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A humane society is a group that aims to stop human or animal suffering due to cruelty or other reasons, although in many countries, it is now used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals ( SPCAs). In the United Kingdom, it may also be a society that provides a waterways rescue, prevention, and recovery service, or that gives awards for the saving of human life (see: Royal Humane Society).
Usage examples of "humane society".
Wherefore instead of all Apish flouts and jeers at Histories, which have such undoubted confirmation, as that no Man that has breeding enough to regard the Common Laws of Humane Society, will offer to doubt of 'em, it becomes us rather to adore the Goodness of God, who does not permit such things every day to befall us all, as he sometimes did permit to befall some few of our miserable Neighbours.
If Janet Haze's ferrets were still at the humane society, then they weren't the ferrets at the morgue.
He drew together a few of his neighbors, and together they organized the Union Humane Society, whose object was the relief of those held in bondage.
The humane society could not have been expected to know that turkey vultures vomit when attacked.
One of his first jobs here was at the Oregon Humane Society on NE Columbia Boulevard.
After that there was no more talking of giving Satan away or delivering him to the Humane Society.
Dolly Knopf, who runs the Humane Society, she'd always run her home when they closed up for the night.
Dolly Knopf, who runs the Humane Society, she’d always run her home when they closed up for the night.
Last year a Humane Society investigator got himself torn to pieces by some very game animal up past Sacramento.
But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.