Gunner (photo below) is a beloved indoor cat who got spooked, ran outside, and is now stranded high atop a Juniper Avenue utility pole in Twentynine Palms, California. Gunner’s panicked owners asked various agencies for help, to no avail. They were then referred to the power company Southern California Edison, which has promised to help [...]
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Domestication certainly hasn’t benefited horses, as they’ve long been abused as beasts of burden and in other ways—as shown by our current battle to stop their export and slaughter for meat. But the new movie War Horse makes a strong case that the bond between humans and horses transcends exploitation. Based on the book of [...]
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The holidays can be anything but joyous for animals used to make leather jackets, fur-trimmed coats, or wool sweaters. Whether the clothes come from Chinese fur farms, Indian slaughterhouses, or the Australian Outback, millions of animals suffer and die every day in the name of fashion. You can help animals this holiday season by writing [...]
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We did it! With your help, PETA made 2011 a banner year for animals. Ringling was slapped with the largest fine in circus history for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The Environmental Protection Agency adopted modern replacements for animal tests, saving millions of animals. Four laboratory workers were indicted on felony cruelty-to-animals charges as [...]
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The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) has illegally issued a permit to allow Clay Logan, owner of Clay’s Corner in Brasstown, North Carolina, to exploit a wild opossum on New Year’s Eve at his annual “Opossum Drop” by suspending the animal in a barren plexiglass box above a raucous New Year’s Eve crowd during [...]
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Farm Sanctuary Makes Room at the “Inn” this Christmas for a Special Mother and Child Goat gives birth at slaughterhouse and gets second chance at life for her and her kid WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – December 19, 2011 – For a lucky mother and child, all is calm and all is bright this holiday season. [...]
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In a crushing blow to Canada’s annual seal slaughter, Russia, formerly Canada’s top commercial market for seal fur, has banned the import of all harp-seal products. After Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ended his country’s seal slaughter in 2009, calling it a “bloody industry that should have been banned long ago,” Pamela Anderson led an international [...]
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wwarby | cc by 2.0 Great news: After more than a year of pressure from PETA, the Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animal Defenders International (ADI), and celebrities—including Charo and Switched at Birth star Constance Marie—the Santa Ana Zoo in California has announced that it will discontinue cruel and dangerous elephant rides. This is a [...]
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glenn_e_wilson | cc by 2.0 Ah, New Year’s Eve. Staying up late, sipping bubbly, singing “Auld Lang Syne,” and … scaring the daylights out of an opossum? Unfortunately, yes, that last one happens every year at the New Year’s Eve “Opossum Drop” in Brasstown, North Carolina. During the cruel event, a live opossum is suspended [...]
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