Animal Abuse

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The Barbi Twins: Why We Bear Our Claws

Reedu Taha | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Cat, Declaw Ban, Barbi Twins, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Animal Abuse, Animal Shelter, Living News

Little more than one year after the death of the declawed cat that forever carved out a spot in my heart, I find great irony in the fact that the declaw ban is sweeping through my home state of California.

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Australian Kangaroos Culled To Make Way For Car Race

Yahoo! News | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Car Races, Animal Rights, Race Car Track, Australia, Kangaroos, Kangaroo-Culling, Culling, Animals, Animal Abuse, Green News

The culling of some 140 kangaroos on one of Australia's most famous race car tracks prompted outrage Friday from environmentalists and animal rights a...

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Del Toro Urges Puerto Rico To Nix Monkey Breeding Facility

AP | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Puerto Rico, Animal Rights, Benicio Del Toro, Breeding, Animal Abuse, Animals, Monkeys, Animal Breeding, Bioculture, Green News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Benicio del Toro is asking Puerto Rico to halt a planned monkey-breeding facility, arguing the primates would suffer "ex...

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Duct-Taped Cat: Philadelphia Man Arrested, Accused Of Wrapping Cat With Duct Tape

The Associated Press | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Philadelphia, Video, Spca, Duck Tape Cat, Sticky the Cat, Humane Society, Animal Abuse, Philadelphia Police, Duct Tape, Update, Duck Tape, Arrest, Duct Tape Cat, Philadelphia Cops, James Davis, Stickey, Home News

PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor's backyard...

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This Week in Animals: Bat Love Songs, Celebrity Pets, Lobster Power And More!

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

HuffPost Green posted some informative animal stories this week, which we hope that you enjoyed. Flip through our slideshow for a refresher and don't ...

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If Pets Are Protected From Animal Abuse, Why Not Farm Animals?

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Production, Farm Animals, Factory Farming, Farms, Animals, Industrial Agriculture, Animal Abuse, Green News

Most people know NFL quarterback Michael Vick jeopardized his career and went to prison for violating animal cruelty laws. What they likely don't real...

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Let's Keep Vick Sidelined -- For Now

Doyle Albee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Nfl, Pit Bull, Michael Vick, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Vick-Animal-Abuse, Michael Vick Sentence, Dogfighting, Animal Abuse, Michael Vick Animal Cruelty, Michael Vick Prison, Animal Welfare, Dog Abuse, Atlanta Falcons Michael Vick Dogfighting, Vick Dogfighting, Michael Vick Dogfighting, Living News

Bring Vick back. Just make him work for it. The animals he tortured and killed deserve that, at the very least.

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Adopt-A-Less-Adoptable-Pet Day

Betsy Saul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Old Dogs, Abandoned Pets, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Pets, Pet Adoption, Petfinder, Animal Abuse, Old-Cat, Adopting Pets, Dog Adoptions, Adoption, Animal Shelter, Living News

it is heartbreaking to see wonderful pets staying in shelters day after day, year after year -- just because they are too large or too shy, have broken limbs, or are the "wrong" color.

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On the Matter of Elephant Rights

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 08.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Ringling Bros., Bull Hook, Peta, Animal Rights, Elephants, Circus, Animal Abuse, Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Circus, Circus-Animal-Rights, Green News

Would you feel differently about circus animals doing back flips or dancing on cue if you knew they were being hit with a bull hook or struck with a whip?

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Animal Welfare and the Dog Days of Summer

Ellen Susman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Animal-Adoption, Obama Bo, Animal Cruelty, Barack Obama Dog, Pets, Animal-Control, Animal Rights, Human Society, Animal Abuse, Fostering Animals, Animal-Adoption-and-Rescue, Animal Welfare, Neuter, Pet Neutering Ordinance, Presidential Pets, Politics News

The great Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how it treats its animals." If we are to be judged by his adage, then we have failed.

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Cheyenne Cherry Pleads Guilty To Killing Kitten In Oven, Taunts Animal Activists

New York Daily News | By Dorian Block | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Bronx Teen Animals, Cheyenne Cherry, Animal Rights, Bronx New York, Tiger Lily Kitten, Tiger Lily, Kitten in Oven, Bronx Teen Animal Abuse, Bronx, Animals, Animal Abuse, Cheyenne Cherry Animal Abuse, New York News

A heartless kitty killer hissed angrily at animal rights activists Wednesday, grinning widely as she took credit for stuffing the helpless pet into a ...

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Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Freedom of Speech, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Breaking Media News, Animal Rights, Earth Day, Vegan, Free Speech, Animal Abuse, Green, Gandhi, Media, TV and Animals, Animals, Vegetarianism, Media Bias, Media News

Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.

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Abby Toll Shibu Inu Case: WOMAN TAPED DOG TO FRIDGE

postchronicle.com | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Colorado Dog Abuse Case, Abby Toll, Shiba Inu, Animals, Animal Abuse, Shibu Inu, Green News

Police say Abby Toll of Colorado wrapped her boyfriend's dog Rex, a Shibu Inu, in packing tape and stuck the canine upside down to a refrigerator beca...

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Cat Stuffed Into Bong To Chill Out, Owner Faces Charges

AP | ERIC OLSON | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Rights, Acea Schomaker, Marijuana, Drugs, Bong Cat, Animals, Cat Stuffed Into Bong, Animal Abuse, Cat Bong, Green News

OMAHA, Neb. — A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges _ and catcalls from a...

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4 Disturbing Animal Torture "Art" Pieces

WebEcoist | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Torture, Wim Delvoye, Guillermo Vargas, Animals, Animal Abuse, Green News

I had read about this before -- "art" that involves torturing animals -- but had no idea it was so popular. Here, the word "torture" isn't used in the...

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Petland and The Puppy Mill Problem

Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff | Posted 01.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Petland, Humane Society of the United States, Animals, Legislation, Puppy Mills, Ohio, Animal Abuse, Style News

Petland claims that animal advocacy groups tie their annual protests to year end fundraising drives and prey on the sympathies of consumers to increase donations.

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Not So Eggcellent

Cheri Shankar | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

When I found out about the true conditions under which egg-laying hens labor, it was easy to eliminate the not-so-Incredible, Edible Egg from my diet.

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Help Stop Cruelty to Animals

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Cruelty to Animals, Animal Rights, Animals, Cruelty to Pigs, Pig, Pigs, Animal Abuse, Green News

No one wants to see and hear such vile things, but we can't ignore them either. This kind of cruelty is a reflection on our country, our sense of pride for being decent people.

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Psychologically Incongruent: The Compassionate Abuser

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 10.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Animals, Dogs, Animal Abuse, Living News

Can you be a good citizen and neighbor, teach compassion to your child and enjoy watching two animals fight to the death?

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The Circus: Saddest Show on Earth?

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Ringling Bros., Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, New Jersey, Ringling Brothers, Circus, Animal Abuse, Living News

My kids and I recently went to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus at New Jersey's Izod Center. One thing I didn't expect was a group of anti-circus protesters, shouting gory details of animal torture and holding crude signs.

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Miljen The Bear: Life Of Crime To Lap Of Luxury

Reuters | Ranko Cukovic | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Respectons, Miljen the Bear, Neglected Bear Cub, Bear Neglected, Mobster Bear, Bear Sanctuary Normandy, Starved Bear, Bosnian Bear, Mob Bear, Noa, Bosnian Bear Abused, Animal Abuse, Bosnian Bear Rescue, Living News

A Bosnian bear who fell into the hands of mobsters and almost died from starvation and solitude travels to a French sanctuary this week for a life of ...

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Slaughterhouse Owner Backs Off Claims

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Westland/Hallmark Meat, Beef Recall, Beef Contamination, Westland/Hallmark Meat Co, Human Society, Unsafe Beef, Animal Abuse, Business News

WASHINGTON — The head of the Southern California slaughterhouse that produced 143 million pounds of recalled beef acknowledged Wednesday that co...

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CA Slaughterhouse Zaps Cows Too Weak To Stand

Washington Post | Rick Weiss | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Electric Shocks, Animal Welfare, Slaughterhouse, Humane Society, Animal Abuse, Cows, Cow Abuse, Business News

Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand ...

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