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It’s the type of happy retirement that other military working dogs also merit.
“When I had to say goodbye to him, I thought I was going to be okay just saying goodbye and leaving him to another handler, but I broke down the second I hugged him around his neck,” said Staff Sgt Ogin.
We at American Humane want to make sure that these hard-working dogs on the front lines of freedom come home and receive the pampering and love they deserve.
Medal of Courage during a Capitol Hill ceremony were Military Working Dog Troll, who took part in saving 65 Coalition Forces members, and clearing a landing zone to Medevac out wounded troops; “Sergeant Yeager,” who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the Purple Heart after shrapnel wounds from an IED caused him to lose part of his ear; Military Working Dog K-9 Niko, who conducted more than 600 missions in Afghanistan for the U.S. State Department in support of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Agency for International Development, and other alliance countries that are a part of NATO; and Military Working Dog Emmie who served with the U.S. Marine Corps during Operation Enduring Freedom and was then certified as a Police Explosive Detection Dog for the Pentagon.
Thank you to all these courageous canines for their service to our country.
YeagerK- tHe AMeriCAn HUMAne Hero dog AWArds®: Unleashing the power of the connection between people and animals The American Humane Hero Dog Awards were created to celebrate the extraordinary acts of heroism performed by our best friends.
Supported by a host of human stars, including Betty White, Jay Leno, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Pauley Perrette, Ariel Winter, Vivica A. Fox, Richard Marx, Daisy Fuentes, Alison Sweeney and dozens more animalloving VIPs, our Hero Dogs and what they have done for us uplift the human spirit and inspire us to return the favor to all our animal friends.
AliCe: A boy’s best friend In nine-year-old who loved soccer and his friends.
Then, on a normal day, while riding in the back of his parents’ SUV with his younger brothers on the way to a family dinner, a man fired three to five bullets into their car and shot him in the head.
Since that day Antonio has been fighting the battle of a lifetime.
Nearly four years later, an artificial skull covers half of Antonio’s brain, because a seizure causing a fall could be fatal.
Antonio not only battles seizures, but migraines, balance issues, spells and more.
In October of Antonio was paired with his service dog, Alice, a five-year-old German Shepherd from Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs in Florida.
Going to school, the store, or even just a walk outside would be impossible for him.
Never once has Alice failed to alert to an oncoming seizure or “spell” and she assists him with his balance issues.
Alice has given Antonio the chance at a new normal life he couldn’t have had without her.
She is a loyal and loving hero every day.
She is his guardian angel and helps him live his new normal to the fullest extent possible.
For her extraordinary bravery and good works, Alice won both the American Humane Hero Dog Awards’ Hero Service Dog category and the top “American Hero Dog” title.
We thank her for all she does for Antonio, and category sponsor Lulu’s Fund for helping draw attention to Alice‘s story, spotlighting the life-changing, life-saving abilities of our best friends.
Animals need and deserve great care and treatment.
Until recently, however, there were few or no accepted humane standards governing the treatment of animals in a wide variety of settings involving human care.
To remedy this and to help elevate the care of millions of animals on farms and ranches, in entertainment, breeding operations, air transport, and the world’s zoos and aquariums, American Humane has led the way in creating and enforcing rigorous, science-based standards that demonstrably improve the lives of animals.
Today, American Humane is the largest certifier of animal welfare in the world, with innovative programs that help ensure humane conditions for some one billion animals across the country and around the world.
All of our certification programs are built upon objective, evidence-based standards created by the world’s leading veterinarians, animal experts and animal ethicists.
To ensure compliance with these standards and absolute integrity of reporting, these standards are enforced by independent, expert third-party auditors or Certified Safety Animal Representatives with ultimate oversight of all programs provided by the country’s trusted first national humane organization.
The expertise and verification process helps provide those who care about animals with assurance that the creatures under the certification enjoy demonstrably good welfare and were treated humanely.
American Humane was the first national humane organization to serve in the protection of farm animals.
In fact, we were founded on this vital issue in promoting the welfare and humane treatment of animals in agriculture.
Today, we help ensure better lives for nearly Humane Certified™ program, the first, largest and most trusted independent farm welfare and audit effort in the country.
Promoting the welfare and humane treatment of nearly than 200 rigorous, science-based standards covering everything from adequate space to air and water quality, heating, lighting, shade and animals’ ability to engage in natural behaviors.
• Adding more humane producers under the American Humane Certified seal, including labels such as Organic Pasture Farms; Ohio Natural Eggs; Almark Foods; Idalou Egg Ranch; LesserEvil; MCM Poultry; Mid-States Specialty Eggs; Shepherd’s Processed Eggs; and Sparkling Meadow Farms.
Significant additions like these help to increase the reach of our protective umbrella covering hundreds of millions of chickens, turkeys, dairy cows and other agricultural species who deserve good welfare and humane treatment.
• Encouraging Congress and the American people to support humanely raised foods was the goal of our Capitol Hill briefing, outlining advances in agricultural practices and calling on everyone to rally behind humane farming practices that feed the world and treat animals right.
“We’ve been committed to excellence in animal welfare standards since my family started ranching in 1875.
In the face of what scientists are calling a “Sixth Mass Extinction” with species disappearing at an unprecedented rate, zoos and aquariums are playing an outsized role in preserving the vital web of life on Earth.
To elevate standards and shine a spotlight on those who take good care of their animals, American Humane developed the first-ever independent, science-based humane certification dedicated solely to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the animals in the world’s zoos, aquariums and conservation centers.
Helping protect species in zoological settings worldwide: American Humane now helps protect the welfare and humane treatment of nearly around the world.
• Global expansion: Major institutions around the world are lining up to become American Humane Certified and we now certify major zoological facilities in North and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, elementary, middle and high school students read stories of animal rescue, rehabilitation and conservation being played out at American Humane Certified zoos and aquariums around the world.
• Raised public awareness for humane conservation: American Humane created a series of six educational videos about the vital role of zoos and aquariums in conservation, prompting more than 15 million views on social media.
We now help ensure the welfare and humane treatment of animals at 18 U.S. states and 12 countries in North and Central America, Europe and Asia.
Since the has brought more than a third of a million animals under our rigorous, science-based protections.
“Beginning in the increasingly aware of the ethical issues arising in animal use.
Matters never even considered in the past have achieved major prominence.
These issues range from the use of animals in food production and scientific research to their use in entertainment.
American Humane pioneered assuring the well-being of animals used in cinema production.
Now the organization is turning its attention to animals kept in zoos and aquaria, an area that has again elicited major social concern.
Wildfires For huge numbers of animals it must have seemed like – and for too many, it was – the end of the world.
Some one billion animals are reported to have been killed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic wildfires in Australia.
Remarkable, unique and endangered species have been dealt a devastating blow from which it may be difficult for some to recover.
More than been charred – 12,000 square miles more than were burned in the Amazon and 100 times the area incinerated during the worst wildfires in U.S. history last year in California.
American Humane, which has been part of virtually every major animal relief operation since World War I, is working with our humane conservation partners to support lifesaving efforts to get veterinary care, food, water, medicines and supplies to the animal victims.
Two of our most recent efforts for this disaster include our work to support our American Humane Certified™ San Antonio Zoo in sending help to rescue and rehabilitate surviving wildlife.
Additionally, we are supporting the ZAA Australia Wildlife Conservation Fund which places rescued animals in appropriate facilities for care and addresses long-term recovery efforts to return healthy animals to regenerated habitats to revive and sustain populations of wildlife.
“The Australian wildfires have inflicted one of the most terrible losses of animal life of all time and we need our leading zoological institutions more than ever to step in with their expertise and help the survivors,” said American Humane President and CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert.
The American Humane Hollywood program has been First to Serve in the protection of our beloved animal actors since 1940 and is the only industrysanctioned effort to oversee animal safety on filmed production sets.
Millions look for our famed “No Animals Were Harmed®” certification to assure them that furred, finned and feathered performers from Black Beauty to Benji were kept safe and humanely treated under the watchful supervision of our trained Certified Animal Safety Representatives.
Prevention of risk is American Humane’s top priority, which is why we work closely with producers, directors, animal wranglers and stunt coordinators before even one frame of film is shot.
During this past year, we worked successfully once again to put the spotlight on….
We monitor everything from small indie films to the biggest box-office blockbusters.
Some of the top movies we were on include seven Academy Award winners, including in Hollywood, Marriage Story, Rocketman, Little Women and Bombshell.
• Increasing our international presence: Responding to growing demand, we supervised year.
• Adding new members to our global team: To meet growing demand, we brought on seven new international recruits in Canada, England and Hungary, for a total of locations and 16 overseas.
We successfully protect nearly animals on 1,000 production sets each year – from indie films to the biggest box-office blockbusters.
To meet growing demand here and abroad, we brought on seven new international recruits in Canada, England and Hungary, for a total of States in high-production locations and 16 overseas.
You’ve heard actors say that their performances are only as good as those of their co-stars.
The same can be said if those co-stars have fins, wings or four legs.
In supervised some remarkable performances by our animal friends.
Not only did these super-talented species take center stage and exhibit a knack for acting, they also brilliantly interacted with their compatriots, the stars of the films.
By playing the “best friend” to a protagonist, these theatrical thespians achieved several goals, which include, but are not limited to enriching the lead actors’ vulnerabilities, extracting the characters’ authentic selves, bringing some comic relief and ultimately highlighting the importance of the human-animal bond.
A few of the films this year that featured amazing animal actors who rode in the passenger’s seat with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are the Disney epic, Togo; A Dog’s Journey; Playing With Fire; John Wick: Chapter Time in Hollywood, which features Brad Pitt, who won an Oscar for his turn as a stuntman whose only best friends are Leonardo DiCaprio and his dog, Brandy (who also happens to be a “Pit(t),” as well!).
Brandy, whose real name is Sayuri, not only extracts Brad Pitt’s loveable side in the scene when he falls on the floor kissing her, but also ends up being a foil for the climactic fight scene.
ProteCting AniMAls in Air trAnsPort More than half a million pets are transported by air each year in the United States.
To help ensure a safe, comfortable, healthy and humane experience for these beloved family members, American Humane has been working to improve the safety, comfort and well-being of pets traveling by plane.
Best practices are being developed by American Humane animal welfare specialists and an independent Scientific Advisory Committee consisting of the world’s leading animal welfare experts, veterinarians, researchers and animal ethicists.
Covering every aspect of air travel from health certifications to pre-flight preparation and acclimation, check-in, temporary housing, ground transport, crating, loading and unloading, employee training and crew notifications, breed protections, temperature inside and outside the aircraft, wait times, monitoring checks, availability of food and water, route length and scores of other factors, the effort represents a significant, science-based step forward in helping ensure the health, comfort and welfare of animal passengers in commercial aviation.
American Humane is dedicated to improving safety for pets traveling by air, advancing our mission to protect animals everywhere, and making the skies an even friendlier, safer and more humane place for our best friends.
We are strongly advocating that airlines adopt these lifesaving measures.
“The nation's farmers are to be applauded for ensuring that fresh, nutritious food remains abundant, available and affordable.
“Right now shelters are overwhelmed,” explains Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane.
“We’re asking people to save a life, to raise your hand, and to volunteer to take one or two of these animals home with you from your local shelter.
What we’re doing at American Humane is a call to action to individuals who are selfisolating and are feeling very much alone in these dismal times.
Dogs have been darlings of the screen since film’s beginnings, says Robin Ganzert, author of Animal Stars and president and CEO of American Humane, the nonprofit that monitors onset animal safety to provide the “No Animals Were Harmed” certification.
“It’s great to see generations moved ... to embrace the healing power of the humananimal bond and the important role that man’s best friends play in our lives,” Ganzert says.
“In times like these, shelters are going to be absolutely swamped with a tremendous number of pets,” Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of the nonprofit American Humane, told TODAY.
Ganzert said fostering not only helps save the lives of animals but can benefit the people who open their homes, particularly those struggling with stress or social isolation [and] stressed there is no evidence that dogs and cats can transmit COVID-disease caused by the novel coronavirus, to humans.
“At American Humane we say, ‘Only their unconditional love is contagious.’” globAl AWAreness And PUbliC edUCAtion As the leader on animal welfare issues since our expertise and commentary.
We work with thousands of local, regional and national news groups to get out lifesaving information and spread our message of compassion, caring and hope.
• Our award-winning national television and radio PSAs are reaching millions of people each year with lifesaving information, messages of compassion and practical ways the public can support humane farming, humane conservation of the world’s remarkable and endangered creatures, veterans needing service dogs and animals caught in disasters and cruelty cases.
Teaching kids to be kind: Partnering with the publishers of Chicken Soup for the Soul library, American Humane developed the Humane Heroes series of free eBooks and accompanying national curricula for elementary, middle and high-school students that seek to instill the love and value of animals into young people, and teach them about conservation and how to be advocates for animals through the stories of rescue, rehabilitation and humane conservation work being done at leading zoological institutions.
“When humans fail to take action to protect animals from unethical treatments, fail to have biosecurity procedures, fail to have independent oversight from animal welfare and fail to change societal norms for the betterment of all animal kind, this is exactly the disaster we invite.
Pandemics of this nature have occurred time and time again for centuries.
• bOOK: Mission Metamorphosis: The Transformation of America’s First National Humane Organization (© $22.95): In this new book coming out this fall, American Humane President & CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert reveals the remarkable efforts to rescue, restore and retool the historic American Humane organization for its leading role in today’s humane movement.
• FILM: “Escape from Extinction”: American Humane’s inaugural documentary throws a vitally important spotlight on critical efforts that may be among the last, best chances to save one million species on the verge of a catastrophic mass extinction.
They are there for the animals and it’s only about the real interest of the animals.
– Sir Anthony Hopkins “American Humane pioneered assuring the well-being of animals used in cinema production.
world-renowned animal ethicist “I wanted American Humane to be part of all the action.
Steven Spielberg “For almost I’ve been a member of the country’s oldest charity dedicated to the welfare of animals, American Humane.
betty White “For more than years, American Humane has been helping our best friends in their worst times.

It’s the type of happy retirement that other military working dogs also merit.

“When I had to say goodbye to him, I thought I was going to be okay just saying goodbye and leaving him to another handler, but I broke down the second I hugged him around his neck,” said Staff Sgt Ogin.

We at American Humane want to make sure that these hard-working dogs on the front lines of freedom come home and receive the pampering and love they deserve.

Medal of Courage during a Capitol Hill ceremony were Military Working Dog Troll, who took part in saving 65 Coalition Forces members, and clearing a landing zone to Medevac out wounded troops; “Sergeant Yeager,” who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the Purple Heart after shrapnel wounds from an IED caused him to lose part of his ear; Military Working Dog K-9 Niko, who conducted more than 600 missions in Afghanistan for the U.S. State Department in support of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Agency for International Development, and other alliance countries that are a part of NATO; and Military Working Dog Emmie who served with the U.S. Marine Corps during Operation Enduring Freedom and was then certified as a Police Explosive Detection Dog for the Pentagon.

Thank you to all these courageous canines for their service to our country.

YeagerK- tHe AMeriCAn HUMAne Hero dog AWArds®: Unleashing the power of the connection between people and animals The American Humane Hero Dog Awards were created to celebrate the extraordinary acts of heroism performed by our best friends.

Supported by a host of human stars, including Betty White, Jay Leno, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Pauley Perrette, Ariel Winter, Vivica A. Fox, Richard Marx, Daisy Fuentes, Alison Sweeney and dozens more animalloving VIPs, our Hero Dogs and what they have done for us uplift the human spirit and inspire us to return the favor to all our animal friends.

AliCe: A boy’s best friend In nine-year-old who loved soccer and his friends.

Then, on a normal day, while riding in the back of his parents’ SUV with his younger brothers on the way to a family dinner, a man fired three to five bullets into their car and shot him in the head.

Since that day Antonio has been fighting the battle of a lifetime.

Nearly four years later, an artificial skull covers half of Antonio’s brain, because a seizure causing a fall could be fatal.

Antonio not only battles seizures, but migraines, balance issues, spells and more.

In October of Antonio was paired with his service dog, Alice, a five-year-old German Shepherd from Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs in Florida.

Going to school, the store, or even just a walk outside would be impossible for him.

Never once has Alice failed to alert to an oncoming seizure or “spell” and she assists him with his balance issues.

Alice has given Antonio the chance at a new normal life he couldn’t have had without her.

She is a loyal and loving hero every day.

She is his guardian angel and helps him live his new normal to the fullest extent possible.

For her extraordinary bravery and good works, Alice won both the American Humane Hero Dog Awards’ Hero Service Dog category and the top “American Hero Dog” title.

We thank her for all she does for Antonio, and category sponsor Lulu’s Fund for helping draw attention to Alice‘s story, spotlighting the life-changing, life-saving abilities of our best friends.

Animals need and deserve great care and treatment.

Until recently, however, there were few or no accepted humane standards governing the treatment of animals in a wide variety of settings involving human care.

To remedy this and to help elevate the care of millions of animals on farms and ranches, in entertainment, breeding operations, air transport, and the world’s zoos and aquariums, American Humane has led the way in creating and enforcing rigorous, science-based standards that demonstrably improve the lives of animals.

Today, American Humane is the largest certifier of animal welfare in the world, with innovative programs that help ensure humane conditions for some one billion animals across the country and around the world.

All of our certification programs are built upon objective, evidence-based standards created by the world’s leading veterinarians, animal experts and animal ethicists.

To ensure compliance with these standards and absolute integrity of reporting, these standards are enforced by independent, expert third-party auditors or Certified Safety Animal Representatives with ultimate oversight of all programs provided by the country’s trusted first national humane organization.

The expertise and verification process helps provide those who care about animals with assurance that the creatures under the certification enjoy demonstrably good welfare and were treated humanely.

American Humane was the first national humane organization to serve in the protection of farm animals.

In fact, we were founded on this vital issue in promoting the welfare and humane treatment of animals in agriculture.

Today, we help ensure better lives for nearly Humane Certified™ program, the first, largest and most trusted independent farm welfare and audit effort in the country.

Promoting the welfare and humane treatment of nearly than 200 rigorous, science-based standards covering everything from adequate space to air and water quality, heating, lighting, shade and animals’ ability to engage in natural behaviors.

• Adding more humane producers under the American Humane Certified seal, including labels such as Organic Pasture Farms; Ohio Natural Eggs; Almark Foods; Idalou Egg Ranch; LesserEvil; MCM Poultry; Mid-States Specialty Eggs; Shepherd’s Processed Eggs; and Sparkling Meadow Farms.

Significant additions like these help to increase the reach of our protective umbrella covering hundreds of millions of chickens, turkeys, dairy cows and other agricultural species who deserve good welfare and humane treatment.

• Encouraging Congress and the American people to support humanely raised foods was the goal of our Capitol Hill briefing, outlining advances in agricultural practices and calling on everyone to rally behind humane farming practices that feed the world and treat animals right.

“We’ve been committed to excellence in animal welfare standards since my family started ranching in 1875.

In the face of what scientists are calling a “Sixth Mass Extinction” with species disappearing at an unprecedented rate, zoos and aquariums are playing an outsized role in preserving the vital web of life on Earth.

To elevate standards and shine a spotlight on those who take good care of their animals, American Humane developed the first-ever independent, science-based humane certification dedicated solely to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the animals in the world’s zoos, aquariums and conservation centers.

Helping protect species in zoological settings worldwide: American Humane now helps protect the welfare and humane treatment of nearly around the world.

• Global expansion: Major institutions around the world are lining up to become American Humane Certified and we now certify major zoological facilities in North and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

Published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, elementary, middle and high school students read stories of animal rescue, rehabilitation and conservation being played out at American Humane Certified zoos and aquariums around the world.

• Raised public awareness for humane conservation: American Humane created a series of six educational videos about the vital role of zoos and aquariums in conservation, prompting more than 15 million views on social media.

We now help ensure the welfare and humane treatment of animals at 18 U.S. states and 12 countries in North and Central America, Europe and Asia.

Since the has brought more than a third of a million animals under our rigorous, science-based protections.

“Beginning in the increasingly aware of the ethical issues arising in animal use.

Matters never even considered in the past have achieved major prominence.

These issues range from the use of animals in food production and scientific research to their use in entertainment.

American Humane pioneered assuring the well-being of animals used in cinema production.

Now the organization is turning its attention to animals kept in zoos and aquaria, an area that has again elicited major social concern.

Wildfires For huge numbers of animals it must have seemed like – and for too many, it was – the end of the world.

Some one billion animals are reported to have been killed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic wildfires in Australia.

Remarkable, unique and endangered species have been dealt a devastating blow from which it may be difficult for some to recover.

More than been charred – 12,000 square miles more than were burned in the Amazon and 100 times the area incinerated during the worst wildfires in U.S. history last year in California.

American Humane, which has been part of virtually every major animal relief operation since World War I, is working with our humane conservation partners to support lifesaving efforts to get veterinary care, food, water, medicines and supplies to the animal victims.

Two of our most recent efforts for this disaster include our work to support our American Humane Certified™ San Antonio Zoo in sending help to rescue and rehabilitate surviving wildlife.

Additionally, we are supporting the ZAA Australia Wildlife Conservation Fund which places rescued animals in appropriate facilities for care and addresses long-term recovery efforts to return healthy animals to regenerated habitats to revive and sustain populations of wildlife.

“The Australian wildfires have inflicted one of the most terrible losses of animal life of all time and we need our leading zoological institutions more than ever to step in with their expertise and help the survivors,” said American Humane President and CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert.

The American Humane Hollywood program has been First to Serve in the protection of our beloved animal actors since 1940 and is the only industrysanctioned effort to oversee animal safety on filmed production sets.

Millions look for our famed “No Animals Were Harmed®” certification to assure them that furred, finned and feathered performers from Black Beauty to Benji were kept safe and humanely treated under the watchful supervision of our trained Certified Animal Safety Representatives.

Prevention of risk is American Humane’s top priority, which is why we work closely with producers, directors, animal wranglers and stunt coordinators before even one frame of film is shot.

During this past year, we worked successfully once again to put the spotlight on….

We monitor everything from small indie films to the biggest box-office blockbusters.

Some of the top movies we were on include seven Academy Award winners, including in Hollywood, Marriage Story, Rocketman, Little Women and Bombshell.

• Increasing our international presence: Responding to growing demand, we supervised year.

• Adding new members to our global team: To meet growing demand, we brought on seven new international recruits in Canada, England and Hungary, for a total of locations and 16 overseas.

We successfully protect nearly animals on 1,000 production sets each year – from indie films to the biggest box-office blockbusters.

To meet growing demand here and abroad, we brought on seven new international recruits in Canada, England and Hungary, for a total of States in high-production locations and 16 overseas.

You’ve heard actors say that their performances are only as good as those of their co-stars.

The same can be said if those co-stars have fins, wings or four legs.

In supervised some remarkable performances by our animal friends.

Not only did these super-talented species take center stage and exhibit a knack for acting, they also brilliantly interacted with their compatriots, the stars of the films.

By playing the “best friend” to a protagonist, these theatrical thespians achieved several goals, which include, but are not limited to enriching the lead actors’ vulnerabilities, extracting the characters’ authentic selves, bringing some comic relief and ultimately highlighting the importance of the human-animal bond.

A few of the films this year that featured amazing animal actors who rode in the passenger’s seat with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are the Disney epic, Togo; A Dog’s Journey; Playing With Fire; John Wick: Chapter Time in Hollywood, which features Brad Pitt, who won an Oscar for his turn as a stuntman whose only best friends are Leonardo DiCaprio and his dog, Brandy (who also happens to be a “Pit(t),” as well!).

Brandy, whose real name is Sayuri, not only extracts Brad Pitt’s loveable side in the scene when he falls on the floor kissing her, but also ends up being a foil for the climactic fight scene.

ProteCting AniMAls in Air trAnsPort More than half a million pets are transported by air each year in the United States.

To help ensure a safe, comfortable, healthy and humane experience for these beloved family members, American Humane has been working to improve the safety, comfort and well-being of pets traveling by plane.

Best practices are being developed by American Humane animal welfare specialists and an independent Scientific Advisory Committee consisting of the world’s leading animal welfare experts, veterinarians, researchers and animal ethicists.

Covering every aspect of air travel from health certifications to pre-flight preparation and acclimation, check-in, temporary housing, ground transport, crating, loading and unloading, employee training and crew notifications, breed protections, temperature inside and outside the aircraft, wait times, monitoring checks, availability of food and water, route length and scores of other factors, the effort represents a significant, science-based step forward in helping ensure the health, comfort and welfare of animal passengers in commercial aviation.

American Humane is dedicated to improving safety for pets traveling by air, advancing our mission to protect animals everywhere, and making the skies an even friendlier, safer and more humane place for our best friends.

We are strongly advocating that airlines adopt these lifesaving measures.

“The nation's farmers are to be applauded for ensuring that fresh, nutritious food remains abundant, available and affordable.

“Right now shelters are overwhelmed,” explains Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane.

“We’re asking people to save a life, to raise your hand, and to volunteer to take one or two of these animals home with you from your local shelter.

What we’re doing at American Humane is a call to action to individuals who are selfisolating and are feeling very much alone in these dismal times.

Dogs have been darlings of the screen since film’s beginnings, says Robin Ganzert, author of Animal Stars and president and CEO of American Humane, the nonprofit that monitors onset animal safety to provide the “No Animals Were Harmed” certification.

“It’s great to see generations moved ... to embrace the healing power of the humananimal bond and the important role that man’s best friends play in our lives,” Ganzert says.

“In times like these, shelters are going to be absolutely swamped with a tremendous number of pets,” Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of the nonprofit American Humane, told TODAY.

Ganzert said fostering not only helps save the lives of animals but can benefit the people who open their homes, particularly those struggling with stress or social isolation [and] stressed there is no evidence that dogs and cats can transmit COVID-disease caused by the novel coronavirus, to humans.

“At American Humane we say, ‘Only their unconditional love is contagious.’” globAl AWAreness And PUbliC edUCAtion As the leader on animal welfare issues since our expertise and commentary.

We work with thousands of local, regional and national news groups to get out lifesaving information and spread our message of compassion, caring and hope.

• Our award-winning national television and radio PSAs are reaching millions of people each year with lifesaving information, messages of compassion and practical ways the public can support humane farming, humane conservation of the world’s remarkable and endangered creatures, veterans needing service dogs and animals caught in disasters and cruelty cases.

Teaching kids to be kind: Partnering with the publishers of Chicken Soup for the Soul library, American Humane developed the Humane Heroes series of free eBooks and accompanying national curricula for elementary, middle and high-school students that seek to instill the love and value of animals into young people, and teach them about conservation and how to be advocates for animals through the stories of rescue, rehabilitation and humane conservation work being done at leading zoological institutions.

“When humans fail to take action to protect animals from unethical treatments, fail to have biosecurity procedures, fail to have independent oversight from animal welfare and fail to change societal norms for the betterment of all animal kind, this is exactly the disaster we invite.

Pandemics of this nature have occurred time and time again for centuries.

• bOOK: Mission Metamorphosis: The Transformation of America’s First National Humane Organization (© $22.95): In this new book coming out this fall, American Humane President & CEO Dr. Robin Ganzert reveals the remarkable efforts to rescue, restore and retool the historic American Humane organization for its leading role in today’s humane movement.

• FILM: “Escape from Extinction”: American Humane’s inaugural documentary throws a vitally important spotlight on critical efforts that may be among the last, best chances to save one million species on the verge of a catastrophic mass extinction.

They are there for the animals and it’s only about the real interest of the animals.

– Sir Anthony Hopkins “American Humane pioneered assuring the well-being of animals used in cinema production.

world-renowned animal ethicist “I wanted American Humane to be part of all the action.

Steven Spielberg “For almost I’ve been a member of the country’s oldest charity dedicated to the welfare of animals, American Humane.

betty White “For more than years, American Humane has been helping our best friends in their worst times.