Raising awareness about health and welfare issues associated with excessive breed-related traits such as brachycephaly is important to FECAVA. The Federation has adopted a Europe-wide position paper on this topic.
Below you can see some actions organised or co-organised by our member associations*:
*If your country is not listed below but should be, please get in touch!
FECAVA has teamed up with Dr Emma Milne to create a heart-wrenching video from vets and nurses across Europe and the UK to ask people not to buy flat-faced animals. The popularity of dogs like French and English bulldogs and pugs has exploded in the last decade and now a new trend for ‘exotic’ colours
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In 2021, the Norwegian Society for Protection of Animals (NSPCA) launched a formal lawsuit against the Norwegian Kennel Club (NKK), two breed clubs and six individual breeders over violation of the breeding section in the Animal Welfare Act. The NSPA believes that English Bulldogs and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels in Norway have such major health
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Starting October 1, 2021, the breeding and trading of cat breeds with folded ears, such as Scottish fold and Highland fold cats has been prohibited in Flemish part of Belgium. The most noticeable feature of these cats is its ears, which are the consequence of a genetic mutation that causes abnormality in the cartilage called
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Take a look at this BSAVA Companion article ‘How to anesthetize the brachycephalic dog’ where Iago Asorey Blazquez and Enzo Vettorato of Dick White Referrals, help work through how to anesthetize these tricky patients. Link to the article: http://ow.ly/vOgx50Ed9ww
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