Founded in 1985, Pro Animale is an internationally active animal welfare organisation officially recognised in Germany as ‘a charity particularly worth supporting’. As a non-profit organisation funded exclusively by donations, we spend only about 6,6 % on administration. We are fully responsible on a daily basis for more than 3700 of our animal siblings housed in 25 animal welfare centres in five European countries and Turkey. These animals include 439 horses, 1170 dogs, 621 cats, 291 sheep, 245 donkeys, 308 goats, 167 cattle, 70 pigs, 2 lamas, 6 camels, 329 feathered, 44 rodents, 1 deer, 39 raccoons, 2 tanuki.
Emergency call for 27 cattle –
Lukasz is called to a cruel animal tragedy
Emergency call for 27 cattle –
Lukasz is called to a cruel animal tragedy
Dear friends of Pro Animale,
Lukasz receives a call from a journalist saying that he has been able to recognise dramatic animal misery via drone footage.
Lukasz immediately contacts the official vet and the local authority. This farmer’s cattle farming is well known, has been on record for three years and has already been reported to the court. But the wheels of justice grind slowly and then … what to do with the animals?
When Lukasz is on site with the public health officer, he shudders with horror. He calls us and emphasises that he has already seen a lot of misery, but this is a single animal tragedy …
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Our intensive animal welfare work in Turkey
Our intensive animal welfare work in Turkey
Dear friends of Pro Animale,
We would like to inform you about animal rescues in Turkey and current figures from our clinic in Altinoluk.
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Flood disaster at our „Sorriso di San Francesco“ in Assisi/Italy
+++ Acute Emergency +++
Flood disaster at our „Sorriso di San Francesco“ in Assisi/Italy
Dear friends of Pro Animale,
As I am sure you’ll appreciate, we are extremely busy with our Sorriso di San Francesco animal shelter in Assisi, which has been hit by the flood disaster. The situation remains dramatic.
We hope to be able to install our supply bridge in the next few weeks – until then we have to make do with a makeshift bridge to ensure the daily supplies for our horses, donkeys, sheep, goats and cats.
The supply bridge, the rebuilding of the fencing, the fortification of the river bank – all this now presents us with unimagined enormous financial challenges! Please support us in this enormous undertaking!
Rescue/evacuation of animals from animal shelter in heavily contested Kherson/Ukraine
Rescue/evacuation of animals from animal shelter in heavily contested Kherson/Ukraine
UPDATE 7 – 10.08.2023:
Dear Pro Animale friends,
Some of you are already holding our summer TROPFEN in their hands, in which, among other things, we report about the dramatic rescue of the 226 war refugee dogs and cats.
Angelina meanwhile regularly visits her dogs in the Polish quarantine and of course did not miss the opportunity to visit her charges at Lukasz in Copernika
Pro Animale Animal Living
The main areas of Pro Animale’s animal welfare work are:
freeing and rescuing animals who find themselves in desperate situations
building animal refuges at home and abroad according to species-specific needs
an intensive spay/neuter programme abroad
at our accident and spay/neuter clinic in Altinoluk, Turkey in Altinoluk/Türkei
at the spay/neuter clinic of our “Sussita Kumi” centre in Poland“Sussita Kumi”/Poland
a highly successful project for freeing chain dogs in Northern Poland
the setting-up of our
“Pro Animale-Dog-Life” initiative
the legal requirement included in our bye-laws to educate the population about the fair and ethical treatment of animals as fellow creatures.
Recent Publications
Can Dogs go Vegan?
Ever more dog owners are transitioning their four-legged friends over to a plant-based diet, not just out of a concern for their own dog’s health and well-being, but above all for serious ethical animal welfare reasons, not to
If we want to survive, we have to change – Questions concerning a cultural-anthropological Turnaround
To all those, who feel committed to animal rights and who contribute significantly to the shaping of public opinion. Despite countless excellent publications in national and international specialist literature, the
Impressions of our work
Clinic Altinoluk – Rescue of Nur (4 mon) and Adalet (4 yrs)
Nur (4 mon) caught our Nilgun in a school boiler room. Half of its jaw was festered and already necrotic - the kitten was no longer able to eat - miraculously, Nilgun managed to
Rendez-vous mit Tieren – Rescue of Feliz (4 yrs)
Hasan Tatari received a call for help: an old tomcat had been dumped on the street by his owner and had been cared for by local residents ever since. Hasan was finally called to
Rendez-vous mit Tieren – Rescue of Noel (2 yrs)
We received an emergency call on Christmas Eve. A small dog had been hit by a car and fled injured. She was eventually found on the terrace of a private property. We brought the
Spartacus – Rescue of Rudolf (3 yrs)
Rudolf also intuitively sought and found his way to us.
Fellosophie – Rescue of Dozzy (2 yrs) and Small White (1.5 yrs)
Adoption from Animal Rescue Shanghai.
Samaria I – Rescue of Dakota (11 yrs)
The elderly owners were no longer able to keep the eight-year-old gelding adequately. Because he also has a sesamoid injury to his front legs, he can no longer be ridden and was in danger
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Of calves that are snatched from their mothers shortly after birth – and a species-appropriate, happy life for cattle at Pro Animale.
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Of happy pigs – and a human approach to our fellow creatures.
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