January 2004 PETA was contacted by students and staff at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania about a donkey basketball game planned at the school by the student senate. We immediately contacted the student senate president, as well as the president of the university to inform them of the cruelty inherent in these games. In addition, we alerted … Read more »
January 2004 PETA has been making efforts for years to improve conditions for animals in the Robeson County Animal Shelter. A new shelter has been built and more humane euthanasia standards are in place. We trained the staff on humane sheltering methods and brought back this beautiful girl named Bea, who is now thriving in a … Read more »
January 2004 PETA got a Georgia woman cited with five counts of cruelty after authorities found a starving pit bull and her four puppies inside a barrel in the rain with no bedding. Read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
January 2004 Thanks to PETA’s efforts, a Georgia woman was charged with failure to provide food and water for 100 animals after authorities found dozens of starving animals on her property. Read about what to do if you witness cruelty.
January 2004 Thanks to pressure from PETA, a Tennessee hoarder was charged with 39 counts of cruelty for denying food and vet care to cats and dogs on her property, and authorities seized 67 cats and dogs, including this suffering cat who had a severe respiratory infection. Read about the dangers of animal collectors.
January 2004 PETA got authorities to obtain a search warrant and arrest a juvenile and an adult in Pikesville, Kentucky, for stealing, staking, starving, and beating dogs. They were charged with cruelty to animals, and all the animals were seized. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
January 2004 PETA wrote to authorities and posted an action alert about a tragic case in which an 88-year-old man’s dog, Sadie, was beaten and hanged while the man’s business was burglarized. The perpetrator has been sentenced to five years in prison. Click here to read about the link between animal and human abuse.
January 2004 UPDATE! After contacting Let’s Help, Inc., a local charity that benefits from the chicken fly contest, about the cruelty inherent in this spectacle, the decision was made to stop using live animals–this ends a 22-year “tradition”! PETA was contacted by a county commissioner in Kansas who was upset about an annual “Chicken Fly Contest” … Read more »
January 2004 After learning about a goat farmer in Portage, Washington, who bludgeoned baby goats to death with a hammer and sliced open the bellies of pregnant goats having difficulty giving birth without anesthesia, PETA contacted local authorities and the farmer has been charged with felony cruelty to animals.Click here to read about the link between … Read more »
January 2004 PETA received complaints from mall shoppers that an exotic-animal display called “The Zoo” was set up at Victoria Mall in Texas. We contacted the mall manager, as well as the CEO of Hull Storey Retail Group, which owns the mall, asking that the company prohibit animal displays at all its locations. We also posted … Read more »
January 2004 PUMA created a commercial in which a very young chimpanzee is seen admiring a shoe. PETA and other animal protection organizations contacted the company to alert them to the cruelty inherent in forcing baby and juvenile chimpanzees to “perform” for ads and asked that it remove the commercial from the air immediately. After reviewing … Read more »
January 2004 PETA received complaints from mall shoppers that an exotic-animal display called “The Zoo” was set up at Colonial Mall Temple in Texas. We contacted the mall manager, as well as the CEO of Colonial Properties Trust, which owns the mall, asking that the company prohibit animal displays at all its locations. Colonial Properties Trust is … Read more »
January 2004 Through the use of action alerts, e-mail alerts, and automated phone messages, PETA mobilized thousands of its members in a successful effort to help end the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s dog labs. The 100 dogs who would have otherwise been cut into and killed every year are being replaced by humane and … Read more »
January 2004 A student at Plant City High School in Florida alerted PETA to the fact that one of his agricultural science teachers had ordered her students to bury alive several baby rabbits and that when they refused, she had dismembered them with a shovel. PETA immediately forwarded this information to Hillsborough County Animal Services, which … Read more »
January 2004 When we learned that the University of New Mexico (UNM) was considering a plan to use a wolf as its football mascot, PETA fired off a letter to the school’s athletic director, asking him to reject this cruel plan. We had been inundated with calls and e-mail messages from people who were outraged by … Read more »
