Category: Animals and Animal cruelty

by PETA UK

Every day, countless cats, dogs and other animals suffer and die at the hands of the very people who are supposed to care for and protect them. Their only hope is that a kind person will speak up before it’s too late.

by Four Paws in South Africa
November 11, 2021

Circus animals spend most of their time in transport wagons that are far too small. Their requirements with regard to climate, nutrition and need for physical movement cannot be fulfilled. There is no room for climbing, digging, running, bathing or swimming.

by seashepherd.org
February 21, 2022

In that single hunt – last year – a total of 1428 Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins were driven 45km over about 5 hours by speed boats and jet-skis into the shallow waters at Skálabotnur in the Faroe Islands. Every single member of that pod was killed.

by Jon Friedman – SPCA Cape of Good Hope
June 29, 2022

The Humane Society of The United States lists the illegal trade in animals (and plants) as the world’s third largest illegal activity next to arms smuggling and the illegal drug trade.

by In Defense of Animals

More and more physicians and scientists are also seeing the negative consequences of using one species to provide information about another species; often the results of animal experiments are misleading or even harmful to humans.

by Bornfree.org

Born Free has conducted numerous zoo investigations and reavealed that zoo enclosures are all too often woefully inadequate for the needs of the animals.

by Humane Society International|
May 27, 2022

A truck loaded with 23 tonnes of emergency pet food and supplies for the dogs and cats caught up in the war in Ukraine, has arrived safely in Lviv where it will be distributed to families, shelters and veterinary surgeries struggling to care for their animals during the conflict.

by Save the Rhino
February 9, 2022

In 2020 we were thankful that the pandemic had brought some good news for conservation. But these latest figures have confirmed that the effects were short-lived. South Africa’s rhino population has dropped dramatically in recent years. And now poachers are moving into new areas that have been hit hard by Covid-19.

by In Defense of Animals

Eating dog meat might be incomprehensible to most of us. But across Asia, millions of dogs are still raised for meat and transported in conditions that are beyond inhumane. Every single year, dogs are brutally slaughtered for their meat.

by All-Creatures.org

1000 whales are hunted and slaughtered every year in the Antarctic ‘sanctuary.’ This video captures the thrashing and bleeding to death of one whale harpooned by Japanese whalers doing ‘whale research.’ Japan uses a loophole to kill whales with explosive harpoons under the guise of ‘scientific research’ while selling the whale meat.