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Category: Overpopulation

86 Companion Animals Spayed or Neutered, Thanks to PETA

PETA’s Mobile Clinics Division has helped spay or neuter more than 227,700 companion animals since it began. See the latest lifesaving event!

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Animal Companions
Mexico’s Homeless-Animal Crisis Is a Huge Problem—Here’s How PETA’s ‘Fixing’ It

In Chichimilá and Cancún, Mexico, scores of companion animals rolled up in style to PETA’s free spay/neuter clinics. Help us continue this vital work!

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Breeders, Beware! L.A. Passes Temporary Ban on Issuing Dog-Breeding Permits

Join PETA in calling on Mayor Bass to do her job and remind city shelters of theirs: to provide shelter to all animals in need.

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(left) woman petting dog with text that says "just spay me" (right) man and dog with text that says "just neuter me"
Amid Unprecedented Surge of Dogs and Cats in Shelters, PETA Makes an Urgent Plea to Guardians to Help ‘Fix’ the Crisis

A growing crisis is reaching new peaks, and U.S. animal shelters are bearing the brunt. This World Spay Day, do your part to help dogs, cats, and shelters.

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URGENT: Speak Out for a Cat Possibly Entombed in a Vent
Behind the Viral Videos: The ‘Cat Distribution System’ Exposed

Why is the “Cat Distribution System” all over TikTok? PETA points to problems with the concept and calls for responsible cat care.

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Tune In: PETA VP Featured on Podcast Breaks Down ‘No-Kill’ Sham

What does “no-kill” really mean? A PETA vice president joined “The Animal Welfare Junction” podcast to discuss the divisive term.

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Animal Companions
This ‘Drag Race’ Contestant Is ‘Feline’ Fine and Helping to Fix a Huge Issue Cats Face

Victoria Scone, an international star from multiple “RuPaul’s Drag Race” franchises, has joined PETA U.K. for a special campaign—and it’s the cat’s meow.

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Victory! Rite Aid Is Phasing Out Greeting Cards Featuring Flat-Faced Dogs

What’s wrong with greeting cards featuring pugs or bulldogs? Rite Aid and PETA agree there’s nothing cheerful about animals who can’t breathe.

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Animal Companions
Hot Spay/Neuter Summer? PETA Says It Was!

When an animal is in need, PETA fieldworkers do everything in their power to help. Learn more about their life-changing work.

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230 Animals Spayed or Neutered, Thanks to PETA Latino

PETA Latino’s spay/neuter event in Cancún, Mexico, prevented 230 animals from contributing to the overpopulation crisis.

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Meet a Few of the Thousands of Animals PETA Fieldworkers Helped This Spring

When an animal is in need, PETA fieldworkers do everything in their power to help. Learn more about their groundbreaking work.

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PHOTOS: How Is PETA Latino Putting the Heat on Puerto Rico’s Puppy Problem?

Find out how PETA Latino’s work for animals in Puerto Rico inspired a local celebrity and hundreds of other people.

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Animal Companions
PETA Responds After Paris Hilton Buys Chihuahua Puppy From Breeder

Paris Hilton has apparently been living under a rock if she thinks that buying animals is a compassionate thing to do—a visit to an animal shelter would have shown her just how many homeless Chihuahuas need families.

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Three groups of people and their animals who went to PETA Latino's spay neuter event
Animal Companions
Adios, Animal Overpopulation: PETA Latino’s Free Spay/Neuter Events in Mexico Are Changing Lives

So far, more than 900 dogs and cats in Mexico have had successful surgeries, thanks to this determined team.

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crime scene photo of dogs crammed by animal hoarders in cages and linked to a "no-kill" shelter
Cruel, Seedy, and Greedy: Comparing Animal Hoarders, Roadside Zoos, and Puppy Mills

How do animal hoarders compare with roadside zoos and puppy mills? PETA spotlights their speciesist similarities and what you can do to help their victims.

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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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