PETA wrote to NYC menswear and accessory store Jack Spade after receiving numerous complaints about the company's sale of frog dissection kits. After receiving PETA's letter explaining the needlessness of killing frogs and other animals for dissections, the company had a change of heart. Clearing its shelves of the kits--which came with a vacuum-sealed, formaldehyde-treated frog, tools for dissection, and an instruction booklet on how to explore the animal's innards--the company also issued an apology, saying, "Jack Spade doesn''t support the unethical treatment of animals."

PETA worked with Aruba's government to help replace T-61--an unacceptable euthanasia agent that can cause extreme burning pain and is difficult to administer humanely--with sodium pentobarbital, the most humane method of euthanizing unwanted, sick, or injured cats and dogs.

After learning that Welch's--a maker of grape juice--funded animal experiments that involved cutting open dogs' chests, forcing monkeys to inhale noxious secondhand cigarette smoke, and injecting rats with toxic chemicals, PETA fired off a letter to company officials asking that they halt their funding of animal tests. On May 16, PETA received confirmation from the company that it will no longer fund or conduct any animal tests! With this announcement, Welch's joins other compassionate juice companies, like Sunny D, Old Orchard, and SunSweet, that have signed PETA's statement of assurance pledging not to fund or conduct any experiments on animals.

After hearing from PETA, Westerville North High School in Ohio decided to cancel a donkey basketball game that had been scheduled to raise funds for the girls' basketball team. This compassionate decision paid off: several activists who were opposed to the game thanked the school for its compassionate decision by making donations to the team.

When area residents contacted PETA about a "donkey basketball" game planned at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, we wrote to the school's principal educating her about the cruelty inherent to donkey basketball and asking that the game be replaced with a more humane event. Days before the game was scheduled to take place, PETA got word that it had been canceled!