Category: Animal Rights & Environment

As with in-person contests, online wildlife killing contests award cash and prizes for the most, biggest or smallest animals killed. Photo by the HSUS

The Humane Society of the United States has helped make significant progress in ending wildlife killing contests, in which contestants massacre large numbers of coyotes, foxes, bobcats and other wild animals for cash prizes. Seven states now ban such contests and we are working with . . . 

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Our secret shopper bought Jasper (pictured above) at a Florence, Kentucky, Petland store. The manager falsely told our secret shopper that he was perfectly healthy and had been tested for campylobacter. We immediately took Jasper to an independent veterinarian who diagnosed him with campylobacter, giardia and other ailments. Photo by the HSUS

U.S. health authorities have conclusively linked numerous human cases of campylobacteriosis—a bacterial infection with often severe and debilitating symptoms—to infected puppies sold in several Petland pet stores. Today we filed a petition with the Consumer Product Safety Commission asking it to require that pet stores . . . 

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