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After the tipster alerted the Twin County Humane Society in Galax, Va., PETA was notified of the situation and rushed out to the scene and found Copper emaciated and plagued with parasites. The ...
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Kash, 1, sits with Humane Society of Washington County Canine Coordinator Halee Vogt in the shelter on Monday. Kash was surrendered to the shelter due to a housing situation, humane society ...
The Humane Economy:How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals. New York City: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-238964-0. In The Humane Economy he describes how "capitalism at its best" is a force against animal suffering, "applying human creativity to answer the demands of a morally informed market."
HSUS formed after a schism surfaced in the American Humane Association over pound seizure, rodeo, and other policy issues. The incorporators of HSUS included four people—Larry Andrews, Marcia Glaser, Helen Jones, and Fred Myers—all of whom were active in the leadership of existing local and national groups, who would become its first four employees.
In 1840, Queen Victoria gave the society her blessing, and it became the RSPCA. The society used members' donations to employ a growing network of inspectors, whose job was to identify abusers, gather evidence, and report them to the authorities. In 1837, the German minister Albert Knapp founded the first German animal welfare society. [22]
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The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA has been a force in humane education since the early 1970s. In the mid-1980s PHS/SPCA the Board of Directors embarked on a substantial campaign to create policies on animal welfare, which were promulgated to enhance animal care within the county and also influenced state and national awareness of animal care.