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11/19/2025

11/19/2025

Woo hoo

Thank you to the City of Golden Valley, MN for passing a Humane Pet Store Ordinance tonight! They're the 15th city in the state to take a stand and say they will not allow the sale of puppies from puppy mills in their stores 👏

They join Roseville, Eden Prairie, St. Paul, Carver, Cloquet, Minneapolis, C**n Rapids, Columbia Heights, Maple Grove, Oak Grove Park, Edina, Osseo, Shoreview, and Lino Lakes. Who will be the next city to protect dogs?

11/19/2025

Here is an important story:
Before you think about putting poison out for a stray cat or tossing a rock at a hungry animal in your yard, take one more look at this photo.
A tiny kitten, barely old enough to survive on its own, curls up next to the remains of its mother. To the world, she’s gone. But to this kitten, she’s still comfort, still warmth, still “home.” The kitten doesn’t understand that her mother took her last breath while searching for scraps of food, trying desperately to keep her babies alive. All it knows is that mom isn’t moving… but maybe if it stays close, maybe if it waits long enough, she’ll wake up again.
This is the reality for so many animals. They don’t understand cruelty. They don’t understand neglect. They don’t understand why people chase them away, starve them, or hurt them. All they know is hunger, cold, and survival. And in moments like this, all they want is love.
You don’t have to be an “animal lover” to recognize this kind of pain. You don’t have to adopt every stray, or spend money you don’t have. But you do have the choice to be kind. Offer water. Leave scraps. Call a shelter or rescue group. Because while you may forget the stray that passed by your yard, that animal will never forget the moment someone finally showed them compassion.
This kitten’s story struck hearts all over the world, because it’s not just about animals — it’s about humanity. About remembering that life, no matter how small or voiceless, has value.
💔 The lesson? You don’t have to love animals. But you don’t have the right to hurt them. And sometimes, the smallest act of kindness can mean the difference between despair and survival.

11/19/2025

"RESPONSIBLE BREEDERS"

Many people know to avoid puppy mills and "backyard" breeders.
But many kind individuals fall prey to the picket-fence appeal of so-called "responsible" breeders and fail to recognize that no matter how kindly a breeder treats his or her animals, as long as dogs and cats are dying in animal shelters and pounds because of a lack of homes,
no breeding can be considered "responsible."

All breeders fuel the animal overpopulation crisis, and every time someone purchases a puppy or a kitten instead of adopting from an animal shelter, homeless animals lose their chance of finding a home—and will be euthanized. Many breeders don't require every puppy or kitten to be spayed or neutered prior to purchase, so the animals they sell can soon have litters of their own, creating even more animals to fill homes that could have gone to animals from shelters—or who will end up in animal shelters or so-called "no-kill" animal warehouses themselves.

Simply put, for every puppy or kitten who is deliberately produced by any breeder, atleast one animal in an animal shelter dies. Producing animals for sale is a greedy and callous business in a world in which there is a critical and chronic shortage of good homes for dogs, cats, and other animals, and the only "responsible breeders" are those who, upon learning about how they contribute to the overpopulation crisis, spay or neuter their animals and get out of the business altogether.

11/18/2025

Dear Editor: I urge your newsroom to shine a light on the urgent need to fully close Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin and ensure the release of all remaining beagles to

11/18/2025

🚩 Lethal dose tests force animals to swallow, inhale, or absorb massive doses of chemicals until most are dying or dead—those who survive are killed.

Science has come a long way in the past century, and it's time that laws caught up. ⚖️

Learn more about our campaign and how you can help in our blog post ➡️ https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/lethal-dose-animal-tests

11/18/2025

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11/18/2025

Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through.
Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs.
Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible. Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season in which the world takes on a sparse beauty and even the pavements sparkle.
It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order.
Doing those deeply unfashionable things; slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting ...

🖋️Katherine May
🎨Lisa Aisato

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11/17/2025

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