Companion Animals

What Don’t They Get About “All Animals”?

By on September 30, 2013 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
What Don’t They Get About “All Animals”?

Today, The HSUS has a full-page advertisement in the Santa Barbara News-Press urging California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign AB 711, a bill to require the use of non-lead ammunition in sport-hunting. With steel, copper, and other forms of less toxic ammunition widely available to . . . 

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Helping Animals Weather the Rain and Political Storms

By on September 16, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Helping Animals Weather the Rain and Political Storms

The HSUS responds to natural disasters and human-caused crises for animals – whether hurricanes, tornadoes, puppy mills or hoarding cases – to help dogs, cats, horses and other animals at risk. But our range of motion is wider than you may think, in terms of . . . 

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Talk Back: New Rule the Beginning of Efforts to Crack Down on Puppy Mills

By on September 13, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Talk Back: New Rule the Beginning of Efforts to Crack Down on Puppy Mills

Earlier this year, The HSUS and local authorities removed 58 dogs from Royal Acres Kennel in North Carolina. The animals we found there included blind and paralyzed dogs; dogs with dental decay so severe that several of their jaws were disintegrated and they could no . . . 

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Are We Herding and Hurting Cats?

By on September 12, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Are We Herding and Hurting Cats?

Every now and then our movement has an “aha” moment – when new information emerges or new thinking causes us to question long-held assumptions, or even how we approach the complex challenges facing animals in our society. We had one such moment at The HSUS . . . 

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USDA Announces Landmark Rule to Crack Down on Online Puppy Mills

USDA Announces Landmark Rule to Crack Down on Online Puppy Mills

Tens of thousands of dogs suffering in substandard, filthy, and overcrowded cages for years on end will finally get the protection they deserve as a result of a rule the U.S. Department of Agriculture will formally adopt today. This change, a long-held aspiration for The . . . 

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USDA Moving at Full Speed…Backward

By on September 9, 2013 in Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
USDA Moving at Full Speed…Backward

“Not small bits, but chunks.” That’s the amount of fecal matter that ends up on carcasses from a New Zealand slaughter plant that exports to the United States, according to the head of the inspectors’ union. The company that owns the plant is responsible for . . . 

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A Blueprint for Ending Euthanasia of Healthy Companion Animals

By on September 6, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
A Blueprint for Ending Euthanasia of Healthy Companion Animals

At The HSUS, we are working to end the euthanasia of healthy and treatable dogs and cats. Only about five million of the eight million dogs and cats who enter shelters today make it out alive. Though these are better ratios than in years prior, . . . 

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Sun(ny) Should Shine Light on Federal Dog Policies

By on August 20, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Sun(ny) Should Shine Light on Federal Dog Policies

Let us add our congratulations and best wishes to the newest First Dog, Sunny. Cheers all around. As the keeper of a new rescue—a six-year-old beagle mix named Lily—I know the joys of having a new pet in one’s life. Lily has doubled the number . . . 

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King Delivers Legislative Kudzu in Farm Bill

King Delivers Legislative Kudzu in Farm Bill

As members of Congress leave Washington today and return to their districts for the August recess, opposition to the Farm Bill amendment introduced by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is swelling. The King amendment is a sort of legislative kudzu, so invasive and dangerous it could . . . 

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75 New Animal Welfare Laws This Year, and Counting

By on July 29, 2013 in Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
75 New Animal Welfare Laws This Year, and Counting

I thought Nicholas Kristof was right on point yesterday in his wide-ranging column about animal protection as a critical moral question in our society. We will indeed look back on our time, as Kristof says, and wonder how we could have been so callous and cruel . . . 

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Steve King on Mules – and Pigs and Puppies

Steve King on Mules – and Pigs and Puppies

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is again in the news for embarrassing, offensive statements – this time for his rants about immigrants and immigration policy. He told an Iowa radio show host that undocumented immigrant children are often drug mules who carry illegal substances across the . . . 

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Dramatic Animal Rescue in Arkansas

By on July 23, 2013 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Dramatic Animal Rescue in Arkansas

A few months back, The HSUS’ Animal Rescue Team received a call from a law enforcement officer, Cpl. Robert Alcon, of the Arkansas State Police, who’d discovered almost 100 animals in need of rescue. Cpl. Alcon was determined to help, and described appalling conditions to . . . 

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