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Los Galgos Guapos ("The Handsome Hounds"): photo-essay on greyhound rescue in...
Photojournalist (and author) Erin Siegal has a wonderful photo-essay up on the The Reuters Photographers Blog about "Fast Friends," a group that adopts/rescues "retiring" greyhound dogs that have been...
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Peter Jackson responds to rumors of animal cruelty on the set of The Hobbit
Accusations are flying that 27 animals died of mistreatment on the set of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, causing PETA to get up in arms and protest the movie. PETA will protest just about anything, but is...
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China plans to ban ivory trade “within a year or so.” US official: Yes it's a...
During his visit to Washington last month, China's President Xi Jinping vowed to stop the commercial trade in ivory in his nation, but didn't say much about when or how. (more…)
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Puppy shoots Florida man
A man who decided to shoot a bunch of puppies was himself shot by one of his intended victims. NBC News reports that Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola, Florida, sustained a gunshot to the wrist...
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Cesar Millan investigated for animal cruelty
Los Angeles County's Animal Care and Control department is investigating "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan after he allowed a dog to attack and bite a pet pig on his show, Cesar 911. In the February 26...
View ArticleHaribo: sweetened with forced labor and abused animals
In "The Haribo Check," aired on German public broadcast ARD, a documentary team audits Haribo's supply chain and finds "modern day slaves" in Brazil working to harvest carnauba wax, a key ingredient...
View ArticleDrunk Florida woman riding a horse charged with a DUI
A 53-year-old Florida woman was arrested and charged with a DUI, though she wasn't really driving, but rather drunk riding a horse down a road. Breath samples showed that her blood alcohol level was...
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The Handbook of Tyranny: stark infographics on human cruelty
Handbook of Tyranny tells the story of human cruelty in a series of beautifully designed inforgraphics, like this chart showing methods of crowd control. Patterns start to emerge in the designs, such...
View ArticleFormer South Carolina GOP leader kills dog to please God
Todd Kincannon was found "bloodied and covered in dog hair" by police officers after killing and mutilating his mother's 10-year-old beagle. Kincannon reportedly told Simpsonville police officers that...
View ArticleFlorida man convicted of smuggling lizards from Philippines in electronics
In Tampa, Florida, a man pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to that trafficked live water monitor lizards from the Philippines to the United States. The smugglers stuffed the creatures into...
View ArticleRooster kills man during illegal cockfight
In Pragadavaram village in India's state of Andhra Pradesh, a man was killed by a rooster during an illegal cockfight. The birds' owners tie razors to the animals' natural spurs and fight them to the...
View ArticleSpain: Cops free 100s of dogs from illegal puppy farm, 5 people arrested
Police in Spain raided two puppy mills and rescued 270 small dogs, many of which were sick and stuffed inside cramped cages. Five people suspected of running the illegal animal breeding and sales...
View ArticleRussia: 2 elephants escape from circus
PHOTO provided by Anna Dubrovskaya, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. When a circus troupe tried to load the animals into a truck to head to the next destination, they resisted, and...
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Watch Taika Waititi as a rabbit in a new stop-motion short film about animal...
From the official blurb: While Ralph is animated, the miseries he endures in the short film are far from made up. As Spencer Susser, the director of Save Ralph, says, "It's so important that Ralph...
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Watch as a "pet" tiger roams a residential Houston neighborhood
Neighbors in a Houston, Texas residential area spotted a tiger – that was wearing a collar – walking across lawns and the street. One man called called 911 and then immediately alerted the...
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Florida man arrested after trying to teach alligator a lesson
A 32-year-old Florida man is accused of wrestling with an alligator that he stole from a miniature golf course and later trying to hurl it onto the roof of a cocktail bar. When his throwing skills...
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Gentleman accused of giving meth to his emotional support monkey wants him back
In Cincinnati, Ohio, animal control officers seized Adam Kordes's emotional support monkey, named Neo, back in February. Apparently, a vet who had seen video of Neo felt that the animal had likely been...
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State Trooper charged with animal cruelty after repeatedly hitting horse with...
Animal cruelty charges for a Pennsylvania State Trooper who repeatedly drove his police vehicle into a horse were filed last week. But the indictment—and resulting publicity—came only after "the legal...
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California police raid home under court orders to kill a 9-year-old girl's...
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times published one of the most harrowing stories of American authoritarianism that I've read in quite a while. A young girl in Northern California was given a pet...
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Watch the moment a 28-year-old laboratory chimp sees the sky for the first time
This video shows the moment when Vanilla, a 28-year-old female chimpanzee saw the full sky for the first time in her life. She had lived her entire life first inside a New York biomedical research...
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