A round of applause, please. A new AP-Petside poll reveals that more than half of companion-animal guardians adopted their animals, with one-third of people taking in strays off the streets and another third adopting animals from shelters, rather than buying them from breeders or pet stores, which contribute to the animal homelessness crisis. Looks like … Read more »
“My wife says I could live without a wife but I could never live without dogs,” jokes Kirk Douglas. The Oscar-winning actor, producer, director, and author recently shared with PETA the lessons in love and friendship that he has learned from his two beloved Labrador retrievers, Danny and Banshee, who are rarely far from his … Read more »
Update: After meeting with PETA and reviewing our evidence, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspected Triple F Farms and confirmed our findings of multiple Animal Welfare Act violations. The USDA’s inspection report details, among other atrocities, that newborn ferrets fell through gaping wire cage bottoms and that ferrets were denied adequate food, water, and … Read more »
Labor Day meant a long weekend for many nine-to-fivers, but some laborers can’t close up shop and forget about their jobs, even for a day. For animal shelter workers, the stream of battered and bruised animals in need of refuge never ends. Few people have a more emotionally challenging job than those who punch in … Read more »
A U.S. company that breeds dogs for sale to laboratories has lost its first round in an effort to expand its operations in the U.K. B&K Universal in Yorkshire is owned by New York–based Marshall Farms, which has been repeatedly cited for federal Animal Welfare Act violations. B&K applied for planning permission to open a … Read more »
As someone who has spent years volunteering at a wonderful open-admission animal shelter, it breaks my heart when people use the term “kill shelters” to refer to shelters that accept every needy animal—no matter how beat up, old, ill, or behaviorally unsound they are—and that have no choice but to give some animals a painless, … Read more »
A devoted rescued dog is just what the doctor ordered. It turns out that the hypoallergenic dog fad is something to sneeze at. Henry Ford Hospital’s Department of Public Health Sciences analyzed dust samples from homes with alleged Benadryl-banishing pups and homes with regular dogs and found no difference in allergen levels. Dogs like poodles, … Read more »
A mother-and-daughter dog-breeding duo who had won several awards at Crufts, the UK’s most prestigious dog show, were convicted this week of cruelty to animals after 104 dogs were discovered living in “unimaginable squalor” at the women’s home last year. Many of the dogs were kept in cramped, filthy cages or in dark, cluttered rooms … Read more »
Soon, Greyhound might be driving home the message about the importance of spaying and neutering. PETA is asking Greyhound Lines, Inc., to temporarily switch its well-known moniker to “Spayhound” and/or to “fix” at least one of its buses with this dog-friendly message: Click image for larger version One Greyhound bus takes an average of 19 … Read more »
Via Newsday Several years ago, I added a Siamese cat to my family. Mochi had been picked up as a stray by a local animal control agency. When no one claimed him, he was turned over to a Siamese cat rescue group. The first time I took him to my veterinarian, a man at the … Read more »
No dog guardian wants his or her best canine friend to come down with a debilitating, terminal illness. But when they buy a purebred dog, that’s what many dog guardians can expect. Researchers at the University of Georgia looked at the causes of death for tens of thousands of dogs over two decades and discovered … Read more »
If there is one person who can command national attention for an issue, it is “queen of all media” Oprah Winfrey. That’s why Saving America’s Mustangs, a group run by PETA supporter Madeleine Pickens, has enlisted actors, musicians, and athletes to film an appeal to Oprah asking her to help them protect the few wild … Read more »
Goldendoodles, cockapoos, cockadoodledoos, and whatever else they’re called, “hybrid” dogs fetch—a pretty penny, that is. And breeders and puppy mills are cashing in on the craze. It’s really silly that some folks are shelling out as much as $1,600 for one of these dogs when animal shelters and rescue groups are overflowing with dogs in every combination … Read more »
When Chase Utley isn’t knocking balls out of the park, he’s trying to knock out animal overpopulation. The MLB all-star posed for a new “Adopt, Don’t Buy” ad with his rescued dog Jack, who was born in an animal shelter to canine parents confiscated from a dogfighting ring. Chase unveiled the ad today at the … Read more »
Are you the kind of guy who does everything with his dog? Are you a team player? If you’re considering getting your cat or dog “snipped” and have thought about getting “fixed” yourself, PETA wants to reward you for helping to end human and animal overpopulation by picking up the tab for your vasectomy. We give … Read more »
