73 Quotes by Wayne Pacelle

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    You think you're getting the best of the best. What you're getting is oftentimes a very sick animal with genetic defects who came from a puppy mill.

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    They just need the cue to go ahead and do it and help before it's too late. We have literally now just a few days left.

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    If you don't account for the pets in disaster, you undermine the effectiveness of the human rescue operation.

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    Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U.S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure.

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    The Humane Society of the United States has planned and trained for this sort of catastrophe for years, ... We issued warnings asking people to evacuate with their pets since we've seen what happens when animals are left behind. The tragedy is that so many people apparently could not leave in time. The human and animal toll is expected to be enormous.

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    The Humane Society of the United States applauds Ford Motor Company for being part of the solution, working for humane and sensible treatment of America's majestic wild horses.

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    The evacuation of New Orleans doomed these animals to a fate of dehydration and starvation. We rescued people, but we left their pets behind to die. Amazingly, we are finding more alive every day, but after three weeks we are hitting the critical hour.

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    As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

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