Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird & it’s a plane & it’s a PETA Air Angel!
When deer are trying to outrun hunters, things can get dicey for drivers. Read on to learn how you can keep your family safe.
PETA plans to place a “Payback Is Hell” billboard in Utah after local hunter gores himself on a victim.
A hunter started the fire that destroyed nearly 400 square miles in and around Yosemite and likely killed countless animals, so PETA is pushing for felony charges.
It was late at night, and the homeowner heard a cat howling in agony. He went outside to investigate and realized that the trap that had been set by a “nuisance”-wildlife trapper for a groundhog had snared a different victim. When Paulette Dean, the executive director of southern Virginia’s Danville Area Humane Society, got the … Read more »
A driver in southern Georgia was shocked when she spotted a pitiful-looking dog hanging on for dear life to the top of a crate in the back of a pickup truck that was careening down the interstate. A heavy chain around the animal’s neck that was hooked to the top of the crate looked as … Read more »
The Father of the Year Awards aren’t until May, but Rep. Paul Ryan needn’t hold his breath: PETA has just named Ryan our Bad Dad of 2012, and we’re sending him a certificate of dishonor: Ryan is catching heat for having his 10-year-old daughter pack heat and gun down a deer who was posing a … Read more »
Steel-jaw traps don’t discriminate—they’ll snap their sharp metal teeth shut on the limb of anyone who is unfortunate enough to step on them. A raccoon in Portsmouth, Virginia, was one recent victim. The innocent raccoon was scurrying through the grass in a quiet neighborhood when he suddenly collapsed, his body racked with pain. As the … Read more »
I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that PETA opposes hunting. After all, it’s a no-brainer: Chasing and shooting animals (with a gun or a bow and arrow) causes terror. Mates grieve, young animals can starve when their mothers are killed, and hunting leaves wounded but unrecovered animals to die slowly and wretchedly from … Read more »
Update: Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s hideous African hunting trip is under investigation by Zimbabwean authorities. Among the potential problems noted by the Zimbabwean Conservation Task Force were the following: The brothers may have illegally used dogs to kill an endangered leopard, the South African safari firm they used was not registered to hunt … Read more »
As if we needed another reason why steel-jaw traps should be banned outright, PETA received a call about a man in Georgia using the cruel devices to injure squirrels who approached his pecan tree. A distraught neighbor called PETA when she saw a squirrel fall victim to one such trap that the man had set … Read more »
While heading out to pick up and transport animals belonging to low-income residents for spay-and-neuter surgeries at one of PETA’s mobile clinics, a PETA Community Animal Project fieldworker spotted a truck driver attempting to drag something out of a ditch on the side of a busy highway. Our staffer pulled over to make sure that … Read more »
Ducks and geese in North America are a bit safer, now that “celebrity” hunter Jeff Foiles has been banned from hunting for three years in Canada and two in the U.S. following convictions for cruelty to animals. Foiles, who sells videos of his hunts online, was reportedly seen in one of his taped hunts holding … Read more »
After a dog was painfully caught in a steel-jaw trap and a cat was nearly killed by a Conibear (body-gripping and drowning) trap in Gibsons, British Columbia, the town did the right thing and banned all steel-jaw, body-clamping, and snare traps. Gibsons Mayor Barry Janyk said he was surprised to hear that his town was … Read more »
Jennifer Lopez is one American who gets no idol worship from anyone who cares about animals. The diva has once again shown that her beauty is only skin deep by posing in a coat made from the skins of arctic foxes in the September issue of Vanity Fair. When asked what he thought of J-Lo’s … Read more »
