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Donate Now October 2, 2025 Cows Burned, Electroshocked, and Hacked Apart for Leather Shoes Reebok, New Balance, HOKA, and other shoe brands need to walk away from the cruel leather trade. TELL THEM TO BAN LEATHER NOW New Podcast: PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk Remembers Jane Goodall. LISTEN NOW!   Victory! Rustic Pathways Drops Cruel Elephant Bathing Tours Following PETA Push Leading student travel company Rustic Pathways heard from PETA and more than 35,000 supporters—and it listened! It has now removed cruel elephant bathing from its tour offerings. KEEP THE VICTORIES COMING Double Your Impact to Stop Animal Tests Before It’s Too Late! Time is running out to make a gift that will go twice as far to protect more dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, and other animals from suffering and being killed in laboratories. GIVE NOW Jane Goodall Redefined Animals as Someones, Not Somethings World-renowned primate expert and vegan Dr. Jane Goodall devoted her life to raising awareness about animals' plight in nature and captivity. READ ABOUT HER LEGACY PROGRESS! Lowe's Just Banned Glue Trap Sales on Its Website Although Lowe’s will continue to sell glue traps in its stores, this decision to stop selling them online is a meaningful step in the right direction. URGE HOME DEPOT TO BAN GLUE TRAPS Tell Officials in Mexico to Create a Safe New Home for Captive Dolphins Mexico recently banned keeping dolphins in concrete tanks, forcing them to perform tricks, and more—so now dolphins in the nation need a sanctuary to live out the rest of their lives with proper care. URGE OFFICIALS TO HELP DOLPHINS Insurance Association Drops Live Animal Displays, Thanks to PETA Giraffes are not event props. After hearing from PETA, an insurance company in Florida “ensured” that it will no longer use wild animals at future association events. HELP OTHER ANIMALS USED FOR EVENTS Explosive Documentary HOW TO MAKE DRUGS Exposes Big Pharma’s Secret We’re told to trust medicine—but what if the system it’s built on is broken? ANIMAL TESTING’S HIDDEN HUMAN COST VIDEO: PETA Asks Men in Mexico City What They Think of Bullfighting People everywhere are now waking up to the cruelty of bullfighting. PETA Latino and its supporters just helped get the mayor of Morelia in Mexico to cancel a deadly bullfight in the city, sparing at least seven bulls’ lives, and this week, the men of Mexico City are sharing their views on these atrocities. WATCH HOW THEY RESPONDED 12 Months, 12 Inspiring Animal Rescue Stories Read the stories of Cooper the chicken, Ezekiel the cat, and others with PETA’s 2026 Rescued Calendar. GET YOUR PAWS ON THIS 9 Secret Devices That Animal Abusers Don’t Want You to Know About These nine things leave animals in agony. What's even worse is that it's all standard operating procedure. DEVICES THAT HURT ANIMALS October is Cut Out Dissection Month! Help Spread Humane Science Are you a parent or teacher? Learn how science teachers can get FREE non-animal teaching tools like the Kind Frog, digital dissection apps, and more. LEARN HOW TO APPLY Urgent Alerts As the Weather Cools This Fall—Tell Vuori to Spare Birds from Suffering by Ditching Down in Its Jackets PETA Celebrates Two Big Wins Against Deadly Sepsis Tests—But Animals Still Need Your Help More Actions Needed: Urge These AAA Clubs to Stop Supporting Dolphin Abuse Speak Out Against Factory Farming for World Farmed Animals Day Today Trending Lifestyle News Why Inflation Is Another Reason to Ditch Meat Coffee For Your Feet? See The Latest Vegan Innovation How Are BunnyLulu Bag Charms Made? Warning: Graphic Video. ☆  ☆  ☆ Fascinating Fact: Did you know that dolphins sleep with one eye open and continue to swim slowly as they rest? This is known as unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. Dolphins rest just one hemisphere of their brain at a time, allowing them to use the other hemisphere to stay alert to predators, navigate, and control breathing.