Father’s Day is Here! Speak Up for Animal Dads & Celebrate the #ProudRescueDads in Your Life
Join us in celebrating awesome dads (animal and human) for Father’s Day, 2026! Read all about these dedicated animal dads and take action to free them from exploitation.
🦊 Fox Fathers
Known for their vigilance and dedication to the family unit, fox dads do most of the hunting, not only for themselves and their vixen, but for their kits as they transition to meat. As the kits get older, fathers spend months “roughhousing” to teach them essential survival skills. They will even bury prey nearby to teach kits to use their noses. Without the father, fox families would struggle greatly.
Foxes bred and killed for their fur are denied everything that is natural and important to them. Their days are spent crammed into filthy, wire cages, where they have little space to move around. Once they are large enough to be skinned for their fur, workers kill them by electrocution. These playful, intelligent fathers deserve to live free from cruelty and exploitation! Take action below to tell companies that fur is dead!
🪿 Goose Dads
Male geese are devoted fathers. They are widely considered to be among the most dedicated and protective dads in the avian world. They constantly stay near their incubating mate and fiercely guard both the mother and the nest from potential predators.
Geese exploited by the down industry never get to live natural lives. Their days are spent crammed together in packed sheds or filthy lots. Workers often pluck birds alive in order to steal their down—the soft layer of feathers closest to a bird’s skin—starting as early as 10 weeks old. Those who aren’t live-plucked don’t fare any better: workers tear the feathers from their bodies after their throats have been slit. These amazing dads deserve BETTER! Urge these companies to immediately stop selling products made with down!
🦉 Barn Owl Dads
Barn owl fathers are the epitome of dependable. For three weeks, while the mother owl keeps the family’s hatchlings warm, the father dedicates every day to hunting small mammals to feed his growing family. He reliably and constantly delivers meals to the nest, where the mother feeds pieces to their growing young.
Owls imprisoned in laboratories and experimented on never get the chance to live natural lives. In Shreesh Mysore’s lab at JHU, electrodes were poked around in the brains of the fully conscious owls, mutilating their brain tissue so severely that they became “unusable” to Mysore—at which point he killed them. Owl dads deserve freedom, flight, and family! Demand that the NIH deny any new funding request for cruel and pointless experiments on owls.
Thank you for your compassion for animals.
