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Whether you call them mountain lions or cougars, they’re one of the most adaptable big cats in the Western Hemisphere.

We fight the big fights to end suffering for all animals. Together with millions of supporters, the Humane Society of the United States takes on puppy mills, factory farms, the fur trade, trophy hunting, animal cosmetics testing and other cruel industries. Through our rescue, response and sanctuary...

Zebras are striped, horse-like mammals that live across Africa.

The first time Tim Harrison rescued privately owned big cats was back in 1982. A public safety officer at the time, Harrison and other responders found a male lion pacing around a small enclosure, a lion cub who appeared severely ill, bears, snakes and other animals on an Ohio property. It was rare...

WASHINGTON — Today, a stellar cast assembled on Capitol Hill to support passage of the Humane Cosmetics Act; the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund and Humane Society International were joined by celebrity advocates—TV personality and entrepreneur Lala Kent and...

Fur factory farms and trappers kill millions of animals each year using brutal methods just for their fur. With your help, the Humane Society of the United States is fighting back—and winning—with brands, cities and countries moving away from fur. But to make progress, we need you. There are five...

Contact your state director Our state directors work daily—in state capitols, local communities and beyond—to advocate for animal protection laws. Through community organizing and direct lobbying efforts, our state directors fight the big fights to end suffering for all animals. To ask a question...

Sensitive, intelligent elephants are the world’s largest land mammal (by weight) and a living link to long-extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

Mice and rats are curious, social animals who can make excellent pets.

To reduce⁠—and eventually end⁠—harmful animal experiments.

Coyotes deserve lives free from persecution.

Chinchillas are small rodents native to South America who live in large colonies.

One of the largest living land mammals, rhinoceroses once shared the earth with saber-toothed cats and the earliest humanlike apes.

Colorado’s mountain lions, bobcats and lynx are under threat from trophy hunting and need protection now.

To stand against the most egregious abuses of wildlife.

Factory farm animals, locked in extreme confinement, suffer some of the worst cruelty imaginable. Egg-laying hens are confined in cages so small they can’t even flap their wings. Mother pigs in the pork industry are locked in metal “gestation crates,” which prohibit them from turning around for...

Whales are awe-inspiring giants of the sea.