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Bears

Bears are powerful, majestic animals who face numerous threats.

Dogs

Dogs are the canine companions who have shared our lives for millennia.

Rabbits

These shy, gentle animals share our neighborhoods—and sometimes our homes.

Banning Trophy Hunting

To save wildlife from being killed just for bragging rights.

Battling the Worst Hunting Practices

To stand against the most egregious abuses of wildlife.

Ending Animal Fighting

To stop the barbaric practices of dogfighting and cockfighting.

Three rabbits in restraints in animal testing lab

Ending Cosmetics Animal Testing

Because beauty should be kind.

kittens in cage at emergency shelter in Joplin, Missouri after tornado

Ending Pet Homelessness

To make sure there’s a family for every pet—and help keep pets in the loving homes they have.

Fighting Animal Cruelty and Neglect

To help reduce needless cruelty to animals.

Going Fur-Free

Because animals need their fur coats more than we do.

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.

Keeping Pets for Life

By honoring the love people have for their pets.

Promoting Smarter Wildlife Management

To encourage peaceful coexistence with wild animals.

Stopping Puppy Mills

To end the cruel treatment of dogs in mass breeding operations.

Wild macaque monkey in a tree. Monkeys are often victims of illegal wildlife trade.

Stopping the Wildlife Trade

To keep animals safe in their natural habitat.

Taking Suffering Out of Science

To reduce⁠—and eventually end⁠—harmful animal experiments.

13 ways to build your humane backyard

Every day, more and more wildlife habitat is lost to the spread of development. Give a little back by building your own humane backyard! It doesn't matter whether you have a small apartment balcony, a townhouse with a sliver of ground, a suburban yard, a sprawling corporate property or a community...

20 million pets in the US experience poverty with their families

WASHINGTON—Approximately 20 million pets in the U.S. experience poverty with their families and 70% have never seen a veterinarian*. According to a new Harris Poll survey conducted on behalf of the Humane Society of the United States**, only around one in four Americans (28%) are even aware of this...

HSUS Animal Rescue Team members and volunteers carry beagles into the organization’s care and rehabilitation center

4,000 beagles

During the summer of 2022, our Animal Rescue Team, with the support of our shelter and rescue partners, removed nearly 4,000 beagles from a mass breeding facility

4,000 beagles celebrate one-year 'beagle-versary' in style

To shed light on this tail … er … tale, let’s rewind a bit. Last summer, the Humane Society of the United States stepped in at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice to transport nearly 4,000 beagles from a facility that bred dogs for the animal testing industry and had numerous animal...

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