Days are numbered for mice on Maungatautari now that 260km of pest monitoring lines have been cut across the mountain's 3,400 hectares of native forest. The Maungatautari Trust is confident that, with aerial poison drops and ground hunting,
Two men are accused of "thrill killing" hundreds of wild birds and animals in Columbia and Marquette counties over the course of a year. "It was just a ridiculous amount of poaching," said Casey Krueger, Portage warden with the state Department of
Authorities rescued nearly 100 dogs and an estimated 125 rabbits from an unoccupied farm Friday. During a search of the site, the Olmsted County Sheriff's Department turned up what's described as a commercial breeding operation spun out of control.
Authorities say a fired taxi driver cut a rabbit's throat and left it to die on his former employer's Westchester County doorstep. Gerard Skills is being held on $10,000 bail after his arraignment Thursday on aggravated animal cruelty and harassment
The Robben Island Museum's Council emerged from a two-day meeting on Thursday and declared itself "satisfied" with efforts to deal with the environmental crisis that has caused starvation and death in the island's animal population.
A petition was started (for rabbits), back in 2005, but didn't obtain the needed 5,000 signatures, but less than 700. I would like to see some changes, its been 3 years and nothing has changed. If not now, then when? SIGN PETITION!!
University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) has canceled a course in which kittens and rabbits were used as training tools for pediatricians and nurses to practice endotracheal intubations and chest decompressions. Let's end it permanently!!
Dozens of animals were found dead Monday inside a vacant South Jersey home, police said. The discovery was made in Barnegat Township, Ocean County, and an investigation has been launched by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
We help to educate people about how to live with rabbits as companion animals. We also offer the opportunity to virtually adopt (sponsor) a sanctuary rabbit through the Adopt A Rabbit Sponsorship Program.
A victim of the pet industry, Bundle was born in an uncomfortable wire cage, where he was kept for five weeks with his mother and siblings. Then, still too young to be weaned, Bundle and his siblings were taken from their mother in a box and driven to a
TWO pet rabbits scarred by months of neglect have been found abandoned in a car park in what animal welfare officers say is one of the worst cases they have seen in the Lothians
Easter rabbits: Chocolate, or furry? If you're tempted by the furry ones, especially for children, better do your research first.
"People buy them thinking they're great low maintenance starter pets," says Mary Cotter, the vice-president and education/
With Easter approaching, many parents think buying a real bunny for their children would make a great gift. However, as many of these purchases end up being returned, placed in shelters or put out into the wild only to die, they are usually wrong.
It seems like a classic holiday scenario, but becoming the owner of a live rabbit requires more research and preparation than expected to make the situation healthy for everyone involved -- from child to parent to bunny.
More than 300 rabbits were rescued from "deplorable conditions" at a rabbit farm in Simcoe County, the Ontario Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) said yesterday.
