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Chickens

Chickens are intelligent birds with a complex social hierarchy.

Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees are wild, complex animals who live in family groups and form lifelong bonds.

Otters

Members of the weasel family, otters are known for their elongated bodies, webbed feet and playful antics, particularly their love of sliding down rocks, banks or waterfalls.

Eating Humanely

Because plant-based eating (such as vegan and vegetarian diets) benefits people, animals and the planet.

Ending Animal Fighting

To stop the barbaric practices of dogfighting and cockfighting.

Fighting Animal Cruelty and Neglect

To help reduce needless cruelty to animals.

Captive animals such as this tiger locked in cage suffer in zoos and circuses

Helping Captive Wild Animals

To keep wild animals where they belong—in the wild—and out of zoos and circuses.

Chickens in chicken house in San Diego, California

Improving the Lives of Farm Animals

By reducing the suffering of animals raised for meat, eggs and dairy.

wild humpback whales in marine life habitat

Protecting Marine Wildlife

To make the ocean safer for those who call it home.

Taking Suffering Out of Science

To reduce⁠—and eventually end⁠—harmful animal experiments.

Photo of an industrial chicken operation in India.

In 2019, Sara Shields, in southern India for workshops with Humane Society International colleagues, drove into the countryside near Bangalore to visit industrial chicken operations. At the first farm she stopped at, she saw hundreds of white-feathered birds in long open-sided barns with burlap...

Three free range pigs root in the dirt in a large field

Abolishing cages and crates

Factory farm animals, locked in extreme confinement, suffer some of the worst cruelty imaginable. Egg-laying hens are confined in cages so small they can’t even flap their wings. Mother pigs in the pork industry are locked in metal “gestation crates,” which prohibit them from turning around for...

Adopting and caring for backyard chickens

Important considerations before getting chickens as pets

Advocates rally to “show the animals love” on Valentine’s Day

Humane advocates descended upon Lawyers Mall on Valentine’s Day to “show the animals love.” The rally, organized by the Humane Society of the United States and other groups, demonstrated the strong, bipartisan public support for key animal welfare bills before the Maryland legislature this session.

Sad dog standing in a dirty water bowl during New Mexico rescue

Animal cruelty facts and stats

The shocking number of animal cruelty cases reported every day is just the tip of the iceberg—most cases are never reported. Unlike violent crimes against people, cases of animal abuse are not compiled by state or federal agencies, making it difficult to calculate just how common they are. However...

young piglets Patsy & Saffron play in Summer sunshine in their enclosure at Pigs In The Wood sanctuary for pigs

Animal welfare prevails at the Supreme Court

In October, the Supreme Court heard a pork industry challenge to California’s Proposition 12, the world’s strongest law to protect farm animals. The Humane Society of the United States and its allies defended the law, which requires that mother pigs , egg-laying hens and calves raised for veal in...

Photo of Minnow the dog laying in the grass.

Before and after photos show the power of animal rescue

Minnow It makes sense that her best friends are turkeys. Minnow spent the first five months of her life on a dog meat farm in South Korea before she was rescued by Humane Society International in 2015 and adopted by Abbie Hubbard, who worked at a Virginia shelter where the rescued dogs were flown...

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