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Man Jailed for 'Sickening' Badger Baiting Offences
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cruelty, badgers, environment, suffering, dogs )

Cher
- 1 day ago - rspca.org.uk
A West Yorkshire man has been jailed for 23 weeks after magistrates expressed their horror at 'sickening' footage seized from his mobile phone of dogs being set on badgers
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ACTION ALERT: Justice for Hank! PLEASE SIGN!
Animals  (tags: hank, pitbull husky mix dog, killed, neighbours, misjustice, cruelty, investigation )

Simone
- 2 days ago - change.org
This is a story about Hank Plotts a lovely Pitbull/Husky mix puppy, and his father Craig Plotts from Mishawaka, Indiana an Iraq War Veteran. We hope this story moves you and that you will help us fight for the JUSTICE Hank deserves!
48 comments
ACTION ALERT: Urge Mexican Officials to Transfer Lonely Lion to U.S. Sanctuary! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: diego, young lion, imprisoned, cramped cage, cruelty, suffering, rescue sanctuary, safety )

Simone
- 2 days ago - secure.peta.org
Diego, a young lion who was seized by Mexican wildlife officials during a criminal investigation, has been languishing for nearly two years in a cramped, barren cage at the Zacango Zoo outside Mexico City
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Poachers Can Be Shot, Officials In India Declare
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, protection, tigers, wildlife trade, poachers, law, shooting poachers, animalwelfare, animalrights, AnimalWelfare, killing, death, cruelty, animals )

Cal
- 2 days ago - npr.org
Poachers caught hunting tigers in India's Maharashtra state are on notice that they could be shot on sight.
32 comments
St.Louis Man Arrested in Dog Torture Case -PLEASE NOTE!WILL DO PETITION!
Animals  (tags: abuse, TORTURE, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalcruelty, crime, cruelty, dogs, killed, sadness, slaughter, death )

Dianne Ly
- 2 days ago - examiner.com
We must see justice for Harper, and the others that were abused and tortured,I did not want to post this photo;but it was the only one I could find for this article.This SOB needs to pay,he is sick1sick!sick!!! Will do a petition and post the link here.
32 comments
ACTION ALERT: Vote NO to Sea Otter Fur Trade! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: sea otters, endangered, protection, threatened, fur trade, cruelty )

Simone
- 2 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Alaska Representative Donald Young has introduced a bill (H.R. 2714), to restart the fur trade of northern sea otters. The International Union for Conservation of Nature still lists the sea otter as an endangered species,
39 comments
Activists Ready to Disrupt Cull of 2000 Roos- PLEASE Vote on POLL!
Offbeat  (tags: animal activists protests, australian government, kangaroo slaughter, massacre, cruelty )

Simone
- 4 days ago - smh.com.au
Animal rights activists have vowed to make a planned cull of more than 2000 kangaroos ''as difficult as we can for the ACT government''. Members of animal welfare groups, including the Australian Society for Kangaroos, will protest today
16 comments
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Animals  (tags: animals, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalcruelty, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, cruelty, environment, ethics, investigation, protection, suffering, slaughter )

Saving
- 4 days ago - soygo.net
Recently the California Supreme Court overturned the ban on slaughtering downed animals. Organizations such as The Humane Society of United States, PETA and Farm Sanctuary worked tirelessly to bring this piece of legislation into place.
20 comments
Help-Oso Needs A Home
Animals  (tags: abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, dogs, cruelty, crime, pets, sadness, suffering, animaladvocates )

Dianne Ly
- 5 days ago - examiner.com
Abused dog Oso needs a rescue group to rehabilitate and rehome him - Photo credit: Phoenix Police Department He is at the Arizona Humane Society (A.H.S.)
39 comments
Kenya: Lioness Killed in Mara and Lion in Isiolo
Animals  (tags: Lions, wildlife, cruelty, endangered, sadness, slaughter )

Jill
- 6 days ago - allafrica.com
the incident has been reported to KWS and the suspects reported but no action has been taken thus far. The legs, teeth, tail and paws of the lion were cut off, and the ears were also missing.
21 comments
Zimbabwe: One Gunned Down in Shootout
Animals  (tags: elephants, wildlife, suffering, cruelty, ivory tusks )

Jill
- 6 days ago - allafrica.com
RANGERS at Marongora Field Station in Mashonaland West Province shot and killed a suspected Zambian national following heavy exchange of gunfire leading to the recovery of at least six elephant tusks in the Hurungwe Safari Area.
13 comments
ACTION ALERT: Hold A&L Poultry Accountable for Starving 50,000 Hens! PLEASE TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: horrendous cruelty, suffering, court hearing, hens starved to death, rescued, cruelty )

Simone
- 7 days ago - all-creatures.org
The case centers on California's largest-ever rescue of farmed animals. The hens were crammed into cages so small that they could not stretch their wings. Hens struggling to survive intermingled with the 20,000 hens who had already perished.
49 comments
USDA: Regulate Unlicensed Puppy Mills! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: puppy mills, dogs, petition, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, dogs, crime, death, habitat, ethics, law, pets, protection, suffering, sadness )

Lindsey
- 8 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
In response to concerns about thousands of dogs who are denied basic humane care at large-scale commercial breeding facilities, The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a proposed rule that would close a gaping loophole in the..
25 comments
PETITION! Stop Killing Sharks!
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, fins, soup, asia, wildanimals, suffering, killing, cruelty, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, AnimalCruelty )

K. J.
- 9 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In some places in Asia they eat shark fin soup but they don't know how people killed and mistreated those sharks. They capture the sharks, cut the fins of and throw the sharks in the water again and that is a horrible death to die that no one deserves!
47 comments
Stop the Abuse of Israel's Guard Dogs! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: Israel, guard dogs, dogs, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, habitat, environment, sadness, suffering, pets, protection, law )

Lindsey
- 9 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Israel Air Force (IAF) is not honoring a court order that requires shaded space for the hundreds of dogs that guard its base. The court granted the IAF an extension to install canopies over the dog's space by the end of February, but as of May 15...
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TAKE ACTION!: Cease Destructive Illegal Fishing In Indonesia's Komodo National Park. PLEASE SIGN!
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Poachers Can Be Shot, Officials In India Declare
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