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FOUR PAWS Australia
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Global animal welfare organisation #FOURPAWS with 35+ years helping animals in need.
🐾 Animal Welfare. Worldwide. 🌐
⛑ #animalrescue & emergency rapid response for animals
🏡 ethical #animalsanctuary
Safe at last! 🦁✨

After wildfires hit Overberg in South Africa, we opened our gates to five #lions from Panthera Africa Big Cat #Sanctuary.

Chaka, Neptune, Oliver, Karlos, and Ivana are now recovering at LIONSROCK while their home is rebuilt.

True partnership in action. ❤️🐾 #BigCatRescue
January 20, 2026 at 1:59 AM
🚨 #NEWS: NSW is toughening animal welfare laws! Proposed changes target dogs in hot cars, prong collars & fighting rings.

We welcome this progress but continue to push for an end to live lamb cutting, battery cages & an Independent Office of Animal Protection. ✊🐾

#NSWPol #AnimalWelfare
January 19, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Happy news!

Flora has taken her first brave steps into her new forest #sanctuary. From cautious sniffs to joyful rolls in her favourite scents (fish, lentils, perfume), she’s slowly discovering how a bear should truly live. 🐻✨

Rescued from Albania last year, every day, her confidence grows. 🌿
January 14, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Did you know our LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary is also home to Burchell’s Zebras? 🦓👀

Named after explorer William Burchell, these social grazers have smaller ears than mountain #zebras and are famous for their "shadow stripes"—faint markings unique to this subspecies.
January 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
"Did we make it?" - Yes, we did transform Tajmir's life! 🐅

#Tiger Tajmir was rescued last year from his dusty concrete cage in Northern Czechia to our FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary. Tajmir is now enjoying the life he truly deserved. ✨

#AMA about tigers and our #sanctuary.
January 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
⚠️ STOP! Is the ground too hot for your dog's paws?

🐾 THE 7-SECOND TEST: 🐾
If you can’t hold the back of your hand on the pavement for 7 seconds, it is too hot for your dog’s paws.

What you can do:
✅ Stick to early morning or late evening walks.
✅ Walk only on grass.
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 AM
SPLASH TIME! 💦☀️

When the sun blazes, our rescued bears and big cats know exactly how to cool off! 🐻🐯

Each of our rescued #animals have access to a swimming pool or pond, and nothing makes us happier than seeing them this happy and carefree. 💛
January 6, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Your "quick stop" could be their last. 🐶💔⁠

With temperatures hitting 40°C+ across Australia this week, "just a minute" is too long. 🥵⁠

🌡️ 20°C outside = 36°C inside (in 30 minutes)⁠
🔥 40°C outside = 52°C+ inside (very life-threatening)⁠

Full #Heatwave Guide: ➡️ fpau.org/CarHeatTrap
January 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
🚨 URGENT: Extreme #Heatwave Alert to Hit #Australia This Week. 🚨

With temperatures soaring to mid-40s across southeastern Australia, this isn't just another "hot week", it can be a life-threatening event for animals.

⚠️ VIC, SA, NSW, ACT are forecasted to endure 'Black Summer'-level conditions.
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Lion Moody was left starving in a war-torn zoo in Sudan. Forgotten as conflict raged around him. 🦁💔

FOUR PAWS refused to leave him behind.

Now he’s King of his pride. 👑

👉 Watch lion Moody’s full journey to happiness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx7v...

#BeforeAndAfter #BigCatRescue
Lion Rescued From War Finds His Family | Before & After 🦁✨| FOUR PAWS Australia | [SUBS]
YouTube video by FOUR PAWS
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September 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🐔 The heartbreaking journey of a meat chicken in Australia 💔

From birth to slaughter in just 30 days.
Meat chickens in Australia are bred to grow at unnatural speeds and their final days are brutal.
🚚 Transported for 24 hours with no water.
⚡ Many arrive with broken wings or die on the way.
August 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🐾 Huge win for greyhounds 🎉💚

Tasmania will end greyhound racing by 2029, phasing out taxpayer funding. This comes days after Raider’s Guide was euthanised after a race injury. ACT banned it in 2018. Now it’s time for all states to stop funding cruelty.

#GreyhoundRacingKills
August 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
When you realize it’s Monday… again. 🐻😩

Bear Andri is clearly exhausted today after a weekend of playing and foraging for food.

Rescued from a small wooden box in a basement, this lucky bear is now safe, loved, and living the slow life at our BEAR SANCTUARY Prishtina. 🌱
August 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🕷️🚨 TICK ALERT, AUSTRALIA! 🚨🕷️

It’s National Tick Awareness Month. Sadly, 1 in 10 pets don’t survive tick bites. One bite from a paralysis tick can be fatal.

🛡️ Prevention is key:
✔️ Daily checks
✔️ Year-round protection
✔️ Remove ticks safely ➡️ fpau.org/tick-safety
August 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Some industries innovate, but #fur farming clings to bloodshed. Fur isn’t tradition; it’s a shameful choice. 🦊☠️

You can’t modernise misery.
You can’t update brutality.
Stop killing for collars and cuffs.

Sign our petition for a #FurFreeAustralia.
✍️ fpau.org/ban-fur

#WearItKind #EthicalFashion
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
News: New resident has arrived at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary!

Who is this handsome fella?
🐾 Victim of the commercial big cat trade and exploited for profit
🐾 Kept in poor conditions near a restaurant
🐾 At FELIDA, he will be around lions for the first time in his life

#AnimalSanctuary #BigCatRescue
July 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Reposted by FOUR PAWS Australia
Australian prides itself on fairness, but for too long, this hasn't been extended to animals.

With your help we can transform the system into one that is lead by compassion and animal welfare science.

Show your support for a new animal welfare system today: www.fairgoforanimals.org.au
July 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Cruel in 2002. Still cruel in 2025.

We’ve moved forward in many ways, so why are minks still trapped in cages for fashion?

Fur farming hasn't evolved.
💔 The pain is the same.
🐾 The cages are the same.
☠️ The killing is the same.

Sign our petition: fpau.org/ban-fur

#WearitKind #EthicalFashion
July 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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🦁💔 #NEWS: The lion attack at Darling Downs Zoo is another preventable tragedy. A woman is seriously injured. A lioness’s fate is uncertain.

The tragedy at Darling Downs Zoo wasn’t a freak accident. It was a predictable outcome of breeding big cats for entertainment.
July 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Farewell, dear Simba. 🦁💔

Rescued from a war-torn zoo in Iraq, he found peace at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary with lioness Andi by his side.

One day, a small paw wound became serious. And despite every effort, Simba slipped away.

Your last roar will live on in our hearts. 🌈

#AnimalSanctuary #RIP
July 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
90% of the world's silk is from mulberry silk. To make just 1m of fabric, 3,000–15,000 #silk moths are killed. 💔🐛

Choose alternatives like lab-grown spider silk, agave plant or citrus fibres. Better yet, shop kinder using our #WearItKind Directory ➡️ fpau.org/shop-kinder.
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
What you wear tells a story. 🐑💛

Billions of animals suffer for fashion and millions of young women face unfair and unsafe working conditions. And in the end, 150 billion garments are produced every year, most ending up in landfills and polluting ecosystems. 💔

But it doesn't have to be this way.
June 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Great News! 🎉 Last night, Emma Hurst MP successfully got the #NSW Hunting Bill sent to a committee for a proper review. The fight isn't over yet, but this will now give every animal lover more time to let Premier Chris Minns know we do NOT support this Bill. fpau.org/stop-nsw-hunting-bill
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
REAL CAT FUR in Aussie fashion!?? 🧥🙀🚨

Check out our Programs Lead Louise Ward on national TV @abcnewsnetau.bsky.social yesterday talking about why we need to ban ALL fur sales.

Sign our petition: fpau.org/ban-fur

#FurFreeAustralia #BanFur #EthicalFashion #WearItKind
June 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM