Friends of Animals

10/07/2025

Giving Day for Apes is today! Please help Primarily Primates reach their $35,000 goal so they can build a new enclosure for chimps Herbie, Jackson, Emma, and CJ ❤️
https://www.givingdayforapes.org/organization/Sanctuary-Primarily-Primates

10/03/2025

10/02/2025

Less than one week away!

10/02/2025

Many wild animals instinctively know that winter brings a scarcity of resources, so they are busy eating as much food as they can so they can build up an extra layer of fat. For many species it’s also time to find warm safe dens. Others, such as deer, are engaged in mating.

Unfortunately, all this activity in October, November and December also coincides with human animals driving more in the dark due to less hours of daylight. That’s why they are the most dangerous months for animal-related collisions, accounting for an estimated 650,000 incidents, according to State Farm.

It’s up to us to prevent collisions with wildlife. Read our tips here to keep our wildlife (and you!!!) safe ❤️
https://friendsofanimals.org/in-our-view-slow-down-to-safeguard-wildlife-on-the-move-in-autumn/

09/30/2025

Jeers to Virginia officials for expanding the 2025-26 hunting season to include the state’s newest park. Virginia’s Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) will offer a hunt on Dec. 1 & 2 at Machicomoco State Park 👎

📢 If you think Machicomoco’s wild residents deserve better, help us sound off: tell officials to call off this hunt! You can reach the park directly at [email protected]. Or you can contact DCA Director, Matthew Wells by calling 804-786-6124 or sending an email to [email protected].

https://friendsofanimals.org/keep-hunting-out-of-virginias-newest-state-park/

09/29/2025

The war against the fur industry might be animal advocates’ most successful campaign to stop animal exploitation ever, as the industry has slowly and steadily imploded over the last few decades—with designers routinely dropping the use of fur, retailers refusing to sell it and consumers increasingly refusing to buy it.

However, for better and/or worse, the look of fur is alive and well, especially as the technology to produce synthetic fur garments has been perfected to the point where it’s hard to tell the difference between faux and the real thing—a confusing problem animal advocates, perhaps, did not anticipate as we all celebrated their creation.

At the same time, vintage clothing is having a moment because consumers are switching to more environmentally friendly, less consumptive buying habits. But it also has undesired consequences: the fur trade is exploiting this shift by promoting the reuse of fur garments. Read more here! https://friendsofanimals.org/vintage-fur-tries-to-create-distance-from-cruelty-but-dead-is-dead/

09/26/2025

Cheers to the federal judge who, earlier this week, temporarily overturned Donald Trump’s hasty order to shut down the northeast’s nearly complete offshore wind farm.

The project, dubbed Revolution Wind, works toward a 704MW capacity wind farm under assembly in New London, Connecticut. It was 80% finished when work was abruptly halted on August 22nd.

It’s insane to shutter any 80% complete project. But it’s especially unreasonable to cite animal welfare concerns when the presented alternative is fossil fuels.

Read more here!

https://friendsofanimals.org/cheers-order-to-halt-offshore-wind-project-temporarily-overturned/

09/24/2025

Friends of Animals was miffed—yet not surprised—to see an ad circulating online promoting the start of deer bow hunting season in our backyard of Darien, Connecticut.

The ad not only tells the marauders how to obtain licenses and how to find registered hunting properties; it calls for property hunters to register their own land, granting bow hunters access. The message is clear: if you take offense to helpless deer trying to survive in ever shrinking habitats, you can just as easily call in a deer killer who will ambush and pump an unsuspecting deer full of arrows—running after the bleeding animal for two miles before it drops and has its throat cut by the hunter.

It’s important to call these endeavors out for what they are: repulsive killing under the guise of “management.” Read more at the link!

Friends of Animals was miffed—yet not surprised—to see an ad circulating online promoting the start of deer bow hunting season in our backyard of Darien, Connecticut. The ad not only tells the marauders how to obtain licenses and how to find registered hunting properties; it calls for property h...

09/23/2025

As we humans celebrate the start of fall, bears are already preparing for the next season. Keep yourself, your property, and our precious bears safe by doing your part to mitigate bear-human interactions. Read more here!
https://friendsofanimals.org/what-bears-are-doing-in-the-fall-and-what-to-do-to-protect-them/

09/22/2025

09/18/2025

FoA was featured in Ed Bok's most recent article, Charity for Sale, which shines light on ASPCA's controversies

"I’ve watched the ASPCA transform into what most of the NYC animal community regards as a fundraising organization,” observed Priscilla Feral, when asked for a quote in investigative reporter Ed Bok’s recent exposé, Charity for Sale.

“Their influence is largely seen on TV, not among the people doing prevention, rescue, or street-level lifesaving work,” Feral concluded, and Bok’s essay concurred.

In Charity for Sale, Bok pulls back the curtain on the ASPCA who, according to Bok, has amassed an enormous financial infrastructure all while animals in vulnerable areas (like NYC), according to whistleblowers, aren’t seeing the benefits of such.

Citing an independent financial review, Bok argues that while fundraising and branding have continued to soar, local shelters and other animal-dedicated services—that ASPCA’s mission is intended to support—seriously lag behind.
For the full, shocking story about the ASPCA’s fortune and the forgotten animals, read more on Bok’s Substack linked here.

Whistleblowers Reveal How the ASPCA Amassed a Financial Empire, While NYC’s Animals Were Left Behind