Video of woman throwing live puppies into river sparks online outcry

A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet. And now it has also led to an animal rights group offering a bounty for the arrest of the people behind it…

Protesters picket horse slaughter hearing

Animal rights activists demonstrated outside the Metro Justice building where two men accused of animal cruelty were scheduled to face a judge inside, Tuesday morning. However, Santiago Cabrera, 20, and Luis Cordero, 19, turned down their right to appear in court for their pre-trial hearing…

Puppy mill measure makes November ballot

Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced this week that Proposition B has been approved for the general election ballot in November…

San Francisco hits nerve with pet sale ban idea

As Philip Gerrie tells it, the idea of banning pet sales in San Francisco started simply enough, with a proposal to outlaw puppy and kitten mills…

Recall: Natural Balance Pulls Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog Food

Natural Balance has pulled some of its Sweet Potato and Chicken dry dog food off the market because of possible salmonella contamination…

Petition: Say “No” to abuse of Retired Racehorses in Barbados

Used, beaten, abused or simply left to die. That’s the sum of the fate of some popular race horses across Barbados after they are retired from the track…

USDA fails to crack down on puppy mills

Federal investigators have uncovered grisly conditions at puppy mills around the country where dogs were infested with ticks, living with gaping wounds and in pools of feces, according to a disturbing new report that placed the blame on lax enforcement…

Bans on pit bulls prompt lawsuit

Two war veterans and a dog-show judge who own pit-bull-terrier service dogs have filed a class-action lawsuit against Aurora and Denver over their bans on the breeds…

Canada: Horse slaughter rules violated, video shows

Video secretly filmed this year at two horse abattoirs in Quebec and Alberta reveals what animal-welfare experts say is systematically inhumane treatment, two years after cruel practices at another slaughterhouse were brought to the federal government’s attention…

Man sentenced for abusing nearly 200 horses

A once prominent thoroughbred breeder and owner is headed to prison for abusing nearly 200 horses in Greene County…

California Amended AB200 (Rabies vaccination mandates)

Law makers are going after the wrong target. Instead of requiring all bats to get annual rabies shots, they are on a path leading to annual rabies shots for all dogs and requiring dogs with rabies exemptions to be quarantined until “the medical condition has resolved”…

Controversy Surrounds Tests of Nutro Dry Cat Food

Controversy is swirling around recent tests on a sample of Nutro dry cat food, which detected what two leading veterinarians consider “worrisome” levels vitamin D3…

Negotiations begin in horse slaughter plan

An organization is in talks with the Wyoming Livestock Board about taking over stockyards across from the former Hitching Post Inn, where horses would stay before being shipped off for possible slaughter at a yet-to-be-determined site…

Tennessee withdraws bills for horse slaughter plant

The Tennessee General Assembly listened carefully yesterday as Former Texas Mayor of Kaufman,Paula Bacon and John Holland, President of Equine Welfare Alliance offered their experiences and knowledge about horse slaughter…

2010 Stamps to the Rescue

In celebration of the new Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet stamps, the Postal Service™, together with Ellen DeGeneres and Halo: Purely for Pets, is giving shelter pets around the country a First-Class Meal. During the launch of the stamps, Halo will be donating a million meals to animal shelters around the country…

Postal Service puts stamps of approval on saving pets

Dogs and cats curl up next to each other in Carol Dunn’s Old West End home. Ms. Dunn’s menagerie consists of two canines and nine felines, all of them rescue animals…

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