And the Best Civil Engineer award goes to … the beaver! Scientists recently stumbled upon the world’s biggest beaver dam. Twice as long as the Hoover Dam, this whopping woodland creation can be seen from space. View Larger Map Using their mad landscaping skills, several beaver families have been working on this 2,790-foot … Read more »
Somewhere between watching House of Payne reruns on TBS and holding Madea movie marathons, I totally missed this Tyler Perry news: The man loves dogs. It seems that a dog named Aldo changed Tyler’s life. As Tyler explains in this moving essay, Aldo has quickly become his “best buddy”: “I find myself not … Read more »
Update: In response to the complaint filed by PETA, the USDA cited Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research for two violations of the Animal Welfare Act. A worker at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio was hospitalized with cuts and scratches on Monday after he was attacked by two baboons. The primates … Read more »
Whether she’s playing a maniacally mean cheerleading coach on Glee, a randy store manager in 40-Year-Old Virgin, or a freakishly fanatical poodle pimp in Best in Show, actor Jane Lynch is a comedic genius. But my new favorite is her recent performance in a new PETA public service announcement. The Chicago native also penned a … Read more »
PETA has contacted officials at the Fort Worth Zoo (FWZ) to express our grave concerns about the well-being of frogs, snakes, and other animals at the facility’s herpetarium—dubbed the “Museum of Living Art” (MOLA). We’re urging them to immediately bring in qualified outside consultants to thoroughly review and evaluate the animals’ care and living conditions. … Read more »
Here’s a beautiful—and lifesaving!—sight for the millions of animals who suffered at the hands of owners and employees of the international animal dealer warehouse formerly known as U.S. Global Exotics, Inc. (USGE): © Don Feare Yep, that’s right—just months after the PETA Files first gave readers a tiny glimpse into PETA’s investigation … Read more »
PETA’s Bea Arthur Dog Park (named for the eternally fabulous Golden Girl) has everything that dogs love: a big, grassy lawn for rolling and romping, a bin filled with toys to chew and chase, a water station, and an easy-access ramp into the Elizabeth River for dog-paddling to their hearts’ content! But it’s not just … Read more »
We can only hope so—and we mean that in the nicest possible way! When PETA learned that Springfield, Oregon, comedian Aaron Jamison, who has terminal cancer, is selling ad space on his urns to offset his bills, we were dying to help. Aaron must be a great guy because he took us up on our … Read more »
Share on Facebook | Viewing OptionsEmbed<embed src=”http://www.petatv.com/swf/video.swf?v=sun_pet_media_high” _mce_src=”http://www.petatv.com/swf/video.swf?v=sun_pet_media_high” quality=”high” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”335″ height=”255″ allowscriptaccess=”always”></embed> Hamsters were put into a plastic bag and bashed against a table. Animals were cruelly killed, abusively handled, and forced to live in severely crowded, filthy conditions. The findings of PETA’s undercover investigation of Sun Pet Ltd.—a supplier of animals … Read more »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccun934/ / CC BY 2.0 Dogs in Massachusetts are woofing it up and cats are purring with delight after Gov. Deval L. Patrick signed into law a bill making it illegal to cut dogs’ or cats’ vocal cords to keep them quiet. This means that no more animals in the Bay State will be … Read more »
Dogfighters are cowardly scum. Just ask the “Scumdogs of the Universe”—better known as thrash-metal band GWAR, whose lead shrieker Oderus Urungus unleashes his wrath on dogfighting in a new peta2 video. In the video, a chained GWAR “slave” is pitted against Guy Kozowyk of metal masters The Red Chord in a WWE-esque, no-holds-barred … Read more »
The popular Facebook game Mafia Wars has just introduced a new game “tool”: animals to use in the fights, including but not limited to snarling pit bulls. This is not the image of pit bulls that people should be promoting. Sure, it’s just a game, but perpetuating the image of pit bulls as … Read more »
It’s déjà vu all over again, and it’ll probably have you wondering: What is PETCO thinking? Other than, “Hey, we can make some money!” A PETA undercover investigator worked for more than three months at Sun Pet Ltd., an animal dealer in Atlanta that sells hamsters, mice, gerbils, birds, fish, and other small animals directly … Read more »
Producer / CC by 3.0 Today, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as “overly broad” a law meant to ban the distribution of videos depicting illegal conduct such as “crush” videos, in which animals are slowly killed under a high heel or bare foot, and videos in which animals are forced to fight or tortured … Read more »
PETA’s Cruelty Investigations Department is pushing hard to ensure that, if he is convicted, a West Virginia pet-store owner currently facing felony cruelty-to-animals charges never gets within arm’s reach of an animal again. Authorities reportedly found lots of dead animals, including kittens, a dog, a reptile, mice, and rats, during a search of 27-year-old Aaron … Read more »