This year marks the 9th year for the annual event, which supports the City of Albuquerque Animal Welfare Department’s Spay/Neuter Voucher Program. The Mayor’s Dog Ball is sponsored by Clark’s Pet Emporium. Click for more...

Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. (APNM), a 33-year-old non-profit animal advocacy organization, is seeking a full-time Animal Relocation Program Manager. This is a one-year position - made possible through a generous grant from the ASPCA® - reporting to one of APNM's Program Directors. Click for more...

There is no disputing that horses have been an integral part of humans' survival and well-being for centuries: Essential for transportation, farming, and even serving as compatriots in war. Today, horses continue to play a key role in New Mexico: As companions, teachers, healers, qualified service animals, athletes and participants in many kinds of competitions. Indeed, Americans today have a unique and enduring relationship with their horses, whom they value as living, breathing, thriving beings, not as flesh measured and sold by the pound. Click for more...

Nature News writes, “Government-funded chimpanzee research in the United States has been on notice for more than a year. This month, its time is probably up.” Click for more...

Horses are animals of remarkable complexity and nuance. Physically, they combine grace and raw power like no other creature. Mentally, the animals have an intelligence and thoughtfulness that is unmistakable. For these reasons and more, New Mexicans and all Americans have benefited from horses for centuries in countless arenas - as a signer of the New Mexicans Against Horse Slaughter petition recently wrote, “Horses have been essential to our survival throughout history, helping us with transportation, mail, farming and even in wars.” Click for more...

Apparently, bad ideas die hard. This week, almost a year since Valley Meat Company of Roswel applied to open the first horse slaughter facility in the U.S. in over five years, the New York Times reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering approval of the facility’s request. Click for more...

The last few months have brought several big changes for chimps kept captive in labs. Not just the start of the transfer of over 100 chimpanzees from a Louisiana lab to sanctuary at Chimp Haven, but also dramatic attempts to pass the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act during the last days of Congress in December, and the January 22 recommendations from the Working Group for sweeping changes in the use of chimpanzees in NIH-supported research. Click for more...

On Valentine's Day, we all take a little time to send a message of love and thanks to those around us who touch our hearts. This year we would like to share a few stories about those who are loved by APNM. Click for more...

As featured in Albuquerque Journal, Animal Protection of New Mexico's Board of Directors member Tom Alexander traveled to southern Kosovo last November to teach schoolchildren that with empathy and care, dogs and cats can become loving companions and to educate municipal leaders of the need for a community animal shelter. Click for more...