Archive for 2010
A Number of Measures of Success
Some weeks ago The HSUS submitted its Form 990, a financial filing required by the Internal Revenue Service to ensure transparency, good governance, and accountability. Today, we’re posting it on our website, as we do every year after it is submitted to the federal government. . . .
Special Delivery: 1,800 Miles with 18 Rescued Dogs
For more than a month, The HSUS’s animal fighting team has worked alongside the Jefferson County Humane Society in southeast Ohio to rescue 200 dogs from a suspected dogfighting operation. Eighteen of those dogs were driven by HSUS staff last week in an all-night journey along the East Coast.
Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa Hits A Home Run Helping Animals
If we’re talking about devotion to animals, St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa is best in class, and he is proving it once more with his strong support for Proposition B in Missouri.
Hunting Down Prop 109: Wildlife Protection, Voters’ Rights At Risk
The HSUS trusts the voters of Arizona. The NRA doesn’t, and it wants to take away their rights to vote on citizen initiatives on some animal welfare issues. That’s the underlying mentality that divides the backers and opponents of Arizona’s Proposition 109, which was referred . . .
Not All Race Horses Have A Hollywood Ending
The life of Secretariat, as depicted in the uplifting Disney film of the same name, is a great American story: an underdog beats the odds, defies the skeptics, and rides to glory. The movie opened in theaters across the nation last week, and it is . . .
Talk Back: Political Roadblocks
My posts about the emergence of an oddball character into the Missouri debate over puppy mills and one Oklahoma senator’s misuse of power in the Congress brought many responses from readers.
A Veterinarian’s Prognosis for Stopping Puppy Mill Cruelty
Dozens of veterinarians from all parts of Missouri have endorsed Prop B. I’ve asked one of them, Dr. Deanna Tolliver — owner of an animal hospital in Waynesville, Mo., and companion to a Yorkshire terrier puppy mill survivor — to tell us why she thinks it’s such a good idea for voters in Missouri to support the ballot measure.
A Thanks to Readers: Chance to Win $400 in Humane Domain Gift Certificates
If you subscribe to my blog today, you’ll have a chance to win a shopping spree to our online store Humane Domain — I’m giving away $400 in gift certificates to three random winners (one $250 gift certificate, one $100 gift certificate, and one $50 gift certificate).
Priceless: Low-Cost Pet Health Clinics in Gulf Coast Communities
I am posting video from a pet health clinic we recently hosted in Jefferson Parrish, La. Be sure to watch — the smiles and gratitude from community members whose pets we helped to serve are sure to brighten your day.
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Welcome to my blog! Every week, I write about urgent and provocative issues in animal protection and ask readers to join with me in working to make things better for animals and for the whole of society. Along with my colleagues at The HSUS and . . .
Doing the Right Thing for Whales
North Atlantic right whales are struggling to survive and, thanks to action by The HSUS, their chances just got a bit better.
Playing Politics with Puppy Mill Abuse
You can never find a plumber when you need one, it sometimes seems, but that hasn’t been a problem for the puppy mill crowd in Missouri. Joe the Plumber, who found his name repeated again and again by Barack Obama and John McCain during one . . .
