• 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"

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."

"It is our hope that the information that this Bulletin offers will contribute to reducing both forms of violence."

1. To provide database information on animal cruelty cases.
2. 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.
3. To educate the public about the realities of animal abuse, and the connection between animal cruelty and violence against humans in society.
4. To promote a loving and responsible relationship between humans and animals.
5. To encourage everyone to take animal cruelty seriously.
6. To monitor and review reports of animal cruelty from across the country.
7. To assist legislators and activists in communities throughout the United States as they seek to enact and strengthen anticruelty laws.
8. To provide alerts, petitions and pending legislation information
9. To provide the public with US cruelty laws.

"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.  "

1. To increase public awareness of the animal cruelty/human violence connection 
2. To encourage everyone to take animal cruelty seriously 
3. 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) 
4. To monitor and review reports of animal cruelty from across the country. 
5. To assist legislators and activists in communities throughout the United States as they seek to enact and strengthen anti-cruelty laws. 
6. To promote the standardization of animal-cruelty reporting and tracking. 
7. To educate and train people regarding the connection between animal cruelty and violence in society. 
8. To provide real-time information for use in research for the general public 
9. 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. 
10. To collect data through user-feedback which can be used to determine the public's views on local laws and sentencing for animal abusers 
11. 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 
12. To provide helpful materials and resources for shelters so that they can create their own community education programs 
13. To promote a loving and responsible relationship between humans and animals "

• We will research cruelty cases for you for legitimate purposes. 
• We will provide students with information regarding animal cruelty for their school reports. We do ask that you agree to credit us with the research in your project. Provide us with your questions and we will do our best to answer them for you. 
• We will help you find the necessary people to report animal cruelty to assist in getting a case into court. 
• We will assist any animal advocacy organization in regard to a potential adopter, to see if that potential adopter may possibly have been convicted of animal cruelty."