FUND FOR ANIMALS INC

Programs: Direct animal care services: the fund for animals operates the nation's largest and most diverse network of animal care centers. It provides hands-on care and safe haven for more than 3,000 animals representing 150 species each year, including those rescued from cruelty and neglect, victims of the exotic pet trade, injured and orphaned wildlife, refugees from research labs and more, and works to prevent cruelty through advocacy and education. The fund for animals has four animal care centers. (1. ) cleveland amory black beauty ranch in murchinson, tx is a 1,437 acre sanctuary for approximately 1,000 animals, representing 42 species, rescued from abuse or abandonment. Rescued animal residents include exotic and domestic species including horses and burros, cattle and buffalo, deer, pigs, tortoise, tigers, chimpanzees, and other primate species. Animals rescued from cruelty cases or other forms of abuse receive veterinary care and a permanent safe haven. The doris day equine center, a program of the cleveland amory black beauty ranch, provides care and rehabilitation for horses rescued from cruelty and neglect cases. The center focuses on developing optimum programs to elevate the public perception of horses rescued from cruelty and neglect. In addition to hands-on rescue, rehabilitation, training and placement of equines the center serves as a resource and support system to rescue centers around the country. In 2014, the center provided training to advance further placement of homeless horses from around the country, increasing our impact. (2. ) cape wildlife center in cape cod, ma, is a five-acre facility and model rehabilitation program for native wildlife, with a state-requested focus on challenging rabies vector species, providing medical and rehabilitative treatment to injured and orphaned animals and releasing them back into the wild. The cape wildlife center is an integral part of the cape community, advising people on humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, while supporting public policies that benefit wild animals and their habitats. The center is making humane advancements in wildlife veterinary care and rehabilitation, seeking solutions for ecological challenges affecting wildlife and human populations and training current and future wildlife veterinarians. In 2014, more than 1,820 animals received care at the center, including an increased number of rabies vector species. (3. ) the fund for animals wildlife center, in ramona, ca, a 13-acre facility, provides medical treatment, care and rehabilitation of native wildlife, and releases them back into the wild. The center focuses primarily on the rehabilitation and release of predator species native to california, such as skunks, coyotes, bobcats, eagles, hawks, and owls. In 2014, 550 animals received care and treatment. Presently, 15 non-releasable or non-native animals rescued from the exotic pet trade and cruelty cases live at the center, including a pygmy hippo, several bobcats, and a mountain lion, all of whom once languished in the hands of private owners. In addition, the center serves as a shelter for a colony of 35 feral cats rescued from nearby san nicolas island. In 2014 the center modified an outdoor recovery habitat expanding the center's capacity to provide care and treatment for increased native wildlife capacity. At the request of the state of california, the center accepted and successfully rehabilitated black bears, a new species for the center. (4. ) duchess wildlife sanctuary, in oakland, or, is a 1,120-acre facility established to care for about 200 formerly abused, exploited, and neglected horses. Mares rescued from the pregnant mare urine (pmu) industry and their offspring make up the majority of the herd. The center also provides temporary sanctuary for the rehabilitation and recovery of horses rescued from cruelty cases. In 2014, property improvements included water reserve tanks and additional fenced pastures. The fund for animals continued to support other animal sanctuaries and direct animal care programs. In 2014, the fund provided financial support to the rabbit sanctuary, inc. In simpsonville, sc, which provides a home to rescued rabbits.

humane education and advocacy: the fund for animals' animal care centers provide a broad education on the range of problems and threats facing wild animals, drawing attention to what happens to those animals when individual citizens, institutions, or policy makers make bad decisions. Animals enter the fund for animals' sanctuary system from all over the country every year, and sanctuary staff members provide service and expertise throughout the nation, advising government agencies, private institutions, and the public on humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts and migratory populations, while pushing for public policies that benefit wild animals and wild animal habitats. The fund's animal care centers provide captivating experiences via personalized tours, extern programs for professional students, and volunteer opportunities for visitors from around the country. Guests learn about animal protection issues relating to factory farming, wildlife and habitat protection, animals in research, horse slaughter, and other challenges. In 2014, the cleveland amory black beauty ranch's extern program provided animal care educational opportunities to 21 students. The ranch, home to animals rescued from the exotic pet trade, also advocated for legislation to ban private ownership of big cats and dangerous wild animals. The cape wildlife center's externship program draws veterinary technicians, pre-veterinary undergraduate majors, and veterinary students and graduate veterinarians from across the u. S. And abroad; in 2014, more than 22 externs and visiting professionals from the u. S. And other countries studied wildlife rehabilitation, veterinary care, and conservation medicine at the center. The center also advocated for non-toxic ammunition, anti-poaching, and against deer culling. The fund for animals wildlife center provided immersion training to 20 student interns, and also worked on issues related to reptile skin sales, humane control of wild pigs, and rodenticide control and labeling. Duchess sanctuary advocated for anti-soring, anti-slaughter, and bureau of land management (blm) reform. The fund for animals not only improves public understanding of animal welfare issues but also educates its supporters through communication and action opportunities in print and online publications, and on its website, fundforanimals. Org. About 54,000 people receive monthly electronic communications, and more than 700,000 mailings included printed materials from the fund for animals. The work of the fund for animals directly supports the human-animal bond, with all of its emotional, psychological, and societal benefits. The organization's work also benefits humans by ensuring that wild, injured, and potentially dangerous animals are cared for and handled in a manner consistent with fundamental public health and safety interests. In february 2014, the fund and the hsus, filed a legal petition asking the usda to revoke the exhibitor's license of the nation's largest big cat breeder for multiple alleged violations of the animal welfare act and the endangered species act. In june 2014, the fund and other conservation, wildlife rehabilitation, and animal protection organizations, as well as several rank-and-file hunters, filed a legal petition with the u. S. Dept. Of interior seeking a rule banning the use of toxic lead ammunition in all united states fish and wildlife services (usfws) and united states national park service (usnps) properties. In september 2014, the fund and its coplaintiffs won a lawsuit challenging the u. S. Fish and wildlife service's decision to remove endangered species act protections for wolves in wyoming. In december 2014, the fund and other groups won a similar lawsuit challenging the removal of federal protections for wolves in the great lakes region. In october 2014, the u. S. Fish and wildlife service issued a proposed rule in response to a petition by the fund and other animal protection and conservation groups to add african lions to the list of species protected under the endangered species act.