Discovery pits humans against Grizzlies in ‘Man vs Bear’ premiering December 4
For thousands of years, Grizzly Bears have stood at the top of the evolutionary food chain with unchallenged dominance. Now for the first time ever, humans will be entering the bears’ territory and take them More...
Australian 76-year-old woman pecked to death by rooster, experts says to treat the ‘aggressive alpha chicken’ with ‘respect’
An Australian woman in Australia died after a rooster pecked her leg, puncturing a varicose vein that hemorrhaged and caused her death. A study published in late August in the journal Forensic Science, Medicine More...
Jacqulyn Hutchison charges with selling sick puppies with parvo, mistreating animals
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with several counts of mistreating animals after she admitted to knowingly selling puppies that were ill with a deadly and contagious disease. American Veterinary Medical Association More...
Germany considers 19% meat tax to combat global warming as poverty threatens 1 in 5
Germany lawmakers are entertaining the notion of a steep increase to the taxation on meat to allegedly curb the impact on the environment, combat climate and global warming, while “strengthening animal welfare.” “I More...
Final Defendants Sentenced in Multi State Dog Fighting Prosecution
The last of 12 defendants to be convicted for their roles in multi-state dog fighting conspiracies was sentenced today, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito of the District of New Jersey and Assistant Attorney General More...
Shark Week premieres Sunday July 28 with over 20 hours of shark programming
SHARK WEEK, television’s longest-running, and most anticipated summer event returns with bigger sharks and bigger bites on Sunday, July 28 and continues through Sunday, August 4. With more than 20 hours of shark More...
‘Joe Exotic’ Convicted of Murder for Hire, Violating The Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act
A federal jury has found JOSEPH MALDONADO-PASSAGE, also known as Joseph Allen Maldonado, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and “Joe Exotic,” 56, formerly of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, guilty on two counts of hiring More...
Dog Fighter, Damiane Buehrer gets 46 Months in Federal Prison
Damiane Buehrer, 40, of Jonesville, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to serve 46 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for participating in a dog-fighting conspiracy between November 2016 and December 2017. The More...
Louisiana: Federal court sentences drug kingpin Eric Williams, ‘EZ’ on trafficking, conspiracy and dog fighting charges
United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced ERIC LASHAWN WILLIAMS, a.k.a. “E” and “EZ,” age 35, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 70 months in More...
Fraud case: SeaWorld and CEO must pay $5 million over false claims about ‘Blackfish’ injuring business
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. and its former CEO have agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle fraud charges for misleading investors about the impact More...
PETA wins as Nabisco’s animal crackers will have redesigned packages to show animals ‘free’
The circus is bad…no, evil. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) can chalk up a victory by getting Nabisco to change the picture on its animal cracker boxes so the animals appear in an uncaged More...
PETA asks ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ to go vegan, would be ‘great news for cows’
Pizza has always been a mainstay in the diet of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is hoping to convince Nickelodeon to change to the staple food in the new More...
Nonhuman Rights group fights for Connecticut elephants, give them ‘personhood’
While Dumbo may just be a movie, one group is seeking to attach “personhood” and rights to elephants, arguing legal rights for three Connecticut animals in a zoo. “The Nonhuman Rights Project’s More...
‘The Incredible Dr Pol’ returns July 1 on Nat Geo, new photos, preview released,
Nat Geo WILD’s No. 1 series, The Incredible Dr. Pol, is back with another season of even more prolapses and pregnancy exams than ever before. No two days are ever the same for Dr. Pol and his staff at Pol Veterinary More...
Here’s everything you should know about an emotional support animal letter
Did you know that about 1/5 of the United States adult population suffers from a mental illness or an emotional disorder? The figures are more or less the same across many countries in Europe. These conditions include More...
New Jersey: Tyrik Haynes located after escaping from mental hospital
Human Service Police have located the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital patient who escaped from the facility yesterday. Ewing Police Department announced on social media Sunday that Human Services Police had found More...
As More States Weigh New Laws for Animal Deaths Consider These Essential Tips for Pet Summer Safety
Issues surrounding animal safety in the summer has become such a significant problem that some states, including Michigan and 16 others, are in the process of passing or have already enacted legislation regarding More...
Jane Goodall and experts join the battle to free Kiko the Chimpanzee
Nonhuman Rights Project President Steven M. Wise and the NhRP’s legal team are leading the effort to free Kiko, a chimpanzee imprisoned in a cage in a cement storefront in a crowded residential area in Niagara More...
‘Whale Wars’ star Pete Bethune takes action on ‘The Operatives’
We are fortunate to have an amazing amount of wildlife on this planet. But illegal trading and poaching have dramatically reduced the survival of these magnificent creatures. Enter the Operatives. When famed eco-warrior More...
‘Downton Abbey’ star Peter Egan joins Queen’s Brian May to protest dog breeding for experiments
Celebrities Brian May and Peter Egan have joined the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in opposing controversial plans to build a facility in Yorkshire to breed beagle dogs for experiments. Queen guitarist More...
