 40 years of rescuing sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats on Kenya’s coast, our partner, the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (KSPCA) in Mombasa, is being evicted from its property, and the final deadline is approaching fast. We have 14 days to move all 297 animals to […]
Animal ambulance destroyed in South Africa, seven puppies made it out alive
Early on a Saturday morning, Fallen Angels Pet Rescue founding member Shireen Williams was doing what she had done thousands of times before in the greater Cape Town area. She and a colleague were in their animal ambulance driving seven puppies to an adoption promotion – hoping this would be the day they found their […]