LEGISLATIVE ALERTS:

Updates on bills currently in the New York State Legislature, and how you can help. For more bills, go to www.hsus.org.

Here are a few of the bills in NYS which the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) opposes or supports. For more bills, go to www.hsus.org...

A bill in the NYS Assembly, A.9258, would overturn current NYS law by legalizing the use of noose snare traps. These traps painfully choke and strangle animals, such as foxes, beavers, coyotes, raccoons and opossums. Traps are not selective and might also kill domestic animals or endangered species...

The Regional Director of the NYS Parks Department has been quoted in the Syracuse daily Post-Standard as saying that he thinks it would be a good recreational activity to allow bow-hunting of deer in Green Lakes State Park...

Monkeys are being treated cruelly at testing labs run by Covance. See the footage from a PETA inside investigation...

People for Animal Rights posts the note below from the Humane Society of the U.S. as a response to the many concerned people who have e-mailed us about the Bonsai Kitten web site...

Life Sciences Research, Inc. (formerly known as Huntingdon Life Sciences) tortures and kills large numbers of dogs and other animals with cruel tests. It is based in Britain and New Jersey...