Welcome to Chicago Alliance for Animals
We believe every animal deserves dignity, protection, companionship, and freedom from harm and intense confinement — and we work every day to make that a reality and create lasting change for animals across Chicagoland and beyond.
Who We Stand For
Spur, and Thousands of Wild Animals
For around 35 years, a giant African Sulcata Tortoise named Spur has languished at The Animal Store, in Lincolnwood, IL.
Her species enjoys digging and burrowing, but Spur is being inhumanely kept on hard tile, unable to express basic natural behaviors. In nature, sulcata tortoises roam across vast landscapes– miles each day, but Spur is only allowed to take a couple steps in each direction. The little bit of hay in her empty bathtub is all Spur has. She has absolutely nothing natural to her life.
Please urge Lincolnwood officials to enforce the law that prohibits the keeping of wild animals.
This is already an enforceable law because:
Wild animals DO NOT belong in cages.
Wild animals DO NOT make good pets.
Wild animals DO NOT belong in our homes.
Wild animals belong in the wild.
Spur has been unfairly confined to a 3'x5' cell for more 3 decades.
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Domesticated Rabbits Bred and Sold as Easter Gifts for Profit. Abandoned Outside to Suffer. Rescuers Out of Resources.
Rabbits are an expensive, long-term investment. Shockingly, many rabbits are maimed by children, who do not understand their vulnerability.
The cause of this vicious and predictable cycle of suffering is The Animal Store (once again), in Lincolnwood.
Rabbits there have been sold sick, pregnant, and misgendered, to unaware buyers—non-returnable and non-refundable.
Families are hit with specialized veterinary bills, behavioral problems, illnesses, pests, and pregnancies.
People resort to abandoning their rabbits outside, thinking they'll "go back to nature". But domesticated rabbits can't survive on their own. They often fall prey to predators, suffer to death by the elements and pests, or get hit by cars.
This is why thoughtful, informed adoption is so important.
Many rabbits in rescues and shelters are already in need of good homes.
Red Door Animal Shelter (2025 Rescue Season):
92 Stray Rabbits (at Red Door)
279 Surrender Requests
169 Field Rescues
Please urge Lincolnwood authorities to vote in alignment with Cook County, which prohibits the sale of rabbits.
Rocky the Lonely Coyote Still Pacing Alone in Northbrook's Bitter Winters.
Coyotes are pack animals.
Yet Rocky, the lonely coyote, has been confined to a small cage, outside and alone, in Northbrook, IL since 2018 (8 years).
As a puppy, Rocky was mistaken for a dog. Yet this isn't how one would house a dog. Nor a would-be-wild animal.
Rocky can be found pacing...
We are calling for Rocky's transfer to a sanctuary in Colorado. At the very least, a companion.
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