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American
Humane Association
"Today, American Humane is still at the forefront
of the humane
movement, providing leadership in creating a more compassionate society
through its efforts in:
- Advocating on the federal, state and local
levels for laws that protect
children and animals from abuse and neglect
- Identifying and implementing best
practices
for addressing critical
issues, such as our Getting to Zero initiative to end the euthanasia of
healthy and treatable animals
- Building a stronger foundation for a
humane
society by educating teachers,
legislators and the public on humane issues
- Establishing and operating the National
Resource Center on the Link®
Between Violence to People and Animals and the National Center on
Family
Group Decision Making, an innovative process for protecting children
and
strengthening families
- Exploring and promoting the value,
significance and profound power of
the human animal bond"
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American
Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
This site has extensive resources for animal
lovers and those concerned
about animal cruelty. |
Animal
Abuse Prevention Agency
"Animal Abuse Prevention Agency, Inc. is a
non-profit organization
which takes a pro-active approach in preventing cruelty to animals. Our
services cover educating pet owners on the dangers of giving their
animals
away by using "free to good home ads". In addition, AAPA does pet
adoptions,
pet rescue, provides veterinarian services when needed, works for the
enforcement
of animal rights, provides temporary care for pets without a home,
performs
grooming, and supplies food for pet nutrition. AAPA has an active
spay/neuter
program which has prevented hundreds of unwanted animals from being
born.
The program also educates pet owners on the health benefits to their
animals
of a spay/neuter program as well as the importance of stopping pet
overpopulation."
Quoted from the site. |
Animal
Cruelty: Misdemeanor or Felony?
This is a site for activists who want to know what
is being done
to prevent animal cruelty in their state. |
Animal
Protection Institute
"Welcome to API's online resource for information
and activism on
a wide variety of animal protection issues and campaigns." |
Big Cat
Rescue
"MISSION STATEMENT To provide the best home
we can for the
animals in our care and to reduce the number of cats that suffer the
fate
of abuse, abandonment or extinction by teaching people about the plight
of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity, and how they can help
through
their behavior and support of better laws to protect the cats. " |
Circuses.com
"For animals in circuses, there is no such thing
as �positive reinforcement��only
varying degrees of punishment and deprivation. Animals do not
voluntarily
ride bicycles, stand on their heads, or jump through rings of fire.
They
don�t perform these and other difficult tricks because they want to;
they
perform because they�re afraid not to." |
The Humane
Society of the United
States (HSUS
"The mission of The HSUS is to create a humane and
sustainable world
for all animals�a world that will also benefit people. We seek to forge
a
lasting and comprehensive change in human consciousness of and behavior
toward all animals in order to prevent animal cruelty, exploitation,
and
neglect, and to protect wild habitats and the entire community of life.
The HSUS seeks to achieve our goals through
education, advocacy,
public policy reform, and the empowerment of our supporters and
partners.
We do not engage in or support actions that are illegal or violent, or
that run counter to the basic principles of compassion and respect for
others."
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Juvenile
Justice Bulletin -- Animal Abuse and Youth Violence
"The abuse of sentient creatures demands our
attention. The Bulletin
includes recommendations to curb such cruelty, while providing contact
information for additional resources concerned with violence
perpetrated
against animals and people.
"It is our hope that the information that this
Bulletin offers will
contribute to reducing both forms of violence."
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Keepers
of the Wild Nature
Park
Wildlife sanctuary in Arizona |
National
Animal Abuse Registry
Our Goals:
- To provide database information on animal
cruelty cases.
- To help animal adoption agencies use the
website as a clearinghouse
for verifying if a potential adopter may have abused an animal in
another
state and is now trying to adopt from that agency.
- To educate the public about the realities
of
animal abuse, and the connection
between animal cruelty and violence against humans in society.
- To promote a loving and responsible
relationship between humans and
animals.
- To encourage everyone to take animal
cruelty
seriously.
- To monitor and review reports of animal
cruelty from across the country.
- To assist legislators and activists in
communities throughout the United
States as they seek to enact and strengthen anticruelty laws.
- To provide alerts, petitions and pending
legislation information
- To provide the public with US cruelty laws.
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Open
Directory Links
Links to major U.S. animal rights organizations. |
Peace River
Refuge and Ranch
"Peace River Refuge & Ranch is a nonprofit
exotic animal sanctuary,
fully licensed and accredited by the American Sanctuary Association
(ASA)
and Member Society of the World Society for the Protection of Animals
(WSPA).
We are fully licensed by the State of Florida, USDA, US Fish &
Wildlife.
"The sanctuary is dedicated to the lifetime
care of abused, neglected,
confiscated or unwanted exotic animals to prevent them from being
destroyed.
The animals that we rescue range from big cats such as tigers, cougars
and leopards to wolves, bears, primates, smaller cats and more. "
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People for the
Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA)
"PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in
which the largest
numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of
time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in
the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues,
including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and
the
abuse of backyard dogs." |
Pet-Abuse.com
"Goals
- To increase public awareness of the animal
cruelty/human violence connection
- To encourage everyone to take animal
cruelty
seriously
- To provide a database enabling animal
adoption
agencies to research
potential adopters for possible prior abuse history within and across
state
and national lines (AARDAS)
- To monitor and review reports of animal
cruelty from across the country.
- To assist legislators and activists in
communities throughout the United
States as they seek to enact and strengthen anti-cruelty laws.
- To promote the standardization of
animal-cruelty reporting and tracking.
- To educate and train people regarding the
connection between animal
cruelty and violence in society.
- To provide real-time information for use
in
research for the general
public
- To provide the technical tools and
networking
to allow animal agencies
across the globe to be able to share information and enter their cases
in one unified global database, and to pro-actively encourage and
support
those agencies to use the tools available to them.
- To collect data through user-feedback
which
can be used to determine
the public's views on local laws and sentencing for animal abusers
- To provide the Humane Society, the ASPCA,
and
other organizations with
real-time data to do sophisticated comparisons and reporting such as:
determining
areas of the country that need more preventative measures such as
education,
determining age groups that are the highest risk
- To provide helpful materials and resources
for
shelters so that they
can create their own community education programs
- To promote a loving and responsible
relationship between humans and
animals "
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Stop Animal Abuse
"You may think your part is too small to matter,
but, believe me,
every little effort from every single person counts. Educate our future
generation, show them the website, explain the pain and suffering men
put
them through, guide them. Make a start, now." |
U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service
This web site describes the efforts of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife
Service to protect endangered species. |
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Freedom Village Resources
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