Maybe you were taken aback to discover that dogs are often mistreated for human amusements (like silly pictures and online videos). But the harm doesn’t stop there.  Sadly, many dogs and other animals are harmed on a daily basis.

• Blinded by Science: funded research on dogs continues – despite critiques and questions about both its scientific validity and moral justifiability. Research and animal testing continues in all sectors, from health and medicine to household and cosmetic products.
• Animal cruelty, strongly correlated with other crimes of violence, is widely under-reported.
• Dogs for Sale: About half of all adoptable dogs who end up in animal shelters are killed because no one adopts them while “designer dogs” are bred and sold for specific aesthetics and breed traits, whether for purebred or hybrid mixes.

What you can do:

• Choose to adopt when it’s time to add a companion animal to your family
• Choose cruelty-free products that are not tested on animals
• Speak out  and organize to stop puppy mills
• Get involved in  legal advocacy for animals to help stop animal cruelty
• Don’t forget: millions of other animals – like  farm animals – also suffer every day.  Meal choices matter.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy ” ~ Jane Goodall