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CalAnimals launches new program to help keep people, pets together amidst disasters

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Animal Welfare Association, the state association representing and supporting more than 260 animal shelters and animal control agencies, is pleased to announce the launch of a three-year project to improve disaster preparedness. With funding generously provided by the Humane Society

EatKind
United Kingdom
EatKind in restaurants

Vegan and vegetarian eateries across the UK come together to raise vital funds for animal protection through EatKind in restaurants, our campaign launching this World Vegan Month in November. In the UK, over 1 billion animals a year suffer in factory farms

More than 100 cats and kittens rescued from commercial breeder in alleged cruelty situation in Chesterfield County, Virginia

Yesterday, the Humane Society of the United States assisted the Virginia Attorney General’s Office and Chesterfield County Animal Services in the rescue of 110 cats and kittens from a large-scale alleged cruelty situation at a commercial breeding operation in Chesterfield County, Virginia

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European Commission breaks Green Deal commitment to improve lives of animals on farms

BRUSSELS—After months of waiting for the European Commission to honour its European Green Deal commitment to deliver a package of legislative proposals to upgrade the EU’s animal welfare legislation, Executive Vice President Maroš Šefčovič finally broke the EU executive body’s silence on

Pigs look out from an enclosure
Gabriela Penela/We Animals Media
United Kingdom
Polling reveals millions of Brits put ‘protecting animals from cruelty’ amongst top three most important policies that will influence their votes

LONDON — Over two-thirds (67%) of the British public think that a political party planning to pass more laws to improve animal welfare and protect animals from cruelty would have ‘the right priorities’, and 71% feel that such policies would reflect their

People feeding community dogs

NItesh Vasava/HSI

Caring for community dogs in Vadodara, India.
India
India’s first street dog directory set to save lives in Vadodara

VADODARA, Gujarat—Humane Society International/India launched India’s first-ever directory dedicated to street dog welfare. The directory features useful information on dog welfare-focused individuals and agencies that offer services including rescue, veterinary care, transport, adoptions, treatment, rabies vaccinations, and Animal Birth Control (ABC) facilities

Animal testing and research
Beagleversary Bash: Dog reunion celebrates first anniversary since the historic rescue of nearly 4,000 beagles

(BETHESDA, MD)—As thousands of families celebrate the first anniversary of adopting their beagles following their historic rescue, some beagles and their adopters joined the Humane Society of the United States at Bark Social for a “Beagleversary Bash” reunion. The event marks one

David Paul Morris, HSUS
Asia
Restaurant Group ramps up its hen welfare pledge in Thailand

Update: As of September 2023, Bann Ying Family has published that it no longer buys eggs from caged hens. BANGKOK, Thailand—Restaurant group Baan Ying Family adopted a new animal welfare policy to use 100% free-range organic eggs. The group runs six restaurant

Chickens

David Paul Morris

Brazil
Special Dog becomes Brazil’s first cage-free pet food

SÃO PAULO—Special Dog, one of the largest pet food manufacturers in Brazil, announced that it is now procuring exclusively cage-free eggs for its manufacturing operations. This move makes Special Dog the first pet food manufacturer in Brazil to have effectively implemented its

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