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Reporting Animal Cruelty in Your Community
Learn more about what constitutes animal cruelty, why reporting animal cruelty is important, who you should call and general guidelines for making your report.

U.S. Animal Laws Treat Pets as Property
While cats and dogs are considered beloved family members in homes all over the world, laws in the United States take a different view by generally treating pets as property.

Special API Report: What’s Really in Pet Food
The pet food industry is closely connected to factory farming and other sources of animal cruelty. With less strict regulations than human-grade food, pet food often contains ingredients that would be considered unfit for human consumption - including diseased livestock and deceased pets. Pet food labs also are known to conduct cruel tests on lab animals, including dogs and cats.

Declaration of the No-Kill Movement in the U.S.
More than 6,000 groups and individuals have signed this declaration calling for the end to mass killing of homeless companion animals and promoting alternatives to traditional animal sheltering practices. This document provides a statement of rights, governing principles and no-kill standards. It includes provisions recognizing the rights of ferals cats.

Asilomar Accords
The accords contain guiding principles for implementing no-kill standards, as well as suggested definitions and uniform statistics for use in improving animal shelter practices.