Every five years, the village of Bariyapur located in Nepal, along with India, hosts one of the biggest animal slaughters in the world. During the event well over 300,000 animals, including birds, buffaloes, goats, and sheep are killed.

Canned hunting operations, also referred to as "shooting preserves" or "game ranches," are private trophy hunting facilities that offer their customers the opportunity to kill exotic and native animals that are trapped within enclosures. Some facilities

GRRRR. Despite earlier reports that she was expected to survive, the dog thrown off a bridge in Lithuania has died, according to the Lithuanian website that has been credited with helping to track down the man who was videotaped doing the deed. RIP Pepper

The man, believed to be in his mid-50s, was stopped by concerned New Brighton residents on Monday morning after they heard the dog, who was chained around the neck and padlocked to the scooter, gagging as it struggled to keep up with the fast-moving scoot

Seven high-priced show dogs, including a top Akita, died after being left by their handler in a hot van for more than five hours.

The problem of animal experimentation is complex, many-sided and hard to fathom. The cruel and deadly use of animals has been legalised by politicians, justified by church institutions, described as unavoidable by science and industry, accepted without

Hundreds of dogs running loose in many communities in the Northwest Territories are doomed to be hunted and slaughtered in a massive cull. Local SPCA president Sarah Hunt, says that in addition to the cull, bylaws have been passed in several communit

An undercover investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission resulted in 12 arrests this week for the illegal purchase and possession of foxes and coyotes so the animals could be chased by dogs inside fenced enclosures.

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More than four years after it was recorded, a home video uploaded to YouTube so it could be shared with family members has become a big hit with animal lovers virtually overnight.