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Animal Companions
Animals Show Love to Their Rescuers on Firefighter Appreciation Day

We’re looking back on some of our favorite Compassionate Fire Department Award recipients for their remarkable efforts to save animals. See some of their stories here.

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a dog named violet nearly died after someone attempted to dye her purple with human hair dye
Here’s Why You Should Never Dye Your Dog’s Fur

Dogs have no desire to be dyed or subjected to any other unnatural beauty procedure. Here’s why it’s important to think twice before rushing out to buy dog hair dye.

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Watch: New Sanctuary Gives Exhausted Bullocks a Well-Deserved Retirement

After enduring a life of pain and misery, these rescued animals finally found freedom at Animal Rahat’s lush new sanctuary. Find out how you can help save more.

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Free PETA Webinar! Secure Your Legacy With Planning Essentials for 2021

Delayed creating your personal estate plans or don’t know where to start? Join top legal and financial-planning experts on May 12 to learn how to ensure your loved ones’ well-being while securing your legacy. Register now to reserve your seat!

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Top Oscar® Nominees receive PETA shop item to save dogs from hot cars
Top Oscar® Nominees Can Help Dogs in Hot Cars, Thanks to PETA

This year, PETA is giving Hollywood stars a “break” from the usual luxurious swag-bag freebies by providing them with custom emergency hammers to help dogs trapped in hot cars.

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With a PETA Present, you can send a beautiful e-card and help animals.
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Animal Companions
Animal Shelters Aren’t Sheltering, and It’s Fueling Cat Hoarders

Here’s another grim example of the results when animal shelters stop sheltering: Hundreds of cats suffered at the hands of cat hoarders claiming to “rescue” them.

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PETA field team staff member and Princess the dog
Animal Companions
With PETA’s Fieldworkers, Every ‘Princess’ Gets the Royal Treatment

Giving Batman a lift, providing Bentley with a “garage,” helping Wendy “fly”—PETA’s field team accomplished all this and more in the first three months of 2021.

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Sun, Sand, and … Spaying?! PETA Latino Launches Cancún Spay-a-Thon

Spring break in Cancún isn’t just about partying ’til dawn. See how PETA Latino is making a lasting difference for Cancún’s animals.

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Winnie before and after collage
Animal Companions
Matted Dog Does Touchdown Dance After Getting Long-Overdue Haircut

After PETA rescued a severely matted dog from a depressing backyard pen, you won’t believe how happy she is to get her first haircut.

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R.I.P., Ned: PETA Exposes One Dog’s Death at Texas A&M

Another dog in Texas A&M’s twisted dog lab has passed away. PETA is remembering Ned and calling on the school to release the remaining dogs to safe homes.

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Moulton Chinchilla Ranch animal cruelty photos
Animal Companions
PETA Bus Ads Rally Riders Behind Cause of Closing Chinchilla Mill

Sick and injured chinchillas languished in pain and died at Moulton Chinchilla Ranch near Chatfield, Minnesota. PETA’s new ads urge locals to join us in demanding its closure.

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PETA Won’t Let Police Department K-9 Abuse Go Unchecked (Zuul Updates)
In Major Letdown, DA Declines to Prosecute Former PD Officer Who Abused K-9 Zuul

BREAKING: The officer filmed abusing Zuul was recommended for termination and has resigned, but the DA won’t bring criminal charges—a massive letdown for all K-9s.

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Iconic Women Singers Use Voices for Animals
Meet the Women in Music Using Their Voices to Help Animals

As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, PETA is singing the praises of women in music who are using their voices to speak up for animals.

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Animal Companions
PETA and Save the Duck Gift GRAMMY® Stars Feather-Free Vegan Coats

PETA and Save the Duck are urging music’s biggest stars to strike a note of compassion for birds by gifting them high-tech, down-free vegan coats!

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Animal Companions
Even an Iditarod Champion Admitted It: Dog-Sled Racing Is Inhumane

Even a four-time Iditarod champion agreed that dog-sled racing is rife with cruelty and suffering. Here’s how YOU can help dogs forced to run in the Iditarod.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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