July 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Cecil County, Maryland, man was charged with cruelty to animals for beating his 5-month-old puppy in front of his residence. He was also charged with second-degree assault for threatening a woman who witnessed the dog beating. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
July 2004 PETA helped pass the law to make hog-dog rodeos illegal in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. A man who operates a local arena stopped because spectators feared arrest for attending and police prepared to arrest him under the new law. Click here to read more about hog-dog rodeos and view footage.
July 2004 In St. Louis, Missouri, PETA alerted authorities to a possible dogfighting ring. Animal control seized eight pit bulls from the property and cited the occupants for operating a kennel without a license, cruel and inhumane treatment of animals, and unsanitary conditions. Click here to read more about dogfighting, which is illegal but sadly still … Read more »
July 2004 In Dawson Springs, Kentucky, a defendant in a horse-starvation case, which only went to court after law enforcement was pressured by PETA, plea-bargained, pleaded guilty, and was fined $500 and prohibited from owning animals for two years.
July 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Fort Collins, Colorado, woman who abandoned 84 dogs in cages for days without food or water was charged with 15 counts of cruelty to animals for the 15 dogs who had to be euthanized because they were so severely malnourished and one count of animal abandonment. Click here … Read more »
July 2004 PETA’s Community Animal Project came to the rescue of an elusive dog in Virginia. He had been running at large for months with a collar embedded in his neck causing a badly infected wound that was full of maggots. Click here to read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
July 2004 PETA got the Arrowhead Country Club in Alabama to halt its plans to round up and kill hundreds of Canadian geese and began working with the club to develop a humane goose-control program. Read more about how you can make legislative changes for the animals.
July 2004 Thanks to pressure and guidance from PETA, many jurisdictions are dumping cruel round-up and slaughter methods to control populations of Canada geese and adopting nonlethal programs. After years of battles between animal rights activists and USDA-Wildlife Services over Canada geese in Seattle, a nonlethal program implemented this past summer has been a great success. … Read more »
July 2004 PETA learned that Bridgeport Nature Center, a traveling exotic animal display that has repeatedly violated federal animal care standards, had been set up at Century Plaza mall in Birmingham, Alabama. We contacted the mall manager to alert him to the cruelty and dangers inherent in this display and others like it and asked that … Read more »
July 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, an Ohio man who trapped a squirrel, spray-painted his nostrils shut, and saturated his body and mouth with tar remover was convicted of cruelty to animals and illegal possession of a game animal. He served 15 days in jail, got 3 years’ probation, and is prohibited from owning or … Read more »
July 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, justice was served in Pike County, Kentucky. Cruelty charges were filed and then allegedly dismissed against a horse trainer who castrated a horse without anesthetics. But we contacted the prosecuting attorney, and now both the horse owner and technician who did the castration have been charged with second-degree cruelty … Read more »
July 2004 PETA put pressure on authorities when a 2-pound terrier was fatally kicked by a Tennessee man. We are happy to announce that the governor signed an amendment to elevate the punishment for aggravated cruelty to animals from a misdemeanor to a felony–the offender faces a minimum of one year of jail time (possibly up … Read more »
July 2004 Another 675 animals were saved by PETA’s review of all testing proposals made by companies under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s notorious high production volume chemical-testing program. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) was planning to run a reproductive/developmental toxicity test on benzoyl chloride. In PETA’s June 2004 comments on this test plan, we pointed … Read more »
July 2004 PETA offered a reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the abuser(s) in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, responsible for breaking the legs of a 10-month-old puppy and then tossing her into a Dumpster, where she lived for four days. The abuser and his girlfriend were both caught and charged with cruelty to animals. Click here … Read more »
July 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Clarke County, Alabama, hog-dog rodeo operator was found guilty of cruelty to animals and given 30 days in jail after law-enforcement officers attended one of his events and testified that it constituted cruelty because one of the dog’s mouths was full of blood and hair when he or … Read more »
