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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

It's not perfect, but it's progress in one of the more animal welfare-challenged parts of the US. Mike Beebe has signed into law new animal-cruelty restrictions that make aggravated cruelty to cats, dogs and horses a felony on the first offense. Tags: animal cruelty legislation Arkansas us.

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JUNE 15, 2009

He's charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary. Tags: animal cruelty. I read an article last week about a series of cat killings and mutilations (20 total) in south Florida. Just awful.

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JANUARY 31, 2009

DMX was sentenced to 90 days in jail for a variety of offenses , including animal cruelty. Tags: animal cruelty.

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JUNE 1, 2009

That's why this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund strikes a cord with me. Sargeant, doing business as Sargeant’s Wholesale Biologicals, buys carcasses from animal shelters and sells them to research facilities such as UC Davis’ School of Veterinary Medicine. From the ALDF blog. Arrested in June 2007, Michael J.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Tags: animal cruelty spay/neuter latin america strays companion animals. This is a good group. Check them out.

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JULY 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty idiocy. Good riddance.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn internet. Good article in the Irish Times analyzing the role of the Internet in the the crime and capture of Kenny Glenn, cat torturer.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Schomaker, who was released from jail after paying a $400 fine on the arrest warrant, faces drug and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid. He did not immediately respond to phone messages left Monday seeking comment. What a bunch of.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Thanks to Mercy for Animals for their undercover work exposing this egg industry practice. Tags: animal cruelty eggs farm animal welfare factory farm. What a subject line, but it's true. This is the second time this year that I've heard of this group capturing headlines. I'd never heard of them before.

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JULY 13, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty law enforcement blood sport dog fighting. It happened about a week ago with up to 350 dogs seized in 5 states. About 30 people were arrested.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn. I came across this story about it in Russia Today, an English language Russian newsite. By the way, here's a petition to have him tried as an adult. It claims that his brother was in on the abuse as well.maybe he was the camera guy? Lovely kids.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA. But it's worth noting that someone out there took some action on this gruesome story. And that's what I like about PETA and why I recently became a member for the first time. They are fast, organized, committed and they get attention.

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JANUARY 8, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants. This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. I'm thinking it's India?

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. State law on the issue is murky.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Stop Animal Exploitation Now filed the complaint with U.S. The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. "The The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty exper new iberia research center primates medical research. They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn Michael Vick. Why should we care so much about a cat and not about the abuse of a child? Are cats more important than people? What kind of world is this? We saw it with Michael Vick and we'll see it with this kid.

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OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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JULY 29, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty blood sport humane society Michael Vick sick. Plus, I personally have no room for forgiveness for Sick Vick. Others may, but I don't. What do you all think about his upcoming work for the Humane Society? Pretty savvy on HSUS' part? Or are they trying to get publicity?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills. She says that northwest Washington is a refuge for puppy mills because regulation up there is particularly lax. If the regulation in this area is worse than puppy mill regulation in general, it must be REALLY bad.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty blood sport Stupid. It is alleged that attendees would gamble on the outcome of the canary fights, put down their money, and then place two birds in a cage to see which would emerge the victor.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty georgia blood sport legislation dog fighting us. A first conviction means one to five years in prison, a fine of at least $5,000, or both. The law also makes attending a dog fight a high and aggravated misdemeanor on the first offense, a felony on subsequent ones.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty africa seal hunters seals namibia hunting. The pair were subsequently held by the Namibian authorities before being freed after agreeing to pay a fine for "entering a protected marine area without a permit.".

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Tags: animal cruelty Texas dog fighting us. “It’s like the Saturday night poker game for hardened criminals,” said one of the undercover agents, Sgt. Manning, describing the tense atmosphere at the fights. Disgusting and disturbing.

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MARCH 31, 2009

"Earthlings" is a film about animal abuse narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Tags: animal cruelty Michael Vick. Michael "Sick" Vick should not be allowed back into the NFL, but he doesn't have to be diagnosed as a psychopath first. What he did revealed the kind of person he is. It says enough. But I suspect some team will pick him up.controversy fills seats.

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JULY 17, 2009

I rejoined my local animal shelter's volunteer program a few months ago (long story as to why I quit in the first place). Very sweet and gentle animal (I have a soft spot for pits.and pugs!) Someone had called in an animal cruelty report. The puppy seemed too thin to me so I asked about her story.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Tags: animal abuse. Apparently she was running out of money so she left the puppy in a crate in her laundry room to slowly starve to death. Oh, and when they shut the electricity off, she moved into a hotel room without the dog.

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MAY 12, 2009

Animal hoarding is a pretty serious act that causes untold suffering for animals. there are probably several factors that go into how a person develops into an animal hoarder, but “we think it may be related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.”

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JUNE 1, 2009

A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. A jury in West Haverstraw deliberated less than two hours before convicting Robert Everle of all 13 charges of torturing, injuring and starving animals. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.

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MAY 28, 2009

Is what he did consciously to his pitbulls that much worse than what we do unconsciously to animals every day? Some of us forget that dogs are mere animals, and that animal mistreatment is as American as Apple iPods. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. None of us is pure.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. This is definitely a situation that could have been stopped early on. How much suffering and death resulted from this family's practices? The article is particularly thorough and damning.

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MARCH 23, 2009

News of the Weird Owners claim dog died from being in non-ventilated Animal Control vehicle. How should Animal Control evaluate their claim? It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Tags: animal cruelty Stupid USDA animal welfare us.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. According to the complaint, the defendants routinely beat elephants, violating the 1973 Endangered Species Act by hitting them with bull hooks.

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