WASHINGTON -- President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.

In the Netherlands every year four million mink needlessly await their deaths in barren mesh cages. After seven months of stress, anxiety, and boredom they are gassed. After their death they end up as a coat, collar, or hat. You can comment too!

Four sheep were shot, probably at point-blank-range, in four separate instances. Three of the sheep killed had been raised by Foerschler since birth. One was due to give birth in a few days, she was hung on a fence after being killed.

You may not think that an ex-racing greyhound could be rehomed with cats or other small animals due to their previous racing life, well in fact SOME can. This video appeal is from Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP teams/UK-Worldwide - 'Every life counts.'

Canada's annual seal hunt will start at the end of the week and hunters will be employing a more humane way of killing them, the government said Tuesday, but animal-rights activists condemned the planned killing as inhumane.

The dog found by workers was too far gone to save -- another example of how pets are becoming the newest victims of the nation's mortgage crisis as homeowners leave animals behind when they can no longer afford their property.

While facts and figures were bantered about, some in the audience who are advocates for the horses themselves believe the system is broken. More money they say should be alloted to the animals rather than the people who count them.

Washington Watch is running a poll on whether or not people favor passage of S. 311. You can also leave your comments. Let's let WA. DC hear our voices, we want Bill S. 311 passed, and NOW!

Man gets 4 years for setting dog on fire. His lawyer says animal rights groups were reason for sentence. Deshawn Brown stabbed his dog, poured an accelerant on her stomach and set her on fire in April 2006. Prosecutors say he was mad because she...

"This ... confirms the worst fear among the conservationists that wildlife is disappearing in (the) Nairobi ecosystem and recommends far reaching measures to save the remaining populations," the report said.