Subaru has always tried to bill themselves as pet friendly. Many of their commercials feature dogs, and the back of their wagons and SUVs are supposedly ideal for ferrying forth furry friends. Recently, they took a step beyond ads, and took the initiative to go beyond what any other automaker has done for pets. Subaru and the Center for Pet Safety have gone out and actually tested pet carriers and crates in crash scenarios.
The Center for Pet Safety began is an entity that takes time out, to do consumer reports and tests for various pet products. They are a non-profit consumer advocacy testing everything from car harnesses to chew toys. The Center for Pet Safety started because of a dog named Maggie.
The founder of the company Lindsay A. Wolko had a black cockerspaniel that was tragically
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Any one of them would have left the whatever animal inside seriously injured at least. One of the products claimed to meet or exceed safety standards; it decapitated the inanimate crash test dog. However, the company that made the harness was not lying. Pet products are not considered ‘consumer products’, therefore they are not required to pass any quality control tests.
The Center for Pet Safety was founded in 2011. In March 5th, of 2013, they partnered with Subaru to Crash test safety products for pets; namely crates, carriers, and harnesses. The results of the first tests garnered some accolades and credibility for both the organization and pet car safety in general.
The results of Subaru and the CPS’s independent testing was released in October of 2013. The top performer was Sleepypod Clickit, it was also the only product that was even mentioned. I suppose it is both a testament to how fantastic Sleepypod products are (they crash tested their products before long Subaru and the CPS ever did), and to how sadly disinterested the competition is in testing their products. Or maybe the CPS standards are absurdly
Unfortunately of all the members in the immediate Ingram family circle, Lisa Campbell is the one whose philanthropy remains the most unknown. However she has served on many boards, so it’s likely that she and her husband have made a number of significant gifts; most likely through a Donor Advised Fund. We do know that they have given over
The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 was put in place to make the public feel protected from dangerous dogs. The act was put in place due to the figures of dog attacks been on the rise. The act came into force on the twelfth of August 1991 and relates to dogs that are bred for fighting.
Four journalists named Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, Marcia Glaser, and Fred Myers thought it would be a good idea to create a nonprofit organization to help animals that have are treated cruelly by either abuse or when they are left alone. The Humane Society has been helping animals since November 24, 1954(2). Their mission since the beginning has been celebrating animals and confronting cruelty. There are a great number of things that the Humane Society has been doing for the animals, like saving them from people who want to harm them. The list of animals that the Humane Society helps is very long, because they don’t just help the household pets that you might have thought. The conditions of the Humane Society change due to the types of animals
Organization: Cruelty of Puppy Mills/Individuals purchasing dogs from puppy mills/Stricter federal and state laws/Encouraging individuals to not buy from pet stores/online
The RSPCA's American counterpart, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), was founded in New York City in 1866 by Henry Bergh, who was concerned about cruelty to horses, stray cats, and dogs. The ASPCA notes that in 1952, it initiated "voluntary inspection of laboratories in New York that use animals for research," an important function that is performed today by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care
There are around four million dogs alone taken into animal shelters here in the United States every year. Over one million of those dogs end up getting euthanized. As of 2012, the United States of America was ranked first in the entire World for having the most dogs: somewhere close to seventy-six million. The over-population of dogs is a real problem in this country. In America, two point eleven million puppies are sold every year from puppy mills, while about three million are killed in shelters because they are too full. Within the past twenty years, puppy mills have become very popular. Unlike animal shelters, puppy mills are designed to get puppy bred and sold as fast as possible. Since puppy Mills are intended for
Throughout the world, wild cats, reptiles and primates live peacefully in their natural habitats. Despite this, every year more and more of these exotic animals are becoming domestic pets. Keeping exotic animals as pets is unsafe and should therefore be made illegal. They pose as a risk of injury, disease and are an invasion the natural environment. Some people believe that keeping a pet does not pose a risk if properly kept and trained. However, these arguments are not corroborated by the information available. Keeping exotic animals as pets is dangerous, and should be made illegal in Canada.
“Animal Testing 101.” Peta.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2013. Web. 16 November 2013.
Some animals that are tested on are being abused and not getting their fare treatment of social activities and some of the people testing them aren’t even being fed and if some animals miss behave the people with inject poison into one of the animals they’re testing on and will kill them and don’t really care because they can always just go get more.
Members would do undercover investigations into slaughterhouses or laboratories. It works with celebrities and government officials in campaigns to spread the message and get free media coverage. They pass out flyers and talk with people one-on-one. Some also acts as “field workers,” which means they go to neighborhoods and offer dog houses, toys and neutering/spraying services to (owners of the) dogs that seem neglected. The organization uses many methods to fight for their cause, but haven’t succeeded much in getting laws made.
Human beings have been shown to be the cruelest animals on the planet. While other animals will kill for defense or food, humans are the only ones that inflict unnecessary cruelty onto others like they do through experimentation. Fortunately, some people throughout the years have shown sympathy towards the various animals that are tested on day after day and work to stop the atrocities committed by man. Animal rights activists and their cause can be traced back to their origins in the antivivisection campaigns of the 1900s. Both individuals and groups of people work to abrogate the abuse of animals, usually through protests. The most prominent organization that advocates for animal rights is PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who have fought many battles in the war against animal cruelty. Two of PETA’s victories were in their campaigns, where they worked with several other organizations, against Gillette and Colgate for their experimentation on and mistreatment of animals. Their victory against Gillette came with, “the multinational company announcing a moratorium in December 1996 on animal testing of its ...
We love our pets-, they comfort us each and every day, whether we are feeling happy or sad. Everyday we feel,see, and hear the love coming from animals. There are also many stray animals that don't have a home. ¨Did you know that homeless animals outnumber homeless people 5 to 1¨. This means that for very five people there is an animal. That's why there are so many stray animals across the world. Scientists say that most of the stray animals we see are abandoned animals. Which is another term pet abandonment. Pet abandonment is a worldwide issue. Pet abandonment means basically someone leaving there animal with no one to take care of it. An animal is usually abandoned because someone can't take care of it/doesn't have anytime for it. Some people
"Pet Overpopulation : The Humane Society of the United States." RSS. The Humane Society of
PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) is one of the world’s largest animal rights organizations. The company was established in 1980 and...
(Sub-Point # 1) According to The Humane Society International, animal testing is the process of using living animals for research purposes. Much of this research is done for common human use such as medicine, cosmetics, shampoos, cleaning products,pesticides, contact lenses, and diapers. Most of these research facilities will tell you that the pain the animals feel during testing is considered “mild”, but still have the potential to cause pain, suffering, and even death for the animals. Common procedures include forced exposures to chemicals which is done by injections. Animals are also inflicted pain with wounds so that either their healing or stress level can be studied. At the end animals are killed or are used in other experimentations. The number of animals that have been tested on should be reported, but 90% of the animals used in testing here in the United States are not represented on government statistics (Rowan,