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The of the United States Annual Report 2010 [ Table of Contents ]

[ 2010 Key Accomplishments ] In Their Words

8 34 22 HSUS animal care centers provide emergency treatment and “This is a subject sanctuary to nearly 16,000 animals, while our veterinary clinics and experts rescue and treat thousands more that I am extremely passionate about. By Federal bills to strengthen shark finning ban and working together, we prohibit crush videos are signed into law can find good homes for millions of adopt- Five HSUS undercover investigations expose horrific able, homeless, and abuses at industrial egg, pork, and turkey facilities abandoned .”

—Ellen DeGeneres, a longtime HSUS supporter Humane Society International launches a ground- who worked with us to provide 1 million servings of Halo food to shelter animals during the Postal breaking initiative in Haiti, including spay/neuter, Service’s Stamps to the Rescue campaign disaster response, and veterinary training programs

HSUS teams deploy to 51 emergency rescues, saving nearly “I was troubled to Compassionate Farmer: Bruce Hero for Puppies: After seeing for The Accidental Activist: When 11,000 animals from puppy mills, animal fighting operations, learn from my friends Rickard, who pays special attention herself the inside of a and Cristin Tank and her family saw and egregious neglect at The Humane to animal behavior on his farm and learning where her own beloved the cruel activities next door, Society of the United lets chickens be free to express their came from, Amanda Hearst helped raise they didn’t stay silent, helping Ohio agriculture leaders agree to a landmark set States about the “chicken-ness,” has joined the fight $1 million for The HSUS’s campaign bring an end to fox and coyote of farm reforms practice of confining against extreme confinement practices. against mass breeding facilities. penning in Florida. egg-laying hens in Protecting Farm Animals: Page 8 Shutting Down Puppy Mills: Page 34 Protecting Wildlife: Page 22 98 pro-animal state laws and regulations are tiny cages. … Turning enacted, including the nation’s first ban on the these defenseless Protecting Our Best Friends...... 14 Providing Sanctuary & Healing...... 38 Outreach...... 42 sale of whole eggs animals into egg-producing machines Ending Animal Fighting...... 30 Advancing Humane Science...... 40 How You Can Help...... 43 with no consideration for their welfare Hellmann’s mayonnaise pledges to convert all 350 million eggs whatsoever is a degradation of our it uses annually to cage-free, while Kraft Foods, Walmart, Subway, own humanity.” —The Dalai Lama Burger King, IHOP, and other major companies decrease their Exposed!10 purchases of eggs from caged hens If you’re not already anti-factory “When I found farming, this will do it: The Humane The federal Truth in Fur Labeling Act is out that the last enacted, following years of lobbying, lawsuits, remaining herds are Society just released an undercover being rounded up and exposés of mislabeled and unlabeled investigation. … The video pretty Transformations: Underneath a mass of filth-caked, as we speak, this fur-trimmed garments by The HSUS much leaves me speechless. impenetrable fur, this dog, long confined to the garage just seemed unten- of a Carriere, Miss., puppy mill, was all bones. Saved by able. I consider them —Food writer and New York Times the HSUS Animal Rescue Team, Boomer is actually not The HSUS combats Gulf Coast pet overpopulation through the living symbols Magazine columnist Mark Bittman brown but a mostly white dog with gray patches. See innovative outreach programs and funding assistance for of independence more transformations in Rescuing Animals: Page 4. three spay/neuter clinics and freedom—sort of what this whole country was built on.” Florida prohibits fox and coyote penning —Actress Wendie Malick, a supporter On the Cover: Responding to a request from the Fallon County Sheriff’s Office in Montana, the HSUS Animal Rescue Team removed nearly operations in which packs of are set of HSUS efforts to end wild horse 100 animals, including this , from an overcrowded property in July. Taken to an emergency shelter, they were later transported to agencies roundups and horse slaughter around the country for adoption. loose on captive wildlife [ From the President ]

ur 2010 annual report is a compendium of the problems facing animals, but it is also a chronicle of our efforts to turn the O situation around. It is painful to confront cruelty, but none of us should be bystanders in the face of the current crisis for animals. We must do something about it, and The HSUS exists to exert the collective power of millions of people of conscience to show a better way for the whole of society. The task is immense because there are so many varieties of animal harm and exploitation—in the realms of agriculture, animal research and testing, fashion, and , as well as in more modest areas of commerce and entertainment that involve the use of so many animals. Because the animals have no voice, we must act as their surrogates and call others to a more honorable and decent standard of care for creatures less powerful than ourselves. Our challenge is compounded by the resistance of our political adversaries, who are often not only wedded to the status quo but also well-equipped to defend their positions in the political domain. Only through Building Humane Communities: In 2011, HSUS programs have continued to combat root causes of animal suffering. At a recent Only through determined, multipronged, and strategic action can we End Dogfighting in Chicago event, volunteer Angela Love-Bradford (right) helped owners sign their dogs up for free determined, overcome these many roadblocks and make animals’ lives better, bringing vaccinations, training classes, and spay/neuter surgeries. At another April event, The HSUS worked with local church leaders multipronged, us all, step by step, closer to creating a humane society. to provide vaccinations and other services for pets of families in underserved areas. and strategic We must of course focus on the crises right in front of us, and we do. There’s no time to waste because animals are homeless, in distress, or in We’ve not yet shut down Canada’s seal hunt, but we It’s part of our effort to throw back the curtain on animal action can fighting pits right now. That’s why The HSUS has developed so many capabili- are methodically closing down markets for sealskins and abuse, and to call the good people of America to act on we overcome ties to provide hands-on care for animals in need—through our five animal diminishing the commercial value of the pelts, making their conscience. care centers, our veterinary services programs, our disaster response work, the whole enterprise for the sealers and the government And person by person, we are spreading the message— these many and our emergency deployments in cases of cruelty and neglect. In 2010, we of Canada a losing proposition. Through these efforts, to young people in urban communities, to people of roadblocks provided direct care and relief to about 100,000 animals, putting our assets we are saving hundreds of thousands of seal pups every faith, to law enforcement officials, to political leaders, to use in so many areas where local communities do not have the resources year, and we’ll not relent until the job is finished once and even to corporate leaders involved in industries that and make or the expertise to step in and provide relief where needed. and for all. must find a new pathway animals’ lives But if that’s all we did, we would be failing in our mission. Our great So much of our mission Person by person, we are spreading the to conduct their business better, bringing charge must be to prevent cruelty. If we only come to the aid of animals involves exposing abuse or entertainment. already injured, left homeless, or otherwise in distress, we will expend all and holding it up to the message—to young people in urban There’s no group in us all closer of our resources attacking the symptoms of the problem. We must expand light of day, reminding peo- communities, to people of faith, to law the world like The HSUS. to creating a our efforts to strike at the root causes of cruelty, so that animals don’t get ple that the mistreatment of It brings more capabilities, in trouble in the first place. animals violates the stan- enforcement officials, to political leaders, more know-how, and humane society. Take, for instance, our successful effort in Missouri to pass Prop B, a ballot dards and ideals of our and even to corporate leaders involved more urgency to the measure to crack down on puppy mills. There are 3,000 mills in the state, with civil society. In 2010, The fight for animals than perhaps 200,000 breeding animals and up to 1 million puppies churned out HSUS conducted five major in industries that must find a new any group ever has. each year by these large-scale breeders. If we just rescued the discards or came exposés of factory farm- pathway to conduct their business. As we press forward on to the aid of extreme cases of cruelty, we’d be chasing our tail. We need to ing, investigating some of so many fronts, we need put all of the bad operators out of business through the force of law, and to the largest companies in your help more than ever. set up humane standards of care for those breeders who decide they’ll play agribusiness and exposing their extreme and callous con- We are grateful for all you do for us, and your continued VISIT WAYNE’S BLOG by the rules. It’s more efficient and, in the long run, it’s better for animals finement of animals raised for food. Factory farming is an support will allow us to expand our efforts to usher in humanesociety.org/wayne that we work on the front end—otherwise, we’d face a never-ending tide example of human creativity and innovation divorced from changes for animals that we’ve worked so long to achieve. of animals and burn though all of our resources with no end in sight. conscience. We are reminding the American public about Similarly, we also work at the federal level to combat systemic abuses of the need to sync our economic institutions and our com- animals. Each year, 73 million sharks are killed globally for their fins, used mercial practices with our values and ideals. as an ingredient in soup. By strengthening our federal law to ban finning, Last year, we also exposed the archaic practice of bear baiting in South Carolina, plus cockfighting in Texas as well as working in international circles to curb the industry, we are helping Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO to prevent the gruesome killing of so many of these creatures. and so many other cruel practices throughout the nation. The Humane Society of the United States

2 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 3 [ Rescuing Animals ]

11,000 animals are saved by the Animal Rescue Team in 51 emergency rescues involving animal fighting operations, puppy mills, hoarding cases, and other abusive situations

3,380+ reports are fielded by animal cruelty experts, who also advise law enforcement agencies in more than 365 cases

A $250,000 grant for large-scale animal rescue operations is awarded to The HSUS for being voted a top cause in the Pepsi Refresh online contest

1,300 animal protection professionals and volunteers participate in disaster response training

Humane Society International provides disaster relief for animals in partnership with local groups in Haiti, China, , and Chile

After seeing the absolute squalor these people and animals lived in, you can’t help but feel anything but sorrow for both. But then you get to see the whole ordeal come to an end, and you see the compassion the animals get from the staff and the volunteers, and it really does make the overload of sights, smells, sounds, and emotions you’ve experienced over the last eight hours worthwhile.

­—Photographer Bradly Boner on bearing witness to an HSUS rescue of 157 from a Wyoming home and their subsequent emergency care A month after saving this Montana cat and nearly 100 other animals, The HSUS’s Adam Parascandola headed west again for back-to-back rescues of about 250 more. “It’s probably the first time a lot of these cats have actually breathed outside air,” Park County prosecutor Bryan Skoric said during a Wyoming seizure.

4 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 5 To the Rescue

When HSUS rescuers first laid eyes on the dog now known as Chunk, he was standing on a layer of feces and trash, in The good fight (opposite, clockwise from the front room of a bug-infested house in rural Mississippi top left): Jean is one of many pit bulls (above, left). The floor was so deep in filth, it squished when The HSUS’s Chris Schindler has transported responders walked on it. to safety. The efforts are “all worth it when Throughout a long, rainy day, teams removed 181 animals you get those dogs loaded on the truck and from the property belonging to a hoarder masquerading as a out of there,” he says. Read more on . Many of them were malnourished and plagued fighting: p. 30. by worms and skin infections. After a long trip north on the HSUS rig, Chunk was taken A desperate scene: Spurred by the sight in and treated by the Washington Animal Rescue League. of starving animals, West Virginia state director These days, he looks like a different dog (above, right)— Summer Wyatt fights for better laws. Her “more basset-y in the snout,” says adopter Dan Metcalf, allies include Wayne County’s Gary Michels, noting that when he and his wife first got Chunk, his face who won a Humane Law Enforcement Award was swollen and misshapen from skin disease and medications. for prosecuting cruelty. Read more on equine protection: p. 20. The dog’s affable nature has helped bring out the best in his new playmate, Daisy, a rescued boxer. “They balance each Inside a hoarding case: An HSUS collaboration other out really well,” Metcalf says. “She was isolated; she with North Star Rescue and A&E’s Hoarders was tied up in a backyard. … He’s very much a go-getter and resulted in a poignant portrayal of the plight friendly, and she’s kind of shy and jumpy, but they both sort of 2,000 rats and their overwhelmed owner. of bring each other to the center.” Read more on HSUS outreach: p. 42. Happy endings are common following rescues by The HSUS. Puppy factory: Opening the door to Gayla’s Once chained at dogfighting operations, pit bulls like Abby Poodle Palace engulfed White County, Tenn., will never have to fight again. Fostered by a Casa Del Toro sheriff Oddie Shoupe with a suffocating stench. Education & Rescue volunteer named Holly, Abby “And that’s when I called for The Humane befriended Holly’s grandfather during his hospice stay. Society of the United States because I knew “Grandpa would have them mark on the calendar when we had more than I could handle.” Read more Abby would come back for the next visit,” reports the group’s on puppy mills: p. 34. director, Laurie Adams. Now living permanently with Holly, the dog is enjoying her newfound purpose in life: as a family pet.

6 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS 2010 Annual Report | 7 [ Protecting Farm Animals ]

5 undercover investigations reveal endemic cruelties and food safety concerns at U.S. factory farms

California is first state to ban sales of whole battery cage eggs, while major companies such as Kraft Foods commit to dramatically increase their cage-free purchases

Ohio agriculture leaders agree to phase out or limit the worst confinement systems

A federal court rules against foie gras producer for Clean Water Act violations

The USDA announces stronger oversight of the federal humane slaughter law

Cruelty charges stemming from an HSUS 2009 investigation result in conviction of a former co-owner and employee

Industrial farms are not a step forward. Somewhere along the line, animals became machines, and cogs in machines. They’re replaceable parts; when a chicken dies in a cage, you pluck it out and stick another one in. Same thing with a hog. We don’t operate that way. We still practice traditional forms of husbandry. We know about animal behavior, and we have a long-standing relationship with these animals. —Bruce Rickard, an Ohio farmer who has joined The HSUS’s fight against extreme confinement practices

8 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report Factory Farms It makes me angry for people who buy these products in the grocery stores, Unmasked where everything is bright and clean. The barns are not bright. They’re not clean. It’s not at all what it seems.

—An HSUS undercover investigator who spent a month at a Cal-Maine Foods facility in Texas, where four “house- keepers” were expected to care for 240,000 animals each

Location: Waverly, Virginia Exposed: Industrial pig breeding facility owned by the world’s largest pork producer

At a massive pig breeding farm owned by a Smithfield Foods subsidiary, an HSUS undercover investigator documented the miserable lives of breeding sows virtually immobilized in gestation crates. Open pressure sores and untreated abscesses were common. Some animals showed compulsive swaying and head-bobbing; others chewed the cage bars until their mouths bled. Outside the crates, the animals Locations: Winterset, Stuart, Guthrie Center, Location: Willmar, Minnesota were treated roughly—struck with iron rods or even thrown into a dumpster to die. Location: Waelder, Texas and Thompson, Iowa Exposed: Largest turkey hatchery in the U.S. The widely publicized video footage hit a public nerve, Exposed: Largest egg producer Exposed: Second and third largest egg adding pressure on Smithfield and other pork producers Days before Thanksgiving, an HSUS investigation in the U.S. producers in the U.S. to end the use of gestation crates. “If you’re not already revealed the unappetizing reality behind industri- anti-factory-farming, this will do it,” wrote New York Times At Cal-Maine Foods’ million-chicken egg “I’ve seen some terrible things in my undercover experi- ally produced turkey products. Working at the Willmar Magazine columnist Mark Bittman in his blog. “… The operation, two details were inescapable: animal ence, but nothing even begins to compare to these battery Poultry Company, an investigator videotaped conveyor video leaves me pretty much speechless.” Grist food and suffering and filth. The fly infestation in one cage facilities,” says the HSUS investigator of the 25 days he belts drenched in the blood of young turkeys agriculture columnist Tom Philpott had a similar reaction, barn was so severe, says the HSUS undercover worked for Rose Acre Farms and Rembrandt Enterprises. whose toes, snoods, and beaks were cut off with concluding: “Thank goodness we have the Humane Society investigator who worked there in November, it At four facilities, he documented the cruelty typical of no anesthetic. Sick and injured hatchlings fell from acting as our eyes on the meat-factory floor.” was like “walking on Rice Krispies.” Hens and factory-style caging systems. Countless animals suffered conveyor belts and flapped helplessly for hours on eggs were covered in chicken waste that rained painful injuries and illnesses; many became trapped in cage the factory floor—until the end of the day, when down from the cages above. wire and slowly perished. Survivors didn’t fare much better. they and any surplus birds were tossed into a machine The exposé occurred in the wake of the After months of battery cage life, they were rendered that ground them up alive. nation’s largest egg recall, in which a half-billion “hollow shells” of birds, he says—scrawny, featherless, It was The HSUS’s first undercover exposé of the eggs from battery cage facilities were deemed defeated creatures ground up for chicken byproducts U.S. commercial turkey industry, which produces more at risk for salmonella contamination. The HSUS or slaughtered for low-grade meat. than 250 million birds each year. Willmar and one of ran ads reminding the public and policymakers Nearly 270 million chickens—more than 90 percent of its customers defended the abuses as standard industry that intensive confinement systems aren’t just egg-laying hens—in the U.S. are confined so tightly in barren practices. Sadly, they’re correct: Federal animal welfare cruel—they’re also a health danger. Citing cages that they can’t even spread their wings. Working with laws don’t apply to animals on the farm, enabling numerous recent studies that show a clear link family farmers and other stakeholders, The HSUS is raising businesses to treat birds as mere production units. between battery cage confinement and salmo- awareness and prompting many producers to shift to cage- The HSUS is urging the industry to adopt higher nella contamination, The HSUS filed a complaint free systems. Our investigators are the public’s eyes and standards, including more humane slaughter with the FDA about the Cal-Maine findings, ears into the conditions at the facilities of producers resistant methods, and enlisting public support for reforms. asking the agency to amend the federal egg to change, says senior director of investigations Beth “Investigations like this are shining a bright light safety rule. Says The HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger: Sweetland. “They bring the suffering out in the open.” on this very dark world of factory farming,” says “This is the science that the FDA cannot afford Says the investigator of the Iowa facilities, who spent The HSUS’s . “The more Americans learn to ignore.” weeks removing decomposing corpses from cages: “This about the routine abuses, the greater the demand isn’t in sync with how the public wants to get their eggs.” for change.”

10 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 11 [ Protecting Farm Animals ]

Justice for Abused Calves Marketplace Reform Appealing for Action Building Momentum

The calves being tormented at the Vermont Fresh from an HSUS internship and heading into her “Humane” and “happy” are increasingly popular It was an achievement “that few people would have slaughterhouse couldn’t walk or even stand. With junior year at Grand Valley State University, Lena marketing terms—the next big thing after “organic” thought possible for Ohio even just a couple years the undercover camera rolling, the newborns—many Spadacene decided to persuade the Michigan college and “fair trade,” according to one consumer behavior ago,” says Paul Shapiro, senior director of farm animal with their umbilical cords still attached—were kicked, to go cage-free. In September, she began working analyst. Trouble is, they often don’t reflect what’s protection for The HSUS: commitments by the state’s slapped, and repeatedly shocked with electric prods. with a dining services advisory group. Months passed actually happening to farm animals. So in 2010, agribusiness industry in June 2010 to phase out tiny Some were still conscious while they were skinned and nothing happened. So in February 2010, Spadacene The HSUS took action against two of the most crates for calves and pigs and to place a morato- alive or had their throats slit or heads sawed off. collected more than 1,000 student signatures and egregious perpetrators of consumer misinformation. rium on new battery cage facilities for egg-laying hens. In the months following its fall 2009 investigation, appealed directly to the head of campus dining. In June, we filed a complaint with the Federal Trade In one of the nation’s top agricultural states, where The HSUS filed a legal petition with the USDA to Within two weeks, the first cage-free egg was cracked Commission to stop Rose Acre Farms, the country’s millions of animals suffer in factory farms, The HSUS improve slaughterhouse calf-handling and oversight. on campus. second-largest egg producer, from making false and had laid the groundwork for the agreement with In December 2010, the agency announced it would “Students have way more power than they’ve been misleading animal welfare claims to consumers. And successful legislative and ballot campaigns in seven tighten rules requiring immediate humane euthanasia led to believe,” says Spadacene, who received The HSUS’s in November, The HSUS’s Animal Protection Litigation other states since 2006. And as 2010 came to a close, of downed cattle, plus appoint an ombudsman to hear Student Leadership Award for her efforts. “Do something team helped represent an HSUS member in a class Shapiro and his staff continued to build on these inspectors’ concerns. In addition, the USDA is seeking about it, because it’s possible.” action lawsuit against Perdue, alleging that the victories, gearing up for possible ballot initiatives public comments on an HSUS petition it tentatively With The HSUS’s encouragement, more than 100 company is unlawfully marketing its chicken products in Washington in 2011 and Oregon in 2012. granted to prohibit slaughter of downed calves. schools began using cage-free eggs in 2010, along with as “Humanely Raised.” Overjoyed by the Ohio reforms was unemployed- The HSUS also persuaded the Vermont attorney more than 100 restaurants, including major chains like The truth behind the foie gras served in fine salesman-turned-advocate extraordinaire David general’s office to prosecute the case. In his quest Subway, and well-known brands such as Kraft Foods, restaurants isn’t pretty either, and last year The HSUS Meadows. While gathering signatures for an HSUS-led for justice, HSUS director of animal cruelty investiga- Hellmann’s, and Sara Lee. Along with prior commitments won a major victory in a lawsuit against Hudson Valley ballot initiative preempted by the negotiations, tions Adam Parascandola counted every kick and shock from thousands of additional establishments, the Foie Gras. A judge ruled that the company, which Meadows had encountered many voters angry about in the undercover video. A co-owner and one worker changes help drive reduction in the number of products obtains its product by force-feeding ducks, had farm animal suffering, and he says that Ohio’s animal were convicted, the latter of felony cruelty—sending purchased from extreme confinement facilities. violated the federal Clean Water Act by polluting the lovers will be holding the industry to its promises. “This a message, Parascandola says, that “people care what Humane Society International also continued its Middle Mongaup River. Hudson Valley was ordered is definitely something that we’ll keep up the pressure, happens to farm animals, and these cases can be cage-free campaign abroad, winning the first pledge to fund a $50,000 environmental cleanup project, and keep pushing for what is already happening in successfully prosecuted and taken seriously.” from a restaurant in Brazil. This year, HSI hopes to plus pay $25,000 to $30,000 for each additional other states,” says Meadows, who was inspired by get the São Paulo city school system to go cage-free. day it continues to break the law. his volunteer experience to join the HSUS staff.

12 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 13 [ Protecting Our Best Friends ]

67 state laws are enacted to address pet protection issues such as spay/neuter, humane euthanasia, and antifreeze poisoning

Federal ban on crush videos—fetish films where women stomp small animals to death—is signed into law

68,000+ spay/neuter surgeries result from Spay Day events in 39 countries

58,120 dogs, cats, and equines in developing nations and underserved regions of the U.S. are sterilized or given other lifesaving care

7,076 people receive guidance to prevent pet relinquishment through Pets for Life NYC

4,173 pets are brought to free vaccination clinics and spay/neuter outreach events in Southern states

550+ veterinary professionals receive training in spay/neuter, equine treatment, and field clinic operations

We’re all aware of the overpopulation of pets, plus with the state of the economy right now, it’s obvious that people are in need of help. The HSUS has a good reputation, so it was a way to reach out to the community with a strong organization and really do some good.

—Stephen Owen, associate pastor of Shallow Well United Church of Christ in Sanford, N.C., which cohosted an October 2010 vaccine clinic and spay/neuter voucher distribution “It’s important when you’re on a fixed budget,” said one pet owner who came for a spay/neuter voucher. “We have so many dogs, we can’t afford to take them to the vet,” said another who came for the rabies vaccines. The HSUS-sponsored event in Mississippi was one of many designed to help pet owners in need.

14 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report Pioneering Spay/Neuter in Haiti and Bhutan

At first, some of the Haitians were skeptical. Like most the program had sterilized and vaccinated nearly in developing nations, they’d been trained 17,000 dogs, and it had begun training local veterinary to treat agricultural animals, not sterilize dogs. And professionals and others in the skills needed to keep while eager to learn new skills, they worried that the the work going in the years to come. knowledge would be worthless when the Westerners “Our staff are reaching into every corner,” says Sunil left and they wouldn’t have the necessary supplies to Chawla, HSI’s lead in Bhutan, describing perform the surgeries. the thrill of visiting a remote area and finding a dog Dispelling such fears was just one of the challenges with the telltale notched ear borne by beneficiaries Humane Society International faced in 2010—the first of HSI’s spay/neuter program. “They are doing very year of an ambitious animal welfare initiative in a country hard work.” that, even before the January earthquake, had not a The HSI program caught the attention single , animal protection group, or low- of animal lovers and government officials in other cost veterinary clinic. HSI teams spent months assessing nations with large street dog populations. In November, the situation, meeting with government officials and the mayor of Cebu City in the Philippines signed an other NGOs, and mapping out a multiyear project with agreement with HSI to launch a two-year catch-neuter- In Tupelo, Miss., more than 300 pets received rabies long-term sustainability. release program for street dogs; other Philippine cities vaccines and free bags of food. In partnership with Best Friends Animal Society, HSI have expressed interest in doing the same. laid the groundwork for the January 2011 opening of HSI has also helped address cultural mindsets that the Haiti Animal Care and Welfare Center, which includes affect animal welfare. In Cuenca, Ecuador, we cospon- a veterinary hospital, community workshop space, and sored the first adoption fair for ARCA (Activism, Rescue, veterinary training center. And more than 30 Haitian and Conscience for Animals)—promoting shelter pets Talkin’ Spay/Neuter in the Gulf vets received hands-on training in spay/neuter surgeries in a country where adoptions aren’t common. Two cats Build it and they will come—a proposition validated by though the demographic comprises about 45 percent of and companion animal care—setting the stage for and 32 dogs found new homes at the event, which the early turnout at low-cost spay/neuter facilities opening the area’s population. But when the clinic began holding high-volume sterilization and vaccination clinics for street attracted more than 200 people. in the Gulf Coast in the years after Hurricane Katrina. outreach events, workers were excited to see a different dogs and wellness clinics for working equines throughout In Haiti, the trickle-down effect on cultural attitudes The HSUS and other groups helped fund the operations clientele emerge, with young African American males the island. is already apparent. “Now minds are changing,” says HSI in response to findings that pet owners cite cost as showing up to get care for their pit bulls and other dogs. It’s a comprehensive, longsighted approach to program assistant Jean-Claude Cesaire, a Haitian native. the No. 1 barrier to spay/neuter in a region battered At each event, pet owners were receptive to the improving animal welfare in developing nations. In the “They are learning that animals are our neighbors, our by high rates of poverty and shelter euthanasia. spay/neuter message, especially when accompanied by a kingdom of Bhutan, HSI is leading the first-ever nation- friends; we’ve got to treat them better. The community Though successful, the services weren’t reaching voucher for free or discounted surgeries. “They’re willing wide street dog spay/neuter initiative. By the end of 2010, is changing in terms of appreciation of the animals.” everyone, so The HSUS helped find new ways to promote to come out at 5 in the morning and stand in line for six spay/neuter beyond billboards and radio and TV ads. hours on a Saturday, for a vaccine that costs $7,” Arrington “There’s a huge segment of our population that is under- says. “It just shows that they don’t have an option and they served and that doesn’t respond or have access to the really want one.” traditional marketing,” says Amanda Arrington, HSUS In Jefferson Parish, La., free pet food was snatched up manager of spay/neuter initiatives. “Those are the people by 1,500 attendees. And at an event in Lafayette, La., partic- that we really need to get the message and the services ipants included two roommates who had been preventing to. Cable TV is not necessarily going to do it.” litters through constant juggling of their multiple dogs Throughout 2010, the spay/neuter facilities and to keep the males and females segregated. “They shrieked The HSUS held community outreach events to provide with delight when they were given the spay/neuter vaccines and microchips and talk to pet owners about vouchers,” says Cory Smith, director of the HSUS Humane the connection between unaltered pets and euthanasia. Communities program. “They had wanted to get them Promotional flyers were hung in grocery stores, laun- fixed for so long and had not been able to afford it.” dromats, even check cashing outlets. In one community, Such success stories bring hope to the shelter staff who mosquito control workers distributed information, while struggle every day with the consequences of pet overpopu- an event notice was printed on residents’ utility bills. lation. People like Debbie Hood, executive director of the The unconventional marketing tactics—and a strategy Tupelo-Lee Humane Society in Mississippi, where about 72 of holding the events in accessible locations—made percent of the animals are euthanized—close to the average inroads into untapped client bases. In Hattiesburg, Miss., for shelters across the state. “I can’t look in their eyes and only 1 percent of visitors to the Southern Pines Animal not do something,” says Hood. “Maybe not today, but in HSI sterilized and Shelter’s spay-neuter clinic are African American, even the long run, we’ll eventually save a lot of lives.” vaccinated nearly 17,000 street dogs in Bhutan in 2010.

16 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 17 [ Protecting Our Best Friends ]

Foul-Weather Friends: Long Transforming : The Show Must Go On: What A Roadmap for Shelters: Rural or Pen Pals: When a temporary Yes, They Had Some Chihuahuas: engaged in post-Katrina rebuilding Ontario Veterinary School student happens when you play a country urban, large or small, government- shelter in Gonzalez, La., filled to “When I first got him, they were in the Gulf Coast, The HSUS was Erika Sullivan was disturbed that few song backward? Your wife comes funded or private nonprofit, animal capacity with animals rescued from calling him Dr. Death because there to help when the Deepwater classmates had chosen an ethical back, your truck gets fixed, and shelters face unique challenges. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Dixon he just looked so bad,” says Erin Horizon oil spill drove out-of-work alternative to the school’s traditional your lost dog comes home. Everything from cage-cleaning Correctional Institute officials Long-Scott, who adopted the dog locals to surrender more animals to surgical training on live animals who It’s an old joke, but it was in that protocols to building design to offered to help. Soon, hundreds now known as Lovie. One of 158 area shelters. are later euthanized. As a student spirit of reversing misfortune that public relations ultimately impacts of animals were on their way to animals removed from substan- “Every room had dogs in it, member of the Humane Society The HSUS rolled ahead with Animal a shelter’s animals and its employees. a converted dairy barn on prison dard conditions by The HSUS and kennels on top of each other. You Veterinary Medical Association, Care Expo 2010, in country music’s To help shelters reach their highest grounds, where inmates walked Kern County Animal Control in could tell they were just struggling Sullivan knew simulators, cadavers, mecca of Nashville, Tenn.—only potential, The HSUS’s Shelter Services dogs and even played Frisbee. California, the Chihuahua’s teeth to get any dogs out,” recalls The and beneficial procedures such as a week after the city experienced program provides guidance, training, “A lot of guys really enjoyed were so decayed that a Sacramento HSUS’s Sarah Barnett, who in June spay/neuter are just as effective and heavy flooding that left the orig- and on-site assessments, bringing it,” says warden Steve Rader. SPCA veterinarian had to pull all helped transport animals from two are embraced by many U.S. veterinary inal conference site 14 feet under the latest research and progressive “They said, ‘If you ever get dogs, but one. Louisiana shelters to Washington, schools. After graduating in 2005, she water. HSUS conference planners solutions to shelters across I want to work with them again!’ ” The SPCA is one of 100-plus D.C., groups. continued to return to her alma mater and local partners kicked into the country. Now, thanks to a $600,000 organizations in The HSUS’s “Knowing they’re going to a to promote alternative training. Now a high gear, relocating the entire “I’m still astonished by all we HSUS grant and help from the Placement Partner program, which good place and a safe place, it professional HSVMA member, Sullivan meeting—which appropriately learned,” says Karen Stimpson, Louisiana State University School care for victims of large cruelty took a load off the whole staff,” helped persuade her school to elimi- included workshops on disaster executive director of the Coastal of Veterinary Medicine, the prison cases investigated by The HSUS and said a relieved Beth Brewster, nate terminal surgeries in 2010. planning—to another hotel with Humane Society in Maine, which is the site of an emergency evacua- law enforcement agencies. Partners director of the St. Bernard Parish Ending terminal surgeries is just one less than a week to spare. More received an on-site evaluation in tion facility and animal shelter like the Sacramento SPCA join Animal Shelter. way that HSVMA helps animals through than 1,000 animal shelter and 2010. Stimpson and her staff have for East Feliciana parish strays. a “collaborative effort that’s key Brewster’s shelter itself is a post- action, advocacy, and education. In rescue staff and volunteers came already implemented many of the Providing training for prisoners to improving Katrina project come to fruition. 2010, members rallied for two crucial to learn, network, and get inspired. HSUS team’s recommendations— as well as a refuge for homeless in our community,” says executive Paid for with FEMA funds, insurance ballot campaigns—a puppy mill initia- The year 2011 will mark the with noticeable results. Best of pets in a parish that previously director Rick Johnson. proceeds, and a $250,000 grant tive in Missouri and Ohio’s humane 20th anniversary of Expo and all, Stimpson says, her organization didn’t have a shelter, the program Today, Lovie loves to chew and other in-kind assistance from farm initiative—and worked to ban the helping shelters work better now has a five-year roadmap reflects The HSUS’s ongoing on oranges in Long-Scott’s yard. The HSUS, the new facility is “para- devocalization of dogs in Massachu- and smarter, toward the goal and HSUS experts to advise them. commitment to assist pet owners During cold weather, he rushes dise,” says Brewster—easier to clean, setts. HSVMA Field Services teams also of ending the suffering and “Whatever’s coming our way, we’ve in post-disaster recovery. outside to sit under the dryer vent pleasant for staff and visitors, and, provided $1.3 million in free veterinary euthanasia of homeless pets. got the wisdom behind the report and for a warm-air “massage.” His jaw’s most important, more comfortable care to more than 8,000 companion follow-up and guidance if we need it.” a little crooked, but he smiles a lot. for the animals. animals and equines in rural and under- served areas here and abroad.

18 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 19 Progress for Horses

Hal Bowden will never forget the sight. and President Obama has again requested the $400,000 When he adopted John Henry, the abused and under- increase for fiscal 2012—a request backed by more than weight Tennessee walking horse suffered telltale signs of 100 representatives. “We’re still seeing a lot of soring being soring—the cruel practice whereby trainers cause intense detected in the field, and we’re still not seeing as many pain in an effort to exaggerate the breed’s high-stepping USDA inspectors attending shows as we would like,” gait and thus gain an unfair edge in shows. For starters, says Keith Dane, HSUS director of equine protection. John Henry’s heels had been cut out, and there were three Changes announced in 2010 by the USDA’s Animal lines of scars across his ankles. and Plant Health Inspection Service could help, including Fast forward three years, and as part of a lengthy hiring, training, and licensing independent inspectors. rehabilitation process, Bowden had brought John Henry The announcement followed a recommendation from the to a North Carolina show to see how the horse would USDA’s Office of the Inspector General that APHIS abolish react to the setting. Returning to the barn after dinner, its current problematic inspection system. he got his answer: There was John Henry, cowering, Among other horse protection efforts, The HSUS has covered in a cold sweat. continued pressing for more humane and effective treat- “To tell you the honest truth, I just cried, and I just went ment of wild horses and burros, who are viewed as foraging and held him for awhile,” Bowden says, adding: “I’ll never competition for and other grazing wildlife. In forget that big old horse, standing in the corner of that February of this year, the Bureau of Land Management Once neglected and starving, stall, trembling in fear.” announced it was accelerating “fundamental reforms” to these horses saved by the HSUS Animal Rescue Team later Today, John Henry’s hooves have grown back to its system of rounding up the animals via helicopter and moved on to greener pastures. normal, he’s more trusting of people, and his adopter placing them in long-term holding facilities. Implemented promotes walking horses’ naturally smooth gait. To bring on a two-year trial basis, the changes include increasing the justice to those who would cause such suffering, The number of mares treated with the fertility control drug PZP HSUS has been pushing for better enforcement of a 1970 from 500 to 2,000, and reducing the number of wild horses law against soring. In March 2010, a bipartisan group of removed annually from 10,000 to 7,600. Delivered from Danger 40 senators and 131 representatives supported President The reforms have been met with mixed reviews. “We’re Obama’s request for the first-ever increase in funding praising the BLM for the efforts that they’re making to White skulls and decaying bodies dotted the terrain, highway until authorities arrived.” The HSUS and Blaze’s for Horse Protection Act enforcement, from $500,000 change the status quo and to fix the broken program,” while the trees offered another haunting reminder of just Tribute Equine Rescue negotiated custody of the 17 survi- to $900,000 during fiscal 2011. says Stephanie Boyles, wildlife scientist at The HSUS. At how bad things had gotten on this decrepit Texas farm: vors, later fostered by Blaze’s board member Desiree Although Congress ultimately did not pass the the same time, she says the organization will continue to The horses were so starved, so desperate, they had taken Walling on her Calumet farm. On the night of the spring president’s budget, The HSUS will keep up the fight, push for even more use of PZP. to chewing the off the trunks. equinox, a mare named Catori, who was pregnant at the In December, The HSUS stepped in and helped author- time of the accident, gave birth. Named for the “super- ities seize 43 horses from the property—one of several moon” blazing in the sky that night, Moonstruck serves major rescues in 2010. More than 20 horses were placed as “a symbol of hope and rebirth and the survival of all in new homes, while 14 were sent to foster trainers of these horses,” Armstrong says. and five to The HSUS’s new Horse Rescue and Also last year, The HSUS assisted the Cabell-Wayne Adoption Center in east Texas. The latter were expected Animal Shelter with the rescue of 49 starving and to attend the center’s grand opening this May to partic- neglected horses, mules, and donkeys from a West Virginia ipate in a “rescue makeover,” showing off just how far property. Seven months later, 114 horses were seized they’ve come. from the overrun Arkansas property of a horse trader “That is the model that we’re seeking to perpetuate, and auctioneer. The HSUS and ASPCA devoted many that these horses aren’t old, broken down, worthless resources to caring for the rescued horses at an abandoned animals,” says Stacy Segal, equine cruelty specialist livestock auction, as they awaited a final court disposition with The HSUS. “They just need the time and the with hopes of taking custody and holding an adoption knowledge to become good equine citizens and good fair. A rancher later provided temporary sanctuary partners for people.” throughout the legal process. The HSUS helped dozens of other horses find second Beyond rescues and adoptions, The HSUS has found chances in 2010. In May, a tractor trailer transporting 30 other ways to help horses, like teaming with the American horses to slaughter overturned in Oklahoma when the Competitive Trail Horse Association for a weekend driver fell asleep. HSUS Oklahoma state director Cynthia of benefit trail rides around the U.S. The group raised Armstrong described the scene: “We had Good Samaritan $70,000 from the event, then donated the money to citizens who saw the crash, called their friends, got The HSUS, which in turn awarded grants to horse rescue halters, corralled the horses safely, and got them off the organizations.

20 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 21 [ Protecting Wildlife ]

19 state measures are enacted against wildlife abuses such as poaching, the exotic pet trade, and captive shooting

National shark finning ban is strengthened

Arizonans uphold their right to launch citizen initiatives on wildlife protection issues

The Truth in Fur Labeling Act is signed into federal law

Florida prohibits fox and coyote penning operations

Deaths in Canada’s seal hunt plummet to less than 20 percent of government quota

Sea lion killings are halted and North Atlantic right whales gain protections

Proposals to lift the commercial ban are defeated; trade protections are gained for elephants, tree frogs, and other species

These baby seals are subjected to unimaginable suffering. The sealing industry would like the brutality to remain a secret, for the killing to happen out of public view. But we can’t let that happen. The tragic deaths of these defenseless animals will ultimately bring down the industry. As the images of this cruelty are broadcast around the world, global markets for seal products are closing, and consumers are taking action to stop the slaughter.

—Humane Society International Canada director Rebecca Aldworth, reporting live from the ice during her 12th year documenting the hunt

22 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report [ Protecting Wildlife ] Fur Disclosure It inspired me so much that I wanted to take that enthusiasm and Again and again, The HSUS’s Pierre Grzybowski helped undercover reporters scan sales racks to find coats with express it to my fellow designers. collars that resembled animal fur but labels that made —Fashion designer John Bartlett, describing an initial meeting no mention of it. Again and again, sales clerks assured with HSUS staff that sparked his fur-free leadership them that the trim must therefore be fake. And again and again, Grzybowski—either in the parking lot or back at the newsroom—cut open the backs of the “They are not thinking about the reality of the carnage just-purchased coats to reveal pieces of an animal skin that’s involved,” Bartlett says. “Many designers don’t stitched together. It was real fur, after all. know where their fur’s coming from or even what kind In December 2010, after an Emmy-winning investiga- of animal it’s coming from.” The new law, which took tion by Los Angeles’ CBS2/KCAL and broadcasts by other effect in March, forces them to find out, he says. local stations as well as Inside Edition, The HSUS achieved Retailers are getting the message as well. In response a major victory for fur-bearing animals. Culminating to an HSUS lawsuit, companies including Saks Fifth five years of undercover investigations that showed Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and Lord & Taylor agreed to consumers being duped into buying clothes trimmed reform their labeling and advertising policies. Saks and with fur from raccoon dogs, rabbits, and foxes, Congress Bloomingdale’s also joined Macy’s and Andrew Marc in closed a loophole in a 60-year-old labeling law that had agreeing to endorse the Truth in Fur Labeling Act, while a exempted garments trimmed in fur valued at $150 or judgment was entered against Neiman Marcus in the case. less. Now, consumers who want to avoid buying animal In September, a quick response by thousands of HSUS fur have the information to make the humane decision, members—many of them fans of our Facebook page— as all clothing with real fur must show the species and helped persuade Talbots to reverse its decision to Teetering on the Edge: Persecuted country of origin. reintroduce animal fur after a decade of being fur-free. First Responders for Urban Wildlife by ranchers and big-game hunters as The Truth in Fur Labeling Act comes just in time, says It remains one of more than 300 designers, brands, and bloodthirsty predators, America’s gray Crisscrossing the Washington, D.C., area, The HSUS’s Humane Wildlife John Bartlett, a designer who’s working with The HSUS retailers that do not sell fur, including Ralph Lauren, wolves were once nearly hunted to Services team last year rescued more than 1,300 urban animals from to make the fashion industry more humane. While Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, and Calvin Klein. extinction. In the years since they gained harm while providing homeowners with long-lasting solutions high-quality faux fur is more and more in demand by With the passage of the Truth in Fur Labeling Act, Endangered Species Act protection, to wildlife conflicts. Staff united orphaned mallard ducklings with consumers who don’t want animals to be skinned alive that number should grow, says Bartlett. “Now the The HSUS has successfully defended another mother’s brood, coached contractors on salvaging a wood- or otherwise killed for clothing, animal fur has been consumer will know more, and I think the design world the animals in a series of lawsuits. pecker nest cavity from a chopped-down tree, and persuaded a reappearing on runways, he says. Some designers see and the retailers will be much more hesitant to buy In August 2010, The HSUS and 12 homeowner to postpone evicting a chimney-dwelling raccoon family it as a luxury material that will set their work apart. something,” he says. “I think that they will ask questions.” other organizations helped gain yet until the babies were older. The team also saved a maternal bat colony another court-ordered reprieve for the at the historic Oatlands Plantation in Virginia. After the baby-rearing Northern Rockies population, staving off season, they climbed nearly 40 feet up ladders to install netting that Montana’s and Idaho’s plans for public allowed the bats to safely exit the roosting area but not return. hunts. Judge Donald Molloy declared These alternatives to lethal tactics and forced relocation are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could now being implemented on a large scale in the District of Columbia not remove federal protections in those with passage of the precedent-setting D.C. Wildlife Protection Act. two states while upholding them in Testimony from our field team was critical in rebutting industry neighboring Wyoming. arguments that humane resolutions aren’t possible. In 2011, ESA protections for Idaho Further afield, our wildlife specialists helped more than 30 commu- and Montana wolves fell victim to a nities resolve conflicts with Canada geese, deer, beavers, and coyotes. provision slipped into a congressional In Maryland, staff partnered with a developer to move box turtles budget bill by hostile interests. The from the path of construction; hazing and other nonlethal techniques HSUS will continue to monitor the prodded animals such as foxes and woodchucks to move on their situation closely and carry on the fight. own. And The HSUS worked alongside advocates to protest a deadly goose roundup near the Madison, Wis., airport. Car parts salesman Nathan Phoenix started a Facebook group, enlisting pilots and long- time goose hunters in the birds’ defense. As HSUS Wisconsin state director Alyson Bodai notes, Phoenix is “a prime example of how effective people can be when they put their mind to something and get involved.”

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As field ornithologists John and Sue Gregoire gazed over the barren terrain surrounding their new property in western New York, they were profoundly disturbed by the absence of native plants and animals. “You could see forever, from one end of the property to the other,” says John Gregoire. “It was that open and bare.” They set about on a mission to restore the setting to provide food, water, and shelter for wildlife. Over the next 25 years, they planted more than 10,000 trees and built a diversity of habitats. Their 60-acre property is now a vibrant wildlife sanctuary rich with regenerating fields, thick stands of pine trees for owls and other animals, and ponds offering gradations of depth and native vegetation. They’ve sighted more than 200 bird species there, as well as bears, deer, bats, coyotes, and other animals. But even as their forested property flourishes with life, the surrounding landscape bears evidence of the destruction caused by large-scale dairy farms. To feed their animals and reduce the amount of waste stored in massive manure lagoons, these operations raze natural Wolverine Watch habitats and spread manure over thousands of acres. The resulting monoculture of feed crops creates a stranglehold on biodiversity. Wolverines have been spotted play- To protect their property from such a fate and designate it as perma- fully tumbling down alpine slopes— nent wildlife habitat, the couple gained a conservation easement but can also win staring contests New Digs for Embattled Species: Ruthless “Recreation”: They Curtailing a Cruel Trade: With through the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust in 2010, joining 103 with grizzlies over food and scale Under cover of pre-dawn dark- couldn’t ignore what was going their skins fashioned into home decor other properties in the trust’s 15,000-acre portfolio. Known as the mountains that would defeat the ness, HSUS environmental scientist on in their state: dogs set loose and their tusks carved into necklaces, Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory, the property has become hardiest of humans. Author and Lindsey Sterling Krank embarked on on wild-caught foxes and coyotes some of the world’s most magnificent an inviting migratory stopover and year-round sanctuary for birds and Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust an unusual series of moving days last trapped inside fences. So they animals also face the gravest dangers. other wildlife. “I feel like we’ve really done something positive,” John supporter Douglas Chadwick has July: the mass relocation of black- rose up and joined The HSUS in Every three years, special inter- Gregoire says. “And perhaps the most positive is knowing that it will noted their unlikely strength: tailed prairie dogs into protected persuading the Florida Fish and ests conspire to further decimate always be that way.” “Trying to keep up with them grasslands. Wildlife Conservation Commission the earth’s natural treasures during amounts to constant adventure Persecuted and decimated by to take a stand. debates at the U.N. Convention on in a world of avalanches, blizzards, disease, the species—and the other They were people like Cristin International Trade in Endangered sheer cliff faces, patches of thin creatures who depend on it—faces Tank and her family, who lived next Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. But lake ice, sub-zero moonlit ski trips, significant threats to survival. So to a fox and coyote pen, and Ron among the ivory carvers, fur traders, marathon hikes, cliff walls with tiny when a landowner near Wyoming’s Wentworth, who promoted a ban trophy hunters, and exotic pet dealers, handholds, and big silver-tipped Thunder Basin National Grassland to anyone who would listen. In a powerful voice has emerged: the bears,” says Chadwick, shown above wanted the two colonies near his September, commissioners unan- Species Survival Network, a global in blue, helping to remove an anes- property poisoned, a U.S. Forest imously outlawed pens, with coalition cofounded by Humane thetized animal from a humane trap. Service biologist approached The chairman Rodney Barreto noting, Society International’s Teresa Telecky. Partially funded by the Wildlife HSUS for help. A groundbreaking “I think Florida needs to end this and Last year the group gained or Land Trust, the multiyear Glacier partnership ensued, and 550 prairie we need to end this now.” More than preserved protections for a range of Wolverine Project conducted by dogs were moved (nearly 450 more 50 pens had operated in the state at species, including African elephants, Chadwick and other researchers were humanely relocated from two the peak of this inhumane “sport.” Central American tree frogs, and revealed that the little-studied other locations in 2010). Footage of a different form of great green macaws. Critically en- animals are vulnerable to the The humane solution sets the stage cruelty elicited outrage in South dangered Kaiser’s spotted newts warming of their Montana high- for reintroduction of the endangered Carolina: being released have been poached for the pet country home. Though the U.S. Fish black-footed ferret—a prairie dog to harass a black bear chained to a trade, and professor Mozafar Sharifi’s and Wildlife Service denied them predator—and future federal conser- pole before a large audience. Calls proposal—the first by an Iranian protection in December 2010, the vation efforts. Even the uprooted for a ban poured in while HSUS staff scientist—prompted an interna- study—and Chadwick’s subsequent animals seemed relieved, popping pushed state officials to act. Says tional commercial trade ban. “It’s very book, The Wolverine Way—should out of freshly dug holes to chirp and The HSUS’s undercover investigator: exciting to see that your knowledge help make the case for the habitat “jump yip”—a call used to spread the “How can you not be disgusted by can be linked to practical conservation connectivity and trapping restric- news that the coast is clear. this spectacle?” practices,” he says. tions necessary for their survival.

26 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 27 [ Protecting Wildlife ]

Seal Hunt Death Rattle: Shark Finning Out of Bounds Safe Harbor for Whales: It took the Stopping Reef Raiders: Some of Going to Court for Sea Lions: For more than a dozen years, death of a SeaWorld trainer, but in Hawaiian diver Robert Wintner’s Along the pristine waters of Rebecca Aldworth, director of Tens of millions of sharks are killed each year to supply the market for 2010 the government and media best friends are fish. He pleads for Oregon’s Columbia River, Cali- Humane Society International shark fin soup. Many of them are victims of finning: Fishermen cut off the finally started listening to arguments their protection with beautiful fornia sea lions are branded and Canada, has documented the heart- fins, then toss the bodies back overboard. Essentially paralyzed, the sharks against the captive display of orcas. photos and passionate words. When then monitored for their salmon break of Canada’s annual commer- typically die from suffocation, starvation, or predation. Naomi Rose, senior scientist for he’s not underwater taking pictures consumption. In 2008, wildlife cial seal hunt, when pups as young “It’s like cutting off your limbs and leaving you to bleed to death,” Humane Society International, gave of coral reefs, “Snorkel Bob,” who officials began killing sea lions as 12 days old are shot and clubbed says Rebecca Regnery, deputy director of wildlife at Humane Society congressional testimony in April, two owns a chain of snorkeling equip- who they decided had eaten too to death for their pelts. The only International. months after Tilikum killed trainer ment and rental stores, pushes for many fish. A few were sent to salve for the emotional wound is the But the sharks in U.S. waters recently gained more protection from Dawn Brancheau in Orlando. The ending the commercial collection of . Advocate Bethanie O’Driscoll knowledge that the relentless quest the brutal practice after President Obama signed the Shark Conservation orca was previously involved in the saltwater fish for home aquariums. remembers the fearful cries of to end the brutal hunt is paying off. Act into law. That measure, which requires fishermen catching sharks to deaths of two other people. “No For years he got nowhere. Then two sea lions being removed last While the legal catch limit rises bring them to port with fins still attached, closed loopholes in the coun- matter how big the tank looks, it’s in 2010, Wintner, other advocates, spring at the Bonneville Dam. “I every year, the actual take is plum- try’s previous ban on finning. It was a victory for the animals and their eco- a kennel to this large, wide-ranging and The HSUS’s Hawaii office urged had never heard them make that meting: The Canadian government system, where sharks play an important role at the top of the food chain. predator,” says Rose. In August 2010, the Maui County Council to pass the sound before—the way a dog set the 2010 quota at 388,200 seals, Just as important, it gave advocates a stronger hand in negotiating the Occupational Safety and Health nation’s first anti-cruelty laws regu- sounds when it’s injured.” yet 69,184 were killed and fewer increased protections with the EU and nations such as Australia and Administration issued SeaWorld lating the aquarium trade. Now The basis for killing stemmed sealers participated. Spurred by Indonesia. As Regnery says: “It’s hard to try to convince other countries with a citation, which the company Maui-based collectors, wholesalers, from the National Marine Fisheries footage and persuasive arguments to clean up their act when you have problems in your own country.” will appeal at a September hearing. and retailers must report the number Service’s conclusion that these from The HSUS and HSI, the EU’s ban State legislation passed in Hawaii last year went even further, after Meanwhile, in March 2011, after 13 of fish who die. And collectors are federally protected animals had on seal products, which took effect The HSUS and HSI worked with state Sen. Clayton Hee on a ground- months in a back tank, Tilikum was barred from piercing fishes’ organs a significant negative impact on last year, has driven pelt prices to a breaking measure to ban the possession, sale, and distribution of shark brought out to perform again. with needles, withholding food for endangered or threatened salmon. record low and saved more than half fins in the Aloha State. “Legislation like that had never even been intro- Also in 2010, HSI successfully more than 24 hours during trans- But sea lions eat an average of a million lives. An HSUS/HSI boycott duced anywhere,” says Regnery. fought to maintain an International port, and cutting their spines or fins. 0.4 to 4.2 percent of the salmon of Canadian seafood—joined Hawaii’s stance helped kick-start a trend. Washington State, Guam, Whaling Commission moratorium Humane Society International returns, while fishermen are by 5,500 chefs, restaurants, and and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands have since on commercial whale . And hopes to gain similar protections allowed to take up to 17 percent. grocery stores worldwide—sends a passed similar measures. following litigation by The HSUS, the elsewhere, says Teresa Telecky, In 2010, a lawsuit by our litiga- clear message that the hunt’s days National Marine Fisheries Service director of wildlife. “Many people tion team and other plaintiffs are numbered. agreed to propose expanding critical in the trade see mortality as the prompted a federal appeals court habitat for the 400 remaining North way business is run.” to block the killings. Atlantic right whales.

28 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 29 [ Ending Animal Fighting ]

5 states strengthen laws against animal fighting

6,389 animals are helped by The HSUS’s work on animal fighting raids and investigations

1,300+ law enforcement officials are trained in animal fighting and cruelty investigations

300 prosecutors and 100 judges attend seminars on the complexities of animal fighting and cruelty cases

835 calls are made to the animal fighting tip line; 24 rewards are paid for information leading to arrests

The End Dogfighting program—a comprehensive approach to combat urban dogfighting—launches in Philadelphia

470+ schoolchildren participate in an eight-week anti-dogfighting humane education course

[HSUS teams] made it a lot easier and a lot less stressful to do this. [They were] a can-do, ‘we’re-going-to-get- it-done’ group of people. You could tell they were focused, they were interested in what they were doing, and it meant a lot to them to do it. And that’s what we’re looking at for people who are going to help us.

—Lt. Jim Burriss, describing how The HSUS helped the Greenville County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Office investigate and raid a notorious cockfighting pit A bloodstained fighting circle, a crater full of dead birds, and 197 roosters on the day’s fight docket were among the horrors discovered in June at a South Carolina property. In August, The HSUS helped rescue nearly 200 fighting pit bulls in Ohio, sending them to rescues and shelters around the country (opposite).

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“This program is about the dogs,” says Ralph Hawthorne, sessions, Weaver and his dog, Champ, made such a strong community organizer for The HSUS’s End Dogfighting impression that he was hired last summer to serve as an program in Atlanta. “But it’s just as much about the anti-dogfighting advocate. people, and helping them through the life changes that Nowadays, Weaver recruits students for the program they experience while we’re working with them.” by walking the streets and speaking at schools, the YMCA, In 2010, The HSUS continued reaching out to communi- and Boy Scout meetings. With his two well-behaved dogs ties plagued by dogfighting, working to bond owners and in tow, he’s a model for young people who’ve previously pit bulls and change perceptions of a misunderstood group only viewed their pit bulls as fighting dogs. of dogs. The End Dogfighting program expanded its work “They don’t know exactly what to do with the dogs … in Chicago and Atlanta while launching in a third location, so what they do now is they’re fighting just for the heck the Hunting Park neighborhood in North Philadelphia. of it,” Weaver says. But the agility and obedience skills “It’s a city that’s very much in need, as are most of the large learned in HSUS classes provide options: “They want to cities across the country,” says Amanda Arrington, asso­ impress people with their dogs, so now we have a positive ciate director of The HSUS’s Building Humane Communities way to impress people.” Program. In more than a dozen other cities, The HSUS The training sessions are just one aspect of a campaign helped groups plan their own End Dogfighting programs. that also includes humane education and community In Atlanta, one success story was the transformation outreach focused on pet wellness and spay/neuter. Canines of DeAndre Weaver. He’d fought pit bulls for four years, & Communities, an eight-session anti-dogfighting curriculum since age 16, until a dog he had grown close to was featuring mock game shows and field trips to animal killed in a fight. “That’s what really opened up my eyes,” shelters, reached more than 470 Chicago and Atlanta remembers Weaver. youths in 2010. At a summer camp, 19 kids helped produce The day he learned about free classes In the Company of Dogs, a video featuring a rap song written The Law on Our Side Out of the Ring, Into Loving Homes through The HSUS, his interest was piqued. And with by 15-year-old Demetrius Ware about canine care and When John Goodwin recalls the June 2010 raid of a What started as a narcotics bust at a southeastern Hawthorne encouraging him to stick with the weekly approaching dogs safely. suspected cockfighting operation in Tennessee, what Ohio home soon turned into one of the largest stands out in his mind even more than the 100 people seizures for alleged dogfighting ever documented on charged and the 150 birds seized is the image of a little a single property. Last August, when The HSUS was girl crying amidst the chaos. “Her sorry dad brought her asked to assist law enforcement with an investigation to a cockfight that got raided, and then he started just involving nearly 200 pit bulls, teams arrived to find yelling at her and chastising her for being upset,” says more than 500 animals, including chickens, roosters, Goodwin, HSUS director of animal cruelty policy. boars, hawks, and the desiccated remains of starved- Last year, Goodwin and fellow HSUS experts helped to-death snakes. Weighted down by logging chains law enforcement officials bust 33 animal fighting attached to buried car axles, many of the dogs had no operations, while their advocacy work focused on shelter and suffered from mange, ringworm, infected preventing cruelty in the first place: Minnesota and wounds, and broken bones. Nebraska banned animal fighting paraphernalia, Help came from volunteers, including more than Delaware increased penalties for animal fighting 30 from Pittsburgh-based Hello Bully. The HSUS’s new participants and spectators, Illinois strengthened mobile crime lab served as a space for treatment and penalties for dogfighting near schools, and Louisiana evidence collection. A horse arena served as a shelter outlawed attendance at a cockfight. for nearly three months as the dogs were readied The immediate rewards of the campaign and for adoption. “These dogs never had any normal investigative work—animals freed from suffering experiences,” says HSUS manager and perpetrators facing heavy fines or even jail of animal fighting law enforcement Chris Schindler time—are significant, but the long-term effects are (shown above), who often lay in a horse stall with a equally important, says Goodwin: “These people have dog named Delilah because she refused to move or to be shut down because they’re teaching a whole even eat. “A lot of them were so scared.” generation that it’s OK to be cruel.” Now eating and in a foster home, Delilah is one of nearly 6,400 animals helped by The HSUS’s work on animal fighting raids and investigations in 2010.

322 | The The HSUS HSUS 2010 | Annual 2010 AnnualReport Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 33 [ Shutting Down Puppy Mills ]

3 states that produce more than half the puppies sold in U.S. pet stores—Missouri, Oklahoma, and Iowa—enact laws to crack down on abusive commercial breeding operations

677 dogs and 9 other animals are saved from squalor and neglect by HSUS teams deployed to puppy mill raids; staff assist local authorities in an additional 4 raids involving 544 dogs

A 1,000-store milestone is reached when hundreds more retailers take the Puppy Friendly Pet Stores Pledge not to sell puppies

We are gratified to serve as the emergency shelter and headquarters for the rescue. I can’t say enough about the HSUS staff who made it happen. With poise, power, and grace, they harnessed and coordinated a fairly darn complex set of logistical, legal, and communications issues. Pets Alive performed spay/neuter surgeries yesterday on nine of the rescued dogs. They will never be forced to breed again.

—James McNamara, former executive director of the Pets Alive spay/neuter clinic in Indiana, which helped The HSUS with a December rescue While most dogs at a fly-infested, feces-covered Carriere, Miss., puppy mill shrank in fear, a few sought attention from their rescuers. “Every time I bent over to get another dog,” recalls The HSUS’s Michelle Cascio (above), “one of the would come up and lick me on the chin.” Rescued animals are brought to emergency shelters on their way to new homes (at left). 34 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report Missouri: The Most Important Battle Yet [ Shutting Down Puppy Mills ]

Feet bloodied from wire cages. Rotten teeth. Skin and “When the people vote on an issue, the majority eye and ear infections. Parasites. Bones protruding. rules, and the elected officials should respect that,” says And in the case of Tessa (shown below), hair so matted Michael Markarian, chief operating officer for The HSUS. that her back legs were snarled together, toenails so Major milestones in the campaign against puppy overgrown they curled into her foot pads, and gum mills were reached outside Missouri. Legislatures passed disease so severe that all but one of her teeth were similar laws in Oklahoma and Iowa, the states with eventually pulled. the second and third largest numbers of mass breeding These are the symptoms of weak laws that allow the facilities. Hawaii and Louisiana also strengthened puppy mill industry to flourish unchecked. The cure is regulation, bringing the number of states passing clear—better laws to regulate the 10,000 mass breeding such laws to 16 since 2008. operations across the nation. But getting those laws Meanwhile, The HSUS’s Puppy Mill Task Force, approved is a state-by-state battle. supported by Maddie’s Fund, drove truckloads of rescued In 2010, The HSUS won one of its greatest victories: Missouri dogs to Illinois, Colorado, and the East Coast citizens’ approval of a measure to require breeders in for adoption. Relinquished by high-volume breeders who Missouri, the state with the most puppy mills, to keep were closing down their operations, they included breeds no more than 50 breeding dogs and give them adequate ranging from shih tzus to Labrador . food, water, shelter, space, exercise, veterinary care, and When first rescued, the dogs had matted fur, fearful rest between breeding cycles. Winning passage of the demeanors, and sad eyes. One very skinny animal died new law involved collecting more than 190,000 signa- almost as soon as she arrived at the emergency shelter. tures to get the measure on the ballot and combating Inside her stomach was string and a ball of foil, trash a smear campaign by the Missouri Farm Bureau. that bore witness to slow starvation, says task force No More Business As Usual: Pam Who Rescued Whom?: The Newfound Friends: Finn is a As soon as Proposition B passed in November, state manager Justin Scally. “The dog was obviously foraging Sordyl of Clarkston, Mich., has treatment of dogs at the hands little brown dog who carries a legislators set about trying to undo it; five months later, on whatever she could find.” made a name for herself by hitting of puppy millers “hurt my heart and big stick: His best friend happens Gov. Jay Nixon signed a repeal bill and enacted what Tessa was luckier, surviving six years of hellish confine- puppy millers where it hurts most: my feelings,” says 12-year-old Micah to be Amanda Hearst of the Hearst he termed “compromise” legislation that dramatically ment before being rescued by the Humane Society of in the wallet. Sordyl’s “Adopt, Staub, who has made it his mission publishing family. She purchased weakened the original provisions of Prop B. But The HSUS Missouri. Now the “spoiled rotten” Yorkshire leaps Don’t Shop” pet store protests to help care for those rescued from Finn from a pet store, isn’t going away without a fight; we plan to strengthen onto the bed for a kiss every night, says owner Marva have been instrumental in the cruel mass breeding operations. unaware that he was born to the surviving Prop B protections, hold officials Bulva. “They’re not taking care of these dogs,” Bulva closure of three Michigan Petland Micah’s learning disabilities a puppy mill mother who had accountable for their stated support of strong enforce- says of puppy mill operators. “I don’t care whether it’s stores. The number of the chain’s have often led to teasing from other probably never left her filthy cage ment, and launch a 2012 ballot initiative to preserve a German shepherd or a Mexican Chihuahua; you just stores nationwide has dropped kids, but he found acceptance and or felt a loving touch. citizen-approved laws. don’t do animals that way.” from 140 to 95 since the 2008 fulfillment working with 30 of the Shaken when she learned this, release of an HSUS investigation 122 dogs removed from nightmare Hearst visited HSUS-rescued puppy into its dealings with puppy mills. conditions by the HSUS Maddie’s mill dogs and saw for herself the Sordyl also singlehandedly Fund Puppy Mill Task Force in results of chronic neglect and recruited 90 pet stores to take December. In recognition of his abuse. “It’s shocking that anyone The HSUS’s Puppy Friendly Pet hard work, Micah was made an can rationalize that,” she says. Stores Pledge to never sell honorary task force member. Hearst founded Friends of puppies—a feat that helped His pride was a boon for a boy Finn, asking her other best friends, The HSUS sign up 1,000 before who “gets so few things that he including Georgina Bloomberg, the end of the year. For Puppy can be proud of,” says his mother. Dylan Lauren, Kick Kennedy, Mills Campaign outreach In addition to the Bloomfield, and Annie Churchill Albert, to coordinator John Moyer, the Ind., raid—described by one join her in putting puppy mills milestone had become a personal participant as “three days out of business. Selling tables mission requiring nonstop emails of … animal welfare shock and and soliciting auction items for and phone calls. On Dec. 24, awe”—the task force took part The HSUS’s Make History Gala Moyer received a message in four other puppy mill raids in in New York City, Friends of from a chain saying that all 2010, saving 677 dogs from misery. Finn helped raise $1 million to 38 of its stores would take support our campaign to shut the pledge. He’d beaten the down puppy mills. deadline. On to the next 1,000.

Tessa in a puppy mill, 2009 Tessa in a loving home, 2010 36 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 37 [ Animal Care Centers ]

Providing Sanctuary & Healing

Orphaned fox kits. A mule on the edge of starvation. A pygmy hippo scarred by neglect. A chimpanzee retired from a research laboratory. A swan suffering from lead poisoning. A horse rescued from slaughter. Different species with different stories, but all with the same happy outcome: cared The Fund for Animals Cape Wildlife Center South Florida Duchess Sanctuary for by skilled, loving hands at Wildlife Center Wildlife Center Black Beauty Ranch one of The HSUS’s five animal Love at First Flight: Staff at Tranquil Refuge: At 5 feet The HSUS’s Cape Wildlife Center 6 inches, she’s one of the tallest care centers. Creature Comforts: Samson the Piecing Them Back Together: Saved from Starvation: Deputy put on their matchmaking hats “girls” living at The HSUS’s Each year, they arrive by the lion tackled his toy, pinning it Veterinary student Alycia Monopoli Eric Ward had never before seen when treating a mute swan who’d 1,120-acre Duchess Sanctuary, thousands. Some are rescued between his great front paws and went to Home Depot to buy screws an animal cruelty case involving been found on the side of a road, a friendly draft horse who, from abusive or neglectful uttering satisfied roars. It was fall for a remodeling project—repairing deer—until last January. flapping his wings to protect his despite growing up untrained, circumstances, while others have in Southern California and staff a turtle’s broken shell. A 19-year-old man had been gravely injured mate. His partner is easy to handle. Like many of fallen victim to urban dangers— at The HSUS’s Fund for Animals Hit by a car, the turtle would keeping five deer on a Henderson couldn’t be saved, but antibiotics the 185 other formerly abused hit by cars, wounded by flying Wildlife Center in Ramona had have suffered a slow, painful death County, Texas, farm as part of a helped the male swan recover or abandoned horses on the into windows—or have been rolled out pumpkins for the big if she hadn’t been brought to school agricultural project. But after from a joint infection. Staff intro- Oregon property, 9-year- suddenly orphaned. At the cats—an ongoing strategy of The HSUS’s South Florida Wildlife he began neglecting the animals, duced him to another female old Allie came very close to centers, they receive the highest letting them chase, pounce, and Center. Wildlife veterinarian Stefan police were contacted. “They looked mending at the Barnstable, Mass., becoming meat. She once lived level of treatment from expert chew unexpected treats. Harsch used screws and plastic like they were starving to death,” facility, and the pair bonded, on a Canadian farm, kept so staff and volunteers. Once Last year, center staff cared for cable ties to hold the pieces of her Ward says, “and they were.” even calling to each other when her urine could be collected for nurtured back to health, they nearly 400 injured and orphaned shell together until new tissue grew The deer were removed from separated. On a cold, clear day in a hormone used in a drug called embark on the next leg of their wild animals, in addition to perma- in. Swimming was prohibited in the the property and eventually sent to January 2010, they were released Premarin. When demand for the journey, whether that’s a release nent residents like Samson, a victim meantime to prevent infection, but the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty together, swimming a lap around drug dropped, Allie was nearly back into nature, or a lifelong of the exotic pet trade. Among the finally the day came when she could Ranch, a 1,250-acre HSUS sanctuary Barnstable Harbor before lifting sold for slaughter. Rescued home at the sanctuary or with long-term guests are 44 feral cats be released to the center’s enclosed in nearby Murchison. The doe was into the sky. in 2005, she was one of the an adoptive family. from San Nicolas—animals who pond to continue her recovery. so malnourished that she died Birds account for more than original horses sent to Duchess Staff at our care centers would have been killed if The HSUS Species from squirrels to opos- before the transfer, but the buck half of the animals treated at at its opening in 2008. give these animals the life and hadn’t relocated them from the sums to herons to ducks recuperate and three fawns now live together the center, located along a major On hilly pastures, mares dignity they deserve, while our federally owned island. As staff try at the facility. Last year, more on a 35-acre plot at the ranch—four migratory route. In 2010, more from the Premarin farms graze campaign staff work toward to train and adopt them out, the than 12,500 animals enjoyed the of the more than 1,200 animals, from than 1,400 orphaned and injured with their equine companions. ending the intentional cruelty animals roam a 4,000-square-foot center’s hospitality on their way chimpanzees to an ostrich, to receive creatures from all over Cape In 2010, the young sanctuary and accidental suffering that enclosure with trees, rocks, logs, to a second chance. care at the facility in 2010. Cod were cared for by our dedi- built its second winter shelter. brought them to us in the and plank walkways: not the wild, cated staff. first place. There are so many but close. successes, and we celebrate each one.

38 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 39 Securing Their Retirement [ Advancing Humane Science ]

For chimpanzees in research labs, life is a cage lacking In 2010, after discovering the center appeared to be natural light, with loud sounds amplified by concrete violating an NIH ban on breeding federally owned walls, the smell of chemical cleaners, and brief episodes chimpanzees—with 14 of the infant chimps born there of terror when researchers do experiments. No amount mauled to death—The HSUS petitioned the federal of “enrichment”—toys or treats—can make up for the government to stop this taxpayer-supported breeding. boredom, loneliness, and fear of existing in the equivalent “I was sick,” says Jan McDaniel of her reaction to the of a prison cell. undercover video taken at New Iberia. And when the “The lab environment is an insult,” says Rachel Athens, Texas, woman gets angry, she doesn’t just stew Weiss, who used to work at the Yerkes National Primate about it; she acts. So she called The HSUS and ended Research Center in Atlanta. “It’s not OK, and there’s up pledging $100,000 to the Chimps Deserve Sanctuary no way to make it OK.” Fund—half to be used for policy work and half to help In 2010, The HSUS continued pushing to have the pay for chimp retirement. “This will be well-spent if it will nearly 1,000 chimps in U.S. labs moved to sanctuaries, free those apes so they won’t have to suffer at the hands where they can live in conditions simulating their wild of humans,” she says. “If it will free those innocents.” forest homes. In a significant victory for animal protec- A federal bill originally introduced in 2009 would tion groups, the National Institutes of Health reversed require their freedom by retiring the 500 federally owned a plan to bring approximately 190 chimpanzees at New chimps to sanctuaries. After receiving the support Mexico’s Alamogordo Primate Facility out of semi-retire- of 167 cosponsors in Congress, the proposed law was ment. Following the delivery of 25,000 letters from HSUS introduced again in 2011 as the Great Ape Protection supporters, plus HSUS president and CEO Wayne Pacelle’s and Cost Savings Act. appearance at a press conference with New Mexico Gov. “We have a lot of public support,” says Kathleen Say No to Suffering: They’re not A Revolution in Chemical Testing: EU Reforms Accelerated: Animal Bill Richardson, agency officials announced the animals Conlee, HSUS senior director for animal research issues. the kind of incidents that universi- People are exposed to as many as testing alternatives jumped on would not be used for invasive tests until a review of “It’s not a matter of whether it’s going to pass; it’s when.” ties publicize: the mice found alive 100,000 chemicals in the modern the fast-track with the 2010 launch chimpanzee research is completed. The HSUS also worked to get companies that have in freezers after botched eutha- environment. Maybe 4 percent have of a groundbreaking collabora- At the same time, The HSUS released additional find- tested on chimpanzees to pay for their care when nasia attempts. The animals who’ve been adequately tested for safety. tion between Humane Society ings about the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana, they are moved to sanctuaries. Using its weight as a overheated and died when anti- That’s primarily because conventional International and leading where a 2009 undercover investigation revealed more shareholder, The HSUS gained a pledge of retirement quated temperature regulation methods—using animals—are slow scientists. The AXLR8 initiative is than 300 alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act. funds from Abbott Laboratories. systems failed. The monkeys who’ve and expensive. helping to spur a worldwide transi- languished in extreme pain for They’re also inhumane, likely tion to animal-free safety testing weeks during virus studies. causing the suffering and deaths of using state-of-the-art human cell Poring over government records millions of animals each year in the systems, robotics, and computer and published studies, The HSUS U.S. alone. In November 2010, The modeling, says HSI’s Troy Seidle. is prying open the closed doors HSUS and partners gathered govern- HSI also helped secure EU of university research labs—and ment, academic, and industry experts approval of animal-free tests for uncovering countless examples in Washington, D.C., to build support detecting contaminants in shell- of animals who suffer and die for a proposed 15-year, $2 to $3 billion fish, which will spare hundreds of needlessly. By the end of 2010, Human Toxicology Project. Modeled thousands of animals from lethal more than 60 universities and on the Human Genome Project and poisoning tests. And years of work colleges had responded to our based on recommendations from a paid off in September when the campaign urging them to adopt National Academy of Sciences’ report, EU passed new lab animal legisla- policies that prohibit severe animal the massive animal-free undertaking tion that extends protections to suffering. For the holdouts, we’re would focus on high-speed automated more species, promotes alterna- mobilizing students, faculty, alumni, tests on human cells and tissues. tives, and requires a higher level and other stakeholders to press for These techniques would provide of ethical review. As 2010 came change. “They don’t need to have quicker, more accurate results. to a close, HSI enlisted celebrity an animal suffering severely to learn Thomas Hartung, director of the support for its Cruelty-Free 2013 what they are seeking to learn,” Center for Alternatives to Animal campaign: Sporting an “End Animal says The HSUS’s Kathleen Conlee. Testing at Johns Hopkins University, Testing” temporary tattoo, singer “This is a commonsense thing says the project would be a watershed Leona Lewis urged EU politicians to we’re asking institutions to do.” for science. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime keep their promise to ban the sale opportunity.” of animal-tested cosmetics in 2013.

402 | The The HSUS HSUS 2010 | Annual 2010 AnnualReport Report The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report 41 [ State by State ]

[ 2010 Outreach ] The HSUS’s state directors stand up for animals at their state capitols, network 12,101,729 members and constituents support The HSUS’s work with grassroots campaigners, assist local shelters, and 7,634,509 people visit The HSUS’s website, 466,134 are our Facebook fans, help with The HSUS’s field and nearly 1.5 million online advocacy actions are taken rescues. For more information, visit humanesociety.org/ HSUS videos receive more than 4 million viewings statecontacts.

2,341 advocates attend our Animal Care Expo and Taking Action for Animals conferences Alabama, Mindy Gilbert Arizona, Kari Nienstedt California, Jennifer Fearing Colorado, Holly Tarry HSUS Faith Outreach Campaign The Cove’s Connecticut, Annie Hornish director Christine Gutleben (left) Louie Psihoyos Florida, Jen Hobgood Georgia, Jessica DuBois Hawaii, Inga Gibson Idaho, Lisa Kauffman Illinois, Kristen Strawbridge Indiana, Anne Sterling Iowa, Carol Griglione Kentucky, Pam Rogers Louisiana, Julia Breaux Maine, Katie Lisnik Maryland, Tami Santelli , Alexis Fox [ How You Can Help ] Michigan, Jill Fritz Every gift you give, no matter how large or small, helps The HSUS protect Minnesota, Howard Goldman more animals. Simply choose the method of support: Mississippi, Lydia Sattler Make a Kindred Spirits memorial donation, or a gift donation to celebrate A Higher Calling: Megachurch pastors, best-selling Starring Roles: Winning an HSUS Genesis Award Missouri, Barb Schmitz a special occasion. authors, seminary professors—even CEOs like Michael was “more valuable to me than winning an Oscar,” Montana, Wendy Hergenraeder Donate monthly through your credit card or bank account. Flaherty of Walden Media, which produced the Narnia says Louie Psihoyos. His documentary The Cove Nebraska, Jocelyn Nickerson Participate in your office’s workplace giving, matching gift, or United Way campaigns. movies—came together for a 2010 summit in Washington, exposed Japan’s dolphin slaughter and “catapul- Nevada, Holly Haley D.C. After the meeting to introduce Christian leaders ted this issue onto the world stage,” says Beverly New Hampshire, Joanne Bourbeau Make a non-cash gift of vehicles, stocks, bonds, or timeshares; dedicate eBay to The HSUS’s Faith Outreach Campaign, Flaherty was Kaskey, senior director of the HSUS Hollywood New Jersey, Kathy Schatzmann proceeds to The HSUS; or create an I Do Foundation wedding registry benefiting us. inspired to teach his children about animal protection, Office. Family Guy and The Ellen DeGeneres New York, Patrick Kwan Leave a legacy through charitable gift annuities, bequests, or insurance policies. using the story in Charlotte’s Web. Show were also among the winners in the annual North Carolina, Kim Alboum To find out more—or to reach a regional Philanthropy officer about making “They loved Charlotte’s bravery and sacrifice and ceremony. Ohio, Karen Minton a larger gift or supporting a specific program—call 1-800-808-7858, email pledged they would have done the same,” Flaherty says. Comedian and actor Hal Sparks stole the lime- Oklahoma, Cynthia Armstrong [email protected], or go to humanesociety.org/gifts. “I told them that The Humane Society was full of two- light at The HSUS’s 2010 Taking Action For Animals Oregon, Scott Beckstead legged Charlottes, people who understood the blessing conference. Peppered with cutting jokes about Pennsylvania, Sarah Speed of protecting animals.” factory farming, his monologue was cheered by South Dakota, Darci Adams “He was just skin and bones. I think he would The campaign also produced a guide to animal protec- hundreds of activists who’d come to learn the Tennessee, Leighann McCollum have died that night or the next day if we tion ministries, such as attracting wildlife to church latest campaign strategies and recharge their Texas, Nicole Paquette hadn’t been there,” says The HSUS’s Adam grounds and running low-cost pet care clinics. The guide’s batteries. It may have been an odd topic for a Vermont, Joanne Bourbeau Parascandola of the tiny black kitten removed writer, Lois Wye, is an attorney by day and a theological funnyman, but the committed advocate takes Virginia, Laura Donahue with more than 150 other cats from an student by night. “We are called to be compassionate and the subject very seriously. “I can’t find an angle Washington, Dan Paul overcrowded Wyoming home in August. Powell was nursed back to health (above) merciful to our fellow humans,” she says. “We are likewise on it, and I dare anyone else to, that actually West Virginia, Summer Wyatt at the Billings Animal Rescue Kare shelter. called to be compassionate and merciful to animals.” supports it in any way,” he says. Wisconsin, Alyson Bodai Your continued support will help many Wyoming, Heidi Hopkins more animals like Powell in the coming year.

42 The HSUS | 2010 Annual Report [ Officers ]

Anita W. Coupe, Esq. [ Financial Operations Report ] For the Year Ending December 31, 2010 Chair of the Board Jennifer Leaning, M.D., S.M.H. Vice Chair of the Board Consolidated Statement of Financial Position Eric L. Bernthal, Esq. Second Vice Chair of the Board Assets Liabilities $26,161,712 Walter J. Stewart, Esq. Cash and cash equivalents 23,757,952 Board Treasurer Receivables 17,335,335 Net Assets Prepaid expenses, deferred charges, and deposits 696,638 Unrestricted 134,979,635 Wayne Pacelle Redeemed Securities 12,829,601 Temporarily restricted 36,365,535 President & CEO Investments, at market value 156,352,256 Permanently restricted 33,761,030 Michael Markarian Property and equipment, net of depreciation 20,296,130 Total Net Assets $205,106,200 Chief Operating Officer Total Assets $231,267,912 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $231,267,912 G. Thomas Waite III Treasurer & CFO Andrew N. Rowan, Ph.D. Consolidated Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets Chief International Officer

Roger A. Kindler, Esq. Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Year Ending Dec. 31, 2010 General Counsel & CLO Revenue Janet D. Frake Contributions and grants 106,991,568 21,475,287 2,116 128,468,971 Secretary Bequests 22,342,970 4,478,107 53,226 26,874,303 Investment income 1,778,573 1,815,575 454,472 4,048,620 Other income, net 1,055,766 (391,450) - 664,316 [ Board of Directors ] Total Revenue $132,168,877 $27,377,519 $509,814 $160,056,210

Jeffrey J. Arciniaco, Boca Raton, Fla. Transfers (net assets released from restrictions) 37,496,782 (37,496,782) - - Eric L. Bernthal, Esq., Washington, D.C. Revenue and Other Additions $169,665,659 $(10,119,263) $509,814 $160,056,210 Barbara S. Brack, Greenwich, Conn. Jerry Cesak, La Jolla, Calif. Expenses and Other Deductions Anita W. Coupe, Esq., Biddeford Poole, Maine Neil B. Fang, Esq., CPA, Hewlett Neck, N.Y. Animal protection programs Research and education 21,760,202 - - 21,760,202 Jane Greenspun Gale, Las Vegas, Nev. Cruelty prevention programs 22,594,000 - - 22,594,000 Jonathan D. Kaufelt, Esq., Santa Monica, Calif. Direct care and service 27,221,847 - - 27,221,847 Paula A. Kislak, D.V.M., Santa Barbara, Calif. Advocacy and public policy 52,743,174 - - 52,743,174 Jennifer Leaning, M.D., S.M.H., Lincoln, Mass. Supporting services Kathleen M. Linehan, Esq., Washington, D.C. Management and general 6,366,563 - - 6,366,563 John Mackey, Austin, Texas Fundraising 26,263,566 - - 26,263,566

William F. Mancuso, Brookfield, Conn. Total Expenses and Other Deductions $156,949,352 - - $156,949,352 Mary I. Max, New York, N.Y. Patrick L. McDonnell, Edison, N.J. Change in net assets from operations 12,716,307 (10,119,263) 509,814 3,106,858 Judy Ney, New York, N.Y. Realized and unrealized gain on investments 10,043,690 51,430 - 10,095,120 Sharon Lee Patrick, New York, N.Y. Change in Net Assets Before Postretirement Benefits $22,759,997 $(10,067,833) $509,814 $13,201,978 Judy J. Peil, St. Louis, Mo. Marian G. Probst, New York, N.Y. Postretirement benefits adjustment 523,496 - - 523,496 Jonathan M. Ratner, Shaker Heights, Ohio Change in Net Assets $23,283,493 $(10,067,833) $509,814 $13,725,474 Joshua S. Reichert, Ph.D., Washington, D.C. Walter J. Stewart, Washington, D.C. Net assets at January 1, 2010 111,696,142 46,433,368 33,251,216 191,380,726 Andrew Weinstein, Washington, D.C. Net Assets, End of Year $134,979,635 $36,365,535 $33,761,030 $205,106,200 Jason Weiss, Pacific Palisades, Calif. Persia White, Burbank, Calif. The audited version of this report had not yet been released at press time. The figures will be updated, if necessary, at humanesociety.org. David O. Wiebers, M.D., Overland Park, Kan. Lona Williams, Los Angeles, Calif. Cover: Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Inside Cover, Clockwise from left: Paul Vernon; Michelle Riley/The HSUS; Anne Marley; The HSUS; Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 1, from Top: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images; Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images; Kristian Dowling/Picture Group. Page 2: Paul Markow Photography. Page 3, all images: sally ryan. Page 4: Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 5: Bradly J. Boner. Page 6, from left: Kathy Milani/ The HSUS; Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 7, clockwise from top: Michelle Riley/The HSUS; Kathy Milani/The HSUS; Alex Gallardo; Kathy Milani/The HSUS. [ National Council ] Page 8-9: Paul Vernon. Page 10-11: The HSUS. Page 12, from left: Stephan Zabel; Sarah Rice. Page 13, From Left: Babur Saglam/istock; Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 14: Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 15-17: Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 18, from left: Costanza/The Times-Picayune; Katie CampBell; M.J. Masotti Jr./ Roberta Ashkin, New York, N.Y. Corbis. Page 19, from left: Michelle Riley/The HSUS; Tim Mueller; Wendy Meyer/Sacramento SPCA. Page 20: Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 21: Melissa Farlow/ National Geographic Stock. Page 22: Michael Bernard/HSI. Page 23: franzfoto.com/alamy. Page 24: Thomas Lazar/naturepl.com. Page 25, from left: Susan Atherton, San Francisco, Calif. M. Watson/Ardea.com; Humane wildlife services. Page 26, from left: James Hager/Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty Images; Anne Marley; Howard Berk, Scarsdale, N.Y. Natphotos/Photodisc/Getty Images. Page 27, from left: Kathy Milani/The HSUS; Alex J. HassoN. Page 28, From left: Gray Mitchell/HSI; Brandon Cole. James Costa, Los Angeles, Calif. Page 29, from left: Brandon cole; Snorkel Bob; norbert wu/minden pictures. Page 30: Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 31: Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 32: Jennifer Faga, Montauk, N.Y. Kathy Milani/The HSUS. Page 33, from left: Kathy Milani/The HSUS; Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 34-35: Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 36, from left: Mike Bizelli; Linda Goddard, Essex, Conn. Humane Society of Missouri. Page 37, from left: Pat Portell; Whitney Curtis; JONATHAN BECKER. Page 38, from left: Ray Eubanks; Vince DeWitt. Frances Hayward, East Hampton, N.Y. Page 39, from left: Stefan Harsch/The HSUS; Holly Shaw/The HSUS; Jennifer Kunz/The HSUS. Page 40: Michelle Riley/The HSUS. Page 41, from left: Anni Betts; lculig/shutterstock; Christopher Ameruoso. Page 42, From left: Andrea J. WRight; Tim Long/Long Photography. Page 43, from top: Paul Ruhter; Cathy Kangas, New Canaan, Conn. bradly j. boner. page 44: Yanick VallÉe/fotolia. Peggy Kaplan, Columbus, Ohio Jessica Moment, San Francisco, Calif. Ardath Rosengarden, Boca Raton, Fla.­­ Cheri Shankar, Beverly Hills, Calif.