Thanks to PETA's efforts, a Washington state hoarder was arrested on suspicion of first-degree cruelty to animals after police removed 30 animals from her property, including a goat whose head she had held up to the tailpipe of a running car in an attempt to euthanize him after he was attacked by one of her dogs.

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PETA worked for several months with a llama expert and the sheriff's department in Chehalis, Washington, to seize a herd of abused and starving llamas from an animal hoarder. The owner was charged with 16 counts of animal neglect and nine counts of animals roaming at large, in addition to a count of animal neglect filed earlier in the year. A llama rescue group now cares for the animals, who will all be spayed or neutered and placed in good homes.

After a Washington Humane Society agent found an emaciated dog tied to a tree, PETA wrote to the district attorney, and the owner was charged with cruelty to animals.

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Thanks to pressure from PETA, five juveniles in White Swan, Washington, were charged with first-degree cruelty to animals for sodomizing and torturing pigs at a high school Future Farmers of America program.

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