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Born to Perform, Rescued to Live: Manuschka’s Story. 🦁
Born in a facility in France and sold to a circus in Germany, she was forced to perform tricks from the time she was just a cub. Her world was confined to cages, crowds, and constant travel.
But everything changed in July 2024. 💛
After the heartbreaking loss of her companion, Manuschka was given a second chance. At the request of German veterinary authorities, we stepped in and brought her to TIERART Wild Animal Sanctuary, where she began to heal—physically and emotionally. Through gentle care and positive reinforcement, she slowly started to trust again.
Then, in October 2024, she made her way to her forever home at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary in the Netherlands. 🏡🌿
Today, Manuschka is thriving. She’s regained her appetite, built strong bonds with her caretakers, and loves nothing more than lounging on top of her favourite platform in the sun. ☀️
Enjoy your safe haven, lovely lioness. You deserve every moment of peace. 💚
#LionRescue #BeforeAfter #Netherlands
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Born to Perform, Rescued to Live: Manuschka’s Story. 🦁
Born in a facility in France and sold to a circus in Germany, she was forced to perform tricks from the time she was just a cub. Her world was confined to cages, crowds, and constant travel.
But everything changed in July 2024. 💛
After the heartbreaking loss of her companion, Manuschka was given a second chance. At the request of German veterinary authorities, we stepped in and brought her to TIERART Wild Animal Sanctuary, where she began to heal—physically and emotionally. Through gentle care and positive reinforcement, she slowly started to trust again.
Then, in October 2024, she made her way to her forever home at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary in the Netherlands. 🏡🌿
Today, Manuschka is thriving. She’s regained her appetite, built strong bonds with her caretakers, and loves nothing more than lounging on top of her favourite platform in the sun. ☀️
Enjoy your safe haven, lovely lioness. You deserve every moment of peace. 💚
#LionRescue #BeforeAfter #Netherlands
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Born to Perform, Rescued to Live: Manuschka’s Story. 🦁
Born in a facility in France and sold to a circus in Germany, she was forced to perform tricks from the time she was just a cub. Her world was confined to cages, crowds, and constant travel.
But everything changed in July 2024. 💛
After the heartbreaking loss of her companion, Manuschka was given a second chance. At the request of German veterinary authorities, we stepped in and brought her to TIERART Wild Animal Sanctuary, where she began to heal—physically and emotionally. Through gentle care and positive reinforcement, she slowly started to trust again.
Then, in October 2024, she made her way to her forever home at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary in the Netherlands. 🏡🌿
Today, Manuschka is thriving. She’s regained her appetite, built strong bonds with her caretakers, and loves nothing more than lounging on top of her favourite platform in the sun. ☀️
Enjoy your safe haven, lovely lioness. You deserve every moment of peace. 💚
#LionRescue #BeforeAfter #Netherlands
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![Lion Rescued From War Finds His Family | Before & After 🦁✨| FOUR PAWS Australia | [SUBS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tx7v_-A6JyQ/mqdefault.jpg "Lion Rescued From War Finds His Family | Before & After 🦁✨| FOUR PAWS Australia | [SUBS]
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Moody the lion was starving in a war-torn zoo in Sudan. Forgotten behind bars as conflict raged around him, his future looked hopeless. 💔
FOUR PAWS refused to leave him behind.
After a daring rescue, Moody was brought to safety at our LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary — where he now basks in the sun, his beautiful mane growing strong, finally at peace with a pride that calls him family. 🦁❤️
This is what real change for animals looks like.
At FOUR PAWS, we rescue animals from crisis and give them safe homes for life.
This is what real change looks like.
🐾 Moody’s story is just one of many. *EXPLORE MORE*: https://fpau.org/forgotten-to-family
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👉 Watch his journey from Before: Forgotten to After: Family.
00:00 Overview of Lion Moody’s story
00:20 Intro: Lion Moody and his pride were starving
00:53 The challenging rescue in Sudan
1:40 Moody arrives at LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary
2:15 Moody’s rehabilitation begins
4:10 Moody’s amazing transformation
🫴 Help us rescue the next Moody. Visit https://www.four-paws.org.au/before-forgotten-after-family to learn how.
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![Slow morning at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary 💤🐯 | FOUR PAWS | [SUBS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UD-Zp_IPWDE/mqdefault.jpg "Slow morning at FELIDA Big Cat Sanctuary 💤🐯 | FOUR PAWS | [SUBS]
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While the world is rushing around, our rescued big cats are enjoying a well-deserved lie-in from the comfort of their cosy beds. 🌳
And honestly... who can blame them? Autumn is creeping in and its officially sleepy season.
Did you know lions can snooze for up to 20 hours a day? Tigers, leopards and jaguars arent far behind, often spending between 12 and 20 hours sleeping depending on their activity levels and food availability in the wild. 🌄
#SleepyCats #BigCatSanctuary #Felida
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Behind the cute puppy posts, the misery: undercover investigation in Bulgaria 📣
➡️ Puppies like Bella are being bred in conditions far from meeting basic welfare standards, only to be illegally trafficked on social media!
In the past months, FOUR PAWS have investigated numerous suspicious dog advertising posts coming from Bulgaria. 📲
Hiding in plain sight in Facebook groups, unscrupulous sellers have developed techniques to trick unknowing users and to bypass platform rules. Posing as curious customers, only a few DMs led us to uncover a large-scale online dog trade, widely spread across Europe. 🌍
🔎 Eleven sellers were visited by undercover investigators, and what they found on-site exceeded our worst expectations: from questionable to sometimes dire conditions, few-week-old puppies like Bella are being shipped across the continent, very often without the required identification and vaccination.
❌ This gruesome trade is only enabled by Meta’s inaction against it.
Join our fight and raise your voice against Meta’s inaction to protect innocent dogs. 🐶
Sign and share our petition today. ➡️ https://help.four-paws.org/en/stop-cruel-puppy-trade-social-media
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🐻💔 We need YOUR voice to help #FreeBearTim
Tim has suffered long enough.
Tim was born in 2003 and ever since he was just a tiny cub, he has been kept in poor conditions at the private Zoo park Rožman in Slovenia. Although FOUR PAWS is offering Mr. Rožmanec to rescue bear Tim since 2022, he still has no chance to live a species-appropriate life— unless we speak up. 🔊
Let’s show together that the world is watching, and that Tim deserves a fresh start.
At our beautiful BEAR SANCTUARY Arbesbach in Austria, Tim could finally enjoy space and proper care. Yet his owner, Mr. Rožmanec, continues to refuse to voluntarily hand Tim over to us — claiming Tim is doing well.
But is Tim really doing well at Zoo park Rožman?
We visited Tim in 2022. In 2023, we were denied access. Since 2024, Zoo park Rožman has no valid license to operate as a zoo, and the facility is closed to visitors. What is Tim’s life like behind those closed gates?
Meanwhile, Felix and Mici, two other bears rescued in 2025, are now thriving at our sanctuary.
Tim could finally thrive too — if given the chance.
Mr. Rožmanec, Tim deserves a better life.
Slovenia deserves better for its wildlife. 🐾
✨ Let’s make history together by ending the cruel keeping of brown bears in Slovenia once and for all!
✨ Let’s give Tim the chance to start over again under the care of FOUR PAWS.
Will you help us?
Together, we can make change happen. ➡️ https://www.four-paws.org/approval-folder/free-bear-tim
#FreeBearTim #SaddestBears #FOURPAWS #Slovenia #UntilEveryCageIsEmpty
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Daniel Foxx and Evanna Lynch are calling on the UK Government to act.
✅ Hunting trophy: Allowed
🚫 Some everyday food products: Not allowed
Our new film with Humane World for Animals UK and Born Free reveals the shocking inconsistency in UK import rules and why a ban on hunting trophy imports is long overdue.
Watch now, share, and help us protect wildlife.
Take action ➡️ https://bit.ly/Nothing-To-Declare
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![Then vs Now 🐻 Bear Tyson 💚 | FOUR PAWS | [SUBS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V1USTZBpO-4/mqdefault.jpg "Then vs Now 🐻 Bear Tyson 💚 | FOUR PAWS | [SUBS]
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As a cub, Tyson was cruelly torn from his mother and spent 16 years trapped in a filthy cage at a remote hunting station in western Ukraine, where he was likely used illegally as bait. 💔
Then, in October 2017, Tyson’s second chance finally arrived. After tireless negotiations, our team rescued Tyson and brought him to the safe haven of BEAR SANCTUARY Domazhyr. 🌳
Today, Tyson is thriving. He’s healthy, happy, and living the peaceful life he always deserved, side by side with his best friend, Mashutka. 🐻
Now, summer days look very different for Tyson, spent lounging beneath the trees and splashing happily in his pool. He’s got a great appetite and a love for peanuts, tomatoes, and apples, simple joys that mean everything after years of hardship. 🍏
#BeforeAfter #BearSanctuary #Ukraine
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Happy Halloween from Rudo and Kali! 🦁🦁
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Hibernation season has officially begun end of November at BEAR SANCTUARY Müritz 🐻💤
After not seeing Michal for several days, he has claimed the title of first bear in hibernation for himself. 📅
It seems that Michal has retreated into the artificial den, which he likely chose as his favourite cosy spot for the winter. ❄️
📸: © FOUR PAWS | Riccardo and Marie Maywald
#Hibernation #BearSanctuary #Germany
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The food system is broken - but we don’t have to accept it. 📢
Our multi-award-winning documentary Eating the Future exposes the hidden suffering inside factory farms and the systemic failures behind what we eat.
Voiced by BAFTA-winning Mia McKenna-Bruce (@mia_mbruce), the film follows an undercover investigator driven by fear of climate collapse - and a search for hope. ✨ Along the way, she meets ecological farmers, scientists, slaughterhouse workers, doctors, and activists who reveal what it will take to build a fairer food system.
We believe this story needs to be shared!
That’s why we offer the film free of charge for independently organized screenings, empowering grassroots groups, educators, and communities to lead the conversation on food system change. Head on over to https://www.four-paws.org/our-stories/blog-news/year-2025/eating-the-future-take-action-for-animals-and-the-planet to find out more or contact us directly via eatingthefuture@four-paws.org!
📽️ Available in multiple language versions (English, German and French)
📦 Includes screening agreements & promo materials
🤝 Open to schools, NGOs, initiatives, and private groups
Host a screening. Share the truth. Help shape the future.
#EatingTheFuture #FoodSystemChange #AnimalWelfare #SustainableFood
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