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BOSTON—Today, Massachusetts Rep. Jack Patrick Lewis, D-Framingham, and Sen. John Velis, D- Westfield, introduced HD 1592 and SD 1029, bills to prohibit the sale of new fur products throughout Massachusetts. Every year, more than 100 million undomesticated animals like foxes, raccoon dogs and mink...
WASHINGTON—Today, the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International released a shocking analysis of the 2021 Dallas Safari Club annual convention, taking place virtually Feb. 10 to 14. Trophy hunters, hunting outfitters and other businesses from around the world will gather...
The Humane Society of the United States is proud to honor three Kentucky law enforcement agencies with 2020 Humane Law Enforcement Awards. As part of a multiagency effort, these groups pursued Kentucky’s first conviction on bestiality charges since passage of a 2019 state law making sexual crimes...
En Español The Humane Society of the United States and coalition partners regret to announce that due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the next two rounds of Spayathon® for Puerto Rico, scheduled for February and May of 2021, have been canceled. “We have made this very difficult decision to...
The Humane Society of the United States presents Indiana state Rep. David Abbott, R-Rome City, with the Indiana 2020 Legislator of the Year Award for his efforts to help animals in Indiana and beyond by authoring House Bill 1200 to end the private possession of and direct contact with dangerous wild...
The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for cruelly and repeatedly stabbing a dog in Bay County, Michigan. The case: The Bay County Animal Shelter gave the following...
WASHINGTON—Animal protection leaders are welcoming the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with a plea for a strong commitment to strengthening federal animal welfare policy. Sara Amundson, president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, and Kitty Block...
WASHINGTON—A lawsuit filed today in the federal District Court in Maryland charges the National Institutes of Health with violating federal law when it decided not to send to sanctuary 44 federally owned chimpanzees held at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico. “Every day that goes by is...
Today six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the lower 48 states except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its...
WASHINGTON—Animal protection organizations are reacting to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report that evaluated methods of detecting horse soring and that underscores the urgent need to eliminate the current system of self-policing in the Tennessee walking horse industry...
WASHINGTON — After years of efforts to end the horse racing practices that have caused thousands of horses to die or suffer injuries, the Humane Society Legislative Fund and the Humane Society of the United States celebrate the culmination of a successful campaign to secure the historic passage of...
NEW YORK—Today, veterinary and animal protection groups sent a petition signed by over 2,900 veterinary professionals and advocates to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) asking the organization to take a stand against ventilation shutdown (VSD). VSD is a cruel method of depopulation...