Companion Animals
Talk Back: Saved
The news of rescue missions stirred your passions, and you issued encomiums of praise for our staff and volunteers who conducted these actions.
Research Proposal: Don’t Buy Dogs, Cats from B Dealers
The vast majority of research facilities now refuse to do business with Class B dealers, but propping up this dying industry are approximately 50 research institutions — mostly universities. Please ask them to stop buying dogs and cats from Class B dealers.
Race for Survival: Rescue of 100 Sled Dogs
Yesterday, The HSUS’s Emergency Services team and our global arm, Humane Society International, partnered with the SPCA Laurentides-Labelle in Quebec to rescue approximately 100 neglected sled dogs.
Have You Seen Our New Website?
This week we’re giving animals a revamped and, we hope, a more appealing stage to showcase their beauty, their majesty and, yes, when warranted, their plight. Check it out—it’s our redesigned website.
One Lone Voice Against Animal Welfare
I’ve been encouraged, even heartened, by the swift and broad reaction to The HSUS’s recent undercover investigations of wanton animal abuse. That is, with one inexcusable exception.
Talk Back: Queen Tillie, 50 Things To Do
Many readers responded with excitement to a before and after story posted last week about a senior Chihuahua who was among more than 700 dogs rescued from a Kaufman County, Texas puppy mill in August. Here are some of your comments about Queen Tillie: Reading . . .
Talk Back: Puppy Mills, Eagles, Genetic Engineering
I see this blog as a give-and-take—I share my thoughts and then look forward to hearing yours. Here’s a sampler of your comments on some recent posts.
50 Things You Can Do for Animals and The HSUS
Please take some time to go through the full roster. We’ll succeed as a movement when we have millions of our supporters who take these and other positive actions for animals.
Queen Tillie: Before and After
Tillie was rescued from a puppy mill we raided in Kaufman County, Texas, where she was discovered in a dark, dilapidated enclosure. Now she’s got much more love and light focused on her, and she looks like a different dog.
Talk Back: Work in Progress
Your comments celebrate our cause’s forward movement, but express rightful frustration as decision-makers opt for the status quo. Today, it’s your turn to sound off.
Dogs Delivered from Evil
I just wish that every person thinking about buying a dog from a pet store, from an Internet site, or from a parking lot or other roadside setting would watch our video of our recent Arkansas puppy mill raid—and then, in acquiring a dog, go to a shelter or rescue group instead.
Third Quarter Blog Favorites
In July, The HSUS assisted authorities and other animal protection groups in the largest one-day series of dogfighting raids in U.S. history, with busts in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Mississippi and Nebraska. The unprecedented intervention saved hundreds of dogs from the cruelties of . . .
