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An Unprecedented Year

SINCE 1954, THE OF THE (HSUS) has worked to create a more humane world through our programs and campaigns, regional offices, and global affiliates. We made an unprecedented leap forward in 2005 by joining with The Fund for Animals, which was founded by the legendary in 1967. Combining forces with The Fund represented a significant step toward uniting the entire humane movement in one powerful voice and streamlined our operations, freeing more resources for action on behalf of animals. This historic union also produced the youngest member of our family of organizations—the Humane Society Legislative Fund—and a new section devoted to major campaigns against factory farming, animal fighting and cruelty, the fur industry, and inhumane practices, as well as the nation’s largest in-house animal protection litigation department. The year also saw unprecedented action—a massive mobilization to rescue animals left in the wake of natural disaster—and our staff and members rose to the challenge with unprecedented dedication and generosity.

and helped offset costs to allow the sale Helping and Their People of more than 100,000 copies for only 99 cents each. Our Pets for Life® program continued to In close cooperation with several provide a wealth of resources to help Massachusetts organizations, we put our caregivers solve the problems weight heavily behind an initiative to ban that too often separate them greyhound racing, prevent cruelty to service from their pets. We also , and provide stronger penalties for produced new billboards, dogfighters in the state. Our staff was flyers, and print advertisements instrumental in collecting more than 115,000 to raise awareness about the signatures, the first step to get the measure inherent in on the November ballot. the commercial And five years after passage of mass the Safe Air breeding industry Travel for for our Stop Puppy Animals Mills campaign and Act—which launched a special fund required to help place these airlines to materials. report the loss, We worked with Pets injury, and Incredible to develop death of pets the Training Your Adopted Dog during travel— DVD to assist families with new we were successful in our efforts to pass a pets. To help animal shelters final rule. Airlines now must report any across the country distribute complaints to the Department of the DVD, we provided funding Transportation’s Aviation Consumer for 7,000 free sample copies Protection Division. —3— Our tenth annual National Supporting the Animal Appreciation Week in November again high- lighted the work of local shelters, and we held Sheltering Community a Super Shelter Stories contest with prizes from sponsors including Patrick McDonnell We began working with the Humane Alliance of Mutts® comics, King Features Syndicate; Spay/Neuter Clinic of Asheville, North Carolina, Banfield, The Hospital®; Southwest to create a nationwide network of 27 new Airlines®; and Hill’s® Science Diet®. spay/neuter clinics. And through an HSU and Humane Society ongoing partnership with the Press (HSP) published the first University of North Carolina at two books in our new Shelter Charlotte, we developed the Shelter Management series for animal Diagnostic Survey to help animal care and control professionals: shelters operate more effectively. Volunteer Management for We also launched a new partnership Animal Care Organizations and with New York-based Neighborhood Fund-Raising for Animal Care to support feral colony Organizations. We redesigned our management with an online course www.AnimalSheltering.org and and outreach to local trap-neuter- www.HumaneSocietyU.org websites return programs. We worked with with more features and launched Almost 1,400 sheltering Energize, Inc., to develop Everyone Ready™, a a new monthly e-newsletter for the professionals received invaluable training at free online program offering training and sheltering community, The Scoop. Animal Care Expo 2005 resources in volunteer management that has Animal Sheltering® in Atlanta, Georgia. reached more than 600 participants from 11 magazine intro- countries. And our Animal Services Consultation duced the first program completed seven shelter evaluations full-color issue, in 2005 and launched an internship program. and we expanded Humane Society University (HSU) the magazine provided training for nearly 3,300 animal to 52 pages care and control personnel during the year, of informative conducting more than 30 workshops, adding articles. We also produced the year’s 10 online courses, and launching both an Shelter Pages® directory of products online graduate certificate in organizational and services for sheltering leadership program with Duquesne University’s professionals. School of Leadership and Professional Advancement and our Pets for Life behavior certificate program with the support of the Protecting Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust. Our youth education affiliate, the at Home and Abroad National Association for Humane and Environmental Education (NAHEE), developed Our Protect Seals campaign the seventh workshop in our Teach Kids to to stop Canada’s annual commercial Care professional development series for seal hunt continued to build momentum sheltering professionals, and during the year during the year, with more than 400 this series reached more than 800 participants. restaurants and several distributors— Almost 1,400 people attended our Animal including Publix, the largest employee-owned Care Expo 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. More than U.S. supermarket chain—joining our boycott of 40 educational workshops and a sold-out Canadian seafood until the slaughter ends for exhibit hall continue to make Expo the largest good. Greenland barred all imports of Canadian animal care and control conference in the seal pelts in early 2006, closing a major market country. As part of our Safe Cats™ campaign to to Canada, and we led demonstrations at keep cats safely confined, we also organized a Canadian embassies and consulates around conference for sheltering professionals in the world. We also kept pressure on Red Montana. Lobster—a major purchaser of Canadian —4— Bearing Witness

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T others by mountains and forest. In that wild landscape, animals were part Our Protect Seals campaign against Canada’s of my daily life—the comical who would spend the night in our commercial seal hunt gained momentum with demonstrations around the world. yard, the friendly moose who lived among our cherry trees, the families of whales who swam through the bay. seafood—-to stand with us against the hunt But my most powerful early memory of an animal is of a seal. I was and sent new outreach materials to 10,000 five years old. I’d turned on our television, and staring out at me was a producers, directors, and film professionals, fluffy white pup with luminous black eyes. My initial thrill turned quickly among others, to generate support. to horror as a sealer strode onscreen and brutally began clubbing her. I We arranged a partnership with vintage remember sobbing as I asked my mother what it was. She answered, “It’s clothing chain Buffalo Exchange to promote the seal hunt, and we’re against it.” I didn’t know then how significant our Coats for Cubs program, which that moment really was for me. distributes donated fur garments to wildlife Twenty years ago, most people thought the commercial seal hunt rehabilitators for use comforting the animals had been ended for good. But in the mid-1990s, the Canadian government in their care. We also directed People subsidized its return, paying fishermen per pound of seal they killed. As magazine readers to our the death toll skyrocketed, I swore I would do everything in my power to Fur-Free Pledge with stop the hunt. Over the past decade, it has become my life’s work. several full-page anti-fur I’ve observed the hunt for seven years, documenting horrific acts of ads. We took our message cruelty and exposing the images to the world. It’s almost unbearably hard of compassion directly to do. The pups, most less than a month old, are completely trusting and to designers, stylists, and defenseless. The seals’ celebrity trendsetters at cries as they are beaten New York City’s Fashion haunt listeners long after Week. To reach the next they have left the ice. generation of fashion Canadian law renders us designers, we launched the first annual Cool powerless to intervene. vs. Cruel student fashion design contest We stand on the floes promoting fur-free couture with the Art with the only weapons we Institutes of America. And we organized the can legally carry—our second Design Against Fur competition for cameras. I take some art design students. comfort in knowing that, for the sealing industry, We took I

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S HSUS, and a few months later I stood in the midst of the hunt with my U S H new colleagues. I remember their courage facing sealers armed with E H T knives and clubs. I remember how we moved forward, filming the dead We focused our Hunting Issues campaign and dying seals the sealers left behind. And I remember one injured pup, on canned and Internet hunting—in which only three weeks old, raising her battered head. She had huddled next to paying customers shoot confined animals for a dead seal, trying to find protection in that small cold body. Her a fee—with new print materials and public bewildered, agonized cries—which continued for the 90 minutes the policy action. Our investigators sealers left her in agony—illustrated far better than I ever could why this exposed a tax scam through terrible slaughter must end. which trophy hunters wrote off Experiences like these compel me to continue in this struggle. And their trips by donating mounted even as I prepare to leave once again for ice soon to be stained with kills to pseudo-museums. And in blood, I know we are winning. The HSUS is closing markets around the Michigan, our volunteers world for seal products, and our global boycott of Canadian seafood has secured a spot on the state already achieved the support of hundreds of distributors and restaurants ballot after collecting more than and hundreds of thousands of individuals. And with the dedication of 275,000 signatures—116,000 members like you, we will stop this hunt. —Rebecca Aldworth, Director, Canadian Wildlife Issues, —5— Wildlife and Habitat Protection Natural Progression

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN 1973, I saw a young woman We collected more than named speak about her work in East Africa. Dr. Goodall 275,000 emotionally described the complex lives and distinct personalities of signatures in the chimpanzees she had come to know in the wild. By the end of her Michigan to secure a spot lecture, there wasn’t a dry eye in the audience—and my own eyes were on the ballot wide open to the fact that these animals were not commodities to be in November to ban dove used without regard. hunting in the Six years later, I became acquainted with The HSUS through my state for good. mentor, John Fish, who was responsible for writing and installing the software for the organization’s first computers. Like many others at The more than were needed—for a measure to HSUS then and now, John was a behind-the-scenes master of economizing stop the shooting of hundreds of thousands and organizing. He knew how to utilize every donated dollar effectively, of doves for two seasons until voters decide and I admired him greatly. Tragically, John’s heart gave out suddenly in the issue in November 2006. 1983, when he was only 42 years old. Stunned by his death but sensing Our Urban Wildlife Program the need to continue his efforts, I came to The HSUS to take his place. worked to help people resolve Now 23 years later, I conflicts with their wild have had the honor to work neighbors, and we continued under John Hoyt, Paul to produce our colorful Wild ™ Irwin, and — Neighbors News newsletter for three visionary leaders who Urban Wildlife Sanctuary Program each inspire staff members members, as well as a special Wild to reflect on the greater Neighbors 2006 Engagement Calendar with full- goal of creating a truly page wildlife images humane society. Wayne for every week of reminds us to ask ourselves the year. We also

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S lions in Oregon, H During my years with E H The HSUS, my responsibilities T box turtles in have grown and changed, allowing ever more ways to help ever more Maryland, gopher tortoises in Florida, and animals. Most recently, thanks to The HSUS’s union with The Fund for white-tailed deer in Massachusetts. Animals, my duties grew to include oversight of our animal care centers We continued on the East and West Coasts and at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty our Canada goose . At these facilities staff members rescue, rehabilitate, and provide management sanctuary for animals in need. After many years behind the scenes, my program in cities position now includes working directly with the animals. I can’t overstate across the country, the satisfaction this brings. and our Goose Sometimes changing society seems a slow process. When that’s the Tracks newsletter case, I think back to the days when spaying and pets was the kept local exception rather than the rule; when shelters as a matter of course sold volunteers dogs and cats to laboratories for use in testing; when cockfighting and updated on the We led regional projects to latest developments. protect box turtles and other dogfighting were either legal or treated as minor infractions in most animals from coast to coast. states; and when consumers rarely considered how meat and dairy As part of our products were produced. The HSUS has been a part of virtually every Reptiles as Pets campaign, we change, and I’ve been right there to help. Could there be a better way worked with the Centers for to spend one’s professional life? Disease Control and Prevention When I look into the eyes of the three chimpanzees who have a on joint materials to educate home at Black Beauty Ranch, I am reminded of the importance of ending the public about risks posed the need for sanctuaries in the first place. I also remember Dr. Goodall’s by the pet reptile trade. lecture, and I’m grateful again to her for getting me to think about the And with new sanctuaries and plight of animals all those years ago—something I now do every day. protective agreements established —Katherine B. Liscomb, Vice President, during the year, The HSUS Wildlife Administration and Animal Care Centers Land Trust is involved in the —6— A Broader Scale I REMEMBER WORKING AS A DOCTOR ON AN AIDS WARD, watching protection and people disintegrate before my eyes and wondering where this disease conservation of originated. I was surprised to learn that the AIDS virus may have begun in 925,000 acres of chimpanzees before being transferred into the human population through wildlife habitat in 27 states and four the butchering of primates for bush meat in Africa. foreign countries—of which more than 73,000 In fact, most of humanity’s greatest killers—including smallpox, acres are set aside as permanent sanctuaries tuberculosis, and measles—seem to have originally come from where wild animals are protected from domesticated animals raised for slaughter. And with the intensification of hunting, trapping, development, and animal agriculture over the past few decades, new diseases have emerged commercial logging. The Trust also from the animal world at an unprecedented rate. We have no cure for continued keeping donors up-to-date many of them—such as AIDS, mad cow disease, and antibiotic-resistant with our Wildlife Lands newsletter. super bugs—but we know with certainty that we need to stop them from emerging in the first place by targeting the source: the human-animal interface. That’s why I came to work for The HSUS. Combating Animal Fighting Much of the blame for these emerging diseases can be laid at the doorstep of industrial animal agriculture, which in the United States alone and Cruelty confines 10 billion animals inside filthy factory or degraded feedlots to live atop their own waste, a veritable breeding ground for disease. Several important animal Before factory fighting busts occurred farming, our during the year thanks in grandparents as large part to our help. We children could eat participated in the raid of raw cookie dough the Louisiana “Godfather” with little fear of of dogfighting, Floyd Salmonella. Before Boudreaux, with the

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A fighting industry. contracting a W Our staff also helped multidrug-resistant infection. There used to be no such thing as E. coli the FBI, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 0157:H7, and our burgers could be as pink inside as we wanted without and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) fear that our children would wind up in the hospital. raid one of the country’s largest illegal What’s best for animal health is often best for human health. When cockfighting pits; 144 participants were birds are crammed into cages so small they can’t even spread their arrested, and more than 300 birds were wings, when mother pigs are locked into metal crates so narrow they seized. And a second large can’t even turn around, when calves are forced to live chained by their pit in Tennessee closed necks in the darkness of farms—the stress of prolonged confinement when the FBI announced compromises their welfare as well as their immune systems, making them it was going to seize the more susceptible to pathogens they can then transfer to consumers. property. We helped police Some of these animals live in such squalor that they are routinely fed in an Iowa municipality antibiotics to assist them to slaughter weight, a practice that may leave raid two suspected antibiotic residues that foster resistance among human germs, making it cockfighting properties; 40 more difficult for us to treat patients. No wonder the American Public birds were seized and one suspect was convicted of

Health Association is calling for a moratorium on the building of any S U S H more factory farms in the United States. felony cockfighting and E H Now, with avian flu threatening to trigger a pandemic that could narcotics violations. We T We helped shut down potentially touch millions of Americans, never before has it been more also joined a sheriff’s the nation’s largest important to look critically at modern intensive animal agriculture. And office in the state in a illegal cockfighting pits cockfighting raid during in Tennessee, as well that’s what I work toward every day. I’m still practicing medicine at The as other cockfighting HSUS---just on a broader scale. which two suspects were operations in Iowa —Michael Greger, M.D., Director, Public Health and Animal Agriculture, arrested and 13 birds and California. —8— © NICLAS ABERG/DREAMSTIME.COM THE HSUS seized. And we helped the sheriff’s cruelty is now part of the regular curriculum The HSUS Wildlife Land Trust developed an department in a California county with a at the Vermont Police Academy, thanks to innovative partnership cockfighting raid in which California Game our efforts. We also were members of the to help protect habitat on nearly 850,000 acres near Farm owner Richard Bohn and 28 others were steering committee of the the (above arrested and 58 birds, hundreds of fighting newly formed State of left). We trained law enforcement professionals implements, thousands of dollars, weapons, Massachusetts Animal from Massachusetts to and drugs were seized. Response Team and California to combat illegal We helped local law enforcement and participated in its first animal fighting (middle). And Hurricane Katrina humane agencies in Iowa seize 200 animals training summit for 300 was only one of the from a property—including 60 and 59 participants. And our First Strike® program disasters we responded to during the year (right). dogs and cats—because of animal . to expose the connection between animal The sheriff of a county in ’s Ozark cruelty and human violence facilitated 25 Mountains deputized our staff to help workshops here and abroad for more than develop a case against hoarders Tammy 1,500 attendees. and William Hanson. We arranged care for more than 470 dogs, two cats, and three goats found in deplorable conditions, and— Responding to Disaster as a result of our investigation—the Hansons were convicted on 20 counts of misdemeanor Hurricane Katrina was not the only disaster animal cruelty. We also assisted the sheriff’s affecting animals and people around the office of a Tennessee county in an world during the year. (See page 12 for a investigation of a hoarder with almost special report on our Katrina efforts.) When 40 animals on her property. Hurricane Dennis threatened the Gulf Coast, Our staff helped we helped evacuate animals investigate the “Waggin from a Mississippi humane Tails” facility in Woods society. We were also County, Oklahoma, instrumental in the resulting in the rescue Hurricane Rita We also response in Texas, responded when of 57 breeding dogs Hurricanes housed in helping run evacuation Dennis, Wilma, sites in Nacogdoches and Rita trailers. And we threatened provided important and Lufkin where coastal all but three of 457 communities S

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Asia late in 2004, Humane Society H Idaho, and San Diego, California. Animal T —9— Humane Society International—- our global arm—-supported relief efforts following the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia late in 2004 and a massive earthquake in Pakistan and heavy flooding in India.

International (HSI)—our including the American Veterinary Medical global arm—supported Association’s Task Force, the World relief and rebuilding efforts Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) following heavy flooding International Coalition for Farm Animal in India, a devastating Welfare, the Whole Foods Market® Animal I S

H earthquake in Pakistan, Compassionate program, and the Food and hurricanes in Mexico, Jamaica, the Alliance. Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas. Our staff also collaborated with town councils and local residents to fight factory farm expansions and made Protecting Farm Animals presentations on humane farming policies at venues from the New Our Factory Farming campaign launched a Jersey State Bar Association’s major effort condemning the use of inhumane annual meeting to the Harvard “battery cages” in egg production that led University Divinity School. And to an extraordinary number of important we created The HSUS Guide to victories for farm animals. Because of our Vegetarian Eating to provide work, Wild Oats® Natural everyone practical help with Marketplace, Jimbo’s ... adopting a more humane diet. Naturally!, and Earth Fare™ all discontinued sales of eggs from caged birds. Ending the Suffering of And after four months of direct negotiation Research Animals and grassroots action, Trader Joe’s® agreed to Our work to alleviate animal use only cage-free eggs suffering in laboratories and for its corporate , to support humane biology which has sales of classrooms continued during more than 100 million the year. We provided advice eggs per year. After working with us, on standards of care for the food service provider Bon Appétit— national sanctuary system which purchases eight million shell for chimpanzees retired from eggs annually—announced a phase-in research and continued our for cage-free eggs, and grocery chain campaign against the Lethal New Seasons dramatically reduced the Dose 50 Percent test in number of battery eggs it offers. And we Botox® Cosmetic production. We sent information persuaded many dining services to enact cage- on humane We sent information to alternatives free egg polices—by year’s end more than 70 thousands of teachers and to classroom colleges and universities had either ended or students in Oregon dissection to students and To combat the abuses of factory curtailed their use of battery eggs. about the state’s teachers through- farming and promote more- We spearheaded a coalition collecting student dissection out Oregon. humane agricultural practices, we worked with local, state, signatures in Arizona to place a measure on choice bill and our Humane federal, and international the November ballot prohibiting the use of Education Loan Program, which agencies and organizations. gestation and veal crates. We provided provides the free use of dissection input to the South Dakota Agriculture alternatives, and created a guide Department on beef production standards, for student choice policy activists. the Food and Drug Administration on We also served on the cloning risks, the Environmental Protection planning committee of the Fifth Agency on factory farm emissions, the World Congress on Alternatives National Organic Standards Board, and the and Animal Use in the Life USDA on . We also Sciences in Berlin; participated in meetings participated in several committees of the American Association for Laboratory developing farm animal welfare standards, Animal Science, the International Council for —10— Laboratory Animal Science, and the National Academy of Sciences; and continued producing our quarterly Pain & Distress Report newsletter for the research community, as well as a new electronic newsletter on animal research developments. Providing Hands-On Care

The Fund for Animals operates direct care programs from coast to coast in partnership with The HSUS. In 2005, with the generous support of the Renner Foundation, construction of a new 20,000 square foot chimp yard at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas was completed. During the year, the ranch provided sanctuary for more

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animals, E H as well as T A large new chimp yard was sheltering completed at the Cleveland Amory 500 of 1,000 Black Beauty Ranch in Texas. broiler chicks we rescued from a factory farm destroyed by Hurricane Katrina; 300 of the birds were later placed in other sanctuaries, and the rest will live at Black Beauty in a new chicken house and yard. In Massachusetts, the Cape Wildlife Center admitted 1,495 injured, ill, and orphaned animals in 2005 and provided training for more than 20 veterinary and college students from the United States and abroad. We also continued our support of the Cape Cod Taskforce and the

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—11— Responding to Katrina Meeting the Challenge

URRICANE KATRINA HAD A MASSIVE IMPACT ON OUR WORK H in the last months of 2005—an impact that will continue long into the future. When the disaster struck in late August, we turned out in force to cooperatively operate large-scale temporary emergency sheltering facilities at Gonzales, Louisiana, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and to outfit and staff an innovative overflow shelter at the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana. Thousands of volunteers and professionals traveled to the stricken areas, and we helped coordinate their efforts and cover their field expenses. Our logistical support brought millions of dollars worth of essential supplies and services to the afflicted zones. We paid for the facilities and refrigerated transport vehicles that supported operations and carried animals out of the area. After Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in late August, we launched a massive response to provide for We even chartered planes to fly rescued animals to local shelter the storm’s animal victims. We cooperatively operated facilities in other states to make room for more brought in from large-scale temporary emergency sheltering facilities at Gonzalez, Louisiana, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, that the field. In the end we helped rescue and provide care for more in the end helped rescue and care for more than 10,000 than 10,000 lost and abandoned animals on the Gulf Coast. lost and abandoned animals. Our staff also spent countless hours during the workweek, in the evenings, and over weekends at our national reunion center answering calls from desperate evacuees and working to help them track down the location of their displaced pets. We eventually helped reunite some 2,500 animals with their families, and our efforts working with animal shelters around the country helped ensure that many other dogs and cats found new loving homes. At press time, we have awarded more than $2.7 million in reimbursement grants to more than 75 local humane societies, animal control agencies, and rescue groups across the country that assisted in Katrina relief efforts by sending staff members to the stricken zones, accepting rescued animals, and working to reunite pets with their families. And to date we have committed more than $7 million in reconstruction grants to organizations affected by Katrina. This includes a $4.5 million grant-and-aid package to the Louisiana SPCA and $665,000 to the Humane Society of South Mississippi—two major organizations whose facilities were destroyed or severely damaged by the storm—-and $250,000 to build a new animal shelter in Hancock County, Mississippi. (For a complete list of the grants our family of organizations awarded in 2005, see page 20.) On Capitol Hill we are also working to secure federal funds for rebuilding all of the animal care and control agencies and shelters in the devastated zones—and we are strongly supporting the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act, which would require state and local authorities to include pets and service animals in their disaster evacuation plans. (See the box for more on the PETS Act.)

—12— Moving Forward We sent teams to conduct large- scale humane trapping to deal with WHILE OUR DISASTER TEAMS toiled homeless dogs and cats in the around-the-clock to meet the immediate affected areas of Louisiana and needs of Hurricane Katrina’s animal victims, Mississippi and supported field we also looked to the needs of pets and operations for these programs, their caretakers during future disasters. We purchasing and distributing worked to build cosponsorship of the Pets hundreds of humane traps. And we Evacuation and Transportation Standards are devoting our resources and $3 (PETS) Act (H.R. 3858)—-introduced by U.S. million in funding to address the Reps. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Christopher problem of pet in Shays (R-CT) in September, less than a the Gulf Coast states by launching month after Katrina made landfall—-to a series of aggressive, low-cost ensure that people are never again forced to spay/neuter initiatives with local choose between their own safety and that of and regional humane their pets when disaster strikes. The PETS organizations, veterinary schools, Act requires local and state emergency and other partners. These efforts preparedness authorities to include in their include grants we awarded to evacuation plans how they will accommodate support the Southern Animal household pets and service animals in the Foundation’s spay/neuter work event of a major disaster. In order to qualify and the Humane Alliance’s “Big for grants from the Federal Emergency As our direct relief efforts wound Management Agency (FEMA), local and down, we began working to rebuild Fix Rig” spay/neuter program, our sheltering capacity in affected joint venture with the ASPCA and state authorities must submit these plans. communities along the Gulf. PetSmart Charities to provide H.R. 3858 passed the House spay/neuter vouchers and a high-volume clinic in Mississippi, and Transportation and Infrastructure a partnership with Louisiana State University to develop a program Committee in April 2006 on the same day modeled after our own Rural Area Veterinary Services program. the Senate version of the bill (S. 2548) was Rescuing stranded animals and providing for their care was introduced by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and perhaps the most Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). We built on our high profile of our success with the House bill to push through disaster response the introduction of S. 2548 in the Senate. efforts, but the The Senate bill also grants FEMA the long road to authority to assist in developing disaster recovery will plans to meet the needs of individuals with require rebuilding pets and service animals; allows financial the ability of local help for states to create and operate sheltering and emergency shelters for people with their animal control animals; and requires the provision of organizations essential assistance for individuals with to effectively household pets and service animals, and provide the the animals themselves, following a major services their Working countless disaster. communities need. hours throughout As we learned too well in the aftermath the workweek and And our work will on evenings and of last year’s hurricanes, the bond between not end until the weekends, our staff people and their pets is so great that it helped reunite some becomes nearly impossible to separate humane infra- 2,500 displaced

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storm hit. O H P are considered part of the family. And we will continue working to ensure that they do. —13— The Cape Wildlife Center also supported the Cape Cod A Promise Remembered Stranding Network’s efforts to rescue stranded marine mammals. WHEN I BEGAN MY CAREER with The Fund for Animals in 1989, Cape Cod I worked on a campaign to stop the notorious Hegins pigeon shoot, Stranding a contest held in every Labor Day in which thousands Network’s of birds were wounded and killed in a macabre carnival atmosphere. efforts to I worked on the issue for more than a decade. Progress often was rescue stranded marine mammals. And for frustratingly slow, and we received much well-intentioned advice local residents we produced from many quarters to “quit wasting our resources” and “find our Wild News and Views a more realistic target.” newsletter and began a new One year, deep into the seemingly endless campaign, my Wild Words lecture series. colleagues and I went to the killing field the day after the shoot to The Fund for Animals collect the pigeons who had been left to die. We found more birds Wildlife Rehabilitation Center than I care to recall—wounded, frightened, in pain, and unable to fly. in California continued to Picking up a pigeon from the ground, I was horrified to see that one provide around-the-clock of her legs was completely gone and the other was hanging by a shred response to calls from of skin. Maimed as she was and peppered with birdshot, there was no individuals and agencies hope for her survival. I will about injured wildlife. never forget holding this bird We rescued and while she died; it was one of released more than 330 those moments that changed rehabilitated patients my life forever. As the breath back into the wild left her small body, I made a during the year and

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strategic planning, every day making tough decisions about where best I S to invest our resources to stop the greatest amount of animal suffering. H Despite the analytical nature of strategic planning, I find that it’s still an ethical dilemma and an emotional decision when weighing “practical” matters or “realistic” compromises, and I recall that dying pigeon on the field at Hegins. I couldn’t save her, but we did save tens of thousands of others from having to share her fate. And while I only rarely get to see the animals on whose behalf we are working these days, I will always remember my promise as we work to create a more humane world. —Heidi Prescott, Senior Vice President, Campaigns —14— THE HSUS HSI NOAA relief efforts around the world. simultaneous rally against In Dallas, Texas, our Spay/Neuter Clinic and Animal In Dallas, our Spay/Neuter Clinic and animal fighting involving Wellness Center staff saw more Animal Wellness Center staff saw 18,631 organizations in 22 than 18,500 patients during the year (above left). Humane patients in 2005, and we provided 5,993 countries on World Society International worked to spay/neuter surgeries. We worked closely Animal Day. promote humane agricultural with the SPCA of Texas on several Our staff traveled methods and curb homeless companion animal populations sterilization projects, including an to Guinea and Sierra in other nations (middle) and immensely successful program with the Leone to assess wild to protect the world’s whales and other wildlife (right). Metroplex Animal Coalition and the city chimpanzee protection of Dallas to provide more than 1,300 free with the Jane Goodall spay/neuter surgeries in targeted areas. Institute in a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiative. We also worked to protect wildlife from the illegal Working around the World wildlife trade and habitat destruction in Southeast Asia and India, along Humane Society International (HSI) worked the Tanzanian/Kenyan border, and on regional projects promoting humane throughout Central America. And we livestock practices in Indonesia, China, and blocked attempts by Inter-American Central America. We also established the Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) Global Livestock member countries to weaken the Working Group as monitoring of tuna fishing vessels that set a formal nets on and worked on successful mechanism within IATTC resolutions to ban shark finning. the United As the result of our five-year campaign, Nations to the European Commission (EC) announced address livestock its intent to ban the import, export, sale, policies and and production of cat and dog fur in promoted humane Europe. And using our research, N N

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A FEDERAL JUDGE HERE IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL once wrote that Concerns. We also collaborated with the “cruel treatment of helpless animals at once arouses the sympathy and Environmental Investigation Agency and indignation of every person possessed of human instincts, sympathy for Greenpeace on a campaign urging seafood giant the helpless creature abused, and indignation towards the perpetrator of Gorton’s parent company to cut its ties with a the act.” The court, like many others before it, recognized that our animal Japanese whaling company. We strengthened protection laws reflect a sort of instinctive or intuitive sense of justice we our efforts in the Caribbean opposing swim- all possess, a hardwired ability to recognize those things around us that with-the- facilities, helping pass laws are wrong—not just awry, prohibiting the captive display of dolphins but horribly and self- and whales in Costa Rica and Chile. evidently wrong. Unlike probate or tax law, for example, animal Supporting Federal Legislation cruelty law deals with this core normative intuition, On Capitol Hill, our work was instrumental in a and what I think is the vote for an Interior Appropriations amendment most important part of our to protect wild horses from commercial legal system. If our laws, slaughter. We then helped secure a landslide customs, and daily vote amending the House Agriculture practices permit things Appropriations bill to prevent slaughter we all should know are for human consumption and later backed a undeniably wrong, then successful Senate the whole legal system is Agriculture failing—rotting at the core. Appropriations It’s a disturbing amendment. When concept then, especially the amendment for lawyers, to think that was threatened in every state an incom- in conference, we E R worked to ensure prehensible number of O M I R

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the exotic T pet trade. lists for these bills. laws in nine states supporting spay/neuter Our staff worked on legislation to programs and helped pass six new state standardize microchipping for pets in the laws allowing pet trusts. country, helped secure a Department of We worked for improvement of farm Transportation study on reducing wildlife- animal laws, supporting committee-level vehicle collisions, supported two approval for bills dealing with foie successful Senate amendments to the gras and antibiotics in four states. M O C We also helped enact new student .

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B dealers who steal pets for research restricting the ownership of exotic O G laboratories, joined with groups working pets in four states. to defeat drilling in the Arctic Refuge, and Our work aided in the helped fend off exemptions for factory introduction and passage of laws farms from environmental laws. banning Internet hunting in 13 states We helped push through new E-mail action alerts during the year. We also helped defeat laws restricting exotic pet S

U ownership in four states and S two bills allowing canned hunting in H we sent on urgent matters supported committee-level E H T generated more than Indiana and a bill to expand the use of approval of bills on foie gras snare traps in Illinois, and we helped production in four states. Our staff helped secure a government study on providing pass anti-trapping bills in Maryland’s safe passage for animals to and New York’s Senates. reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. —19— International Wildlife Coalition, Inc. Return to Freedom, Inc. Grants Iowa Network for Community Agriculture The ROAR Foundation/Shambala Preserve Island Resources Foundation Romania Animal Rescue, Inc. Jane Goodall Institute Rutland County Humane Society Supporting the work of other humane organizations and John Ancrum SPCA SC Dogfighting Task Force Sacramento SPCA Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Sadie Foundation agencies is an important part of our own work, and our family Salvanatura JS Leatherwood Memorial Award Fund San Diego Humane Society and SPCA of organizations awarded grants to the following in 2005. Kathmandu Animal Treatment Center The Sandon Shangri-La All Creatures Kauai Humane Society Big and Small 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting Ban Kenya Society for Protection of Animals Santa Fe Animal Shelter Adams County, Nebraska Compact Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Inc. Kohn Foundation Save Our Friends Association Advocates for Compassion in World Farming Trust Lafayette Animal Control Save the Manatee Club Afghan Stray Animal League Connecticut Council for Humane Education Land Trust Alliance Scooby Agrupacion Cultural Amor a Los Animales Connecticut Municipal Animal Control League of Humane Voters Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, Inc. Agrupacion de Amigos de Los Animales Officers Association The League of Humane Voters of NYC Sierra Club Foundation Alternatives Congress Trust Inc. Conservacion de Mamiferos Maninos de Mexico Lewa Educational Trust Sisters of Charity Amador Community Foundation Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Inc. Lewis & Clark Law School Society of Animal Welfare— American Animal Hospital Association Dandelion Dog Rescue Services Linda Blair Worldheart Foundation Somerset Regional Animal Shelter American Film Institute Days End Farm Horse Rescue Louisiana SPCA Southern Animal Foundation American Horse Council Foundation Denver Dumb Friends League Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Southern Regional Spay/Neuter American Tortoise Rescue Animal Foundation Medicine Leadership Conference Ames Animal Shelter Dubuque Humane Society Makalali Elephant Contraception Program Soy Dog Home Amigos de Los Animales Earth Island Institute/IWC ECO Margaret B. Mitchell Spay/Neuter Clinic Spay-Neuter Assistance Program —Vermillion Area Earthroots Marine Mammals SPCA Cincinnati Animal Aid Society EarthVoice Russia Marquette County Humane Society, Inc. SPCA of Texas East Bay SPCA Marshall Legacy Institute SPCA Visakha—India Animal Alliance Edmonton Humane Society Maryland Environmental Trust Species Survival Network Animal Care Conference 2006 State Humane Elephant Contraception Program Massachusetts Animal Coalition St. Bernard Parish Animal Shelter Association of California El Salvador Animal Protection Society (SPAES) Meadowcreek, Inc. St. Charles Humane Society Animal Concerns Research and Education Society Elsa Nature Conservancy Rescue Stafford Township—Animal Cruelty Account Animal Control Officers Association of Equine Advocates, Inc. Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments State of Maine Animal Welfare Program Massachusetts Esther Honey Foundation Society Stray Rescue of St. Louis Animal Help Foundation Expo 2006 Disaster Presentation Sri Lanka Michigan State University—Animal Science Sullivan County SPCA, Inc. Review—Lewis and Clark Law School Department The Summit for Animals Animal Place Fauna & Flora Preservation Society Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service Sumter DART Logistics Animal Protection New Mexico Fayetteville Animal Services Minnesota Conference Sustainable Food for Siouxland Animal Protection Voters Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Mississippi Board of Animal Health Tennessee Week for the Animals Animal Rescue League of Boston Flanders Fire & Rescue Company No. 1 Missouri Animal Control Association Texas A&M University Animal Rescue League of Iowa Flathead Spay Neuter Task Force, Inc. Monitor Texas Animal Control Association Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire Florida Animal Friend, Inc. Montgomery County Humane Society Texas Federation of Humane Societies Animal Umbrella, Inc. Florida Animal Friends Morgan County Humane Society Texas Humane Legislation Network Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey Florida Gulf Coast University The National Arbor Day Foundation Toronto Wildlife Center Animales S.O.S. Florida Institute Technology Office of Financial Aid National Council for Animal Protection Tsunami Memorial Animal Welfare Trust Animals’ Crusaders Franklin County Humane Society National Council for Science and the Environment Tufts University Wildlife Clinic Animals and Society Institute Frederick County Humane Society National Council of SPCAs Uganda Society for the Protection and Anne K. Taylor Fund Friends of Dogs Natural Resources Council of America Care of Animals Antarctica Project Friends of Forest Park Nebraska Humane Society United Pegasus Foundation Anti-Cruelty Society—Chicago Fundacion Dominicana de Estudios Marinos, Inc. Neighborhood Cats University for Peace Antigua Barbuda Independent Tourism Fundacion Parque Nacional Pico Bonito New England Animal Control Humane Academy University of British Columbia— Promotion Corp. Fundacion Promar New England Federation of Humane Societies The Sea Around Us Project ARCA Brazil Fundacion Restauracion de la Naturaleza New Hampshire Federation of Humane University of Illinois— ARCAS Guatemala Fundacion Vidanimal—Cali Nicaragua Organizations Department of Animal Services Arizona Humane Society Fundacion Zoologica de El Salvador New Jersey Certified Animal-Control University of Iowa Arizonans for Humane Farms Fundacion Zoologica de Nicaragua Officer Association University of Pretoria— Arkansas State Animal Control Association GeesePeace, Inc. New York State Humane Association Department of Reproduction Aruba Animal Shelter Association Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation New York University Upper Valley Humane Society Arusha Society for the Protection of Animals Grand Canyon Trust, Inc. No Voice Unheard US Global Leadership Campaign Arusha SPCA Grenada Society for the Prevention of Northeastern University Van Zandt County Humane Society Asociacion de Rescate de Fauna Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society Vancouver Aquarium Science Center Asociacion de Rescate y Association Grey2K USA The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science Villalobos Rescue Center Asociacion Humanitaria para la Proteccion Greyhound Welfare, Inc. Laboratory Animal Unit Virginia Animal Control Association Animal de Costa Rica Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary Ocean Mammal Institute Virginia Federation of Humane Societies Asociacion Mesa Nacional Campesina Heart, Inc. Ohio County Dog Wardens Association Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Asociacion Mundo Azul Heartland Pet Connection/Hastings Animal Ohio SPCA Vita (Russia) Asociacion Preservacionista de Flora y Fauna Shelter Association Oklahoma Humane Federation The Vital Ground Foundation Association des Amis du Marwar Animals Heckhaven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Oregon Humane Society Walter J. Ernst Jr. Veterinary Medical Foundation Protection Trust Help in Suffering Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary Washington Animal Control Association Association Humanitaria San Francisco de Asisi Henderson County Humane Society Palau Animal Welfare Society Washington Animal Rescue League BAD RAP, Inc. Houston SPCA Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Washington Humane Society Bahamas Humane Society HSI Australia Panhandle Animal Welfare Society Washington Parish Humane Society Beatrice Humane Society Humane Alliance of WNC, Inc. Paw Print Publishing, Inc. Waterkeeper Alliance Sustainable Hog Summit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary Humane Association of Georgia, Inc. Paws in the City Whale and Dolphin Conservation Big Bend Dart, Inc. Humane Farm Animal Care Pearl River County SPCA Society/Alexander House Humane Research Council Pearland Animal Shelter Whelden Memorial Library Boone County Animal Care and Control Humane Society of Boulder Valley Pebble Hill Grove Where Angels Run Inc. Born Free USA Humane Society of Broward County, Inc. Peninsula Citizens for the Protection of Whales Whitingham Animal Care Foundation Botswana SPCA Humane Society of Escambia County Performing Animal Welfare Society Wildcare Africa Trust/ARC Broward Workshop Issues PAC Humane Society of Kent County Pet Group United, Inc. Wildlife Advocacy Project Buchanan County Board of Supervisors Humane Society of Knox County Pet Rescue Society, Inc. Wildlife Clubs of Kenya Bucknell University Student Accounts Humane Society of Mississippi Pet Safe Coalition, Inc. Wildlife Orphanage Inc. Buffalo Field Campaign Humane Society of North Texas Petfinder.com Wildlife Rehabilitation and Nature Calcasieu Parish Animal Service Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region Petsavers Foundation Inc. Preservation Society Inc. Cape Cod Stranding Network Inc. Humane Society of the Ozarks Pets-DC Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Capital Area Humane Society Humane Society of Santa Clara Valley Philippine Animal Welfare Society Wildlife Trust Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition Humane Society of Seattle/King County Physicians for Social Responsibility Winona Area Humane Society Cat Writers Association, Inc. Humane Society of Sebastian County Plaquemines Parish Animal Control Wisconsin Federated Humane Society Center for Wildlife Law University of New Humane Society of Southeast Texas Pooch Parade, Inc. Women’s Edge Coalition Mexico Institute of Public Law Humane Society of South Mississippi Potter League for Animals World Animal Net, Inc. Chester County Treasurer Public Works Humane Society of Washington County Progressive Animal Welfare Society—California World Environment Center Department Illinois Animal Welfare Federation Progressive Animal Welfare Society—Louisiana World Society for the Protection of Animals—UK Chippewa County Humane Association, Inc. Instituto de Pesquisa e Conservacao de Golfinhos Progressive Animal Welfare Society—Washington WSPA Costa Rica Association Churches’ Center for Land and People International Conference on Ecology Pulaski County Humane Society Ya’axche Conservation Trust City of Burleson and Transportation PUPP South Yayasan Pecinta Taman Nasional City of Garden City International Institute for Humane Education Rabbit Sanctuary Yayasan Yudisthira Swarga Colorado Federation of Animal Welfare Agencies International Society for The Raptor Trust Yolo County Animal Services Colorado Veterinary Medical Foundation/SART International Society for the Protection The Recovery Wing York University Committee to Protect Dogs of & Burros Refuge de Thiernay Youth for Conservation Kenya International Society of Regulatory Toxicology Respect for Animals and Pharmacology —20— several new teaching Speaking Out in the Courts aids—including colorful posters on responsible pet care—and Our new Animal Protection Litigation published Into the Wild, a study and activity section has already scored 10 major guide for high school students that victories for animals in the nation’s courts, explores wildlife issues. NAHEE released a and we now have more second edition of The Biting Book to teach than three dozen pending younger children to appreciate wild legal actions. We won animals safely. And HSI inaugurated a court orders halting the program to support the Wildlife Clubs of killing of wolves, protecting Kenya’s efforts to increase appreciation of mountain lions from sport wildlife by children in rural communities. hunting, upholding a We won court federal ban on the orders to protect wolves and other interstate commerce in Carrying Our Message animals. fighting birds, striking down restrictions on the citizen initiative We reached tens of millions of people process, and requiring one of the country’s through e-mails and our website in most notorious dogfighting kingpins to pay 2005. During our Hurricane Katrina more than $100,000 for the care of dogs response, our special online Disaster seized from his operation. Center served as the locus for We also convinced a Missouri information and donations. We also prosecutor to file first-of-their-kind animal launched a newly designed HumaneLines e- cruelty charges against Moark Industries newsletter for our Humane Action Network for disposing of live chickens in a dumpster. and continued to provide pet caregivers , The charges were later dropped in exchange with practical information through vice president of for a $100,000 donation to the local humane our weekly Pets for Life e-newsletter. our Hollywood Office, and Wayne Pacelle, society and an agreement for the defendant Our Hollywood Office’s presentation president and CEO, to adopt more humane practices. of the star-studded Nineteenth Annual at the Nineteenth Annual Genesis Our staff also initiated a record 14 new Genesis Awards ceremony recognizing Awards. legal actions, working to block the canned the major media for raising public hunting of endangered species, halt cock- awareness of animal protection issues fighting in a Louisiana parish, end inhumane was broadcast on Animal Planet. We research on Steller sea lions, limit the also developed Animal Content in transport of farm animals by truck, protect Entertainment, a new program to Atlantic right whales from ship collisions, proactively encourage writers, producers, and require that the nine billion chickens and directors to incorporate animal issues and turkeys killed for food each year in the in their projects. United States be slaughtered humanely. We We filmed Canada’s commerical seal also launched a new animal law clinic with hunt and produced videos promoting our George Washington University’s Law boycott of Canadian seafood to distributors School to improve enforcement of the and restaurants and urging Canadian nation’s animal protection laws by giving officials to stop the hunt. And our footage students experience representing the of rescue and shelter operations in the interests of animals in the courts. aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was aired on CNN, Animal Planet, and television news stations across the country. Teaching the Next Generation HSP produced four new books during the year, including Humane Wildlife The National Association for Humane and Solutions and The State of the Animals III: Environmental Education (NAHEE) reached 2005. And we continued to produce an more than a million children with KIND ever-larger array of award-winning print News™, our monthly classroom newspaper, publications—from brochures and flyers to during the year. NAHEE also developed display booths and airplane tow banners. —21— Our publications won 26 major new awards in 2005, along with three awards for television and Internet ads, and we were again recognized for our commitment to our staff.

We also debuted new designs for All Animals®, We also received our quarterly membership three Pollie Awards from the magazine, and for The Fund American Association of Political Consultants for Animals biannual for a television ad and two online animation donor magazine. Again pieces. For the fourth consecutive year, the this year, we were Maryland Work-Life Alliance recognized gratified by the public The HSUS’s commitment to the well- response to our being of our staff and the surround- publications—and by ing community with an Excellent the 26 major new awards Place to that recognized our work Work Award. from independent The year proved to organizations, including be an extraordinary one eight 2005 American Inhouse Design for our organization and Awards and 10 Design Awards from for the larger humane Graphic Design USA, two 2005 Society of movement. And we National Association Publications (SNAP) will build on the many EXCEL Gold Awards, three 2005 APEX successes we achieved Awards of Excellence, and a Magnum Opus in 2005 during the years to come, Gold and Silver Award and Special Recognition moving ever closer to a truly from Publications Management. humane society.

— Our Partners —

We depend upon the generous financial Diane Hanson Pamela Richard, D.V.M., and support of our members to continue our Robert Hewitt, in memory of his wife Michael L. McCammon, D.V.M. Louise Hewitt Marilyn Richman efforts each year, and Humane Legacy™ gifts Grace M. Holden Bernard and Anne Romanello help ensure that our work will continue long Cheryl Huhn Dr. and Mrs. Walter Rudisch into the future. We gratefully acknowledge Susan Huwaldt Stephanie Thomas Schweigart the following people—as well as those who Diane and Bob Keadle, in memory of their Lisa Segal wished to remain anonymous—who intend daughter Deborah Keadle Buelna and Kay Sharer brother Sgt. Ralph E. Surber, USMC, James M. Shea to name us as beneficiaries in their wills. killed in action in Korea Frank N. Shepard Farida Ahmed, M.D. Carol Keith and John Higgins Jennifer Solari Jane August Sandra L. King Evangeline and Dennis Soter Cindy Benner Craig and Tracey Kleber Billie and Jean Stephenson Helen Benner Mr. and Mrs. Sidney S. Konigsberg Kath Strange and Mark McGrath Stephanie Bennett Vlada P. Leeming Mrs. Gerald M. Strome Bettina Bickel Rita Leonard, in memory of her parents B. Thompson Oriana Bielawksi, in memory of her father, Sheri L. Lunsford Cathy Tibbetts Colonel Stanislaw Bielawski, for his Patricia F. Mahaun Nancy Wintner profound love of animals Lysandra D. Maxim Lauren Wise Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Binder Denna Meidroth Beverly Bryan, in honor of all her pets, Linda Miller We also continue to work with respected past and present, who have shown such Mary P. Mitchell companies to support our animal protection unconditional love Stanley Mitchell programs and promote the human-animal J. Michael Burry Kelley D. Montgomery bond. In 2005, we developed a new initiative Ralph V. Buscha Gary W. Morissette with several corporations to incorporate key Jean Carhart Cindy Morrison Nitsa Chios Heidi A. Myers programs into a multifaceted marketing effort. Laura Coleman Vernon Nelson We gratefully acknowledge the support we Alyce M. Diaz, Esq. Ronald Norat receive from our corporate partners, including Donna and James Duncan Candice Elyse Paulus the more than 50 companies that provided Leo and Denise S. Dunham Patricia Sue Payette Catherine M. Eggar Margaret Liscio Peterson significant assistance during our response to Cheryl Y. Esbenshade Mary E. Powers Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of animals were Linda Mae Frende-Ferro JoAnne McClure Raatz saved thanks to the generous support of these William and Donna Dae Gilchrist Gerald L. and Claude H. Randels companies and our members.

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