PLEDGE: http://www.league.org.uk/petitions_details.asp?Pet itionID=4 The League Against Cruel Sports aims to rid society of cruel blood sports and end animal suffering in the name of sport. Our current campaigns focus on the following activities: Shooting

This petition is for all of those upset and horrified by the annual Canadian Seal Hunt. This year 275,000 baby seals from 12 days old to 12 weeks old will be brutally clubbed and skinned alive by Canadian fishermen who will sell their fur.

"Yesterday ASPCA sponsored 'Orange Day,' when all over the country, people wore orange to support their animals. I made flyers Tuesday night and gave them to everyone at my high school. It felt so good to be a part of something much bigger than myself!"

We the undersigned, are appalled by the cruelty that took place in the Biomedical Testlab SNBL in Everett, where a female Cynomolus Macaque was boiled alive inside a giant rack-washer.PLEASE SIGN

Blind salamanders, legless amphibians with tentacles on their heads and ghost frogs whose favorite haunt is a human burial ground are just a few of the world's weirdest and most endangered creatures.

One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit.

Mistletoe and Freezy are lively playmates who love to bat small toys round and round. This frisky pair is very friendly, and they shower the people they love with love! 8-year-old littermates can't wait to snuggle up to you this Christmas Eve! ~ Boyds, MD

Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) Volunteer and Investigator Mike Kobliska identified an individual who was doing something to some of the horses. Exactly what was going on wasn't clear, but there was unquestionably something very, very wrong.

A 26-year-old domestic cat from Shropshire could be one of the oldest in the UK. Pussywillow lives in Ratlinghope and is still "sharp in her mind and her eyes." The black cat, who enjoys curling up by the stove, caught her own food until she was 22. ~ BBC

A Puerto Rican judge has charged the owner and two employees of a city contractor with animal cruelty after the company allegedly took pets from a public housing project and hurled them off a bridge.