AACL Jhb and UNISA’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) have partnered together in Animal Welfare for many years. UNISA students have been equipped with their required practical skills in the AACL Jhb Welfare hospital, with Faculty and UNISA students regularly accompany AACL Jhb veterinary staff on our outreach programme in low income communities. [...]
World Rabies and dog bite prevention month with Animal Anti-Cruelty League. You may have recently watched the Carte Blanche expose on the two children who died horrific deaths in KwaZulu-Natal from Rabies. The one child was in a rural area and died after being bitten by an infected dog. The other child was on holiday [...]
The Animal Anti-Cruelty League in Johannesburg urges the public to take all their dogs and cats over three months of age to their regular veterinarian or welfare hospital if a client, to get a Rabies vaccination if not received in the last year. Following the recent rise in rabies cases and confirmed human rabies incidents [...]
Sasha, they named me, a cute puppy that dad bought from a man on the side of the road on his way home from work. He picked me out from my 10 brothers and sisters from a card box, as a playmate for his son. I was bundle of joy, bouncing around, running and playing [...]
To report or not to report, that should not be the question. The question you should ask yourself is who do I report it to, and how do I report suspected cruelty to animals? Investigations of alleged cruelty to animals can only be undertaken by organisations who have qualified inspectors that are authorised by the [...]
Jessie was brought to our hospital after her owner noticed she was urinating much more frequently than usual and that she was only able to urinate small volumes each time. Jessie had to receive surgery to have a large volume of stones removed from her bladder. This is one of the most severe cases [...]
SOUTH AFRICA SETS NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™, FOR THE LARGEST GATHERING OF DOGS WEARING BANDANAS, TOTALLING 765 DOGS Saturday 28 October: In what can only be described as a scene of overwhelming cuteness, dog lovers from across Gauteng descended on The Big Red Barn Farm Venue in Pretoria, for the Doggy Day out with GUINNESS [...]
Our Euthanasia policy is as per our policy booklet (Page 11) (Point 2.3), which states: The Animal Anti-Cruelty League is opposed to the euthanasia of fit and healthy animals, but accepts that humane destruction may at times, be necessary. The Animal Anti-Cruelty League accepts with great reluctance, that in the case of unwanted or [...]
Rabies kills 55000 people worldwide every year – or one person every 10 minutes – although it is a preventable disease. The rabies virus infects the central nervous system and causes disease in the brain. There is no effective treatment and once symptoms start, death is inevitable. The rabies virus is transmitted from infected animals [...]
