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 »
July 2004 After several years of campaigning by PETA and local activists, the superintendent of Kent City Schools in Ohio formally requested that the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) replace its annual donkey basketball fundraiser with a more appropriate one. The superintendent wrote to the PTO president, “[D]onkey basketball is, in my estimation, a game whose time … Read more »
July 2004 After receiving a letter from PETA voicing our objections to an art display that involved dragging a rooster and chickens across the university lawn, the head of the University of Delaware’s art department called to tell us that the display had been canceled.
April 2004 PETA’s Community Animal Project (CAP) responded to a call of an overturned truck carrying 180 pigs to slaughter at the Smithfield, Virginia, packing plant. When we arrived, nearly two dozen animals were severely injured, dying, or already dead. The packing plant workers shuffled the stunned live pigs who were suffering from road scrapes, broken … Read more »
April 2004 In April, PETA wrote to Philadelphia restaurant Morimoto, asking that it discontinue the practice of dismembering and serving live lobsters to customers (called “live sashimi”). After receiving our letter and considering the issue, Morimoto immediately took the item off all its menus. Please write a polite letter to the restaurant to thank the management … Read more »
April 2004 PETA contacted authorities in Ludlow, Missouri, about abused and starving animals at a local residence. Authorities found two emaciated dead dogs in the backyard, seized five starving and abused dogs, and arrested the owners. Read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
April 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, the governor of Louisiana signed a bill into law that makes it a crime to stage, promote, or attend a “hog-dog rodeo,” a bloody sport in which a trained dog is turned loose to corner and attack a hog in an arena. The bill also outlaws breeding or training … Read more »
April 2004 James Cochran, an Alabama man accused of allowing 31 chickens who were allegedly being raised for the rural area’s cockfighting industry to die of neglect, was convicted of cruelty to animals. Cochran was sentenced to a suspended jail term of 90 days, unsupervised probation for one year, and a fine of $250, plus court … Read more »
April 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, this sick and starving horse was relinquished from a neglectful owner in Elkins, West Virginia. A vet found her to be suffering from the worst case of lice she had ever seen. The horse is now recovering in the compassionate care of a rescuer.
April 2004 PETA received a link to video footage of three Case Western Reserve University students torturing and killing a hamster, including one student biting off the live hamster’s leg and head. We immediately contacted the university and authorities and all three students were charged with cruelty. Watch PETA’s Public Service Announcement about the dangerous link … Read more »
April 2004 PETA’s Community Animal Project came to the rescue of this little rat terrier who was found chained in a Virginia Beach backyard. She had become tangled in a rope and a cable which were wrapped so tightly around her leg that it had swelled to three times the normal size. We called animal control … Read more »
