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Puppy mills
CDC ties Petland to outbreaks of superbug illnesses in 13 states

Petland is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons, this time in connection with a multistate outbreak of a superbug...

Protecting equines
Urgent alert: Help us stop the USDA's latest attempt to protect puppy millers, horse sorers

Recently, in a shocking move, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its plans to continue to conceal crucial animal...

Farmed animal welfare
In 2019, Macy’s, Prada and Queen Elizabeth II shunned the cruelty of fur

The year 2019 saw many pioneering and major wins in our work to end the cruelty of fur, both here in the United States and...

Banning trophy hunting
BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Cuomo signs bill making New York first U.S. state to ban giraffe trade

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has just signed into law a groundbreaking bill that makes the Empire State the first in the...

HSLF and HSUS deliver big wins for animals in 2019: Our banner year in the nation's capital

Given the highly polarized atmosphere in Washington, DC, these days, our crucial bipartisan wins for animals in 2019 give...

Animal testing and research
Sixty chimpanzees, once held for research, thrive at Second Chance Chimpanzee Refuge in Liberia

A lovely new story in the Washington Post tells the tale of Joseph Thomas and the other wonderful individuals involved in...

Animal testing and research Protecting equines Banning trophy hunting
Petland investigations, Macy's fur-free announcement among most read blogs of 2019

Every day, I share on this blog news about the progress we are making for animals. I am grateful to the thousands of readers...

Banning trophy hunting
ProPublica reveals Trump Jr. used U.S. resources to hunt endangered sheep in Mongolia 

This morning, ProPublica revealed that Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Mongolia in August to slay a rare and endangered argali...

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. House rejects amendment threatening protections for whales, dolphins

The U.S. House has just voted 259 to 160 to reject a bad amendment that would have placed some of America’s most critically...