Four Paws Animal Welfare Society

Four Paws is a registered NPO (Non-Profit Organisation), established in July 2006. The Four Paws mission is to improve the quality of life of underprivileged animals. The main categories that Four Paws operates in is helping animals in squatter camps and feral cats.

The main problem in the poor areas in South Africa is that people simply do not have the means, transport or finances to provide their animals with basic health care and veterinary treatment. Overpopulation results in numbers no community can sustain, and many animals die from starvation. Four Paws provides primary health care services, veterinary treatments and sterilizations, free of charge.

The problems with underprivileged animals are:

• Malnutrition, insufficient shelter & a lack of food and water.
• Animals become sick and injured and there is no medical care available.
• Animals are multiplying uncontrollably because there are no sterilisation programmes.
• Communicable diseases like distemper, parvo, snuffles, etc. are spreading, because animals are not vaccinated.
• Unwanted animals, especially litters of puppies and kittens, due to overpopulation.

What Four Paws does:

• Dipping and de-worming to prevent internal and external parasites.
• Intensive sterilisation campaigns to prevent overpopulation and straying of animals over the roads in mating seasons.
• Removal of unwanted animals and re-homing to suitable homes.
• Vaccination to prevent deadly diseases.
• Veterinary treatment for injuries and diseases.
• Education about proper pet care.
• Humane euthanasia of terminally ill animals.
• Confiscation of animals where intentional cruelty occurs