FECAVA is s strongly committed to the topic of the Welfare of pets including healthy breeding, fighting the illegal pet trade, and more.
FECAVA collaborates with various organizations and individuals to produce publications for clinicians and the general public. Please download them, use them and share them.
Many veterinarians are required to conduct clinical examinations on their patients without the presence of the owners due to numerous Covid restrictions.
Understandably, this can be stressful for both the animals and their owners. Without them, cats and dogs might become anxious and fearful.
The FECAVA and the European Society of Veterinary Clinical Ethology (ESVCE) have created flyers to help owners and veterinarians make those visits more comfortable. These flyers include useful tips on how to approach animals and prepare them for a veterinary visit.
Belgian veterinarians have been offering their support in the process of choosing a healthy and suitable new family member as they were regularly seeing poorly socialized puppies with health problems. The project is called Pup4Life with the aim to encourage future owners to contact a veterinarian prior to buying or adopting a new dog.
A website with different information and tools for future owners has been set up as part of the project.
The owners can download printable checklists to find their ‘’type of dog’’ and a questionnaire to assess the trustworthiness of the breeder.
After they fill in the questionnaire, the new owners together with their vet, can make a decision from which breeder they want to purchase a new puppy.
Pup4Life project is supported by CEVA, Val d’Hony Verdifarm and the Province of Limburg.
A few months ago I came across information about a large number of stray and abandoned animals in Ukraine and this triggered some questions about animal welfare and shelter medicine. USAVA congress was an ideal place to talk to colleagues and the perfect opportunity to negotiate guidelines for veterinarians. Discussed topics included: welfare, vaccination protocols,
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During our first castration and neutering project in the Balkans, we treated a female dog with a vaginal tumour. Apart from the tumour, she also had a heavy vaginal discharge, but was otherwise in a relatively good condition. At the time, we had no idea what we were dealing with. Our projects in the Balkans
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Peppa is a young English setter that was found abandoned under a bridge inGračanica, Kosovo. The shelter workers found her lying motionless on the floor as shewas not able to move. Judging by her appearance (enlarged nipples), they immediately suspected that she had already had several litters of pups in her short life. She was
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Lizzie is an ambassador of all purebred animals of suspicious origin so we would like to share her story with you. She was on sale via resellers on a web portal. She arrived at the destination with documents that met the legal requirements, but a lot of data in the passport was false. On paper,
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