- Too many dogs and cats in shelters don't get a second chance simply because there is no one to adopt them. We need your help to get healthy pets out of shelters and into loving homes.
- Every year 9 billion chickens are raised and killed for meat in the US.
- Every year 1 billion animals are slaughtered by the leather industry.
- Every year 100 million animals die in experiments and tests.
- Every year 3 to 4 million cats and dogs (healthy and adoptable) are killed.
- Sealers often hook baby seals in the eye, cheek, or mouth to avoid damaging their fur, then drag them across the ice to skin them.
- Every year, the global leather industry slaughters more than a billion animals and tans their skins and hides.
- Bird poisons attack birds' nervous systems, causing them to suffer seizures, erratic flight, and tremors for hours before dying.
- Every year, nearly a million seals worldwide are subjected to painful and often lingering deaths, largely for the sake of fashion.
- Each year, approximately 10,000 bulls die in bullfights.
- For fur, small animals may be crammed into boxes and poisoned with hot, unfiltered engine exhaust from a truck.Engine exhaust is not always lethal, and some animals wake up while they are being skinned.
- Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.
- Dogs that lose fights (or refuse) are often abandoned, tortured, set on fire, electrocuted, shot, drowned, or beaten to death.
- Kid goats are boiled alive to make gloves.
