Companion Animals

Race for Survival: Rescue of 100 Sled Dogs

By on November 18, 2009 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
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.

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Have You Seen Our New Website?

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.

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One Lone Voice Against Animal Welfare

By on November 3, 2009 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Opposition with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
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.

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Talk Back: Queen Tillie, 50 Things To Do

By on October 27, 2009 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle

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 . . . 

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Talk Back: Puppy Mills, Eagles, Genetic Engineering

By on October 23, 2009 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle

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.

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50 Things You Can Do for Animals and The HSUS

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.

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Queen Tillie: Before and After

By on October 21, 2009 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
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.

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Talk Back: Work in Progress

By on October 20, 2009 in Animal Research and Testing, Companion Animals, Farm Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle

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.

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Dogs Delivered from Evil

By on October 19, 2009 in Animal Rescue and Care, Companion Animals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
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.

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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 . . . 

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Eagles to Philadelphia Area: Treat Animals With Kindness

By on October 13, 2009 in Companion Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle
Eagles to Philadelphia Area: Treat Animals With Kindness

Yesterday, we gained a powerful new ally when the Philadelphia Eagles announced the team’s new Treating Animals With Kindness (TAWK) program, which will focus on promoting spay/neuter programs, anti-cruelty efforts, and anti-dogfighting campaigns.

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In Midnight Hour Schwarzenegger Signs, Terminates Bills

By on October 12, 2009 in Companion Animals, Farm Animals, Wildlife/Marine Mammals with 0 Comments By Wayne Pacelle

Last night at midnight was the deadline for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign, veto, or ignore 700 bills passed this session by the California State Legislature—and seven of them were animal protection measures.

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