Today our team was hired to give a training course on animal-welfare during transport to the truck drivers from one of Europe's largest livestock transport and trade companies- Hunland. Eyes on Animals covered best practices, illustrated where improvements can be made from problems seen in the past, and how to take action in difficult circumstances like hot and cold … [Read more...] about Training course to truck drivers from Hunland Trans company, Hungary
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Police training course in Nagylak, Hungary
Today a team from Eyes on Animals and AWF/TSB gave a training course to the Hungarian police group responsible for checking on all trucks passing the Hungarian/Romanian border. Here many livestock trucks pass, including cattle and sheep heading to Turkey. We taught them the European legislative animal-welfare requirements during animal transport and discussed in detail … [Read more...] about Police training course in Nagylak, Hungary
Practical training session given to Polish road inspectors (WITD), Szczecin/Poland
Due to the high motivation of the WITD road inspectors in Szczecin that participated in our training course yesterday, we were asked to again stop and control livestock trucks together this morning before heading home. Early in the morning we stopped two livestock vehicles. One had pigs from Germany and was heading to the slaughterhouse in Szczecin. The loading conditions … [Read more...] about Practical training session given to Polish road inspectors (WITD), Szczecin/Poland
Training course given to Polish road inspectors (WITD) and veterinarians, Szczecin/Poland
Today our training team (Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation inspectors and Dr. Rabitsch, an Austrian veterinarian and expert transport inspector) was in Szczecin to give a theory and practical training course to the official road inspectors from the WITD as well as two official veterinarians from the regional office. From 9:00 until 13:30 our team … [Read more...] about Training course given to Polish road inspectors (WITD) and veterinarians, Szczecin/Poland
Police training course given in Rzeszow, Poland
Today Eyes on Animals together with Animal Welfare Foundation organized our first traininig course for the road police and regional official veterinarians in Poland! Today it was held in Rzeszow. We had the fortune of having Dr. Rabtisch, European expert on livestock transport inspections, on our training team. 28 road police specialized in checking trucks (from the WITD) … [Read more...] about Police training course given in Rzeszow, Poland