Some will not keep pets considering it a form of enslavement. Most of these activities were not prohibited in the past and may not now be so in other countries. Includes commercial suppliers of laboratory animals, commercial pet breeders, furriers, and livestock producers. National and local animal welfare organizations and shelters, wildlife conservation and environmental protection groups. A primary activity is to education the public about their responsibilities to animals.
Some local groups undertake the control of overpopulation of pet dogs and cats.
National and local animal rights groups, and anti-vivisection societies. Groups openly calling for animal liberation. Some feel that this can be accomplished only by a complete restructuring of society's economic base and property rights. Clandestine or underground groups whose tactics include illegal actions such as harassment, destruction of property, removal of experimental or other animals considered to be suffering or likely to be destroyed, and violence. Live pigeon target shooting Poaching and trading in exotic and endangered species 2c.