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In May, seven dogs arrived at our care and rehabilitation center in Maryland. These pups had just flown from South Korea—they had burns on their skin and were extremely timid. They had seen and experienced things that would leave a terrible mark on anyone.   

Odd little brown patches could be spotted all across the grounds of a property in Wisconsin when our Animal Rescue Team arrived on Thursday last week.

Massachusetts House Bill 4915, which bans using primates, bears, big cats, giraffes and elephants in circuses, was just signed into law by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey after it unanimously passed the House and passed the Senate on a voice vote.

Humane World for Animals Italy (formerly called Humane Society International) and Fondazione Cave Canem, the organizations promoting the “Io non combatto” project, welcome the approval of amendment 42.0.23 to the 2026 Italian budget law, which provides for the allocation of dedicated funds to suppress animal fighting.

An estimated 1,000 wild animals are illegally removed from their natural habitats in Costa Rica each year, to be trafficked to international markets, sold as pets, or added to private collections. To address this issue, Humane World for Animals Costa Rica, in partnership with Costa Rica’s National Environmental Security Commission, conducted a series of training workshops for government authorities responsible for handling rescued or confiscated wildlife in illegal trafficking cases.

MEXICO CITY— Humane World for Animals Mexico, formerly known as Humane Society International Mexico, and Mexico’s Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA), the agency responsible for the nation’s environmental laws and regulations, have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance a

Last week, members of our Animal Rescue Team assisted law enforcement authorities with the rescue of more than 20 dogs and puppies from an alleged neglect situation at a residential property in Vidalia, in northeast Louisiana along the Mississippi River.

This week, our Animal Rescue Team assisted the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in rescuing dogs from two separate alleged dogfighting operations. During this deployment, our team rescued a total of 18 dogs and puppies.

An Indiana woman, who shared images and videos on social media that showed her torturing and graphically killing cats and dogs by hanging and skinning them, has been charged under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act,

On June 12, members of our animal rescue team joined South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents at two properties associated with an alleged dogfighting operation in Richland County. Together, they rescued 23 dogs and puppies from circumstances of apparent neglect and injuries consistent with dogfighting.

Late last year, Pennsylvania investigators found a dog named Cam dead and frozen solid on a heavy chain, wedged between a small dog house and a fence. He appeared to have been digging for warmth when he died.

Our mission to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering to create permanent change is a big job, and we can’t do it alone.

The exploitation and abuse of big cats as props for paid public interactions at roadside attractions will soon be a thing of the past.

Dozens of small makeshift huts were recently found on a rural property in Iowa. Some were little conical hovels; others, overturned water tanks and chemical barrels with holes cut out of them. Inside each was a solitary rooster tethered to the enclosure. The only water accessible to the birds was in slimy, debris-filled bowls. Other roosters, hens and their chicks roamed among these structures. Many of the birds were missing their combs and waddles. These are the signs of a cruel, illegal industry: cockfighting.

You’re used to reading here and elsewhere about larger cruelty deployments in which The HSUS is involved, and that’s an important role we play as an organization with highly trained responders and a full-fledged animal response team.

Cockfighting—the brutal spectacle that pits specially bred roosters against each other in a bloody fight to the death—makes the news occasionally. How can we get this cruelty taken more seriously?

In May last year, our Animal Rescue Team was on site to help local law enforcement officials with the largest cockfighting bust in U.S.

Many people experience their first connections with animals through relationships with dogs, cats or horses. Just as these bonds are powerful and pervasive, so must our advocacy be since companion animals face myriad injustices and difficulties in the U.S. and around the world. We’ve already detailed the incredible progress made against the dog and cat meat trades in 2023, but there is much more to say on other fronts. Here are just some of the ways we created a more humane world for companion animals in the past year.