World Spay Day and the Lucy Pet Foundation
All across the world people are celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Spay Day. More than 800 events offer low-cost spay/neuter services for cats, dogs and other pets. February is considered spay...
View ArticleWoman threatened and bullied by animal control officer and shelter
Wendy Barajas, a 28-year-old, California resident and full time student, has found herself entrenched in a legal battle with the Carson Animal Shelter, to save the lives of her two dogs, Bruno and...
View ArticleJudges are cracking down on animal abuse
April is animal abuse awareness month and two judges are reiterating that in their sentences given to animal abusers. Benjamin Fullwood (24), from Georgia, and Tyler Scott Sanders (21), from...
View ArticleNRA stops another animal protection bill
The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) which is part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has known for several decades that animal abuse is a precursor to domestic violence and most violent...
View Article9-year-old boy paying it forward for the animals
Ken, a 9-year-old boy from the Philippines always dreamed of doing more for the stray dogs in his community, and this month that dream came true when he started his very own non-profit called Happy...
View ArticleThe unsung heroes called cross-posters
Many people might not have heard of a cross-poster. They are dedicated people on social network sites that work tirelessly day and night to help animals in need. They are not a rescue, or affiliated...
View ArticleBOLO alert to catch a dog killer
Authorities in Winter Haven Florida are looking for the person who tied a black adult male Dachshund to a concrete cinder block, and threw him into the Winter Haven canal between Lake May and Lake...
View ArticleThe last surviving great tusker Satao, is dead
Richard Moller, Executive Director of The Tsavo Trust, has confirmed the rumors that the carcass of a bull elephant that was killed by poachers earlier this month in Tsavo East National park in...
View ArticleThe last wild-born Spix's macaw ‘Presley’ is dead
A little blue macaw by the name of Presley has died at the age of 40-years-old. Not only was he the last surviving wild-born Spix’s macaw, but his life story inspired the 2011, Twentieth...
View ArticleNeighbor saves dog's life and now needs your help
Jeff Bashore from Corona, CA, came to the rescue when his neighbor’s dog Kief a 4-year-old pit bull mix, jumped his fence and wound up on death row at the local shelter. When Kief’s...
View ArticleIn memory of Lennox
It has been two years since a little black dog by the name of Lennox was killed by the Belfast city council (BCC) in Northern Ireland. What was his crime? It was because Lennox’s head measured in...
View ArticleIreland woman fined €250 for animal abuse now wants dogs back
Sarah Gunther of East Galway Animal Rescue (EGAR) in Ireland had eight dogs seized from her property last year after the G.S.P.C.A. found the dogs living in horrible conditions. Last week Gunther...
View ArticleWhere’s Bixby now
Over the last year many people have spotted a 4-year-old pointer mix named Bixby riding on the back of a cargo bike traveling across the United States with her human Mike Minnick (38), and a rubber...
View ArticleOver half of the animals on earth have vanished
If you were one of the lucky people born before 1970, you witnessed a world filled with animals. The generations since have seen a rapidly declining animal population. According to the World Wildlife...
View ArticleWorld’s largest animal sacrifice happening now
Hindu worshippers in a remote corner of Nepal have started slaughtering thousands of animals from buffaloes to rats, to honor their goddess of power, in Gadhimai. Despite protests and petitions from...
View ArticleIn memory of Flash
Tammy Barnhart of Presque Isle in Maine is on mission this holiday season. She has started a fundraiser in the memory of her best friend “Flash” who she lost in August of this year. Her mission you...
View ArticleFake ACO and rescue stealing dogs
The residents of York County South Carolina are under a warning from the York County Sheriff's Office to be on a look out (BOLO) for a white male that is identifying himself as an Animal Control...
View ArticleSeveral animal species set for extinction
With the human species getting closer to critical mass, our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals which has been labeled the ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’. This...
View ArticleThe world authorities are sending poachers and traffickers a message
Over the last few years wildlife authorities all over the world have been destroying tons of seized, illegally poached, and trafficked remains of animals killed for profit. Yesterday the United States...
View ArticleJapan will continue its ‘lethal research whaling’
Joji Morishita, Tokyo's commissioner to the global conservation body, is scheduled to address foreign media on Monday in Tokyo to announce their plan to slaughter 3,996 minke whales in the Antarctic...
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