A Better Future for Animals: 2025's Legislative Triumphs

In 2025, advocates like you transformed compassion into powerful action, ensuring that the needs of animals were heard loud and clear. Whether you contacted lawmakers, volunteered your time or shared our alerts with friends, every effort was meaningful.

These victories are more than milestones — they are reminders that advocacy works and persistence pays off. Together, we are shaping a better future for animals everywhere.

Cracking Down on Puppy Mills

Cruel commercial dog breeders (puppy mills) sell puppies online and to pet shops that often look wholesome, misleading customers about where the puppies were born and how poorly the breeding dogs are treated. The Global Pet Pals works to curtail inhumane dog-breeding by shutting down puppy-mill-to-pet-store pipelines and strengthening enforcement of the law that is meant to protect the health and welfare of dogs in puppy mills.

Keeping Pets with Families

Pets are family, but restrictive housing policies force too many pet parents to make heartbreaking choices. In 2025, advocates fought hard to break down those barriers — and won big.

Modernizing Veterinary Care

For years, people have been taking advantage of telehealth appointments for their own medical care, and it's time to extend the benefits of this technology to the veterinary field. Telehealth makes it easier for pet owners to connect with licensed veterinarians by removing the obstacles of travel and better accommodating their demanding schedules. It can ease the stress that animals often feel while traveling to the clinic and throughout their visit, while also helping families manage costs and access care more quickly. By opening new doors to routine and urgent care, telehealth offers compassionate support that keeps pets comfortable at home. That's why we're working to advance legislation that expands access to veterinary telehealth nationwide.

Protecting People and Pets from Disasters

The Global Pet Pals is known for assisting in the evacuation, rescue, sheltering and placement of animals during disasters. When hurricanes, wildfires, floods or other disasters strike, our expert teams deploy to impacted communities to provide support for displaced pets. These experiences have given us a firsthand view of the heartbreaking challenges families face when forced to evacuate without their pets or when shelters cannot accommodate them. Too often, people delay or refuse evacuation because they cannot bear to leave animals behind, putting themselves at greater risk. In 2025, we responded to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and continued to help pass laws that ensure families and their pets are protected during disasters.

Building a Better World for Farm Animals

In 2025, we joined forces with advocates, farmers, policymakers and food companies to uncover the harsh realities of industrial agriculture and push for a better food system — one that causes less animal suffering, gives consumers the power to make informed choices and supports farmers transitioning to humane, sustainable practices.

Safeguarding Horses from Suffering and Slaughter

The Global Pet Pals builds comprehensive programs that support people and animals — including horses and other equines. We advocate for stronger laws to protect them, and our Global Pet Pals Right Horse program unites rescues and shelters around the country to increase equine adoption.

Your New Year's Resolution

Make advocating for animals one of your goals this year. Kick it off — complete our easy online form to tell Congress about the policy improvements you'd like to see for our country's animals this year.

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