In February 2021, as a historic freeze sent temperatures plummeting in Texas, overwhelming the state’s power grid, breaking pipes and leaving roads slick with ice, a strange call came into the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office near San Antonio. Someone said they heard an animal crying outside their neighbor’s home. Deputies discovered a 6-month-old, 75-pound tiger in a cage, wearing a leash and a harness. She had rubbed her forehead raw on the bars and didn’t have enough straw to stay warm. Deputies seized the tiger under a county law that makes owning big cats a misdemeanor. They named her Elsa, after the character in Disney’s Frozen films. When our sanctuary, Black Beauty Ranch, got the call about Elsa, we immediately offered to give her a home where she can live her life, not as a pet, but as a tiger. Today, she’s thriving in sanctuary where she’s able to climb, swim and play in a safe place like her natural habitat in the wild. To protect other big cats like Elsa, Humane World for Animals advocated in support of the federal Big Cat Public Safety Act, which was signed into law in 2022 and prohibits private ownership of big cats. 🩵🐅 (fb)

Rescued from the Tennessee Walking Horse show industry, where trainers often inflict pain on a horse’s hooves and legs to exaggerate their gait in a cruel practice known as soring, Pride is one of the lucky ones. His handlers were successfully prosecuted, and he will live the rest of his life in peace, on his own terms, at our Black Beauty Ranch sanctuary. But horses just like him continue to suffer and they need your help! No horse should be made to suffer for a blue ribbon—it’s time that this cruelty is stopped for good. Take action NOW: https://hsus.link/fb052025 (fb)