In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the...

We aren’t big enough to handle the magnitude of this crisis.

some shelters don’t take [pets], and that is really a major problem.

People are frantically calling and telling us their cat is on the third floor of an apartment in New Orleans, or their horses were left in a pasture.

There’s no shortcut to long-term reform.

The scale of this takes your breath away, it buckles your knees,

The evacuation of New Orleans doomed these animals to a fate of dehydration and starvation. We rescued people, but we left their pets behind to die. Amazingly, we are finding more alive every day, but...

I think (the storms) have crystallized this issue for the public.

We need the federal government to say that, when it doesn’t conflict with human needs, federal responders can rescue animals and cooperate

We alone at the Humane Society of the United States, through our 1-800 number, logged 1,500 calls from people who lived in New Orleans and said they left their pets there,

Given the industry’s reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA’s failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, … Transporting farm animals for...

We want a policy that says the federal and state and local responders should actively assist in animal rescue.

Animals are trapped by the thousands in their homes, and the clock is ticking.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Ford Motor Company for being part of the solution, working for humane and sensible treatment of America’s majestic wild horses.

You think you’re getting the best of the best. What you’re getting is oftentimes a very sick animal with genetic defects who came from a puppy mill.

They simply misjudged how long they’d be gone. They left food for a couple of days, and now of course, people won’t be able to enter for months.

Most ethical hunters see that as an objectionable way to act. This is not hunting, it is an open-air abattoir (slaughterhouse).

We can point to some success here, but there are many more failures.

There were millions of Americans focused on animal welfare issues in the wake of the disaster, and we also know the bungled federal response to the animal crisis undermined the effectiveness of the human rescue...

We’d advise him to pursue a less violent form of relaxation and get on with the important business of leading the country.

Who would have thought they won’t be able to pump water out for 90 days? Who would have thought New Orleans would be depopulated?

We ship 300 out in a day and get 400 in.

[While Hurricane Katrina’s impact on people remains a] national and international trauma, … the animal situation is another massive saga that’s still unfolding.

We think the felony penalty will deter people from trying to go to a cockfight,

They just need the cue to go ahead and do it and help before it’s too late. We have literally now just a few days left.

I can’t for the life of me see any issue here.

We have been playing Russian roulette with our food supply for years by allowing these downer animals into the food chain, … This much-needed legislation will codify a temporary administrative ban on the processing of...

We have left out tens of thousands of pounds of food and water to extend their lives.

Wizard of Claws is using dishonest, underhanded sales tactics to dupe its customers into supporting the cruel trade in puppy mill dogs. Thanks to the Internet, this operation is distributing puppy mill dogs not just...

Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they indirectly deny suitable homes for animals in need. There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals available from shelters...

That rate of mortality and illness is absolutely unconscionable.

It was obviously worse than anyone imagined.

If you don’t account for the pets in disaster, you undermine the effectiveness of the human rescue operation.

Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don’t like to see the Vice President of the U.S. providing...

The clock is really ticking. It’s tearing us up knowing that so many animals are in need and [we] can’t get to every one on our own.

We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in by state and federal authorities for the first several days. We’ve received 2,000 e-mails and phone...

We don’t believe that agriculture should be reduced entirely to matters of economics and efficiency. When you’re dealing with living creatures, there are ethical questions that ultimately must be confronted.

The Humane Society of the United States has planned and trained for this sort of catastrophe for years, … We issued warnings asking people to evacuate with their pets since we’ve seen what happens when...

People were staying because they wouldn’t leave their animals.

There are thousands of cases of people who stayed, and they’re at risk because of federal and state policy. We’re troubled emotionally by the failures.

The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive.