Wayne Pacelle

Recently, I blogged about exciting news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture would propose a rule requiring large-scale puppy mills and kitten mills selling pets online, by phone, or by mail to be licensed and inspected for basic standards of care. This is a reform we've been working...

Yesterday, I broke the news on MSNBC's Morning Joe that The HSUS and Burger King are jointly announcing that the world's second-largest fast food burger chain will eliminate both battery cages and gestation crates from its U.S. supply chain. According to its...

Last week, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times broke news of The Humane Society of the United States' latest undercover investigation focused on industrial agriculture -- a large-scale, battery cage facility for hens in Manheim, Pa., that produces 1.6 million eggs a day. Kristof's piece is online,...

The spring season brings familiar signs of life's renewal―birds building their nests, frogs waking from their winter hibernation, and other wild animals rearing their newborns. As you might imagine, our Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts―one of our three wildlife rehabilitation centers―is busy in springtime caring for young raccoons,...

It's the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The Humane Society of the United States, it announced its intention to get out of the business of gestation crates for breeding sows in the United States. McDonald's declared that...

The Humane Society of the United States went undercover again to record what's happening at factory farms, and yesterday we released our latest findings. We announced them at a press conference in Oklahoma City, not far from the pig production facilities we examined.

For four months while pregnant,...

The Humane Society of the United States' Animal Rescue Team has saved cats, dogs, horses, rabbits and even rats from all sorts of crises and cruelty situations. But this week's main event was a particularly exotic mission: rescuing three tigers, two leopards, three cougars, two wolf-hybrids and a...

Report Card for 2011

Executive Summary: The Obama administration had B-level scores for the first two years of the term, but earned only a C-minus from The Humane Society of the United States for its performance on animal welfare issues in 2011. The Obama administration had a...

Online shopping is a great way to buy holiday gifts, but not when it comes to getting a companion animal. In our latest undercover investigation, released today, Humane Society of the United States investigators and attorneys dug into the world of Internet puppy sellers and found not only the underlying...

While euthanasia rates for dogs and cats in our nation's animal care and control facilities have been in steady decline for more than three decades, there are still millions of healthy dogs and cats euthanized every year. We as a nation shouldn't stand for that.

There are thousands of organizations...

If I told you that pigs confined in gestation crates -- cages barely larger than the animals' bodies, in which they don't have enough space even to turn around for nearly their whole lives -- were living in "ideal" conditions where their "every need is met," you'd probably...

In the past few years in particular, The Humane Society of the United States has attacked the puppy mill problem from every angle, including working with law enforcement to shut down rogue commercial breeding operations in the United States, rescuing the dogs in distress, and drawing attention to...

In early June, The Humane Society of the United States' Animal Rescue Team deployed to Florida to help Alachua County Animal Services remove nearly 700 cats from appalling conditions, in one of the largest cat rescues in American history. We called on our partners to support...

The goal of the Humane Society of the United States is not endless campaigning or conflict with political adversaries, but to find a place where we can forge solutions that produce tangible and meaningful outcomes for animals and show a new way forward in society. And that means sitting down...

One thesis in my book The Bond is that so much animal mistreatment happens because so many of us in society have become disconnected from animals -- they are far removed from our daily experiences, especially those animals used in institutional settings for a wide variety of purposes....

Today our thoughts are with the residents of Midwestern and Southern states who have suffered unimaginable destruction from this week's tornadoes, so close on the heels of historic flooding along the Mississippi River and tornadoes that swept through Alabama earlier this month. We've learned of so many tragic outcomes for...

There's been some very ugly, unfair, cruel and anti-democratic work in some state legislatures and in Congress over the past few days -- some of the most deeply troubling stuff I've seen in two decades of advocacy for animals.

Today, the Missouri House of Representatives voted 85 to 71 to...

The Humane Society of the United States' Animal Rescue Team saves thousands of animals a year from neglect, puppy mills, animal fighting, and cruelty. But our work doesn't begin or end with removing animals from dire conditions. We also work with local law enforcement to help investigate allegations of cruelty...

Godaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons has convinced himself that he's a humanitarian. I think he's got a long way to go before he lives up to that self-billing. He's in the news today because he traveled to Zimbabwe recently to shoot an elephant for a trophy and then released a

Today, The Humane Society of the United States' animal rescue team is on the scene of a 44-acre property in rural Arizona, where The HSUS responded to a call from the Apache County Sheriff's Department to assist in a large-scale animal hoarding rescue (see photos from the rescue...