Humane Society of the United States News

The Walthall County Sheriff's Department along with The Humane Society of the United States are in the process of raiding a puppy mill with approximately 80-100 dogs, living and dead, on Magee Hill Road outside of Tylertown.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week is May 19-25 and Janice Minnix, Boones Mill postmaster, is reminding pet owners to help prevent the hazard of dog attacks.

Three to four million dogs and cats are put to sleep in animal shelters across the United States each year.

The HSUS has been accused of sending less than one percent of its funds to animal shelters, a charge that a spokesman in 2012 would not deny.

Over the years the USDA has cited zoo owners Gus and Betty White for a wide range of violations to include failing to safely handle animals, failure to provide adequate veterinarian care and cages holding dangerous animals lacking structural integrity.

Three years after Missourians voted to crack down on disreputable dog breeding operations, the Show-Me State continues to lead the nation in the number of dangerous and unsanitary puppy mills.

State Senator Todd Gardenhire told members of the Pachyderm Club on Monday that the Humane Society of the United States got in late on the fight against the "Ag-Gag" bill.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday vetoed a controversial "ag-gag" bill that some feared would hinder the exposure or investigation of animal cruelty.

A national report called " A Horrible Hundred: Problem Puppy Mills in the United States "from the Humane Society of the United States list problem puppy mills.

STATE HOUSE -The Humane Society of the United States recently awarded Rep. Patricia A. Serpa and Rhode Island Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio as Rhode Island's Humane State Legislators for 2012.

The Texas House of Representatives passed H.B.852 to prohibit the sale, trade, purchase and transportation of shark fins in Texas.

The Atchison, Kan., Sheriff's Office seized cougars, bobcats, a tiger and other animals from a home in a rural area.

This week, we've got John Goodwin, the Director of Animal Cruelty Policy at The Humane Society of the United States and Laura Donahue, the Virginia Director of the HSUS.

PROTECT THE HARVEST COUNTERS HSUS' CLAIMS May 10, 2013 BrownfieldAgNews reports: It's important that farmers tell their own story.

Chickens crammed into wire cages next to the rotting carcasses of other chickens.

WMDT 47 NEWS - In the final part of our in-depth report on online puppy mills, WMDT takes you halfway across the country, where an investigative news crew confronts a convicted puppy mill owner, selling dogs to unsuspecting buyers, under the guise of a pet rescue.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's testing revealed that at the 2012 National Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville,145 horses out of 190 tested, or 76 percent, were found positive for foreign substanes, the Humane Society of the United States said.

The president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States answered hard-hitting allegations leveled against the organization Wednesday.

WMDT 47 NEWS - If you love animals and are thinking of either buying, adopting, or rescuing a dog...in a 3-part special report WMDT tells you why you should never buy a dog online.

The Humane Society of the United States, Big Cat Rescue based in Florida, and others like them have been leading the way in the fight to ban private ownership of big cats as pets for quite some time.