After a complaint filed by Tiffany Butler, 19, of Nicholson, former employee of L & D Farm and Kennel on Sanford Road, Jackson County Animal Control officers and representatives from the Georgia Department of Agriculture, which regulates dog breeding in

Brighton and Hove City Council is considering banning dogs from all the city's beaches from May to September and from other public places all year round. Many dog owners are bitterly opposed to the idea and say they are being penalised.

Animal rights groups are considering taking Nova Scotia to court to prevent a repeat of the grey seal hunt just concluded on Hay Island, a protected wilderness area off Cape Breton.Rebecca Aldworth of Humane Society International says they spent a couple

A Lee's Summit lawmaker and a Buckner couple are teaming up to pass legislation that would toughen penalties against owners of dogs who attack.Steve and Kristi McBee’s lives were changed forever last September.

South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk did not say how many elephants

The chief vet at Redwings Horse Sanctuary, near Norwich, was doing her rounds checking up on the donkeys which the centre is "babysitting" following their rescue.In January, the Redwings took in 21 neglected horses, ponies and donkeys rescued from a farm

Dogs (and cats, and dolphins, and parrots, and even octopuses) are smarter than most of us give them credit for, and according to the cover story of the March issue of National Geographic they're getting smarter all the time.

TRAUMATISED staff and students at a western Sydney college have been offered counselling after dogs were deliberately set on the school's farm animals - mauling them to death.Two pregnant ewes, a ram and eight chickens were killed in the bloody attack at

Today, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare http://www.ifaw.org/) and its sister organization, WTI (Wildlife Trust of India) announced that 2 elephant calves and a one-and-a-half year-old greater one-horned rhino were successfully returned to the

Even the hardest-hearted Americans accept that violent animal cruelty is a serious crime, and recent high-profile cases of animal cruelty have captured the public’s attention. Forty-three states, plus Washington D.C., the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico,