Today our team is inspecting the Bodzentyn cattle market. It is raining heavily, the ground is muddy. Checking the condition of animals and taking the photos is difficult. There are a lot of trucks and cattle this time. We count about 500 animals. The majority are cows and young cattle. Just after 7 o’clock we notice a young bull lying next to the…

The injured kitten found at the market in Bodzentyn two weeks ago had to have a surgery. The veterinarian, Dr. Blicharz from Starachowice, confirmed that black skin around the kitten’s ears and tail was caused by necrosis. The infected tissue had to be removed and the tail amputated. The surgery lasted about an hour and was successful. There were…

This month, our farriers in Poland visited 18 farms. They trimmed hooves of 23 horses and claws of 4 cows. The young horses caused some trouble during their work. Our team instructed the owners how to exercise with horses to make trimming easier. The farriers were called twice to lame animals: a mare and a cow. The 12-year-old mare needed our help…

As usual, our team starts inspecting the cattle market in Bodzentyn about 6 o’clock. We count about 300 animals. There is less cows, majority of the animals are bulls or young cattle and calves. A few minutes after six, a 10-year-old girl brings us a kitten. She found him under her mother’s car. The kitten looks very bad, is skinny and injured. It…

Today, our team is controlling the cattle market in Wola Lagowska. We count about 500 animals. The cows are a majority, but there are also some bulls and calves. During the inspection, we see that most animals are in acceptable condition, only a few animals have neglected hooves, and some injuries on ischial bones caused by transport conditions.…

Again, in the morning the team on the Bulgarian side of the border have their hands full. We see a very overcrowded sheep transport and a distressed heifer rolling her tongue – a possible sign of thirst and heat stress. We start filming and document this reflex repeated continuously for over two minutes! One mystery truck passes by us quickly, but…

In February, TSB/AWF invited chosen municipalities in the Swietokrzyskie region to participate in a free neutering program for cats and dogs belonging to residents (as opposed to the projects for homeless animals). The project assumed that TSB/AWF would finance 70% of neutering costs if local government covers the remaining 30% and the costs of…

A quick morning look at the situation at the border keeps us busy without time to eat or drink for almost five hours! We inspect 14 trucks trying to make their way to the border – the second lane is blocked by parked trucks, as usual. Animal transporters wait for more than one hour to enter the border area. Two drivers call the police to help…

Sunday. We know that the nearby control post in Svilengrad is full of trucks, so we expect today or tomorrow morning to be very busy. Today, we only see cattle transported, and the temperature remains very high: already before 10am it is 33 degrees. Later during the day, we document temperature inside trucks exceeding 37 degrees, and yet not every…