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Animal Wellness Action Sweeps Seven Congressional Candidates to Victory, Toppling Three Anti-Animal Incumbents and Helping Re-elect Four Dedicated Animal Advocates
Read hereIn a Major New Investigation, Animal Wellness Action Uncovers and Documents Rampant Illegal Cockfighting Syndicates in Arkansas
Read hereAnimal Welfare Groups File Lawsuit Against Ill-Conceived, Unworkable Federal Scheme to Slaughter 470,000 Barred Owls
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How Did the Animals Fare? A 2024 Election Recap | Episode 70
Animal Wellness Action this year intensified its efforts to help elect candidates who vote with animals in mind and to defeat incumbents who don’t. In 2024, the Washington D.C.-based group invested heavily in nine races across the country and prevailed in seven of them. Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action, recounts the victories in our latest podcast.
Trophy hunting is not conservation
“This is not a hunt. All the high-tech gadgetry, the GPS collars with dogs doing all the work while the ‘hunter’ sits in his truck drinking coffee until the cat is treed … you might as well call the dogs off and go home because this is not a hunt.”
— from Harley G. Shaw for Cats Aren’t Trophies campaign
Heartbreaking footage of Cody Roberts torturing the Wyoming wolf
Cody Roberts plowed a wolf down with his snowmobile, taped her mouth shut, tortured her, and dragged her before his buddies at the Green River Bar in Daniel, Wyoming. Recently found footage shows Roberts tormenting her at the bar.
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