Animal Abuse - Page 2

A campaign has been launched to save the life of a dog that was reportedly found “raped by a human” and dumped with severe injuries on the streets of London.

Instagram will now alert users who post selfies with exotic animals, informing them about animal abuse “that makes some seemingly innocent wildlife photos possible.”

A New York man has been arrested and charged for allegedly biting the eye out of the family puppy, a report says.

The First Baptist church shooter in Texas had a history of cruelty to animals, and he even fractured his step-son’s skull. Criminal experts warn about the link between violence to animals and people and they have a checklist of things to look for.

North Carolina police rescued 358 injured or neglected animals after discovering roughly a half-billion dollars worth of opium poppy plants on a Catawba County property earlier this week.

On Monday, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies busted a cockfighting ring on a farm in Val Verde and seized 7,000 birds.

Editor’s note: Story updated to include dismissal of the two football players. Two Middle Tennessee State University football players have been indefinitely suspended while they are being investigated by the Murfreesboro Police Department for animal cruelty after one of the players

Police in Dubai have arrested a man who was behind a gruesome video showing a cat being fed alive to dogs as a punishment for eating birds, local press said Tuesday.

Police in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, have charged a Lancaster County man with sexually molesting a miniature pony, court records say.

Police are investigating the case of a Houston man who was shot in the neck by his neighbor. The neighbor allegedly became enraged upon seeing the victim beating his dog.

A woman in Calhoun County, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged with abusing an animal by having “unnatural intercourse” with her dog, reports reveal.

Police in South Carolina have arrested two men after being alerted to a video posted on social media, showing the pair torturing chained dogs with exploding fireworks.

Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.

Police charged a man in Tempe, Arizona, with bestiality after he was arrested in a sex sting at a local motel.

A South Carolina woman was arrested and charged with abusing an animal after a video she made of herself having sex with her pet dog were discovered by police.

A Florida woman has been charged with having sex with her pet dogs, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Department.

On Saturday morning, a 48-year-man with a lengthy criminal record chose an unusual place to abuse his dog: the lobby of the South Pasadena police station.

A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat. After the video went viral on Tuesday, February 2, Chicago Police arrested

More than 200 horses were seized in an afternoon, and more than a dozen taken to the SPCA facility in Houston for immediate treatment for malnourishment, open and infected wounds, and hooves untrimmed for perhaps as much as a year, causing the horses to limp.

A Texas high school football player has been accused of stealing an emu from a farm and then torturing and killing it at a party late in the evening on Valentine’s Day. Seven other students were charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, and additional charges may be forthcoming, according to a press release from the county sheriff.

An Encorse, Michigan, man was arrested and charged with abandonment, animal cruelty, and torture after his dog was found frozen to the ground last week.

Boston Dynamics, owned by Google since 2013, has released a video of its new robot dog, Spot, in which workers try to kick it over, first gently and then more violently.