Category Archives: General

Low cost rabies vaccination drive

By MO | Published: March 7, 2010
A low-cost rabies vaccination drive was held at the Karachi Animal Hospital from 12 to 2pm today under the supervision of Dr. I.H Kathio, the owner of the hospital and a practicing veterinarian in the US. People showed up to get their animals vaccinated and for general checkups.
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Support PAWS by pampering yourself this Valentine’s Day!

By Maheen Zia | Published: February 10, 2010
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In memory of Feefee

By MO | Published: February 8, 2010
Guest post by Ayza Omar, a graduate student of Broadcast Journalism at Columbia. FeeFee was always smiling or whining. She was barely ever serious. She also had a short fuse. Her spurts of anger were obvious from her mad dash to the gate, teeth bared, legs splayed and a low guttural growl that made the bravest [...]
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Licence to kill

By MO | Published: December 24, 2009
Editorial in Dawn: IT seemed that sanity would prevail this year but the end result was quite the opposite. It was earlier reported that no special permits had been awarded this time round for the annual slaughter of the houbara bustard, an endangered migratory bird that is ostensibly protected under Pakistani and international law. However, it [...]
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Call for Volunteers

By MO | Published: November 16, 2009
Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is looking for volunteers for its stall at this year’s DAWN’s All About Lifestyles exhibition. The dates and times are given below: Friday, November 20th, 3pm to 10pm Saturday: November 21, 11am to 10pm Sunday: November 22, 11am to 10pm Location: Expo Center, Karachi
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Word Animal Day Celebrated in Karachi

By MO | Published: October 4, 2009
Karachi, October 4, 2009 – World Animal Day was celebrated at an event organized by The Brooke at the Richmond Crawford Government Veterinary Hospital in collaboration with the Department of Livestock and Fisheries, Government of Sindh and Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS).
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Islam and Animal Rights

By MO | Published: September 5, 2009
A few links to resources on Islam and animal rights.
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Leopard’s plight fails to move city govt

By MO | Published: January 10, 2009
Faiza Ilyas in DAWN: KARACHI, Jan 4: The city government is yet to take any steps to alleviate the suffering of the lone female leopard kept in unnatural conditions in the CDGK’s Korangi-Landhi zoo and being ‘targeted’ by visitors for fun. During a visit to the zoo last week, the cemented floor of the cage was [...]
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Veterinary Doctors in Pakistan

By MO | Published: January 1, 2009
This is a list of a few established veterinary doctors in Pakistan.
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Rethinking Zoos

By MO | Published: January 1, 2009
The Wednesday, December 31, DAWN has a wonderful editorial about the poor state of zoos in Pakistan. Kudos to the paper for having the courage to say it like it is: that we do not need zoos in our country, given the abysmal state of affairs in most of them. It is time we woke [...]
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