News Break/Update by HSUS, on the racing tactics at a Tennessee Farm on all their racing horses. Please share, as right now Laws are being written to Prevent All Soring Tactics. This will end the cruelty and abuse on all farms across the country. Please visit poidogsanuenue.vpweb.com for other Rescues, Health Tips and Updated News.

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Update by Humane Society of the United States undercover Investigator! Just this past week, Humane Society of the United States sent out a  story about a horse called Play Something Country, pictured in the photo above. He took 2nd place at the Horse Show "Celebration" what they did to him, went above cruelty, this horse was in agonizing pain and unable to get up. When the investigator was undercover at ThorSport Farm, he found this horse in so much pain that he had collapsed in his stall and was crying for someone to help him.   Many of the horses at ThorSport, had been pushed to their breaking point by the trainers, all for prizes and prestige. Please take a moment to watch their new undercover investigation video and maybe make a small gift to stop this cruelty and other animal abuse across the country.  Don't let another horse suffer. Help us stop cruel soring once and for all.  The investigator spent many weeks working undercover at ThorSport Farm in Tennessee,  and documented numerous instances of illegal horse "soring" -- trainers deliberately damaging horses' legs to force them into an exaggerated show gait known as the "Big Lick."  Samples of the substances applied to the horses' legs tested positive for hazardous chemicals that are prohibited by the USDA for use in the show ring. And with soring, being cooked with chemicals and ridden with torturous "action devices" is not all the horses are forced to endure. Their hooves are also weighted down with giant, stacked horseshoes -- all to make the horses wince from pain, and to lift their legs higher in the show ring.  Because of generous animal lovers like us HSUS is able to expose these abusers and bring the change needed to ensure animals like the ones at ThorSport Farm are no longer harmed.  That's why, since being  undercover at ThorSport Farm, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and other colleagues have been working to pass the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, H.R. 3268/S. 1121, a bill that will finally end cruel horse soring once and for all. It is their job to document, and fight to end, the very worst atrocities to animals, whether it is horse soring, the mistreatment of dogs in puppy mills, animal fighting or the abuse of animals on factory farms, and the dog meat trade throughout Asia.  WE ARE THEIR VOICE TO DEFEND, PROTECT AND SAVE!   Please help us keep up the fight for all animals.  Live everyday with joy and kindness in your heart to everyone and every living creature.  Live your every day LIFE, as it was your final day of your extraordinary, ordinary LIFE and, Know that you have done your utmost everyday to be an "Angel of Kindness" to defend, save and protect. Olivia, Kona and me MAHALO  The true story by the Undercover Investigator The Humane Society of the United States

Update from Earth Justice! Our Endangered Species Act can be revoked, why? Our Wolves, Bald Eagles, Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Marine Life, and more are now in danger. The Endangered Species act was created more than 40 years ago to defend, save and protect from extinction. Here we are fighting to keep it working and intact. Please take the time to sign and share. This is a important issue, we chose to save and protect, so lets do it. Sign the petition and send in your comments, your voice will be heard and know, we as their DEFENDERS, made the difference for all future generations. Mahalo nui loa

TAKE ACTION! The Endangered Species Act is under fire! TAKE ACTION

Protect the Endangered Species Act from political attacks! Take action today and tell Congress to oppose all anti-wildlife legislation.

Dear Activists, Today,   the most serious threats ever posed to the Endangered Species Act. Dozens of legislative proposals have been introduced in this Congress to weaken and even gut the Act, one of the most successful bipartisan pieces of legislation our country has ever adopted. If we don’t act now, we could lose iconic species and the habitats on which they depend. Reach out to your legislators now to protect endangered species for the long haul. One of the world’s strongest and most effective wildlife protection laws, the Endangered Species Act was enacted with overwhelming bipartisan support more than 40 years ago. This law has prevented the extinction of 99 percent of listed species, from the bald eagle to the gray whale. Yet some members of Congress are working to undermine this incredibly effective law for the benefit of their corporate backers. These members have added a record number of anti-wildlife measures to House and Senate appropriations bills that fund the Interior Department and other key agencies. These measures would block Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves, sage grouse, lesser prairie chickens and other imperiled species. Today the Endangered Species Act is under fire, and species across the country need your help! Tell your congressional representative and senators to oppose any legislation that hurts imperiled wildlife!

What an amazing rescue and video, please share. PETA great job!!!!!!!!! To everyone to signed their petition for release thank you, yep we can change the world and how they perceive and care for animals throughout the world. Mahalo

PURE JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Four old bears are happy now after decades of hell. They were all living alone inside tiny cages at a defunct Pennsylvania roadside zoo named Big Bear Farm Zoo Park. They once had been trained to ride bicycles and do other stupid tricks, but that stopped when the roadside zoo closed its doors in 1995. The bears had not set foot outside these cages in at least 20 years. PETA found out that the man who owned the bears was planning to give them away, so we stepped in. PETA secured a bear expert to assess their health and determine whether they were able to travel. The expert gave the OK, but because of their advanced ages and for safety’s sake, we had two veterinarians accompany them on their journey to their new home at Colorado’s Wild Animal Sanctuary Fifi is a 30-year-old Syrian brown bear who has difficulty walking and appears to suffer from severe arthritis in her rear limbs. At The Wild Animal Sanctuary, she is finally getting the veterinary treatment that she desperately needs. Now, Bruno, Fifi, Pocahontas, and Marsha will have acres of prairie grasses to roam, swimming holes, and the veterinary care that they desperately need. Rather than being confined individually to tiny cages in which they could barely take a few steps in any direction, the bears will live in social groups, allowed to choose how they spend their time. Instead of small, rotting wooden doghouses, they will all have their own underground dens! Despite her lameness, Fifi wasted no time exploring her new temporary enclosure, making a beeline for her new pool and promptly submerging herself for likely the first time ever. Upon arriving at the sanctuary, Bruno, Pocahontas, and Marsha were understandably cautious when the cage door was opened, but bold Fifi headed straight for a dip in the tub. Bruno and Marsha soon followed suit. This was likely the first chance that these bears had to take a dip indecades. Fifi reveled in the huge tub of nutritious food that greeted her in her new enclosure. She was so excited that she climbed into the tub and rubbed her face in its bounty! The four needed a bit of time to adjust to their new and improved circumstances and spent about a week in temporary enclosures that were around three times the size of their former pens before they were given access to their wonderful permanent habitats. Bruno, a 30-year-old Syrian brown bear, was forced to ride a bicycle in cruel circus-style performances at the roadside zoo. The bears’ former owner forces a young bear to walk upright by holding a cruel muzzle taut near the bear’s neck, preventing him or her from walking normally on all fours. After several weeks at the sanctuary with the benefits of veterinary care, natural terrain, and more space, Fifi is walking better. All the bears are doing wonderfully, but Fifi, in particular, loves to roam in her new habitat, cool off in her pool, and relax in her underground den. Their new life is a far cry from the years when they were forced to perform tricks (Marsha was reportedly once used in ads for Burger King and Poland Spring Water) and from the conditions at the zoo, which repeatedly violated the federal Animal Welfare Act.

Update: Story from Humane Society International Dog Meat Trade in China. Amazing rescue from brave activists who saved more than 194 dogs from slaughter. Through the help of Humane Society of the United States, and other organizations, these dogs have been given a second chance on life! Amazing transformations of all of these dogs and especially one. Through the help of many caring and loving people and their donations, Humane Society International is hoping to curb and stop this terrible slaughter throughout Asia. Please share and visit poidogsanuenue.vpweb.com for more stories and health tips for all animals.

Barely visible beneath a tangle of filthy, matted hair, the dog’s blue eyes reflected fear mixed with hope as his rescuers lifted him off a truck in Qinhuangdao, China last month. He and 194 others had been on the way to a slaughterhouse, near-victims of the dog meat trade. Heartless men with only profit in mind had packed the animals into crowded cages and driven them for miles in the summer heat without food or water.

On July 9, brave activists pulled over the vehicle and changed Xiao Jiu (Little Ninth Angel, aka Blue Eyes)’s fate. Hardly a year old, looking like a total mess, he seemed to ask his liberators,” What are you going to do to me now?”

SUPPORT HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL IN STOPPING THIS HORRIFIC SLAUGHTER THROUGHOUT ASIA, INDIA, PHILIPPINES, AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

He was very lucky. A young man named Yu Duoduo and his mother took the dog home. They cleaned him up and shaved him themselves, revealing injuries new and old that shocked them.

Fortunately, despite his poor physical condition, Xiao Jiu was not too scarred emotionally. He has become a complete sweetheart. He eats well and has gained weight. Very possibly a stolen former pet, he must be so relieved to find himself once more in a loving home, safe and secure. 

Through our help in signing petitions, sharing, posting, pinning and donations, (even the smallest counts) we can as Angels of Kindness stop abuse, of the most horrific type, severe cruelty worldwide  Mahalo, Olivia, Kona and me

Support our campaign against the cruel dog meat trade. click here!

Update from Center of Biological Diversity. Those of us that are very much interested in saving our Wolves, Gray, Mexican, Artic, Red, will be pleased to know that a Gray wolf pack is now living in California. Thank you to the Center and many others who have pressured the state to take action in 2014, this wolf pack will reap the benefits of legal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Our letters, petitions, and FB posts,donations in conjunction with all organizations from the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Center of Biological Diversity and others, we have now protected and saved from slaughter and hopefully trophy hunters. Please share, what wonderful news!!! BRAVO!!!! please visit my website at poidogsanuenue.vpweb.com. Mahalo

After Almost 100 Years, a Gray Wolf Pack Lives in California

Exciting, inspiring news from Northern California: For the first time in almost a century, a family of gray wolves is living wild in the state. In remote Siskiyou County, a trail camera has captured a series of photographs of both the adult wolves and the black pups.

The two adult, black-furred wolves and five 4-month-old pups have been named the Shasta pack, after the area's spectacular volcano.

Thanks to foresight and pressure from the Center for Biological Diversity and our allies that resulted in state action in 2014, these wolves have the benefit of legal protection under California's Endangered Species Act. According to state biologists, one or more of the animals will soon be radio-collared for monitoring; in the meantime, their black color should make it virtually impossible for any hunters to claim to mistake them for coyotes -- and very difficult for any actual mistaken ID to occur.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

Petitions, work and thank you everyone for signing this petition when I posted on FB and on my Blogspot. Please share and sign this will help to seal the protection of all rare species

An extraordinary opportunity has arrived for some of the planet's most endangered amphibians and reptiles: Thanks to a Center for Biological Diversity petition filed in 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now reviewing whether 20 of these herpetofauna, or herps, will get protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Thanks to all who helped support this petition in its early stages. It's time to seal the deal.

Each of the species in this diverse group plays a key role in maintaining the health of its ecosystem. Yet just as important, these animals -- from the 250-pound alligator snapping turtle to the tiny Illinois chorus frog -- deserve protection for their own sake and simply because they make our world wonderful.

Think of the gold flecks in frogs' eyes, the little arms and round bellies of stubby toads, or the graceful movement of a snake disappearing into the grass. That's who we're working to protect, and we need your help.

Act now to urge the Service to protect these rare and incredible creatures before it's too late. 

Click here to take action and get more information. Mahalo, for signing our petitions we are voices to be heard, and through the Center for Biological Diversity, their intense research into policies, letters to US Fish and Wildlife Service, we will continue to save and protect every species for future generations.  " WE ARE ALL ANGELS OF KINDNESS DEDICATING OUR LIVES TO ALL SPECIES.+    PLEASE SHARE AND SIGN!!!"

10 year Anniversary of Katrina, Humane Society International, this is why Angels of Kindness are everywhere! Meat trade dogs now in forever homes! Laws are being changed and with every petition signed and shared, we all did our part to save and protect! Please share,

With the ten-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina upon us, I wanted to share my reflections with you. While Katrina was a heartbreak in every way, looking back over the past decade we see how it changed The HSUS, our movement and our world. Never before had we witnessed human and animal tragedies so bound together. We put our shoulder into the immense problem at hand, we did extraordinary life-saving things from the start, and we built structures internally and externally that will endure. We'll be there again and again when natural and human-caused disasters emerge. In the Wake of Katrina August 23, 2015 SHARE In New Orleans and surrounding areas, many pet owners heeded evacuation orders, leaving heaps of food and big bowls of water behind. Others attempted to take their animals with them, only to be forced sometimes at gunpoint -- to abandon them in the streets before boarding evacuation buses. It became a race against time, as The HSUS and others undertook the largest animal rescue operation ever. Photo by Carol Guzy Hurricane Katrina is forever seared in my memory, and it forever changed the perceptions and stature of the humane movement in this country - for the better. It was a moment of extraordinary turmoil and overwhelming tragedy, but it also brought the issue of animal rescue and the human-animal bond into the mainstream like never before. While many people felt the response to the humane tragedy was bungled, so many were amazed at the outpouring of organizational and individual energy and skill assembled to help the animal victims. And just days into the crisis, the American public realized that the human and animal tragedies were bound together, and they were rooting for all to survive and get back on their feet. At The HSUS, as so many people were rushing out of the crisis zone, we were rushing in - to come to the aid of animals and the people who care about them. In the ensuing decade, moreover, we've stayed the course. We've helped a devastated region to enhance its animal welfare infrastructure. We've kick-started a number of initiatives that have produced lasting benefits for animals. We've advanced public policies on pets and disasters, and we've built up a strong emergency response and rescue unit that has answered the call in hundreds of crisis situations for animals. When Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast in late August 10 years ago, she whipsawed a great American city and left hundreds of other communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama reeling. The human tragedy was immediately obvious, with nearly 2,000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Increasingly, too, the animal tragedy, at first unnoticed, came into focus, and a terrible, urgent life-or-death reality set in. In New Orleans and the surrounding areas, many pet owners heeded evacuation orders, leaving heaps of food and big bowls of water behind in their homes. They assumed and were assured that they would be able to return home in a couple of days. Others attempted to take their animals with them, only to be forced - sometimes at gunpoint - to abandon them in the streets before boarding evacuation buses. Farm animals were abandoned as well, left out in the fields. Then the levees failed, the streets flooded, the power went out, and the National Guard walled off what became a giant disaster zone, one in which tens of thousands of pets were trapped. It became a race against time, as we and others undertook the largest animal rescue operation ever. Who can forget the images of animals clinging to rooftops and partially submerged vehicles, or swimming frantically toward rescue teams in boats? Local, state, and federal agencies didn't know how to respond to the animal emergency they had helped to create, and the whole world saw the result of this collective failure to address the plight of animals in disaster. Pet owners living in less affluent, underserved communities were particularly vulnerable. It was a blind spot that condemned thousands of innocent creatures to death and misfortune, and impeded the broader relief effort - and it's one of the reasons our Pets for Life program now focuses on supporting pet owners in communities that are still often forgotten. As so many people were rushing out of the crisis zone, we at The HSUS were rushing in to come to the aid of animals and the people who care about them. In the ensuing decade, we've stayed the course. Photo by Carol Guzy In the immediate aftermath of the storm, we knew it was our most urgent task to help animals trapped in homes and at risk for starvation or dehydration. But at the time, we also vowed to prepare the region and the nation for future crises and to not forget about animals, to remake the legal framework on disaster preparedness and on core animal cruelty and neglect issues, and to rebuild the humane infrastructure in the Gulf Coast for the long haul, and we've made good on these promises. We talked about all of these issues at our Animal Care Expo in New Orleans this past March - where more than 2,300 people showed up - and we heard uplifting stories from survivors, remarkable news about the progress made, and information on the extraordinary collaboration between traditional and non-traditional partners. Among so many things, we've: Provided more than $8 million in recovery and reconstruction grants to 45 local organizations Committed $5.8 million to pet health and overpopulation initiatives through direct service and awareness campaigns Committed more than $2 million to shelter medicine programs at the veterinary schools of Mississippi State University and Louisiana State University Generated more than a quarter of a billion in free advertising to promote local shelters in Louisiana and Mississippi, with Maddie's Fund and the Ad Council, as part of our broader Shelter Pet Project campaign which has placed more than $240 million in pet adoption PSA's nationwide Participated in 32 animal rescue and disaster response deployments in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Pursued a broad public policy agenda in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi via full-time state directors working on animal fighting, puppy mills, animal cruelty, carbon monoxide gas chambers, roadside sales of dogs and cats, and other issues Partnered with the Jefferson SPCA to establish a Pets for Life program that brings affordable veterinary services to underserved communities Contributed $750,000 to Pen Pals, Inc. to operate the first prison-based animal shelter, at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana. In the years since, we've helped to secure 20 state laws and the federal Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act to include animals in disaster plans. These laws have transformed the manner in which agencies think about and respond to disasters, and they are significant markers of social and political concern for animals, too. In the years since Katrina, The HSUS has helped to secure 20 state laws and the federal Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act to include animals in disaster plans. Above, a cat rescued during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. Photo by Chuck Cook/For The HSUS At The HSUS, the Katrina experience led us to revise our approach to emergency response. We upgraded our field response teams so that they could respond not only to disasters, but to human-caused crises such as puppy mills, animal fighting operations, and hoarding cases. During the last 10 years, our teams have deployed countless times, saving tens of thousands of animals, often coming to their rescue in areas where local animal organizations needed additional help to address their plight. Hurricane Katrina was an unmitigated catastrophe and a heartbreak at all levels. From the vantage of 10 years, however, it's clear that it changed The HSUS, it changed our movement, and it changed our world. We can still do more for animals and the people who care about them when disaster strikes, and we will. Slideshow: Katrina: 10 Years Later Pledge to take your pets with you» The post In the Wake of Katrina appeared first on A Humane Nation. Related Stories Korea Dog Meat Trade Survivors Settle Down in Forever Homes The Arc of Progress in Animal Protection Dogs Rescued from Arkansas Mill, Where Cold Compounds Misery

FIRST WOLF PACK NOTED IN CALIFORNIA WOW, WONDERFUL NEWS

Gray wolves seem to love California! Defenders of Wildlife just learned that an entire new pack has been discovered in northern California. The pack, dubbed the "Shasta Pack," consists of a breeding pair of adults and five pups. The pups are thought to be three or four months old. This news comes just weeks after officials announced sightings of a suspected wolf caught on trail cameras in May and July. This is a landmark development in the return of wolves to their historic Golden State habitat. And because these wolves are protected by both federal and California state law, it is unlikely this new pack will face the same fate as so many of its Northern Rockies brethren. Hope for re-establishing wolves in California soared in 2011 when OR-7, the famous wandering wolf, became the first wolf in decades to enter the state. This new pack means that restoration of wolves in California is now a dream that's finally coming true. Defenders of Wildlife, have been given a second chance to restore this iconic species to a landscape they had been missing from for nearly one hundred years. We all must seize this opportunity to forge new partnerships to help wolves live in harmony with people and livestock in their California home. Please join us in celebrating California’s first wolf family of the 21st century! For the wolves

Killing of Cecil the Lion Offers Sweeping Reforms HSUS/ Please share!!!!!!! WE ARE THEIR VOICE

Since the killing of Cecil (pictured above), 38 airlines have committed to halting the shipping of the Africa Big Five. Photo by 500px Prime

The reverberations from the early July slaying of Cecil the lion continue to be felt worldwide, with the news that authorities in Zimbabwe have charged the second of two men who guided Safari Club International member Walter Palmer’s illicit trophy kill just outside the borders of Hwange National Park. “Cecil was delivered to him like a pizza,” said the Hwange Lion Research Project’s Brent Stapelkamp, who took the last photo of Cecil alive, just a month before Palmer killed, skinned, and beheaded the lion with the assistance of hunting guide Theo Bronkhurst and game park owner Honest Ndlovu. We are still awaiting word on Zimbabwe’s request to extradite Walter Palmer, who was at the center of this scheme to kill Hwange National Park’s most famous lion, and if that happens, there will be some measure of justice for all three horsemen of the Hwange apocalypse.

We’re also urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize its proposed rule listing the African lion under the Endangered Species Act, as have dozens of members of Congress. We are hoping for final action from the agency soon, so that further imports of lion trophies will be restricted or banned from African nations.

Either way, the killers will have a hard time getting those trophies back home. Since the Cecil slaying, 38 airlines have committed to halting the shipping of the Africa Big Five.Delta, United, and American Airlines -- the big U.S.-based carriers with service to Africa -- are among the airlines to ban shipping lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and Cape buffalo trophies. UPS this week announced a good, sound policy of not shipping shark fins, but we are still awaiting a declaration from that company on its policy concerning the hunting trophies, since four species of the Africa Big Five are listed, or about to be listed, as threatened with extinction under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act.

U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has introduced a bill to ban all imports of trophies and parts from African lions and other at-risk species into the United States. Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-TX, and Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-TX, have announced their intention to sponsor a bill to amend the Endangered Species Act to ban “all acts of senseless and perilous trophy killings.”  Lawmakers in New York and New Jersey have introduced bills to restrict imports into their states.

Right now, there are 41 trophy hunters who, just like Walter Palmer, paid a fortune to kill an animal about to get listed under the Endangered Species Act, and want a waiver from Congress to display the heads and hides of the slain animals in their homes. In the case of the 41, they killed polar bears in northern Canada. We’re fighting their import-waiver effort not just as a symbolic act to deny these trophy hunters their ill-gotten gains, but to prevent the bum rush of trophy hunters into a foreign land whenever our federal government announces that it’s going to upgrade federal protections for a declining species and restrict imports.

Finally, there is the battle we’re waging in the marketplace of ideas. We’ve answered the self-serving reasoning of the trophy-hunting clan about the value of their activity to conservation, and more than ever, people see through their pay-to-slay reasoning. People realize that trophy killing undermines wildlife conservation, is no boon to national or regional economies anywhere, and should not be countenanced or encouraged by anyone. How can anyone possibly think it’s helpful to animals to kill a dominant lion in a pride with an arrow, or to slay a large-tusked elephant, or a mature rhino with a beautiful horn? For them, I guess, it diminishes the utter selfishness of the activity by concocting some far-fetched scenario where killing a creature somehow helps the grieving, surviving family members or pride or herd mates. It’s really a travesty to think anyone could buy this drivel.

When it comes to The HSUS and Humane Society International, we’re going to devote more resources, in the near and the long term, to fight this enterprise of globe-trotting trophy hunting of the rarest, most remarkable animals in the world. If you’re willing to stand with us, and to support our worldwide campaigns against trophy killing, I’m willing to make you this promise: Cecil won’t have died in vain.

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Here’s how you can help fight trophy hunting:

Tell Congress to stop trophy hunting >

Ask the USFWS to finalize listing African lions under the Endangered Species Act >

Ask airlines to end the transport of hunting trophies >

Ask South African Airways to recommit to a ban on hunting trophies >

Tell UPS to ban the shipment of hunting trophies >

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CONFRONTING CRUELTY, PLEASE SHARE AND SIGN!!! we can stop it, we did it before!!!!!

August 18, 2015 Share: Dear tia/poidogsanuenue,   In just a few weeks, a bull will be chased out of the town of Tordesillas by groups of men on foot and horseback wielding long spears. They’ll lure the animal into the surrounding countryside, where he’ll be taunted, prodded and eventually stabbed to death. His killer will then be celebrated as a hero. This terrible event is just one of thousands of similar spectacles held in Spain every year, spectacles in which bulls suffer tremendous pain and suffering in the name of entertainment. This has to stop now! Join us in calling on Spain’s leaders to end cruel bull fiestas, once and for all. The General Secretary of Spain's PSOE political party has personally spoken out against Toro de la Vega. Join us in calling on Spanish politicians to introduce legislation that would end animal abuse in public events like this. Last year, at an event supported by HSI, tens of thousands of Spanish citizens marched through central Madrid to make their opposition to cruel bull fiestas heard loud and clear. Neither entertainment nor culture can excuse cruelty to animals. Together, let’s urge their elected representatives in Spain to take a compassionate stand against cruelty to animals. Make your voice heard: Speak up for bulls - Sign our petition today! Thank you so much for all that you do for animals. Sincerely, Andrew Rowan President and CEO Humane Society International

Wonderful News for the Platero Project, again our outcry was heard, we did it they are safe!!!!!!!

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"Platero Project" Aims to Keep Wild Burros Wild

Photo | Mike Lorden

Thanks to a generous anonymous donor who has a special place in her heart for burros, AWHPC is now managing The Platero Project, a program dedicated to promoting awareness about America's wild burros and keeping them wild and free on the range. The project is named for the small donkey who is the main character of the poetic short story and Spanish literary classic "Platery y Yo" (Platero and Me) by Spanish Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez. 

Wild burros have the same rich history and are as culturally significant as wild horses, but they receive far less attention. The Platero Project aims to change that by elevating the status of burros and increasing appreciation for these icons of the American Southwest. At the same time, the project will focus on initiatives to keep wild burros wild and free on the range. America's burros are in crisis due to their dwindling numbers, artificially low allowable population levels and the geographic fragmentation of the few remaining burro populations. Immediate action is needed to to ensure that America's wild burro populations will remain genetically viable and sustainable going forward into the future

Horses safe for now!!! Amazing, petitions work, we are their voice through Legal, Petitions, and news.

ACTION Salt River Wild Horse Roundup Now on Hold! Photo | Jennifer Maharry Photography After unprecedented and intense public outcry, the U.S. Forest Service has suspended its plans to round up the famous Salt River wild horses in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and U.S. Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain are among the elected officials who have added their voices to the call to protect these beloved "icons of the West." AWHPC coalition partner, the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group and their attorney, William A. Miller of Phoenix, filed a lawsuit to stop the roundup and obtain lasting protection for these beloved horses. With the roundup on hold, both parties are now working together to develop a workable plan that will permanently protect the horses and keep them in their home in the National Forest.  Thank you to the 13,000 AWHPC supporters who called and emailed the Forest Service to protest plans to eradicate these horses, and to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which partnered with us to send a legal letter informing the Forest Service that it would be violating federal law if it proceeded with the roundup.

Please sign and share, for Cecil the Lion stop UPS and others shipping trophy cargo.

We can do this, we have done it before with India, China and more.  Lets stop the trophy hunting now and the transport of all endangered species shot and killed for trophy hunting.  Let do it together, with Humane Society International.



In the wake of the death of Cecil the lion, close to 30 airlines and most major U.S. and European carriers have ceased shipping sport hunting trophies of lions, elephants, and other big game species.But UPS continues to provide a means for trophy hunters to send their gruesome prizes home – making the company a “getaway vehicle” for the theft of African wildlife from their natural habitats.

As long as there is an easy way to ship the heads and hides they want to display, trophy hunters won't be deterred. In the past, the company has taken positive actions to refuse transportation of live animals and ivory, but it needs to take the next step now to stop the transport of wild animal trophies.

Ask UPS to join other global communities and extend its compassion to animals endangered by trophy hunting and poaching worldwide.

Please click on the above link and sign and share, Mahalo

Stop the brutally of Bali oldest dog in history!!!!!!

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On the island of Bali, thousands of innocent dogs are killed every year — often suffering slow and painful deaths.

The beautiful Bali heritage dog, possibly the oldest breed in the world, is unique to the island and the Balinese people have a very special cultural relationship with the animals. It’s outrageous these beloved and innocent dogs are being slaughtered.

However, the mass killing of roaming dogs on Bali was ordered by the island's governor who claims that they will lead to the spread of rabies. But human and animal health experts have proven that culling doesn't work to control rabies and can actually result in the spread of the disease.

Sadly many dogs that have already been vaccinated are among the victims of this slaughter.

It's time for the Bali government to stop killing these innocent animals and return to the annual, comprehensive dog vaccination programs which protect dogs and people while honoring the value these animals have to the people of Bali.

Sign the petition today and tell the Governor of Bali to stop the mass killings of the island's heritage dogs!  Just Click on the overview and sign, Mahalo,