MESQUITE - The traders at Dallas County's half-filled horse auction knew the fate of their scrawny thoroughbreds even before they herded them into the ring.
Heifer International (H.I.) is a non-profit organization that attempts to feed impoverished families by giving them animals. The organization gives pigs, chicks, cows, oxen, water buffalo, donkeys, and camels, among other animals.
The monkeys had been used as research subjects by Edward Taub, a psychologist, who had cut afferent ganglia that supplied sensation to their arms and legs, then used restraint, electric shock, and withholding of food to force them to use the limbs ...
The 'Silver Spring Monkeys' case resulted in the 1st arrest and criminal conviction of an animal experimenter in America on charges of cruelty, the first confiscation of abused laboratory animals, and the first US Supreme Court ruling in favor of animals.
Sarah had been informed about an abused beagle. It was living outside in a wooden cage, and was muzzled at all times except for when it got to eat. The dog was made to wear an electric shock collar and the neighbours informed Sarah that they had witnessed
04:02 PM PDT on Friday, July 4, 2008
By DREW MIKKELSEN / KING 5 News
Wash. - When a Centralia man saw a puppy getting beaten with a chain, he tried to help.
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