Advice from WSPA for World Rabies Day
We are working with the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC) to raise awareness of this disease by highlighting safe travel and encouraging people to protect themselves and their animals.
WSPA urges rethink on Beijing cat cull
News reports state that Beijing’s cats are being rounded up and taken to holding facilities.
WSPA believes that visitors to the Summer Olympics will be far more distressed by the fact that culling has taken place in preparation for their arrival than by the presence of cats on the streets.
Successful pilot leads to five-year stray dog project
A WSPA-funded programme created to manage Colombo’s large stray dog population was officially launched in a participating community yesterday, to run for the next five years.
WSPA takes action on World Rabies Day
Dogs suffer abuse and persecution that stems from being the main source of rabies in humans, as well as the agony of the disease itself.
Andrew Sachs on Market Kitchen for WSPA
“WSPA provides education to local people about many issues such as responsible pet ownership, which includes information on vaccination and neutering.
China Dog cUll
This kneejerk reaction to reported human rabies cases ignores all evidence that a humane dog vaccination and public education programme is the only effective way to combat the spread of this potentially fatal disease.
Hold a Pet Party to save stray dogs from cruelty
Pet Parties are an opportunity to gather your friends and family and get baking to raise money to help stray dogs around the world.
The recipe is healthy and nutritional for dogs and will keep your furry friends entertained during your Pet Party.
World Animal Week: Help WSPA make animal welfare a 'Piece of Cake!'
To help WSPA achieve a world where animal welfare matters, and animal cruelty ends, please join hundreds of others round the world and hold an ‘It’s A Piece of Cake!’ event.
Global dog ownership exploding but is Britain fit to lead?
An independent report commissioned by the Kennel Club and WSPA member society the Dogs Trust has found that current UK dog-breeding practices raise serious welfare concerns.
Saving strays in Sierra Leone
Mark Whitfield, a British paramedic and mechanic is supplying a Sierra Leone WSPA member society with a mobile veterinary clinic that he tirelessly renovated himself to save strays from a life of cruelty and neglect.
OIE Dog management guidlines
New stray dog control guidelines adopted by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) ask all 174 member states to use only humane methods as a matter of urgency – good news for the estimated 400 million stray dogs worldwide.
World Animal Week 2006 - A huge success
World Animal Week 2006 has been a unique opportunity for WSPA and its member societies to spread awareness about animal welfare issues and why animals should matter to everyone.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall backs World Animal Week Pet Parties
A Pet Party is a chance to celebrate the impact animals have on our lives.
This fundraising week has grown over the years, creating a global phenomenon and with the help of our supporters WSPA wants this year’s to be even bigger and better.