Help for animals and humans, too
(The Philippine Star) | Updated December 22, 2012 MANILA, Philippines – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) teamed up to help the animals and people with their animals in the areas affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Pablo in Mindanao. The areas reached by the IFAW-PAWS team […]
Pets, livestock suffer from Pablo’s wrath, too
Keith Bacongco (philstar.com) MONKAYO, Compostela Valley – The fury of Typhoon Pablo (December 3-5, 2012) not only left humans homeless but also bore upon pets and livestock animals in affected communities of Compostella Valley, Davao Oriental, Agusan del Sur and other provinces in Mindanao. Like their human companions, the animals were found starving for over a […]
Vigil for WenWen held at PARC grounds
PAWS, as well as friends from Earth Island Institute and CARA held the candle-lighting ceremony and vigil for Wen Wen, the latest dolphin to die out of the 25 exported by Ocean Adventure to Sentosa, Singapore. Volunteers and supporters of the movement to end dolphin trading gathered at the PAWS Animal Rehabilitation Center on December […]
Protest Against the Exportation of Dolphins
PAWS volunteers and friends from Earth Island Institute and CARA joined together in a peaceful protest against the exportation of the 25 dolphins from Ocean Adventure in Subic, Zambales to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) in Singapore. The dolphins were caught in the Solomon Islands and taken to the Philippines to train for dolphin shows. Despite […]
Higher Fines for Animal Cruelty
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) trooped to Congress on November 21, 2012, to lobby for the amendment of the Animal Welfare Act in the Lower House level. PAWS believes that the updating of the 14-year old anti-cruelty law has long been overdue as current penalties on violators are fines between P1,000 […]
PAWS Secures Conviction VS. Dog Killers
On November 21, 2012, at approximately 9 am, at Branch 33 of Quezon City RTC presided by Judge Edward Pacis re: Case Number 00806, Ernesto Carual and John Albert Perez were convicted for violating the Animal Welfare Act and were directed to pay a fine of only P2000 each. The three other men who were caught with Perez and Carual slaughtering […]
It will take a stronger law to prevent animal cruelty
Alya B. Honasan, Philippine Daily Inquirer The stories are enough to reduce animal lovers to tears. There was Popeye, the dog whose owner poured kerosene all over him last month and set him on fire to allegedly manage a flea infestation. (Popeye eventually died.) There was the picture that went viral on Facebook (God bless […]
Pet rescues in the time of Habagat
Kathy Moran (The Philippine Star) The Filipino spirit is waterproof. The petlover’s spirit never wavers, never dies. Just as there were so many Pinoys who gave freely of themselves and their resources at the height of the floods caused by the habagat, so were there many animal welfare groups that went out of their way […]
PAWS Conducts Free Spay/Neuter Surgeries, demonstrations to vet-med students and RPO Lectures in a 3-legged Samar Outreach Program
As part of its 3-legged Samar Spay/Neuter Outreach Program, The PAWS Spay Neuter and Humane Education Team travelled 40 hours by land and sea to the Salamat Animal Rescue Center in Catbalogan, Western Samar where 47 animals were spayed or neutered over the course of 3 days. The team then headed to Catarman, Northern Samar […]
PAWS Dr. Dogs Visit Cottolengco Filipino & Philippine Children Medical Center
John-John has the body of a 16-year old and the mind of a five-year-old. He rushes up to us and shows delight at seeing our furry companions who have been here once before. He shouts, “Doctor Dog! Doctor Dog!” as if he was the official welcoming party for the therapy animals that we have brought […]
