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Offbeat News tagged with animal cruelty

From Minnie to Mickey
Offbeat  (tags: mouse, experiments, gender changes, studies, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 3 days ago - all-creatures.org
Simple technique changes sex of a mouse - and reveals the gender war that rages in all of us....This is the astonishing implication of a pioneering study showing that it is possible to flick a genetic switch that turns female ovary cells into male
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Feds Probe Cherokee Bear Attack
Offbeat  (tags: cherokee bear pits, investigation, manager hurt, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 5 days ago - citizen-times.com
Federal inspectors will look into a bear attack at a zoo that left the manager with serious injuries. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates captive animals under the federal Animal Welfare Act, will send inspectors unannounced to the Chief
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Fashion Guru Tim Gunn Talks Fur (Specifically, What's Wrong With It)
Offbeat  (tags: tim gunn, interviews, fur farming, furs, animal abuse, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 20 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Our esteemed colleague and Unleashed contributor Patt Morrison caught up recently with Tim Gunn, the main man behind the popular fashion-themed reality show "Project Runway." Gunn expanded on the issue of fur in fashion (like any good fashion expert,
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Ethical Hunting Awards That Ignore the Actual Victims
Offbeat  (tags: ethical hunting award, animal cruelty, treatment of humanhunters, bizarre )

Simone
- 39 days ago - animalrights.change.org
This one is just begging for commentary: For the 13th year, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is accepting nominations for its annual "ethical hunting award." What, I first wondered when I saw the headline, does that even mean? When I read
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Man Arrested After Releasing Over 1,000 Animals From His Property
Offbeat  (tags: man, animal cruelty, relinquished home, released 1, 000 animals )

Simone
- 44 days ago - examiner.com
On Monday a man who relinquished more than 1,000 animals found in horrible conditions, gave up his Houston home to pay for their extended care. Joselito Rivera Boado, 34 years old, was arrested on two charges of misdemeanor animal cruelty. His home
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Man Charged for Strangling Rat
Offbeat  (tags: man, charged, killing rat, unusual, florida, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 60 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Well, there's a headline I didn't expect to be writing anytime soon. Nevertheless, it's what a Florida newspaper reported yesterday: "Man Accused in Rat Strangling Charged with Animal Cruelty." In the midst of an oh-so-mature fight with his wife over the
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Animal Cruelty Sentence Violations, Or, Next on Saturday Night Live!
Offbeat  (tags: no justice, animal abusers, crimes, society, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 73 days ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
Justice, the administering of deserved punishment or reward, has a new meaning these days. It's fodder for situation comedies and comic routines. Here is a small collection that could very well be Jay Leno's next monologue.
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Stop Gassing Animals in South Carolina !!!
Offbeat  (tags: sadness, dogs, cats, gassed, crying, clawing, trying to escape, crime, animals, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, petition worldwide to save these sweet i )

Barbaroca
- 88 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
To read the discription of how they gas these sweet innocents will rip your heart to bits. I could hardly get through it for my tears. Please sign this petition, mine was only the 49th signature. Thank you.
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Surprising World Behind Animal Crime (Video)
Offbeat  (tags: fighting animal abuse, animal cruelty, neglect, abandoned, hoarding )

Kathy
- 189 days ago - action3news.com
From animal cruelty cases to cat hoarding families, we take action against animal crime. We go behind the scene for a look into the startling number of animal crimes and what's being done to stop it.
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Stars' Behavior Encourages Dog Fighting
Offbeat  (tags: Michael Vick, NFL, role model, dog fighting, animal cruelty, death, suffering )

Kathy
- 296 days ago - fayobserver.com
Michael Vick, the NFL player imprisoned for operating a dogfighting ring, is being moved from a federal prison to a halfway house in Virginia. If we want to end animal cruelty, animal lovers must remind the public how much we abhor this game of torture.
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Dead Cub Draped With Obama Signs Left at NC School
Offbeat  (tags: animal cruelty, bear cub, shot, killed, left front of, school administration building, obama stickers left on body )

Kathy
- 422 days ago - rockymounttelegram.com
CULLOWHEE, N.C. -- Campus police at Western Carolina University and wildlife officials are investigating the discovery early Monday of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs.
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Call for Shelters to Allow Women Suffering From Domestic Violence to Keep Animals After Concerns Over Revenge Attacks From Partn
Offbeat  (tags: need for, animal friendly, women's shelters, domestic abuse, crime, violence, animal cruelty, danger )

Kathy
- 422 days ago - news.scotsman.com
WOMEN suffering domestic violence are scared to leave their abusive partners for fear of what they will do to their pets, research has revealed. Those working with victims of abuse have previously told of anecdotal stories from abused women
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Fur Flies as Gwyneth Paltrow Offends Her Animal-Rights Friends
Offbeat  (tags: Gwyneth Paltrow, condoning fur?!, animals, animal cruelty )

Kathy
- 486 days ago - independent.co.uk
She is almost as famous for her green, holistic lifestyle as she is for her film roles, but Gwyneth Paltrow has become the focus of angry animal rights campaigners.
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Sheep Molester Strikes Six Times
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, animals, animal cruelty, humans, bizarre )

Satanic
- 540 days ago - bromleytimes.co.uk
Over recent months, the Times has heard reports of a tall black man sexually assaulting sheep in Chislehurst but it wasn't until last week that witnesses formally reported it to police.
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Activists on Prowl for Artists Showing Animal Cruelty
Offbeat  (tags: animal cruelty, art )

Kathy
- 584 days ago - examiner.com
Anyone who displays artwork that shows animal cruelty could wind up behind bars as the result of a proposed law that comes in the wake of a controversial exhibit that was shut down because of public outrage.
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