HSUS stands for the “Humane” Society of the United States. It is a corporation in the United States that does not own or control any animal shelters and it does not represent humane societies in the United States, other than itself.

While HSUS began an animal welfare organization back in 1954, its current focus is toward legislation that severely impedes or eliminates domestic animals and animal ownership. HSUS disguises its political campaigns as attacks against “puppy mills,” animal cruelty, and “hoarding.”

HSUS claims that it only targets “puppy mill” breeders and not “ethical” breeders, but the definition of “ethical” provided by HSUS makes breeding of animals impossible.

HSUS defines “animal cruelty” in the broadest sense that essentially defines nearly *all* human contact and control over animals as cruel.

HSUS has defined “hoarding” as a mental disorder where a person owns more than the “typical number” of animals and does not care for them in the way HSUS thinks they should. HSUS has further described the “typical number” of animals owned by the typical animal owner as being about 2 and it provides definitions for “proper care” that unreasonable in the broadest sense.
Additionally, HSUS recommends and encourages unhealthy treatment of animals by promoting its vegan dog food (which is untested as being healthy) and by advocating spaying and neutering, which are medical procedures that carry long term health risks and prevent breeding of quality, healthy animals.

Ironically, HSUS opposes animal research, but by placing its vegan dog food in the stream of commerce without testing the long-term safety of its product for dogs (which are naturally meat eaters) on a small test population, HSUS is testing its vegan dog food on the unsuspecting mass consumer population. So, HSUS is conducting animal research on a large scale.

HSUS has also been involved in campaigns to take animals away from innocent people, it advocated the killing of adoptable puppies because they once belonged to Michael Vick, who later took a job with HSUS, and it regularly campaigns for donations to help victims of natural disasters, while offering no aid to those victims. When HSUS “rescues” animals, it will only collect a few of the stranded animals for photo opportunities to show the corporation as a “rescue” organization. HSUS typically sells the cute animals and disposed of the less marketable animals in area animal that are usually burdened by the disaster themselves. HSUS makes no attempt to reunite animals that it collects with the owners of the animals and it usually discusses the conditions of the animals as “deplorable.”

Recently, HSUS heavily campaigned for donations after the Haiti earthquake. The corporation solicited funds and sent a “team” of people to Haiti to “analyze and assess” the situation. Haiti is a financially poor country with people who cannot readily afford the luxury of “pets.” Most of the dogs in cats in Haiti function as scavenger animals, which are the predecessors of modern pets. Scavengers perform a function of consuming human and animal waste and of killing and consuming vermin. Removing these free-roaming animals from Haiti after a disaster would only add to the disaster. HSUS should have studied these facts before wasting resources to “analyze and assess” the situation overseas. HSUS returned about a month after landing in Haiti and brought back four dogs. Two of the dogs “rescued” from Haiti originated in the United States and accompanied employees of a company owned by HSUS who were evacuating Haiti, but failed to follow the proper protocol for bringing their dogs back.