Celebrating Animals and Confronting Cruelty
Annual Report 2012 Board of Directors Officers National Council 100,000+ animals received care from The HSUS Jeffrey J. Arciniaco Eric L. Bernthal, Esq. Peggy Kaplan, Chair in 2012—through our disaster relief Boca Raton, Fla. Chair of the Board Columbus, Ohio efforts, cruelty interventions, spay/ neuter and vaccination programs, Eric L. Bernthal, Esq. Jennifer Leaning, M.D., S.M.H. Cheri Shankar, Vice Chair sanctuaries, wildlife rehabilitation Washington, D.C. Vice Chair Beverly Hills, Calif. centers, and more. Here, The HSUS’s Jerry Cesak Jason Weiss Roberta Ashkin, Esq. Adam Parascandola comforts La Jolla, Calif. Second Vice Chair New York, N.Y. Rosie during a dogfighting raid in Kalamazoo, Mich. James Costos Kathleen M. Linehan, Esq. Arthur E. Benjamin Los Angeles, Calif. Board Treasurer Sandy, Utah Anita W. Coupe, Esq. Wayne Pacelle Howard Berk Biddeford Pool, Maine President & CEO Scarsdale, N.Y. Neil B. Fang, Esq., CPA Michael Markarian James D. Berwind Hewlett Neck, N.Y. Chief Program & Policy Officer Philadelphia, Pa. Jane Greenspun Gale Laura Maloney Joyce Doria Las Vegas, Nev. Chief Operating Officer Potomac, Md. Cathy Kangas G. Thomas Waite III Jennifer Faga, D.V.M. New Canaan, Conn. Treasurer & CFO Montauk, N.Y. Paula A. Kislak, D.V.M. Andrew N. Rowan, Ph.D. Linda Goddard Santa Barbara, Calif. Chief International Officer Essex, Conn. Jennifer Leaning, M.D., S.M.H. Roger A. Kindler, Esq. Frances Hayward Lincoln, Mass. General Counsel & CLO East Hampton, N.Y. Kathleen M. Linehan, Esq. Janet D. Frake Christian K. Keesee Washington, D.C. Secretary Oklahoma City, Okla. John Mackey Gwen Ellen Crane Stacey Dorfman Kivowitz Austin, Texas Controller & Deputy Treasurer Dallas, Texas Mary I. Max Theresa Cannon Reese Nikki Lafferty New York, N.Y. Second Deputy Treasurer Pacific Palisades, Calif. Patrick L. McDonnell Bernard O. Unti Jessica Moment Edison, N.J. Assistant Treasurer San Francisco, Calif. Judy Ney Arnold Baer Ardath Rosengarden New York, N.Y. Assistant Treasurer Boca Raton, Fla. Sharon Lee Patrick Patricia A. Gatons New York, N.Y. Assistant Secretary Judy J. Peil Donna L. Mochi St. Louis, Mo. Assistant Secretary Marian G. Probst New York, N.Y. Jonathan M. Ratner Shaker Heights, Ohio Joshua S. Reichert, Ph.D. Washington, D.C. Walter J. Stewart, Esq. Washington, D.C. Andrew Weinstein Washington, D.C. Jason Weiss Pacific Palisades, Calif. David O. Wiebers, M.D. Overland Park, Kan. Lona Williams Los Angeles, Calif. From the President
his report chronicles a year’s worth of struggle and We must turn around these problems by raising awareness and creating a clamor for unparalleled progress for animals. At The HSUS, change, demanding and delivering corporate or public policy reforms, and showing a new and better way with alternative practices or products that make cruelty obsolete. we focus on tangible outcomes—driving public T Very few people or industries that cause harm to animals do their dirty work out in the stay policy and enforcement actions, initiating corporate open. They typically hide it or disguise it, in addition to rationalizing it. They conduct their connected reforms, exposing cruelty and raising public awareness, business or their recreation in the shadows or in some far-off land or port. They do their and bringing relief to animals through our hands-on work far down the supply chain from the consumer. We, as individuals and as a society, are disassociated from so much of the cruelty, and the notion of “out of sight, out of mind” has programs. It’s my hope that this account of those efforts, particularly dire consequences for animals. The fact is, so much animal cruelty depends on twitter.com/humanesociety in all of its granularity and its breadth, inspires you good people not knowing of it. facebook.com/humanesociety to recommit yourself to the organization and to help One great purpose of The Humane Society of the United States is to connect people of pinterest.com/humanesociety advance our vital mission for animals and for the conscience with the reality of what’s occurring with animals. If good people are made aware of an injustice or an abuse, then they will act. When we take collective actions, with thousands READ WAYNE’S BLOG whole of our society. of us demanding change, we can bring about reform on a grand scale. And listen to his podcast with author and radio It has been HSUS staff who have been documenting the killing of baby seals on the show host Tracie Hotchner. It is the people associated with The HSUS who bring its ideals to beautiful but forbidding sea ice floes to the east of mainland Canada, and then telling life. We have a world-class staff of issue and policy experts, lawyers, the world about the slaughter. But for our work, the sealers would conduct their ruthless BE INFORMED veterinarians, medical doctors, scientists, writers and editors, graphic enterprise without anyone—except perhaps the foreign pelt buyers—knowing of it. Instead, AND INSPIRED artists, investigators, researchers, animal care specialists, and so many others. We also people throughout the world, seeing the grim details of the hunt, have demanded that Read our award-winning If good people have a growing corps of volunteers—from our board of directors to our national, state, magazine, All Animals. hsus
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are made aware and issue-specific councils. We have interns, letter writers, petitioners, phone bankers, the It was an HSUS investigator who went undercover to document “soring” of Tennessee search for “All Animals for of an injustice or /
citizen lobbyists, and others as allies in our efforts to drive social reforms for animals. y walking horses—an illegal and cruel training technique conducted to induce the animals to magazine” in the App Store.) an abuse, then They are people like 9-year-old Shira Zeiberg and her sister Brianna, who ask for odfre exaggerate their gait in order to gain an advantage at competitive shows. Without this kind . g . j they will act. donations to The HSUS in lieu of birthday presents for themselves. Or 12-year-old Martin WATCH
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. . It was an HSUS investigation that showed the harsh realities, and the daily privations and us demanding Rescue Team. Or Audrey Steele Burnand, who has made seven-figure contributions to hsus change, we can torments, that chimpanzees endure at biomedical research laboratories where they languish SIGN UP FOR the
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to end shark finning and hound hunting of bears. athy Team to make a critical k to sanctuaries and a life of peaceful retirement. They are The HSUS. And, as a supporter of the organization, you, too, are The HSUS. : difference for animals In all of these cases, the difference is The HSUS. And the difference is you—seeking to right from your phone. spread
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and calling for standards of mercy and decency. It takes intentional action, and it takes the In this report, you’ll read about our teams rescuing animals in crisis—whether from and strength, the strategy, and the vision of an organization like The HSUS, embodied through VOLUNTEER natural disasters, like Superstorm Sandy, or human-caused calamities for animals, like WITH US cover the work of millions of people who dream of good outcomes for animals. puppy mills and dogfights. You’ll also learn of our veterinary work, our programs to resolve Respond to disasters, human-wildlife conflicts, our street dog initiatives in Asia and Latin America, and our direct monitor land trust proper- ties, help animals at our care work at our sanctuaries. care centers, and more. As vital as these hands-on programs are, there is more that we can and must do. Simply put, we cannot rescue our way out of the problems that animals face. We must work to For details, go to prevent cruelty wherever it occurs, a formidable challenge because so many harmful uses humanesociety.org. of animals are routine and legal. The very notion of rescue is impractical and unworkable Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO when we talk of factory farming or animal testing or the trade in wildlife parts. The Humane Society of the United States
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Challenges s animal commercial seal The HSUS faced in 2012 testing slaughter
Changing the status quo is never easy. In 2012, pet overpopulation we battled with those who want to reinstate domestic horse slaughter—and those who continue to profit from puppy mills, wildlife trafficking, and other cruelties. We fought the kfight entrenched lobbying power of factory farming interests and trophy hunting enthusiasts. And 160,000
c WILDLIFE we played offense and defense to retain our American Trafficking past achievements in the legislatures and the
courts. It’s difficult, emotionally charged work, o but we’re up to the challenges. More than any horses
c shipped to slaughter other organization, The HSUS is equipped to dogfights shark finning attack cruelty from multiple angles. And that’s why every year brings significant gains in our push toward a more humane world.
HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 5 attacking From retiring research chimpanzees to sanctuary to ending systemic abuse of horses to increasing pen- root alties for animal fighters, The HSUS is the best in the top 5 field at securing public policy reforms. Our lobbyists speak for animals in statehouses and on Capitol Hill, accomplishments causes our litigation team puts abusive industries on the defensive, our international staff advocate before governments and policymaking bodies worldwide, and our first responders work to ensure humane #1 laws are enforced. Nearly 50 major fast food chains, grocers, pork producers, and food service providers commit to phasing out gestation crates —which essentially immobilize breeding sows for months on end. “When I first joined The #2 HSUS team In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Helping I had no HSUS teams open emergency shelters idea of the in coastal New York and New Jersey, tremendous rescue hundreds of animals from animals in scope of its decimated neighborhoods, and help distribute tens of thousands of dollars’ crisis activities. … worth of pet food and supplies. It is by far the most effect- ive animal #3 protection 74 pro-animal state laws are passed, Every year The HSUS provides hands-on care organization including bans on hound hunting to tens of thousands of animals in need. We help of bears and bobcats in California in the world, operate five sanctuaries and rehab centers across and private ownership of dangerous the country, bring progressive solutions to rabies and may be wild animals in Ohio. prevention and dog and cat overpopulation, more effective and deploy rescue teams to natural and man- than the made disasters. And we leverage these stories to strike at the root causes of cruelty, helping combined #4 inspiring efforts of most Following a nationally televised HSUS ensure that future generations of animals won’t need our intervention. undercover video on the abuse of change Building of the other Tennessee walking horses, trainer groups.” Jackie McConnell is convicted of a federal felony; the USDA establishes a Humane — John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole mandatory minimum penalties for Foods Market and Horse Protection Act violations. Economy HSUS board member
Most people believe animals deserve compassion #5 and respect. But many don’t know how to move The National Institutes of Health from opinion to action. Leveraging the power of agrees to retire more than 100 new and traditional media, we mobilize millions on The HSUS regularly squares off against industries chimpanzees from research and ends issues from shark finning to foie gras production. that profit from animal abuse. When money is at government breeding contract with Our training and conferences equip individuals and stake, moral appeals are seldom enough. So we New Iberia Research Center, the subject organizations to make a difference. And we reach point the way to alternatives—to fur in fashion, of a 2008–2009 HSUS undercover exposé. out to faith communities, children and teens, and celebrities around the world. Their voices join ours, to animal testing and research, to factory farming, and a movement grows. to the exploitation and lethal management of wildlife, and more. We give humane-minded companies an edge against their competitors and those stuck in the old ways a financial incentive to change.
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Recognizing that legislation, Three biomedical research facilities recently regulations, and litigation are ended their use of chimps, and several pharma- ceutical companies have agreed to no longer among the most effective tools for use them. confronting cruelty, we work to The recent retirements may be just the begin- broaden and strengthen animal ning. In January 2013, an NIH committee recom- protection policies while ensuring mended the government retire all but 50 of the remaining 350 federally owned chimps, in- that they are enforced. cluding many who were caught in the wild and have spent half a century in labs. The Great Ape Escape “It’s well past The chimpanzees greeted the newcomers in the Sored No More time to create a sanctuary’s play yard with boisterous vocaliza- Startling images shot during an undercover national standard tions and hair standing on end. Chimps faced HSUS investigation helped spark a critically im- that promotes off, charged, chased, fled. But eventually, every- portant year in the battle against soring. Under more humane con- one calmed down and shared chimpanzee-style this cruel and illegal practice, trainers deliberate- ditions everywhere.” greetings: touching, smelling, and sizing each ly inflict pain to a Tennessee walking horse’s legs —The New York Times on other up. One pair sat nose to nose, grooming. or hooves in an effort to exaggerate his high- legislation that would ratify “It’s great to watch them express behaviors stepping gait, all for the sake of winning prizes. a landmark agreement that are normal for chimpanzees,” says Kathleen In the HSUS video, horses were shocked with between The HSUS and the United Egg Producers to Conlee, HSUS vice president of animal research cattle prods and irritating chemicals were ap- phase out barren battery issues. plied to their lower legs. One horse was smacked cages (above) that confine It was the first day outside at Chimp Haven in the face with a wooden pole, while another, egg-laying hens so tightly they can’t spread their for 4 of the 111 federally owned chimps declared too injured to stand, was whipped in his stall. wings. The legislative effort permanently ineligible for research in 2012. The 49-day investigation dispelled the Ten- builds on The HSUS’s 2008 Under an agreement The HSUS and Chimp Hav- nessee walking horse industry’s contention that Proposition 2 campaign in
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Jerry Brown signed S.B. 1221 into law. Respond- ing to the news, Sinclair emailed: “After a few whoops, I broke down and just started crying. … BUILDING I am so, so happy right now.” REFORM Legislate and Collaborate Name: In a basement corner where plywood boards Paige Rense helped cordon off a dogfighting pit, lumines- Noland cent blue spray revealed splatters of blood 350,000 why she’s an Number of letters and everywhere, from a rolled-up carpet to the deep hsus superstar: signatures The HSUS red walls. hand-delivered to Helps stop puppy mills the USDA in favor of It was one of two suspected Michigan dog- For nearly 40 years, Paige Rense Noland a proposal to extend fighting operations where The HSUS’s mobile federal oversight to commanded the helm of Architectural online puppy sellers. crime lab helped gather evidence last August. Digest as editor-in-chief. Her love for ani- Kalamazoo County Animal Services and Enforce- mals was apparent even then, in her refus- ment officials had begun cracking down on dog- al to publish photos of interiors decorated fighting earlier in the year after attending a with animal trophies and fur rugs. After Humane Society University training. To set in discovering the horrors of puppy mills— her own dog, Lucy, spent nearly a decade making change motion the August raids, HSUS staff provided ac- in one—she donated $100,000 to estab- cess to a database of suspected dogfighters; lish The HSUS’s Puppy Mill Reward Fund, they later helped obtain search warrants and ran then made additional gifts to further sup- the temporary shelter for the 46 dogs rescued. port the fight against puppy mills, includ- Rescued by an animal lover, Flicka narrowly avoided being sold to slaughter and now lives at a Texas sanctuary run by The Fund for Animals in partnership with “Probably, if we didn’t have [The HSUS’s] assis- ing the campaign to pass tougher laws in The HSUS. In 2012, 160,000 American horses were shipped to their deaths in Canada and Mexico. The HSUS is working to bring about more happy endings like tance, we would put down all of the dogs,” Ka- multiple states. “It does so much for me to Flicka’s, backing anti-slaughter legislation and supporting efforts to continue defunding inspections of U.S. slaughter plants. lamazoo animal services director Steven Law- know I am helping,” she says. “I am bene- fiting as much as the animals.” rence told a local TV crew. “They know what Puppy mill laws passed in 2012 In 2012, the USDA established minimum penal- So last February, when then-president of the Laws passed in prior years ties for violations of the federal law against sor- state Fish and Game Commission Dan Richards ing, while a bill was introduced in Congress to traveled to Idaho to hound and kill a mountain In Ohio, 1,000+ high- volume dog breeders noland
strengthen those penalties and eliminate lion, The HSUS and the public were rightly out- e they’re doing. They made this so much easier.”
g exempt from federal pai self-policing in the industry. It all adds up to raged. The incident prompted a closer look at The cases caught the attention of state law- licensing are now subject of to state licensing and
“Human what HSUS equine protection director Keith the related but still-lawful practices of bear and tesy makers, who in the ensuing months passed a inspection thanks to a
Dane calls “the most significant year we’ve ever bobcat hounding, with The HSUS mounting an cour package of HSUS-backed bills to create more av- new law, one of eight
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had—I would call it a tipping point year.” Writes exhaustive campaign for a statewide ban, send- hsus enues for prosecuting and penalizing animal be … extended puppy mill bills passed the to animals.” Roy Exum, columnist with The Chattanoogan ing alerts that generated more than 55,000 sup- / fighters. It was one of multiple victories against in 2012. In all, 32 states
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and The HSUS’s 2012 Humane Horseman of the portive emails to California lawmakers. animal fighting in 2012: The HSUS’s litigation —Costa Rica’s
thy of puppy mill law on the
Year: “The outcry is reaching a nationwide cre- Jake Sinclair joined the fight after receiving ka team also secured the first-ever private prosecu-
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Humane Society den, ignored, shunned, and mocked.” pediatrician had once enjoyed watching bears ing upholding the federal animal fighting law. Kennel Club’s weak from , ,
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near his family’s cabin in the central Sierra Neva- pa HSUS staff have led a decade-long campaign to others seeking to detailing its routine his
block a Pamplona- T opposition to better Hounds Aground da Mountains. But sightings became rare after . tighten loopholes in the law, most recently spur- style running laws, substandard hsus Hunting mountain lions with dogs has been ille- hound hunters found the peaceful valley. Sin- ring introduction in 2012 of a bill to crack down of the bulls. inspection system, the gal in California since 1990. The practice causes clair and his children detailed these experiences / on spectators at animal fights. Says JohnG ood- and financial ties to riley suffering both for the mountain lions, who are in a letter they hand-delivered to state legisla- win, HSUS director of animal cruelty policy: the industry. chased into trees and shot or torn apart, and for tors, later dropping off home-baked cookies in “When the USDA has the power to go into a pit michelle : : e
the hounds, who can be killed or hurt and are gratitude for the lawmakers’ support. g and charge every single person with a federal pa
often treated more like hunting equipment than In late September, after The HSUS fended off Chained near cutout barrels that served as makeshift shel- crime, you’re going to see this problem diminish ters, the dogs rescued from Michigan animal fighting op-
family members. a series of challenges by hound hunters, Gov. opposite erations in August just wanted to be free. in scope to a huge degree.”
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Building a Humane Economy
To improve conditions for awarded $1.28 billion by a jury, but a judge re- animals in global commerce, versed that verdict and ordered them to cover we facilitate the marketing of $80,000 in court costs. Afterwards, Callicrate designed a system to spare farm animals the higher-welfare and humanely stress and misery of being trucked to slaugh- Sea Changes: produced goods, help consumers terhouses. “I think Mike feels called to fight for modify their spending habits, better treatment of both farm animals and farmers because of who he is, but also be- and persuade corporations to Amazon.com cause he’s one of the few who’s in a position heeded demands adopt better policies. to,” says Tarry. “He just never quits.” from 50,000+ supporters to ban whale and dolphin Fighting Fire with Fire Cosmetic Adjustments meat from its U.S. and Mike Callicrate won’t be beat. The Colorado “If every cosmetic tested Japanese websites. cattle rancher, entrepreneur, and activist lost a on rabbits or mice had a feedlot operation and a lawsuit to Big Ag, but photo on the packaging keeps coming up with new businesses and showing these animals Hawaii’s false killer whales new challenges. His voice is heard in books with weeping, swollen were listed and films and at conferences and through a eyes and inflamed skin, I as endangered, with half dozen websites. Starting in 2012, after believe everyone would restrictions placed on long- line fisheries that entangle he met Colorado state director Holly Tarry, it’s leave cruelty on the and kill them. heard at The HSUS. shelf and go for the cru- Last year, Callicrate joined the new HSUS elty-free option instead,” noted Paul McCartney Agriculture Council for Colorado and recruited in support of Humane Society International’s In response two other farmers to serve, part of a growing Be Cruelty-Free Campaign to end animal test- to a 2010 network of statewide advisory groups help- ing for cosmetics worldwide. That choice is now trainer death at SeaWorld Orlando, ing to develop markets for higher-welfare much easier for European Union consumers, as a judge limited train- products. For Callicrate, who decries the way the campaign successfully pressured the EU to ers to protected industrial agriculture treats individual produc- uphold its March 2013 ban on selling imported contact with orcas, ers, it’s a natural alliance: “You [are] a cost to cosmetics with ingredients newly tested on an- such as from behind a barrier. The book Death at be reduced, just as the animal is a cost to be imals. (Animal testing for cosmetics was already SeaWorld further exposed reduced.” The HSUS, for its part, has helped banned within EU borders.) the captive orca industry, chronicling HSI scientist
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. . promote beef consumption is instead being As a gastrointestinal pathologist at Providence hsus illegally used to lobby against animal welfare St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Portland, Ore., the improvements. (The HSUS has filed a similar Melissa Li has seen her share of sickness and for / a z
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In October, Seneshale held “reopenings” to mark his conversion from puppy-selling stores to adoption venues for local shelters. The events Answering were a major milestone for the pledge program: the Seneshale was the first signer to actively work Challenge 2012 Canadian with Moyer to switch to a humane business Seal Hunt model. Joe’s Pet Depot locations were two of 400 Name: stores added to the pledge in 2012, bringing the Brad Goldberg Quota 400,000 total number to 2,003 stores that will never open Why He’s an their doors to puppy mills. HSUS Superstar: Recruited additional supporters for farm animal protection Going Out of Style True Religion had lost the faith. The HSUS found Growing up in the Midwest, Brad Gold- that the premium denim company, after years berg often saw trucks packed with ani- mals bound for slaughter. The memories of being cruelty-free, had begun selling real an- led him years later to found the Animal imal fur. Tests revealed that the fur was raccoon Actual Welfare Trust and support The HSUS’s kills dog, a canid species frequently skinned alive in work to protect farm animals. Last year, 71,460 China’s fur trade. The HSUS sent an action alert the retired portfolio manager pledged a to thousands of supporters, and within three generous gift to The HSUS’s gestation For the fourth straight crate campaign and hosted a lunch to year, seal slaughter recruit others to match Robert Wilson’s deaths amounted to a fraction of $2 million challenge. The truth about government-set extreme confinement is reaching con- quotas. Each year, Investing sumers who will demand change, he says. we document the in Success “Future generations will look back on this shooting and clubbing practice with disbelief that such cruelty of weeks-old pups, In the Washington, D.C., area, The HSUS’s Humane Wildlife Services helped 2,441 animals in 2012, including a squirrel mom who, many of them cut after being evicted from an attic, retrieved her five babies from a reunion box the team placed nearby (inset). Emphasizing solu- was ever tolerated.” open while conscious. tions such as gentle hazing, one-way doors, and family reunions, the service offers a humane alternative to wildlife control operators Name: Robert Wilson Staff have persuaded who use unscrupulous methods such as lethal trapping, gassing, and drowning. governments around Why He’s the world to close an HSUS their markets to seal fur, while nearly 6,000 So when she read a Web article about a Colo- ward County School District and Detroit Pub- Superstar: hours, the company had announced it would hsus businesses and 750,000 rado hospital that had begun offering meat-free lic Schools, respectively serving 150,000 and pull the items. the Initiated a $2 million matching grant people have joined
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“We’re able of / meals one day a week, she forwarded it to Jason 45,000 meals a day. for the gestation crate campaign Intense pressure on the fur industry contin- our boycott of to … show Canadian seafood. Lee, the hospital’s retail restaurant manager. For philanthropist Robert Wilson, getting ued on many fronts in 2012. HSUS shareholder anaman ourtesy We’re now pushing r c our creativity, : : Though Li received a tentative response, she per- A Pledge for the Pups B pigs out of gestation crates is a matter resolutions became an effective tool for initi- for a government left
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. . compassion.” t animals,” he says. “Hogs are the most ton, who provided free menus, recipes, and pro- was a reputable broker, requested breeder x one, the company cut out raccoon dog from Chi- ne hsus intelligent of the animals that we eat. … — John Bartlett on
motional posters and table tents. Within three names and USDA license numbers, and called the na entirely. The HSUS now owns shares in nearly [Yet] they are basically in prison.” In 2012 The HSUS’s inaugural weeks, St. Vincent—which serves 2,000 meals a many of them directly to ask about their dogs. 20 companies that sell fur, a list that is constantly H-Couture show in the retired investor announced a $2 Los Angeles, where he day—launched its first Meatless Monday, serv- But after receiving complaints about sick million matching grant to help The HSUS growing. was joined by fellow ing meat-free lasagna and stir-fry veggie dishes puppies purchased from Joe’s Pet Depot, Sene- end the confinement of pregnant sows In the enforcement arena, global online re- FRANK LOFTUS/THE HSUS. HSUS. LOFTUS/THE FRANK designers Victoria to appreciative customers. shale began to question what he’d been told. So ; in crates barely larger than their bodies. tailer Yoox agreed to withdraw fur from its U.S. son Bartlett, Marc Bouwer, BAUER/ALAMY; CHRISTIAN : : In 2012, The HSUS helped more than 50 when The HSUS’s John Moyer called in spring at America is ready for the message, he market after The HSUS filed a false advertising Kimberly Ovitz, and W left says: “It’s becoming a more tolerant nnie Charlotte Ronson hospitals and other food service operations 2012 to pitch the Puppy Friendly Pet Stores om complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. A fr ; ; , , place—and that, I think, is applying in showcasing fur- e implement Meatless Monday, including school pledge—in which store owners agree to take a g And customs officials took action following a a p free fashions. to animals.” wilson
districts, colleges, corporate cafeterias, and stand against puppy mills by not selling dogs— t two-year HSUS investigation into a New York rober restaurants. Topping the list were Florida’s Bro- Seneshale said yes. opposite retailer’s illegal sale of domestic dog fur.
14 // humanesociety.org HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 15 states that have passed crate bans 69% OF RESPONDENTS IN A NATIONAL SURVEY “You’d have to have “How would you like to spend the rest support outlawing rocks in your head ARIZONA florida Ohio to build a new sow of your life in a space as small as a bus seat?” gestation crates2 barn with gestating CALIFORNIA MAINE OREGON That was the question posed by HSUS messages on city buses in Des Moines, capital of the largest pork-producing state, and Washington, D.C., in 2012. The ads sow stalls.” covered buses in images of sows confined in gestation crates, challenging the —The Western Producer, COLORADO MICHIGAN RHODE ISLAND National Pork Producers Council’s support of this extreme confinement. June 1, 2012
45 - bans, prodding companies - “HSUS won’t go away; in fact it - HOW WE’RE REMAKING to change, and conducting 40 has gained strength. It has - Metz Culinary undercover investigations, - THE MARKETPLACE ARAMARK Management the formula down and will replicate changing lives - Royal Caribbean 35 Campbell Soup its strategies within the including those released in - Before 2012, a handful of companies had pledged Cruise Lines - 2012 of Tyson supplier Wyo- - Harris Teeter Einstein Noah pork sector as well as across the 30 to switch from gestation-crate pork. Carnival Restaurant Group agriculture sector.” crate by crate ming Premium Farms and of - Cruise Lines - When The HSUS stepped up its efforts last year, Supervalu - Bruegger’s Bagels The shift came fast. In 2012, one company after another Oklahoma operations owned 25 40 announced they would phase out crates — Pork Magazine editorial, - Nov. 7, 2012 - Wienerschnitzel The Cheesecake pledged to stop using pork from farms that lock breeding by two of the largest U.S. - from their supply chains. Cracker Barrel Factory - Jack in the Box/Qdoba sows in gestation crates—so small the animals cannot producers. Now the industry 20 Sonic Drive-In - Atlantic Premium Brands turn around. In December, Paul Shapiro, HSUS vice pres- is poised to adopt systems - Baja Fresh 15 Hillshire Brands ident for farm animal protection, looked back, happily that let sows move freely and - TrustHouse Services - Bon Appétit Dunkin’ Brands 60% - Sodexo astonished. “Few would have predicted such a change in socialize. Retail prices will Management Company Chili’s/Maggiano’s 10 Maple Leaf Foods Kraft/Oscar Mayer of sows can’t fit such a short amount of time.” For decades, factory farms rise little if at all. The debate - - Wolfgang Puck Heinz - into conventional crated most pregnant sows. Frustrated pigs gnawed their is over, says Meatingplace 5 Safeway Sears/Kmart gestation stalls - mouths bloody on metal bars. Sows went lame for lack of magazine: “HSUS won the - Sysco without being compressed - Hormel Foods Compass Group against the sides.1 exercise. Then The HSUS began winning statewide crate argument.” 1 Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s 2007 - 2011 JAN 2012 FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC Crates Versus Group Housing Companies that One of the country’s top Gestation crate Free stall access Electronic sow feeding The world’s largest pork In 2012, the company producer and processor and rival and four others among the six pork buyers, the fast food chain For virtually their entire lives, breeding Sows use stalls to feed, rest, or Pigs live in a group pen without crates. They ARE SWITCHING Hormel have committed to biggest grocery stores (all but purchases meat from a quarter sows live in crates averaging about 7 feet avoid other pigs but can open the doors eat by passing through a feeding station, where a phasing out crates from Wal-Mart) announced they of all pigs raised in the U.S. long by 2 feet wide. They’re so tight, when pigs to walk in small common areas. computer reads their ear tags and dispenses food. company-owned farms by 2017. would make the change. lie down to sleep, their udders protrude More than half of Cargill’s facilities into neighboring crates. feeding station are already crate-free.
sleeping stalls
Pigs on pasture: Sows at Thompson Farms in Georgia lead natural, unconfined lives, roaming fields and rooting for food. Such systems represent the high end of gestation crate alternatives, with most producers switching to indoor housing that still allows more space and freedom. Sources: 1: “The physical size of gestating sows,” Journal of Animal Science, 2004. 2: “U.S. Resident Support for Gestation Crate Bans,” MSU Pork Quarterly, 2008.
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By generating public debate zoos. In addition to tigers, cougars, leopards, on animal protection issues, and wolf hybrids, The HSUS helped rescue a macaque confined to an enclosure that was building partnerships with nothing but “dirt and bars,” says The HSUS’s other professionals and causes, Adam Parascandola. “Getting him into a better and mobilizing advocates, we situation was one of the real highlights.” engage the broader community The Fight Against Finning in our mission. It’s been a traditional dish at high-end hotels, government functions, and wedding ban- Harmed and Dangerous quets, considered a delicacy and status sym- The undercover video captures the scene: A bol in many Asian cultures. But shark fin soup “Living walls young child and a tiger cub are posed for the comes at the cost of immense suffering, with [allowed] the camera by insistent parents and staff at G.W. animals thrown back into the ocean to die af- society to be free Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood, Okla. The ter their fins are hacked off. And it devastates and to let lions cub is not cooperating; the child is crying. “It ocean ecosystems, with tens of millions of roam around. seems like the toddler is the most sensible these top predators finned annually. This means that person in the entire situation,” says HSUS staff But public awareness campaigns by Hu- the number of lions attorney Anna Frostic. “She’s very uncomfort- mane Society International and other groups
fund will increase again.” able with the scene.” are encouraging new generations to embrace — Elvis Kismir of the wildlife The four-month HSUS investigation cruelty-free traditions, with tens of thousands African People & Wildlife and brought national media attention to the sig- Fund, which works with Humane Society Interna- people
nificant public safety and animal welfare con-
an tional to build lion-proof c cerns inherent to the private ownership of ex-
afri fences in East Africa’s
; ; otic animals. Five tigers died during that time, Maasai Steppe. Made tures c i and tiger cubs were punched and whipped as of galvanized steel chain P part of their “training” for public appearances. link and plantings from inden a quick-growing spiny /M “The owner was allowing the public to
am tree, the “bomas” prevent
end have contact with tiger cubs who were large cattle predation, protecting v a B enough to cause serious injury,” says Mary endangered lions from red
F retaliatory poisoning : : Beth Sweetland, HSUS senior director of re- by herders. left
om search and investigations. “While we were fr , , there, a young child was scratched and bitten age p by a tiger cub used for public handling.” HSUS this
. . attorneys followed up by filing legal com- hsus
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/ plaints with state and federal officials and pe- titioning the U.S. Department of Agriculture milani
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ath to prohibit public contact with dangerous k
(inset), Natalia the tiger rests at the Cleveland : wild animals. Amory Black Beauty Ranch, a Texas sanctuary age p operated by The Fund for Animals in partner- In Mississippi, a January rescue of 11 ani- Shark finning and unsustainable fisheries add up to a ship with The HSUS. The January rescue and one-two punch for the world’s shark species; 74 of 468 a four-month investigation into an Oklahoma opposite mals also exposed the problems with roadside are threatened with extinction. exotic animal park shone a national spotlight on the plight of captive wildlife.
HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 19 inspiring change
for a ballot initiative that would have made ex- treme cruelty a felony in North Dakota. As a member of The HSUS’s Faith Advisory T aking Council, formed in 2012, Arand is tasked with th e Reins supporting other spiritual leaders who are taking a stand on animal protection. His new Motivating Name: role, he says, has “helped open conversations Leslie Register millions with a wider spectrum of people … about how we raise the food we eat and other animal wel- why she’s an fare issues.” He acknowledges that advocating hsus superstar: Speaks out against horse slaughter for animals has its challenges, and that not ev- 11 million visits to humanesociety.org eryone will adopt the same solutions, but says Seventeen years ago, Leslie Register that “when people step back and reflect on God’s watched a 6-year-old horse, well past his relationship to creation ... it tends to have posi- prime, lose yet another race. His fate, she was told, would be racing on a second- 2,783 tive results.” attendees at our 2012 tier track until he died. Instead, Register Taking Action for Animals brought the horse home for a well-earned and Animal Care Expo Forcing the Issue retirement. It’s not a typical outcome; conferences The massive factory farm planned for China’s horses who don’t have spectacular Jiangxi Province would have caused the inhu- careers often end up shipped out of the country for slaughter. That reality, and One among hundreds, a sterilized feral cat sunbathes at an Oahu park-and-ride. With its mild climate and lack of feline predators, Hawaii has one of the densest mane force-feeding of millions of geese and 1.6 million populations of outdoor cats in the U.S. Conservationists worry that some prey on the islands’ threatened and endangered birds. In 2012, HSUS staff supported ducks to produce foie gras (French for “fat liver”), the possibility that horse slaughter may Facebook fans a coalition of cat and wildlife experts searching for solutions that protect all species. A national HSUS conference in California helped find common ground. resume in the U.S., motivated Register to a so-called “delicacy.” The proposed facility also join the Equine Leadership Council—key would have polluted an important overwinter- advocates who invest in HSUS goals and of people signing the No Shark Fin pledge. In gle and the China Hotel Association have result- ing habitat for migratory waterfowl. So when act as ambassadors for equine protection. 2012, HSI teamed with the Jane Goodall Institute ed in a number of hotels and restaurants remov- Humane Society International staff learned of A longtime HSUS donor, Register plans to China to fund educational projects by university ing shark fin soup from their menus. Also in the plan, they quickly mobilized an opposition bring awareness of slaughter and other student groups and organize photo exhibits at China—the world’s largest market for fins—the campaign, alerting supporters and recruiting equine issues to the Southern California “I’m a voice now a popular Beijing seafood restaurant chain. An- State Council announced its watershed decision other animal advocacy groups. The project horse shows in which she competes. “[My horse is] one of the lucky ones. I want for the animals. other campaign by HSI, Environment & Animal to remove the dish from official government other horses to be the lucky ones, too.” And part of that Society Taiwan, and the Hong Kong Shark Foun- functions within three years. 1 million+ is because of dation challenged engaged couples to remove readers of All Animals, wood The HSUS allowing the soup from their wedding banquet menus Guiding Light Kind News, and Animal Vander me to host at the and promote the pledge. In Taiwan, among the How do we live as human creatures among all Sheltering magazines Kim
Genesis Awards. ... 44 couples participating—representing a com- the other creatures of God? It’s a question Charles ; collapsed after more than 50,000 people wrote ages
Without The HSUS, im bined 4,280 guests—one persuaded family Arand posed in a report on stewardship by y to the Chinese premier and a UK investment firm t
I don’t even know get 9.3 million elders to drop their support for the shark fin The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and one / withdrew funding—“a great example of animal viewings of HSUS videos afp
that I would have soup tradition, another handed out anti-finning that caught the attention of Christine Gutleben, : protection groups across the world using their left had this dream.”
posters and shopping bags, and yet another senior director of The HSUS’s Faith Outreach om collective reach to challenge animal cruelty,” says fr — Dancing with highlighted conservation messages on thank- program. , HSI/UK director Mark Jones. age
p 1 million+ the Stars judge Carrie you cards and reception menus. In 2010, Gutleben invited Arand to a summit In the U.S., The HSUS recruited chef Wolfgang viewings of “Sandbox,” a this
Ann Inaba on The . national PSA promoting The outreach efforts have greatly reduced in- of religious leaders to learn more about The Puck to campaign in support of upholding Cali-
hsus shelter adoptions pro-
HSUS’s annual awards
the duced by The Shelter Pet show honoring animal stitutional support for a once-sacrosanct cus- HSUS’s work engaging people of faith in animal fornia’s foie gras ban, which took effect in 2012.
for Project, a collaboration of protection coverage /
tom. In 2012, Venezuela and Brazil joined a grow- protection. Two years later, it was Arand who ia “We chefs have the ability to create delicious and in the entertainment c The HSUS, the Ad Council, ar
ing number of countries adopting strict shark played host, organizing a dinner that brought G original dishes our customers will love without and Maddie’s Fund
and news media o c
finning bans in their nations’ waters, while Illinois together Gutleben and other HSUS staff with ar causing torment to animals,” Puck wrote in a let- M and 13 Canadian municipalities banned sales of Missouri pastors and colleagues at Concordia : ter to fellow restaurateurs. In September, a feder- age p
shark fins. Campaigns with partners such as the Seminary, where Arand is a professor. He also Foie gras producers shove pipes down the throats of al appeals court denied a motion to block the ducks and geese, force-feeding them until their livers be-
Chinese environmental organization Green Bea- connected Gutleben with potential supporters opposite come enlarged. ban’s enforcement.
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We provide care for animals freezing.” For three and a half months, Teran in need: rehabilitating wildlife fed them with a syringe. Over almost a year, she taught them how to fly. As they regained trade victims, preserving habitat, their freedom, she was both sad and excited. “I helping shelters and under- should not get attached,” Teran says. “But it’s served communities care for hard.” pets, and intervening in human- Serving Shelters animal conflicts. Tucked away in an industrial part of a south- ern Mississippi town, Brookhaven Animal Res- Around the Road to Freedom cue League runs on a shoestring budget fund- Globe, Street The animals’ journey ends in May 2012 by a ed solely by donations, barely covering the by Street wetland drained for cattle pasture in north- bills and salaries for two employees. What it west Nicaragua. It’s midday and hot, but a lacks in money and staff, though, it makes up patch of forest across a drainage ditch offers for in the dedication of 90 volunteers who Humane Society shade and relative cool. After months of keep the shelter open seven days a week and International is making a preparation, animals seized by police from the rehome almost all of the pets they care for. difference for the world’s street dogs. Among the illegal wildlife trade, then rehabilitated at a During Sarah Matisak’s visit to the small, 2012 accomplishments: center that Humane Society International limited-intake facility, the HSUS Shelter Ser- Haiti: Rabies vaccinations helped expand, are released in rapid succes- vices coordinator was struck by the emphasis for 250,000 dogs, in partner- sion: Parakeets burst from their cages, wing- placed on enrichment for the animals. Cats ship with government; more than 1,000 sterilized ing their way into the trees, where they perch mingle in community living rooms and dogs Bhutan: 10,000+ street dogs in a noisy group, already at home in the wild. romp in large fenced yards. Matisak arranged sterilized and vaccinated White-faced capuchin monkeys rush out of a gift of Kong toys to enhance the dogs’ play, (40,000 since 2009) hsus their crate, like athletes taking the field. Yel- the Cebu City, Philippines: low-naped parrots and toucans, owls and fox- / 11,000+ dogs sterilized and milani vaccinated; dramatically es, caracaras and kinkajous follow. athy
decreased euthanasia and k
HSI is helping build and strengthen a net- : dog bite numbers
work of rescue centers in Central America to thers o India: Nearly 6,000 all
street dogs sterilized and return poached animals to forests—one in El ;
vaccinated; vet training and hsus Salvador in 2012 and another planned for
high-volume spay/neuter the Honduras in 2013. Across the region, the orga-
center opened in Jaipur for nization is training police, customs officials, /
Weixian County, China: orris Country’s first humane soldiers, and others to identify protected spe- M aul
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program launched a D The May release was bittersweet for Tatia- : at c COSTA RICA: 3,300+ dogs sterilized and vaccinated na Teran, a rescue center veterinarian. She first with met the parakeets and parrots when they Vet tech Erin Spencer checks a patient during a Rural Into the Trees Area Veterinary Services clinic at North Dakota’s Stand- Monkeys, birds, and other woman were naked, starving, dehydrated hatchlings ing Rock Reservation. RAVS—a program of the Humane , wildlife trade victims are just confiscated from a dealer. “They didn’t Society Veterinary Medical Association—provided free released back into the wild after spread spay/neuter and treatment to nearly 7,000 animals in rehabilitating at an HSI-supported
have any feathers on them. … They were 2012, training 309 veterinary students along the way. this rescue center in Nicaragua.
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Neighborly Solutions For every wildlife conflict, there’s a humane solu- Raising tion. That’s what the Rev. Sallye Hardy learned Kindness when she contacted The HSUS in 2012 for help with a beaver dam causing periodic flooding at Name: Camp Selah in Sutherlin, Va. Whenever it rained, The Fournier the beaver pond overflowed into a nearby cul- family vert and over a newly installed bridge, washing World Spay why THEY’RE away the camp’s only access road. The stagnant hsus superstarS: Have donated to water became a mosquito breeding ground. Day 2012 disaster response, rescues and shelters, People offered advice: Destroy the dam. Trap and other initiatives and relocate the beavers. Or worse yet, kill them. As a child, Jennifer Fournier (pictured “But everyone said no matter what you do, they above) offered her brother $10 to release are going to come back,” says Hardy. And none of the fish he’d caught. Today, that compas- the propositions stayed true to the camp’s hu- sion is something she shares with her 54,490 husband, Alan, and seeks to instill in her mane stewardship ideals. spay/neuter surgeries four children. Longtime supporters of A water control device installed by HSUS spe- by partner organizations local rescues and shelters, the Fourniers cialists worked perfectly for the ministry’s 37- became HSUS donors after Hurricane acre retreat, even in heavy rains. Camp volun- Katrina in 2005. “I saw all the good work teers have since built an observation deck at the [The HSUS was] doing and wanted to pond’s edge where children can sit and watch help,” she says. In 2012, they donated to Pet owners line up for a Pets for Life outreach event in Chicago. Among other free services, the program provides dog training for clients like Philadelphia the beaver lodge. resident Megan Carman, owner of energetic King and Queen. “The dogs are a big help,” says Carman, whose son suffers from ADHD. “Sometimes when he has The HSUS’s campaigns against gestation 600 HSUS experts fostered humane alternatives events in 377 cities his rough days, he’ll go out and sit with the dogs. So it’s almost like the dogs are helping me keep him OK.” crates and puppy mills. The couple’s
athy to lethal wildlife management in several states in k hsus
children have also gotten involved, : : the /
left 2012, halting coyote and goose culling programs
collecting towels to pad the cages of dogs top as well as elevated beds to keep them off the chocolate ice cream cone, and the two finally rescued from a puppy mill, volunteering through community engagement and educa- milani
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and prosecute poachers In the Chicago community of North Lawndale, “She’s a beautiful woman who loves her dogs so arly donated crates, and even dropped by for some each given to C milani : : through rewards and where 45 percent of residents live below the much that she’s going to stay in this situation in Coalition: Humane
left in-home training. Now Santiago is a dedicated
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k in Tacoma, Wash., robotic decoys. ; ; poverty line, The HSUS’s Laurie Maxwell had order to keep them.” om volunteer. “Anything I can help for HSUS, I’ll be fr and Outer Banks
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devices to collect snow involves helping pets in underserved neighbor- from Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Los Angeles as 11,000 animals with free services like spay/neu- the for
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Smith, to come out and talk. Pets for Life funded spay/neuter surgeries for all abled The HSUS to mentor groups looking to es- a
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the Emphasizing techniques for coexistence, HSUS experts One night, Maxwell finally spotted Smith seven dogs and one cat. Now on a mission, “Miss / tablish similar programs in 10 additional cities, intervene to save coyotes, geese, beavers, and other wild milani next to an ice cream truck. She bought her a Betty” has helped sign up additional clients for opposite from Phoenix to Milwaukee to Camden, N.J. animals from lethal management programs.
24 // humanesociety.org HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 25 “It doesn’t appear that [the owner has] Rescuing Animals ever taken them to the vet. If we hadn’t gotten Armed with flashlights, and decked out in winter these dogs when we attire, the HSUS Animal Rescue Team searched cold, did, we would have wrecked homes in the wake of Superstorm Sandy last fall, ended up with a lot removing trapped animals from flooded structures and of dead dogs.” rubble in parts of New York and New Jersey. The three — Phyllis Olds, chief deputy search-and-rescue operations (middle photo) were just of the Stone County Sheriff’s part of the organization’s massive response, as The HSUS Office, on a Mississippi puppy mill rescue also ran three emergency pet shelters and distributed supplies to pet owners who stayed behind in their homes. “I’m so happy ... for what you’ve done,” said Patrick Glenn, upon arriving at an HSUS shelter to reunite with his pets. “You went and rescued my cats, and you even saved two of my goldfish. ... I got my family back again.” Five months earlier, The HSUS had responded to an entirely different kind of situation: an overwhelmed Ohio sanctuary filled with injured, suffering parrots (top left). Accustomed to coordinating large rescues of dogs, cats, and equines, the team reached out to avian experts for equipment and advice. “Frankly, we like a challenge,” says animal cruelty investigations director Adam Parascandola. And throughout 2012, HSUS rescuers responded to a variety of other such challenges: (clockwise from top middle): In Wiggins, Miss., responders helped authorities remove 74 dogs from a puppy mill; the owner had been selling lethargic, filthy puppies at flea markets. In Tarpon Springs, Fla., a team dug 18 gopher tortoises from the path of construction, transporting them to a 35-acre release site. Missing his upper lip and portions of his bottom one, Sam was one of 17 dogs The HSUS helped rescue from a Jacksonville, Fla., dogfighting operation. Now in foster care with Pittsburgh-based Hello Bully, an HSUS placement partner, “he is a sweet dog and just wants to curl up on your lap,” says The HSUS’s Chris Schindler. In Robeson County, N.C., staff helped investigate a suspected cockfighting operation, caring for rescued birds and documenting evidence. And in New Mexico, The HSUS’s Prairie Dog Coalition helped release 300+ captive Gunni- 11,087 son’s prairie dogs to protected sites. Number of wild and domestic animals rescued by HSUS teams from natural and human-caused disasters and conflicts in 2012
26 // humanesociety.org HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 27 Cape Wildlife Center staff to test the birds’ diving and under- number. Construction of a new wildlife Barnstable, Massachusetts water swimming skills before their re- care center, begun in 2012, “will allow When Superstorm Sandy hit the East lease. Loons, storm petrels, and a pelican us to provide medical and rehabilitative Coast in fall 2012, many seabirds were were among those who benefited from services for three times as many patients blown ashore. Fortunately, the Cape time in the water. at one time,” she says. The 4,800-square- Wildlife Center was prepared to care for foot building will include state-of-the- the disoriented birds in a new 3,500-gal- The Fund for Animals art rooms for radiology, diagnostic lab lon saltwater pool. “The pool really kept Wildlife Center work, and surgery, along with several Providing Sanctuary their stress down,” says director Deborah Ramona, California ICU and recovery areas, enabling the Millman. “It’s made a vital difference in Nearly 500 native wild animals recuper- center “to provide the best possible care and Healing the way we rehabilitate birds who live ated at The Fund for Animals Wildlife to every patient who comes through our on or near the water.” Maintained at Center in 2012, and director Ali Crump- doors: snakes, falcons, bobcats, cougars, ocean temperatures, the pool allows acker looks forward to increasing that and more.”
Whether it’s an orphaned bobcat kitten, a horse rescued from vorite spots under shade trees.” The 200 abuse, an owl struck by a speeding SUV, or a victim of the exotic acres of new grazing area should help reduce feed costs for the sanctuary’s pet trade, animals in need find refuge at care centers operated by 187 horses and ease pressure on the The HSUS and its affiliate, The Fund for Animals. In 2012, the cen- existing pastures. ters rescued, rehabilitated, and provided sanctuary to more than South Florida 16,000 animals. To expand their services, increase the quality of Wildlife Center care, and enrich the lives of the animals they serve, the centers Fort Lauderdale, Florida also made significant habitat and facility improvements in 2012. Razing and rebuilding, adding and en- larging—the nearly 13,000 wild animals needing treatment and rehabilitation at KATHY MILANI/THE HSUS; HSUS; MILANI/THE KATHY Black Beauty Ranch Duchess Sanctuary The HSUS’s South Florida Wildlife Center : left OP OP
Murchison, Texas Douglas County, Oregon in 2012 necessitated a number of up- T om fr In 2012, America’s largest and most di- More room to gallop and explore— grades to and expansion of its facilities. verse animal sanctuary welcomed new that’s what resulted from the improve- A new raccoon habitat welcomed its first ockwise cl , ,
animals—from tigers and a camel to pigs, ment of previously unusable acreage occupants in 2012, while sea, marsh, and e g a p horses, and more. Black Beauty Ranch also at the 1,120-acre Duchess Sanctuary. shore birds will benefit from new and completed a new visitor center and farm After replacing old fencing, installing a larger aviaries and habitat. In addition, opposite animal habitat, upgraded housing for for- water system, and building a road and says executive director Sherry Schlueter, mer research chimps, and broke ground a shelter for the horses, staff introduced restoration of a wetland area on the prop- Clockwise from far left: Kept as a backyard pet before being brought on a veterinary hospital. Director Ben Calli- the herd to two new pastures. “They erty will provide habitat for native wild- to Black Beauty Ranch, dromedary camel Saudi and his new pal Omar
: KATHERINE BIRK. BIRK. KATHERINE : enjoy the Texas sunshine; an orphaned bobcat kitten is examined at e son cites the projects as the year’s biggest galloped around a while, exploring ev- life—and a beautiful backdrop to wildlife g The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in California, where she recovered p before being released back into the wild; two juvenile herring gulls re- DEBORAH ROBBINS MILLMAN; JENNIFER KUNZ/THE HSUS; SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER WILDLIFE FLORIDA SOUTH HSUS; KUNZ/THE JENNIFER MILLMAN; ROBBINS DEBORAH accomplishments, “incredibly important erything,” says ranch manager Jennifer education and other events held in a new this a cuperating at the Cape Wildlife Center check out the new saltwater pool; for helping animals moving forward.” Kunz, “then quickly found their new fa- open-air pavilion. at Duchess Sanctuary in Oregon, formerly abused, neglected, and home- less horses finally live the life they deserve; the new raccoon habitat at the South Florida Wildlife Center is a hit with these masked marvels.
28 // humanesociety.org HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 29 How You Can Help
The world’s most effective animal protection organization, The HSUS is State sustained by a community of animal lovers who show their support in directors many ways. Every gift you give, no matter how large or small, helps us carry on the work of confronting cruelty in all its forms. HSUS state directors work directly with residents and policymakers in their states. • Make a one-time gift or donate monthly through your credit card or bank account.* Learn more at humanesociety. org/statecontacts. • Participate in your office’s workplace giving and matching gift campaigns. Alabama, Mindy Gilbert • Make a Kindred Spirits memorial gift or donate to celebrate a special occasion. Arizona, Kari Nienstedt California, Jennifer Fearing • Donate your car, truck, boat, or other vehicle. Colorado, Holly Tarry Connecticut, Annie Hornish For details, go to humanesociety.org/donate or call 866-720-2676. For inquiries Delaware, Hetti Brown Florida, Kate MacFall about leadership gifts, bequests, gift annuities, or gifts of stock, or to speak with Hawaii, Inga Gibson Idaho, Lisa Kauffman your regional philanthropy officer, call 800-808-7858. Illinois, Kristen Strawbridge Indiana, Erin Huang *An HSUS membership is $25 a year and includes a subscription to All Animals magazine. Iowa, Carol Griglione Kansas, Midge Grinstead Kentucky, Pam Rogers Louisiana, Julia Breaux Maine, Katie Hansberry Maryland, Tami Santelli LEADERS OF THE PACK Massachusetts, Alexis Fox Michigan, Jill Fritz Minnesota, Howard Goldman NameS: Tom and Joan Lyon Mississippi, Lydia Sattler Missouri, Amanda Good hsus Montana, Wendy Hergenraeder the
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From rescuing animals in crisis to address- ing the root causes of cruelty, The HSUS is bringing about a more humane society—but we can’t do it without your help. Pictured here, Wendy Hergenraeder, HSUS state director for Montana, assists at a puppy mill raid.
30 // humanesociety.org HSUS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 // 31 Financial Operations Report Operating & Supporting Expenses For the Year Ending December 31, 2012
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
Assets Liabilities $33,878,096 Cash and cash equivalents $27,706,707 Net assets 17% Receivables 19,221,925 $29,479,645 Unrestricted 138,702,993 Prepaid expenses, deferred charges, and deposits 1,955,953 Temporarily restricted 38,447,039 Redeemed securities — 3% Permanently restricted 38,173,451 $5,225,819 Investments, at market value 178,663,636 22% Fixed assets, net of depreciation 21,653,358 Total Net Assets $215,323,483 $30,690,844
Total Assets $249,201,579 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $249,201,579 18% $26,055,810 Consolidated Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets 80% Animal $142,118,050 Protection Programs Support and Revenue Unrestricted Temporarily Restricted Permanently Restricted Total Contributions and grants $118,331,460 $30,114,826 $2,622,966 $151,069,252 47% 13% $66,562,209 Bequests 18,657,568 5,035,926 289,270 23,982,764 $18,809,187 Investment income 1,856,674 661,267 567,493 3,085,434 Other income, net 1,301,481 584,113 — 1,885,594 Net assets released from restrictions 34,084,637 (34,084,637) — —
Total Support and Revenue $174,231,820 $2,311,495 $3,479,729 $180,023,044 animal protection programs Advocacy, outreach, & Policy
Operating and Supporting Expenses fundraising Direct Care & Service Animal protection programs Management & General Cruelty Prevention Advocacy, outreach, and policy $66,562,209 — — $66,562,209 Research & Education Direct care and service 30,690,844 — — 30,690,844 Cruelty prevention programs 26,055,810 — — 26,055,810 Research and education 18,809,187 — — 18,809,187
Supporting services Management and general 5,225,819 — — 5,225,819 SUPPORT & REVENUE Fundraising 29,479,645 — — 29,479,645
Total Operating and Supporting Expenses $176,823,514 — — $176,823,514
Change in Net Assets from Operating Activities $(2,591,694) $2,311,495 $3,479,729 $3,199,530
Non-operating Activities Realized and unrealized gains and losses 10,542,064 235,210 — 10,777,274 Pension related charges other than 864,080 — — 864,080 net periodic pension cost
Change in Net Assets $8,814,450 $2,546,705 $3,479,729 $14,840,884 13% Net Assets at beginning of year $129,888,543 $35,900,334 $34,693,722 $200,482,599 $23,982,764 Net Assets at end of year $138,702,993 $38,447,039 $38,173,451 $215,323,483 84% $151,069,252
The audited version of this report had not yet been released at press time. The figures will be updated, if necessary, at humanesociety.org/annualreport.
Contributions & Grants 2% Bequests $3,085,434 Investment Income The HSUS is rated a 4-star charity (the highest possible) by Charity Navigator, approved by the Better Business Bureau for all 20 standards Other income for charity accountability, voted by Guidestar’s Philanthropedia experts as the No. 1 high-impact animal protection group, and named by Worth magazine as one of the 10 most fiscally responsible charities. 1% $1,885,594 This report was printed on recycled paper from mixed sources with at least 10% postconsumer waste; 100% of the energy used was offset by renewable energy credits.
32 // humanesociety.org Thank you for being there with us. Helping all animals in need—that’s the mission of The Humane Society of the United States. And we couldn’t do it without you. From shutting down puppy mills to providing refuge for wildlife, from standing up for farm animals to saving seals and horses from cruel slaughter, we’re there—together—fighting for a compassionate world. Thank you for helping us celebrate animals and confront cruelty in all its forms.