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PAW4CARE - is an information portal for pet owners, where you will find useful care tips, disease symptoms, and treatment methods.

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PAW4CARE - is an information portal for pet owners, where you will find useful care tips, disease symptoms, and treatment methods.

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Law · Other countries

More than 3,000 tarantulas in dirty socks: three Europeans stopped at Lima airport were taking the spiders to Germany, a haul valued at around €1.5m

Inspectors at Lima's airport found more than 3,000 live tarantulas hidden in dirty socks in three suitcases. The luggage belonged to two German nationals and a Polish national who were flying to Germany. The spiders'…

07/11/2026

Research · New Zealand

43 pilot whales die on New Zealand's rocky coast: rescuers, Māori and children from a nearby village kept them wet all day, but not one could be saved

07/11/2026

Diseases · China

A dangerous virus from a sick dog: in China three members of a family fell ill after caring for a golden retriever, and none of them had been bitten by a tick

07/11/2026

Diseases · United States

Bird flu in US dairy cattle is spreading again: the first herd in Indiana, and genetics shows the virus reached Washington with cows from Idaho

07/11/2026

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Law · Germany

Cameras in slaughterhouses and another delay to meat labelling: Germany's Bundestag makes CCTV mandatory in large abattoirs and pushes the husbandry label back to October 2027

On 5 November the German Bundestag passed amendments to the Animal Welfare Act: large slaughterhouses will have to film every area where live animals are kept. On the same day MPs postponed, for the third time,…

07/11/2026

Law · Denmark

Antibiotics for almost every piglet: Danish inspections found breaches on 44% of pig farms, and more than half of the vets checked were sanctioned

07/11/2026

Treatment & surgery · United Kingdom

"Living is not always better than not living": British researchers urge vets to discuss euthanasia rather than airway surgery with owners of pugs and bulldogs

07/11/2026

Law · Austria

A vet must help even a stray cat: Austria's top administrative court upholds a €500 fine for a vet who refused to take in a badly injured animal on a Saturday

07/11/2026

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World news

More than 3,000 tarantulas in dirty socks: three Europeans stopped at Lima airport were taking the spiders to Germany, a haul valued at around €1.5m

43 pilot whales die on New Zealand's rocky coast: rescuers, Māori and children from a nearby village kept them wet all day, but not one could be saved

A dangerous virus from a sick dog: in China three members of a family fell ill after caring for a golden retriever, and none of them had been bitten by a tick

Bird flu in US dairy cattle is spreading again: the first herd in Indiana, and genetics shows the virus reached Washington with cows from Idaho

News from Europe

Cameras in slaughterhouses and another delay to meat labelling: Germany's Bundestag makes CCTV mandatory in large abattoirs and pushes the husbandry label back to October 2027

Antibiotics for almost every piglet: Danish inspections found breaches on 44% of pig farms, and more than half of the vets checked were sanctioned

"Living is not always better than not living": British researchers urge vets to discuss euthanasia rather than airway surgery with owners of pugs and bulldogs

A vet must help even a stray cat: Austria's top administrative court upholds a €500 fine for a vet who refused to take in a badly injured animal on a Saturday