Our animal action education programme helps children learn and care about animals
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IFAW’s work with dogs, cats and other companion animals includes:
Cats and dogs news
Janice Girardi of the IFAW-supported Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) has shared this recent story about the ongoing Read more »
Around the world, dogs and cats are poisoned, beaten, neglected or otherwise abused because there are “too many Read more »
Any dog or cat living in Khayelitsha, Cape Town can count itself extremely lucky if it finds itself at the Mdzananda Animal Read more »
So many of us know and have experienced the close bond that exists between people and their animal companions. Such a Read more »
One of the toughest judgments ever for animal cruelty in South Africa was handed down by a Krugersdorp court today.
Antoinette van Wyk (34), a mother of three, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for five years, plus a further 12 months h Read more »
The trial of two men accused of burying a dog alive on the sports field of a Cape Town school, begins on Friday 13th January.
Poto Mfengu and Mkhumbuzi Ncedana, janitors at the Luhlaza Secondary High School in Khayelitsha, are charged under the anima Read more »
“This program will save hundreds of thousands of lives—both dogs and humans,” said Kate Atema, IFAW Director of Companion Animals Programs.
IFAW is supporting the initiative which is being led by the World Society for the Protection Read more »
IFAW’s Northern Dogs Project team was in a remote Canadian community providing vital veterinary care and humane education when concerned community members alerted IFAW’s team that due to concerns about the number of roaming dogs, unwanted Read more »
IFAW advocates for laws that protect animals from cruelty
and neglect, we provide veterinary training and basic
veterinary Read more »
IFAW works to ensure an acceptable quality of life for companion animals, through the facilitation of Adequate Guardianship, Read more »
IFAW works with local communities to help them better prepare for future disasters. You can help by doing your part to prepar Read more »
At IFAW, we believe that no animal should suffer from an illness or injury that can be easily treated. Since 2002, IFAW has b Read more »
Janice Girardi of the IFAW-supported Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) has shared this recent story about the ongoing Read more »
IFAW advocates for laws that protect animals from cruelty
and neglect, we provide veterinary training and basic
veterinary Read more »
Around the world, dogs and cats are poisoned, beaten, neglected or otherwise abused because there are “too many Read more »
Any dog or cat living in Khayelitsha, Cape Town can count itself extremely lucky if it finds itself at the Mdzananda Animal Read more »






