For animals used for food, clothing, experimentation, and entertainment, every day is a waking nightmare filled with gruesome horrors.
Around the world, shabby roadside tourist attractions like this zoo are failing—and harming—great apes. When will the animals’ suffering end?
Los Angeles County authorities are looking for a suspect who was caught on camera mercilessly throwing a dog over a hillside.
A truck carrying 160 pigs crashes in Ontario near the very spot where a woman gave water to thirsty pigs on a slaughterhouse-bound truck and ended up charged with a crime.
This lamb ran because slaughterhouses are the stuff of nightmares.
A video of a fish who was dismembered and eaten alive at a Chinese restaurant has sparked international outrage.
An animal behaviorist pulls back the curtain on the miserable lives of big cats exploited by Ringling Bros. circus.
In the video, laughs are heard as the helpless mice are eaten alive.
Pit bulls are the world’s most abused dogs—they deserve laws to ensure proper care and to prevent irresponsible breeding, including for profit or fighting.
Add litter to the list of perils that “outdoor” cats face each day. This little guy is lucky to be alive.
California joins Rhode Island, becoming the second state to ban a weapon used to beat and intimidate elephants.
“The stench is unbelievable, more like that of a public rubbish bin than a living space. While attempting to clean … I could not breathe ….”
The bull was reportedly still nursing from his mother. No “tradition” can justify this horrendous display of human cruelty.
These stories highlight the danger of placing wild animals pushed to the breaking point in close contact with the humans who exploit them.
We can no longer be surprised when captivity ends in death. Pinky is just the latest victim.
